D. R. Martin is a writer of wide experience, with over fifteen-hundred credits in fields as diverse as book reviewing, travel journalism, music journalism, television script writing, business writing, and medical writing. He is an award-winning copywriter, the former editor of a metro-wide weekly newspaper, and a street photographer with eight exhibitions to his credit.
He has written eight mystery books. The Karma of King Harald, King Harald’s Heist, and King Harald’s Snow Job are canine cozies, set in Beaver Tail County, up on the northern plains. A Pretty Little Plot and The Stolen Star are the first two Mary MacDougall historical mystery novellas. The full-length Mary MacDougall novels are A Daughter’s Doubt and A Fatal Fondness. Smoking Ruin is a contemporary PI story set in Minneapolis.
D. R.’s Johnny Graphic Adventures Trilogy, started in 2006, was completed in 2020. The novels that comprise it are Johnny Graphic and the Etheric Bomb, Johnny Graphic and the Attack of the Zombies, and Johnny Grahpic and the Ghost of Doom. They are unashamed, rip-roaring ghost adventures for readers young and old alike—colorful yarns in the classic tradition of old-fashioned pulp fiction.
D. R. is also the author of two books of literary journalism. Travis McGee & Me includes his twenty-two review/essays on the adventures of Travis McGee. Four Science Fiction Masters: Lost Interviews with Herbert, Pohl, Simak & Dickson features uncut interviews with four great science fiction writers of the post-war era.
Be sure to like the Richard Audry author page at Facebook. (D. R. writes his mysteries using that pen name.) You can buy the Audry mysteries at https://www.amazon.com/Richard-Audry/e/B00APGR502/ . And please visit his author website at D. R. Martin Books.
Travis McGee & Me 
D.R.,
JDM’s Writer’s Digest Interview is a nice piece. Thanks. I found it through the Busted Flush Facebook page. I’ll watch for more of your stuff.
D.R.,
Thanks for helping keep Travis alive. How I wish for some more adventures.
Yeah, thanks for this blog…
I am new to this blog, having arrived here following a google search for anything relating to John D. MacDonald and a regular ‘coffee klatch’ he held with other writers at a restaurant in Sarasota. I’d learned of these get-togethers from an article in the then-St. Petersburg Times written by Ed Hirshberg, whom I then contacted to see about arranging a surprise entree to one of those klatches for a friend and colleague of mine, himself a noted celebrity from the broadcasting realm, and a huge Travis McGee/MacDonald fan. Alas, Mr. Hirshberg checked with J.D. and the other writers usually in attendance, and the word came back: Sorry, only writers are welcome to this circle. Not a total loss, however, as John D. MacDonald graciously agreed to sign several of his books, which I presented to my friend for his birthday. He was, naturally, thrilled. And even though not invited to one of those Sarasota gatherings, felt almost as thrilled to have been “this close” to maybe actually being there.
It would have been quite a thing for your friend, hanging out with JDM. Too bad it didn’t work out. As a young journalist in the 70s I got to interview a few sci-fi greats. Vonnegut, Pohl, Simak, Dickson, Sladek. But the best of all was hanging out with Frank Herbert for the better part of a day. A top highlight of my journalism years. He was one cool dude, I can tell you.
Hanging out with Frank Herbert must indeed have been a thrill, and a wonderful memory to carry through life. Wouldn’t it be a thrill to end all thrills to sit with him through a screening of this latest ‘Dune’ film, now in theatres. One imagines he would be pleased (if for no other reason than to share in the profits!).
At least he lived to see David Lynch’s Dune and hopefully rake in some dough. The movie kind of bombed, but I’ve always had a fondness for the uber-weirdness of it. It really does suggest a freaky, alien kind of future. Who can forget Sting prancing around in a little white diaper?