The Crow's Nest

Hah! I wasn’t even aware of this until a kind reader sent the link. It’s from a USA today column in April titled: (click on title to be taken...

Many readers of my novel The Irish Cowboy have shared how great it would be to see Clint Eastwood taking on the role of Hap, the aging and ornery Savage rancher...

I don’t do it often but from time to time I share with readers something personal. This is to be one of those times. A few years earlier my...

America is still the greatest nation on earth.  Despite problems, despite our differences, despite a mountain of challenges to be climbed if we are to make it a better...

Readers of my novel,  THE IRISH COWBOY  are already familiar with the location of Savage, Montana. My newest standalone novel takes place in that very same location and is...

That was the wisdom of Martin Luther King Jr. following the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965. It was true then and is just as true today. American society...

I think I might be getting old. Not just “older” but legitimately old. Today my youngest graduates high school. In a few months she will be off to university....

It is a national disgrace and one in which most of our political “leaders” hardly mention. How is it that the leading cause of death for all Americans under...

“Prologue was very dark. Might offend some readers. Would you consider modifying or removing altogether?” So went the editor’s suggestion regarding the introduction to my bestselling mystery, THE WRITER. She...

As painful as the question is to consider, I appreciate having readers catch the mystery-within-the-mystery that is a foundational component to so many of my novels. In this case...

Without free speech, all other rights and privileges afforded American citizens are in peril. The founding of this nation knew that most basic of facts, and how important it...

Yesterday I posted a signed copy giveaway of my latest novel “MURDER on MATIA” (Book three of the San Juan Islands Mystery series )   I left my computer for several hours to...

Hello, readers! I am offering to give away just three signed paperback editions of my soon-to-be-released novel, MURDER on MATIA. I will mail a signed copy to the first, tenth,...

Feel it in your bones music. Enjoy the rest of your week. And don’t forget to read a book! -DWU (language warning) ———————- D.W. Ulsterman is a bestselling, award-winning...

The pre-order for my latest novel, “Murder on Matia” is now available. Please go here to pre-order your copy: MURDER on MATIA It is winter in the San Juan...

Today marked the first Masters without the presence of Arnold Palmer in more than sixty years. That absence was as much a part of Augusta this morning as were...

Eric Church, that is.  As my regular readers know, I do enjoy a good bit of music. That said, Eric Church is an artist truly hitting his stride –...

Came across this photo today and it broke my heart. Not that I’m surprised to see such things. Heck, I’ve witnessed it with my own eyes countless times –...

I’ve killed dozens of people in the course of my writing career. From intrepid old soldiers to corrupted politicians, it seems no-one, regardless of how loved and/or admired, is...

The soon-to-come third installment of my SAN JUAN ISLANDS MYSTERY SERIES is progressing nicely. Hoping to have it off to the publisher for their final review/approval within a few weeks...

Indeed… No Leaders, Please invent yourself and then reinvent yourself, don’t swim in the same slough. invent yourself and then reinvent yourself and stay out of the clutches of...

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I first learned of Bukowski via the Showtime series, Californication when the main character, Hank Moody, would sometimes reference the hard-living, California-based poet/author. I later learned Moody was based...

2016 took a lot of significant names in entertainment, politics and culture from us, but, thank goodness, Willie Nelson remains very much alive. I can recall watching this touching...

With the second installment of the San Juan Islands Mystery Series, DARK WATERS out of the proverbial gate and preparing for the publisher’s initial round of promotions, I decided to take...

For the past week or so, the Little General and I have sat down nearly every evening to watch an episode or two of Netflix’s just-released series, The Crown. Let...

My latest novel, DARK WATERS is now available for purchase from Amazon. Enjoy – and don’t forget, it would make a great gift! 🙂 Also, please remember to leave a review...

You can pre-order the e-book version of Dark Waters:  HERE “There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none...

Leonard Cohen was a poet who happened to perform his words via song, a sort of suit-and-tie version of Bob Dylan. Cohen’s work is dark, yearning, contradictory prose that...

God bless those who have managed to keep some of us around, yeah? To this day, even after all these years, I sometimes wake up to the sound of...

Great news! Dark Waters (the sequel to, The Writer) has been give the green light from the publisher! Working out the details now, but hoping to have a pre-order...

Just a little over a month before he passed, Arnold Palmer made an appearance at the Royal Golf Club in Minnesota, which his course design company is working in conjunction with...

I saw this number performed by the Stones live back in the late 90’s during their fantastic Bridges to Babylon tour. It is a song that, if released by...

So I’m brushing my teeth this morning, and what do I hear coming from the TV in the bedroom but that long-ago song by Tom Petty, Learning to Fly....

THOSE EYES. Ben Hogan was a man of smallish stature, but his sheer grit and steely-eyed demeanor intimidated nearly everyone around him. Here is “The Hawk” in the autumn...

I never much cared for Star Wars. You see, from a very young age, it was always Star Trek re-runs for me. And now Gene Roddenberry’s sci-fi masterpiece is...

Just a quick (and grateful) reminder to all of you who have read my latest novel, THE WRITER, to leave a review at its Amazon page HERE The publisher will be...

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Love me some Roadies. Showtime’s original series  joint-effort with longtime Rock -n- Roll quasi-documentarian Cameron Crowe, starts off a bit slow, but then the tour bus gets a rollin’ and...

Sixty-five minutes. Another American military veteran gone. We can do better for those who have already done enough. My longtime readers know well my feelings regarding the sacrifices our...