by LB | Sep 27, 2012 | Commentary
I’m not sure what brought this to mind… It must have been around twenty years ago. I was in DC on a book tour, and my media escort told me about the time she’d been making the rounds with Bob Keeshan. In one TV studio she ran into a colleague, who...
by Admin | Aug 8, 2012 | John Warren Wells
Even as the free offer of Different Strokes begins running on Kindle, the book got its first review, and it’s too delicious to waste its sweetness on the desert air: 5.0 out of 5 stars Ingenious post-modern critique of the porn business August 8, 2012 By...
by LB | Aug 8, 2012 | John Warren Wells, Newsletter
Ah, hello there. As many of you know, I once wrote a series of books on various aspects of human sexual behavior as John Warren Wells. Now, spurred on by the twin goads of Ego and Avarice, and ably assisted by brilliant eFormatter Jaye Manus, I’ve been republishing...
by LB | Jul 27, 2012 | John Warren Wells
From the mid-1960s into the early 70s, I wrote around 20 books on various aspects of sexual behavior under the pen name (or alternate self) of John Warren Wells. JWW has his own page on this site, and soon his complete works will be eVailable for Kindle. (For now at...
by LB | Jul 17, 2012 | In Collaboration with Donald Westlake, John Warren Wells, Matthew Scudder, Newsletter, Non-Series Novels
LB’s Long Hot Summer NewsletterLet’s clarify that. It’s the summer that’s long and hot. This newsletter is neither. But I do have a thing or two to mention. First up is a freebie for the Kindlers among you. It’s a Matthew Scudder story, “A Moment of Wrong Thinking,”...
by Admin | Jul 14, 2012 | Books, Matthew Scudder, Reviews
Lawrence Block’s The Night and the Music has a kind of finality to it that his many readers will be sorry about. Not a finality suggesting that he’s about to hang up his pen, but that it might be closing time for his most famous creation, Matt Scudder…. Block is one...
by Admin | Jul 13, 2012 | For Writers
A very interesting announcement by the great Kate Wilhelm. Here’s the opening, with a link to the rest on her website: “Open letter to word watchers: “I’ve been a writer since 1956 when I sold my first short story. My first novel came in 1962....
by Admin | Jul 13, 2012 | Matthew Scudder, Reviews
Block is one of the easiest writers to read that you’ll ever have the good fortune to come across. He doesn’t seem to write prose so much as invite you to listen to him (or Matt Scudder) talk. You’re engaged in a conversation. And while admittedly...
by Admin | Jul 10, 2012 | John Warren Wells
July 10, 2012 Around the time 1963 was turning into 1964, I was living in a suburb of Buffalo and trying mightily to make ends meet. I’d done nothing but write for a living ever since I dropped out of college in 1959, and in the interim had acquired a wife and...
by Admin | Jul 10, 2012 | John Warren Wells
Around the time 1963 was turning into 1964, I was living in a suburb of Buffalo and trying mightily to make ends meet. I’d done nothing but write for a living ever since I dropped out of college in 1959, and in the interim had acquired a wife and fathered two...
