by LB | Feb 14, 2012 | Non-Series Novels
My novel Random Walk was published in 1988, and engendered a remarkable groundswell of apathy. Sales were slim, reviews were blah, and that was that. Except it wasn’t, because over the years the book found an audience, small, but enthusiastic. For some readers...
by Admin | Feb 11, 2012 | LB's Afterthoughts
“Not Comin’ Home to You was the third and last book I published under the pen name of Paul Kavanagh. The first, Such Men Are Dangerous, was purportedly narrated by its author, a burnt-out CIA operative–turned-recluse; the second, The Triumph of Evil, was a...
by LB | Feb 7, 2012 | Jill Emerson
It took me almost three weeks to come upon Robin L.McLaughlin’s five-star review of the Kindle edition of Threesome. McLaughlin’s one of Amazon’s Top 500 Reviewers, and her words warmed this old heart mightily. Threesome was published over forty...
by Admin | Feb 7, 2012 | Jill Emerson, Reviews
By Robin L. McLaughlin (Seattle, Wa.) “As the punctuation in my review title indicates, I’m sure there’s some question as to whether erotic pulp fiction can qualify as excellent fiction. The novel Threesome, written by Lawrence Block and published in...
by Admin | Jan 23, 2012 | LB's Afterthoughts
“Lawrence Block is one of the great mystery writers of our time; this is indisputable — and “our time” ranges back to about 1960, when Block started his transition from a teenage hack writer of sex novels (at amazing speed) into a writer...
by LB | Jan 23, 2012 | LB's Afterthoughts
“…It’s not a memoir, exactly — but it’s not not a memoir, either, and that deeply Blockian ambivalence to the clean, straight, obvious answer makes this a wonderful book for Block fans. He writes more thoroughly and in detail about both his early writing...
by LB | Jan 20, 2012 | Matthew Scudder, Short Stories
“Scudder, I found out, was not that easily abandoned. And so in 1977 I started writing a short story about him, ‘Out the Window,’ and it ran long enough for us to call it a novelette. Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine published it in their...
by Admin | Jan 13, 2012 | Midcentury Erotica, Reviews
‘Strange Embrace’ is one of Block’s earliest detective novels, and that gives it a raw energy that works in its favor. There’s more mystery and less sex, which may or may not improve the mix for readers. It depends on your tastes, which, if...
by Admin | Jan 5, 2012 | Books, Matthew Scudder, Reviews
“It’s no secret that in my other life (that of an unrepentant writer of PI fiction), I have always acknowledged the debt I owe to Lawrence Block’s magnificent creation, Matt Scudder. So the moment I realised Block’s new collection of short stories, THE NIGHT AND...
by LB | Jan 1, 2012 | Bernie Rhodenbarr, Books, Keller, Matthew Scudder, Short Stories, Store
This has been an exciting year for me in the brave new world of self-publishing. While I’ve had a handful of short stories dipping a toe in the waters for a couple of years now, in 2011 I jumped in with both feet—and a slew of stories, and a couple of books as...
