New Post on Jill Emerson’s Page

An eBook price break for GETTING OFF has led to the following exchange between the author and his other self: Lawrence Block: There’s some interesting news about the price of Getting Off. Jill Emerson: Ah, the high cost of getting off. Always a problem… LB: That’s...

Don’t Ask

You’d think I’d be grateful. In 1977 I published Burglars Can’t Be Choosers, the novel that introduced one Bernard Grimes Rhodenbarr to an unsuspecting public. Over the years I was to write nine more books about Bernie, the most recent of which is The Burglar on the...

The Power of Negative Thinking

In the summer of 1957 I was all of 19.  I got a dream job, associate editor at a literary agency, and immediately dropped out of college to keep it.  The agency (Scott Meredith) was a hybrid, representing some solid professional writers while making big money as a...