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...
by LB | Jul 27, 2020 | Dead Girl Blues, Matthew Scudder, Newsletter
Um, strictly speaking, you get a discount of 57.22460658083%… David Trevor here, and I’ll keep this short and sweet. LB’s accountant told the Great Man that we ought to increase the price on our Matthew Scudder ebooks. “They’re too...
by LB | Jul 23, 2020 | Dead Girl Blues
Ah, I get it. You’re being ironic. Well, I suppose so, but the statement’s not that far from the literal truth. There was a good stretch of time, up until perhaps a dozen years ago, when I spent a disproportionate amount of my days and nights inscribing my...
by LB | Jul 3, 2020 | Dead Girl Blues
My new book is off to an explosive start, and has taken only a week to reach 19 reviews on Amazon. I’d like to share a favorite, but it strikes me as only fair to balance it off with the words of a reader whose judgment is a good deal less laudatory. So...
by LB | Jul 2, 2020 | Dead Girl Blues
Ethan Iverson, when he’s not playing the piano, is apt to be reading crime fiction—and writing eloquently and incisively about it. (His new survey of Rex Stout’s body of work is remarkable.) Here’s what he’s now posted: “One of the new...
