Happy belated Thanksgiving! I’m always relieved when the season’s first serious snowfall has yet to occur by the time Thanksgiving rolls around. As someone who grew up in North Tonawanda, New York, just ten miles from Buffalo, I tend to freeze in snow-readiness mode,...

Happy Halloween! I expect many of you will agree with me when I say October is one of the year’s best months. The leaves are turning, there’s a chill in the air, lawn mowing is [almost] an afterthought, Halloween is just around the corner, the baseball playoffs are in...

Greetings friends, One thing I’ve learned of late: promoting a newly-published book requires considerable energy. There I was, on the verge of turning 71 and locked into a pretty steady groove that included a lot of reading, a lot of baseball-watching on television, an...

Greetings on the cusp of a new school year! On the 6th of this month, my book, That Beast Was Not Me, finally launched after a long gestational period. I’m told that lots of readers pre-ordered the book on Amazon, from Barnes & Noble, and directly from Black Lyon...

Dear friends, I’ve been busy. It seems there’s a lot going on in these days leading up to the August 6 publication of my memoir, That Beast Was Not Me: One Forensic Psychologist, Five Decades of Conversations with Killers.I mentioned in June that I was counting on word of...

Dear friends, If you’re a new subscriber to my newsletter, thanks for coming on board! That probably means you’ve paid at least one visit to my website (www.jeffreysmalldon.com). If you’ve been there recently, you know that my first book, That Beast Was Not Me, will be...

Dear friends, Welcome to the inaugural issue of my newsletter. Thanks for signing up! The most exciting news I have to report: My forthcoming book, That Beast Was Not Me: A Forensic Psychologist Looks Back on Five Decades of Murder, will be published on August 6 by Black...