by LB | Jan 4, 2021 | A Writer Prepares, Anthologies, For Writers, Hunting Bufflo, The Darkling Halls of Ivy
…And not a moment too soon. There’s a lot to be said for 2020, and fortunately there are a lot of other people around to say it. I’d rather turn the page and talk about what’s new for this promising new year. I’ve a few items to bring to...
by LB | Nov 18, 2020 | Audiobooks, Bernie Rhodenbarr, Books
Well, hello there. Let me begin with apologies, and abject ones at that. I’ve just had a look at my most recent newsletter, and am reminded that I’d called it LB’s Blue Moon Newsletter, to acknowledge that I’d somehow lost the knack of regular communication. That was...
by LB | Sep 12, 2020 | Audiobooks, Dead Girl Blues, Jill Emerson, LB's Classic Crime Library, LB's Collection of Classic Erotica, The Darkling Halls of Ivy
Let me begin with an apology. It’s been forever since my last communication, and that’s not because the whole enterprise has slipped my mind. Every night I go to bed telling myself I’ll get to work on a newsletter first thing in the morning, and...
by LB | Aug 3, 2020 | Dead Girl Blues
When Dead Girl Blues first became available for preorder, I wrote this essay for Janet Rudolph’s Mystery Fanfare. I don’t know that it went precisely viral, and that’s an idiom that’s less appealing these days, anyway. But a lot of people read...
by LB | Jul 31, 2020 | For Writers, Newsletter
Back in the 1980s, I developed an experiential and interactional seminar for writers, focusing on what you could call the inner game of writing. What I called it was WRITE FOR YOUR LIFE, and for a couple of years my wife and I presented it in one-day seminars all over...
