by LB | Jun 8, 2012 | Bernie Rhodenbarr, Evan Tanner, Keller, Newsletter, Short Stories
Ah yes, TGIF, those ever-so-useful initials. Back in my bride’s time as a print-and-runway fashion model, TGIF was a handy mnemonic that her fellow models were advised to write on the insoles of their shoes. I’ll be happy to tell you what it stood for, but...
by LB | Jun 2, 2012 | Commentary, For Writers
Yesterday my friend Jaye Manus, whose blog is indispensable for anyone with a passing interest in self-publishing, and merely incisive and fascinating for everyone else, took off from a remark of Stephen King’s that drew a line (albeit a thin one) between eBooks...
by LB | May 30, 2012 | Books, Evan Tanner, Store
Just last week we offered first-edition copies of several Evan Tanner paperbacks. Tanner’s Tiger sold out almost immediately. (In fact we sold one more copy than we had, embarrassingly enough.) If that’s the door, here’s the window: We have a good...
by LB | May 25, 2012 | LB's Afterthoughts, Non-Series Novels
In 1969, Fawcett Gold Medal published The Specialists as a paperback original. In 1996, James Cahill printed a first hardcover edition, and after a few years I bought the remainder stock from him and have been selling it—sometimes at $25, sometimes at $20. When I...
by Admin | May 24, 2012 | Books, Matthew Scudder, Reviews
I hadn’t planned on fucking his wife. There was a point where I hadn’t even considered it, and another point where I knew for certain that it was going to happen, and the two points had been placed remarkably close together in time. Hard to say exactly why...
by LB | May 23, 2012 | Store
NEW POLICY—LB’S BOOKSTORE CAN NOW FILL INTERNATIONAL ORDERS! Maybe I got sick of disappointing people. Maybe I grew tired of apologizing. Or could be it’s just pure and simple greed. Always hard to rule that out… Whatever it is, we’re now...
by Admin | May 22, 2012 | Books, Matthew Scudder, Store
Maybe we got sick of disappointing people. Maybe we got tired of apologizing. Or maybe it’s just pure and simple greed. Always hard to rule that out… Whatever it is, we’re now taking and filling orders from anywhere on the planet. We ship...
by Admin | May 18, 2012 | For Writers, Reviews
“It’s hard for me to be objective about Lawrence Block. His photo was taped to the wall above my computer for several years. I considered him my mentor, but not like the guru who dispenses wisdom from on high. To me, he was more like a big brother who’s been...
by LB | May 17, 2012 | Matthew Scudder
I have two things to tell you, and the first is one you may well have already heard. The news broke around noon, and word of mouth got a big helping hand from the social media. The second, not so much. (1) A Walk Among the Tombstones, the tenth book in the Matthew...
by Admin | May 11, 2012 | Books, Keller
I’ve been a boxing fan ever since my dad took me to Buffalo’s Memorial Auditorium to watch Willie Pep take apart an inoffensive chap named Walter Kolby. It was April of 1946, and I was coming up on my eighth birthday. Willie was 23, and at the time...
