by Admin | Nov 11, 2016 | Books, News + Events, Non-Series Novels, Reviews
The dialogue is sharp, the violence uncompromising and the tension unremitting. Click here to read the review
by Admin | Nov 9, 2016 | Books, Non-Series Novels
This is a taut noir, recommended for its place in Block’s history and as a dandy story on its own. You should check it out. Click here to read the review Click here for more information about–and to order–SINNER MAN
by LB | Nov 4, 2016 | Audiobooks, In Sunlight or in Shadow, Newsletter
I could be wrong—I know, it’s hard to believe—but lately it feels as though everything is falling. Falling down, falling apart, falling alike upon the just and the unjust, all in the course of this autumnal season. I’d say the good news is it gives me an...
by LB | Aug 27, 2016 | Audio, Bernie Rhodenbarr, Evan Tanner, Matthew Scudder, Newsletter
..so let’s get to it, shall we? And let’s do it by the numbers. 1. I wrote something new. I hadn’t planned on it. In fact a failed two-week writing retreat in July made it clear to me that I wasn’t ready to write anything at all now, and...
by LB | Aug 5, 2016 | Audio, Jill Emerson, Matthew Scudder
Over a ten-year period starting in the mid-1960s, I brought out seven books as Jill Emerson. In 2011, I wrote an eighth—Getting Off, published by Hard Case Crime. And just last month I added a ninth book to the list—Shadows, the first book I ever wrote, originally...
by LB | Jul 15, 2016 | Newsletter
It’s been a while since I cluttered your mailbox with a newsletter. But it’s summer, as you’ve very likely noticed, and a summer replete with more distractions than usual, and so I hesitate to bother you at all. Still, there are a couple of quick...
by LB | Jun 24, 2016 | Audiobooks, For Writers, Keller, Resume Speed, Writing the Novel from Plot to Print to Pixel
…and today it’s a whole batch of somethings, one right after the other. So let me just plunge in rather than waste time searching for a clever approach. 1. If you’re a writer… …I hope you were able to take advantage of the StoryBundle...
by LB | Jun 7, 2016 | LB's Collection of Classic Erotica
A proficiency at pocket billiards, according to my father, was traditionally regarded as the sign of a misspent youth. I used to enjoy shooting pool, but I can’t say I was ever very good at it. (There was one New Year’s Day party at Don Westlake’s...
by LB | Jun 4, 2016 | For Writers
If you’re not a writer, you can feel free to skip this post. But if the curious pastime of stringing words together is an important part of your life you might want to read on. There’s a chance you might find it helpful. If not, you’re out the couple...
by LB | May 26, 2016 | #AWATT, For Writers, Keller, Matthew Scudder, Writing the Novel from Plot to Print to Pixel
Or, for that matter, how galli is my maufry? Which is simply (well, not very) to say that I have several things to recount to you, and that they’re quite unrelated, and the best I can do is number them, in the hope that this will provide an illusion of order....
