Caution: DETOUR Ahead…

Mike Dennis, who did a remarkable job of voicing the audiobook of my own early novel, Borderline, discovered this great noir classic in the public domain. He decided to narrate an audio version, and while he was at it, made plans to publish ebook and POD paperback...

Kindle Unlimited crosses the pond!

Here’s the text of a special newsletter that just went out to subscribers in the UK and Ireland: KINDLE UNLIMITED CROSSES THE POND! You may already know this, but haven’t I made a life’s work of telling people what they already know? So let me say...

Time to tiptoe through the Tombstones…

Have you seen it yet? Here’s the scoop— A Walk Among the Tombstones, starring Liam Neeson, written and directed by Scott Frank, and based on the tenth Matthew Scudder novel, opened Friday, September 19, throughout the US and UK and most of the world. (But some...

Michael Sova on TANNER’S VIRGIN

I’m a sucker for a good hero. I don’t mean the carbon copy type that can do no wrong. I like heroes with flaws, and those who’ve grown and learned from their mistakes. I especially like heroes, protagonists if you will, who do not fit the typical literary mold. Block...

EJ Knight on Matthew Scudder and his town

This blog post, by UK writer EJ Knight of the Allonym Books Collective, is such a thoughtful and perceptive take on Matthew Scudder’s New York that I wanted to share it with y’all. It seems especially apt today, with the opening of A Walk Among the...