PuzzleNation, the premier provider of digital puzzle content has launched an exciting new app called “Daily POP Crosswords”. From their promotional material:  “Daily POP Crosswords features the best pop-culture-themed puzzles from the top puzzle constructors, including many from Dell Magazines…

The latest edition of the Unplugged Crosswords series has been published. Like the previous editions, this book has 150 puzzles, but unlike the others, this book is a compilation of the easier puzzles from the first three editions. These puzzles…

Been a while since I posted to this blog, but this seems like a good time to do it, since I scored a “Trifecta” today with puzzles of mine appearing in Newsday, Orange County Register and the Los Angeles Times.…

I spend way too much time making puzzles and not enough time writing blog posts (Oh, you’d rather solve puzzles than read my blog? How can that be???). Unplugged Crosswords #3 (Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1541345827/) is now available! The puzzles in this…

My new gig with Roanoke Times got off to a good start with puzzles in the community papers each of the last three weeks of the month. I’m being able to sneak some local clues and/or entries in just about…

One of the reasons I have really enjoyed freelance puzzle construction is the lack of commitments and deadlines. If I want to make a puzzle, I make one, and if I don’t . . . well, you get the idea.…

What a year for puzzling! 2016 saw the publication of two editions of “Unplugged Crosswords” – together containing 300 original puzzles! Spoiler alert: #3 is a work in progress and will be coming out sometime this spring. I also had…

November was another big month, with a Friday byline in Newsday, my first solo puzzle in The Crosswords Club, and my debut in the perennial top-selling crossword puzzle book by the original publisher of crosswords, Simon & Schuster Mega Crosswords #16.…

The second volume of my “Unplugged Crosswords” series has been published and is available for purchase on Amazon.com. Free shipping for Amazon Prime members. If you don’t have Amazon Prime, you can purchase the book at my Create Space store…

Closing out a very productive month, with five puzzles published in the same month for the first time, including my FIRST in the New York Times (August 17), and my first published collaboration with Andrea Carla Michaels (LA Times August 15).…