by LB | Apr 27, 2012 | Audiobooks, Bernie Rhodenbarr, Books, Chip Harrison, For Writers, Keller, Matthew Scudder, Non-Series Novels
No, of course you don’t. But what I’m getting at, albeit circuitously, is that I always thought of reading as an activity one performs with one’s eyes. I’ve since learned that doesn’t have to be the case. Plenty of us get as much or more...
by LB | Apr 22, 2012 | Bernie Rhodenbarr, For Writers, Matthew Scudder
All these things happened in the space of a week or so: 1. My friend Pat reported that the POD paperback of the book he’d co-authored with my friend Dick had gone on sale quietly at Amazon, with a score of copies sold in the first several days. (The eBook has...
by LB | Apr 15, 2012 | Chip Harrison, Commentary, News
Not long after Bob Parker’s untimely death, Otto Penzler invited me to contribute to a Festschrift in his honor. (That’s a German word, and it means a sort of tribute album in the form of critical essays.) It was not a request I felt I could deny, and I...
by LB | Apr 7, 2012 | Bernie Rhodenbarr
In 1977, Bernie Rhodenbarr made his debut in Burglar’s Can’t Be Choosers. In 1995, he had his seventh appearance in The Burglar Who Thought He Was Bogart. And eight years later, in late 2003, a woman in O’Fallon, Illinois, bought the original...
by LB | Apr 5, 2012 | For Writers
Recently, to give you all a taste of one of the new books for writers I ePublished in 2011, I posted a Writer’s Digest column of mine (“Writing, Always Writing”) from The Liar’s Companion. Enough of you responded enthusiastically to prompt me...