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...
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...
by LB | Jul 1, 2020 | Dead Girl Blues, Newsletter
First of all, let me tell you that the book is off to a genuinely gratifying start. Self-publishing anything recalls what Don Marquis said of bringing out a volume of poetry—it’s like dropping a rose petal into the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. But in the...
by Admin | Jun 29, 2020 | Books, Dead Girl Blues, News + Events, Non-Series Novels, Reviews
…a brilliant hybrid of a crime novel and first-person psychological study where the subject attempts — not always successfully — to analyze himself. In the meantime, there is a clock that ticks faintly in the background across the years and threatens...
by LB | Jun 23, 2020 | Dead Girl Blues, News + Events, Reviews
This review appeared today in Criminal Element, and it’s just too good to keep to myself… “Lawrence Block has been writing for over sixty years, and he’s written everything from parlor mysteries solved by an affable burglar to the hardest of...
by LB | Jun 19, 2020 | Keller
Today, in addition to being Juneteenth, is Keller’s birthday. Now Keller, who kills people for money and collects stamps for pleasure, is a fictional character, essentially a figment of my overactive imagination. So one might well wonder what he needs with a birthday,...
