Matthew Scudder’s eVailable!

It’s been some time now since three of the Matthew Scudder titles went out of print. I got the rights back, and am very happy to announce that A Stab in the Dark, A Walk Among the Tombstones, and A Long Line of Dead Men are now eVailable, expertly formatted for...

A Buddhist Take on Random Walk

My novel Random Walk was published in 1988, and engendered a remarkable groundswell of apathy. Sales were slim, reviews were blah, and that was that. Except it wasn’t, because over the years the book found an audience, small, but enthusiastic. For some readers...

Five Stars for Threesome!

It took me almost three weeks to come upon Robin L.McLaughlin’s five-star review of the Kindle edition of Threesome. McLaughlin’s one of Amazon’s Top 500 Reviewers, and her words warmed this old heart mightily. Threesome was published over forty...

Great Review of Afterthoughts…

“…It’s not a memoir, exactly — but it’s not not a memoir, either, and that deeply Blockian ambivalence to the clean, straight, obvious answer makes this a wonderful book for Block fans. He writes more thoroughly and in detail about both his early writing...

“The Rest of the Story…”

“Scudder, I found out, was not that easily abandoned. And so in 1977 I started writing a short story about him, ‘Out the Window,’ and it ran long enough for us to call it a novelette. Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine published it in their...