A Buddhist Take on Random Walk

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...

Not Comin’ Home to You

“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...

Five Stars for Threesome!

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...

Great five-star Kindle review for Threesome

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...

Andrew Wheeler’s Review of 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...

Great Review of 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...

“The Rest of the Story…”

“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...