by LB | Jan 22, 2016 | News, Newsletter
On Monday I sent out a newsletter announcing that the first Kit Tolliver story, “If You Can’t Stand the Heat,” was free on all Amazon platforms worldwide. A comforting number of you hastened to download it, and today—that would be Friday, January...
by LB | Jan 11, 2016 | Matthew Scudder, News
Haben Sie Deutsch lesen? If Google Translator is to be trusted (and, like a broken clock, it’s right at least twice a day) I’ve just asked you if you read German. If so, I’ve got an announcement to make, and a favor to ask. It’s bothered me for...
by LB | Jan 3, 2016 | For Writers, News
Back in the day, there was an advertisement that appeared in no end of magazines, sometimes as a classified, sometimes as a small-space ad. It read like this: LAST CHANCE TO SEND YOUR DOLLAR TO PO BOX 314, EAST JESUS, KANSAS. That’s the extent of it. No Zip...
by LB | Dec 19, 2015 | News, Short Stories
Back in October, on the train heading home to New York from Raleigh Bouchercon, I got an idea for a short story. Now it had probably been percolating for a long time, because I can trace its origins to a personal experience I’d heard a man recount perhaps...
by LB | Dec 9, 2015 | Evan Tanner, News
The other day, my Talkwalker alert let me know that the third Evan Tanner novel, Tanner’s Twelve Swingers, had been reviewed online. Now it’s true that the book, like its seven companions, is very much in print, and has been on offer from one publisher or...
by LB | Oct 30, 2015 | For Writers, Matthew Scudder, News
You don’t have to believe in coincidence to be struck by the way things tend to coincide. I’ve been busy these days, working on an expanded and updated edition of Writing the Novel from Plot to Print. The book’s been a leader in its field since 1978,...
