by LB | May 21, 2021 | Books
The publication of Collectibles, my latest anthology, is a joint venture with Subterranean Press, whose deluxe edition consists of 750 signed-and-numbered copies. Most of those are already subscribed, but they still have some available, and even if you’re sure...
by LB | Apr 29, 2021 | A Writer Prepares, Books
…but what could possibly prepare me for Michael Dirda’s review in today’s Washington Post? Sometimes a reviewer just can’t wait to write about a book. Even though Lawrence Block’s memoir, “A Writer Prepares,” isn’t available till June, I was recently sent...
by LB | Mar 26, 2021 | A Writer Prepares, Anthologies, Collectibles, LB's Collection of Classic Erotica, Matthew Scudder
That’s quite a header. It almost sounds… I know what it almost sounds like, and it’s not. What it is is the only way I can think of to plunge into the rushing floodtide of books coming your way. I’d like to find an elegant way to introduce this report, but I’m up to...
by LB | Mar 8, 2021 | A Writer Prepares, LB's Collection of Classic Erotica
Sometimes, alas, it’s hard to tell which is which. I have a few things to tell you, but one is quite clearly the lede and ought not be buried. You may recall that I’ve mentioned A Writer Prepares, a memoir of my beginnings as a writer. It’s been a quarter of a century...
by LB | Feb 5, 2021 | Film, FILM & TV, For Writers, Short Stories
NB: I’m writing this post for those of you with an interest in making films. Since I’ve no way to take aim at you individually, I’m using a scattershot approach. If you, Gentle Reader, have no personal interest in filmmaking, you might want to stop right now. Or you...
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...
