by LB | Jun 14, 2020 | Dead Girl Blues, Newsletter
Why don’t I let these good people tell you about DEAD GIRL BLUES? “Dark and cold as the far side of the moon, but with prose as lean as a starving model, DEAD GIRL BLUES is like the dead body you can’t help but look at. I couldn’t quit reading, and...
by LB | Jun 3, 2020 | Audiobooks, Dead Girl Blues, Jill Emerson, John Warren Wells, John Warren Wells, LB's Classic Crime Library, LB's Collection of Classic Erotica, Newsletter
JUNE 14 UPDATE—The special price reductions in this special promotion have run their course. Hope you were able to take advantage of them! David Trevor here, with an offer that’s just too good to round off. A month ago I pitched a special promotion, a...
by LB | May 25, 2020 | Dead Girl Blues, Martin Ehrengraf, Newsletter, The Darkling Halls of Ivy
Escape. . .while there’s still time! Seriously? Isn’t there enough panic going around without a scare headline from you? Um, it’s sort of a play on words. Escape While There’s Still Time was a bookstore in Eugene, Oregon, run by the late Bill...
by LB | May 13, 2020 | Books
BACK UP SIX FEET. THEN READ THIS. Well, that’s attention-getting. I’m glad you like it. I didn’t say I liked it. I said it gets one’s attention. And helps remind people that this is a time when they get to flip-flop back and forth between...
by LB | May 8, 2020 | Jill Emerson, John Warren Wells, LB's Classic Crime Library, LB's Collection of Classic Erotica, Newsletter
MAY 17 UPDATE! YOUR RESPONSE TO THIS OFFER WAS WAY BEYOND EXPECTATIONS, SO WE LET IT RUN A COUPLE OF EXTRA DAYS. BUT NOW, AS OF THIS AFTERNOON, OUR SPECIAL PROMOTION IS FINISHED…AND ALL TWELVE BOOKS ARE NOW PRICED AT $6.99. YOU MAY NOT WANT TO SCOOP UP THE...
by LB | Apr 16, 2020 | Books
Here’s what Michael Dirda had to say in this morning’s Washington Post about A Trawl Among the Shelves, Terry Zobeck’s exhaustive (not to say exhausting) bibliography of my work: “One could make a similar claim”—that it’s indispensable, and lots of...
by Admin | Apr 7, 2020 | Bernie Rhodenbarr, Books, Dead Girl Blues, News + Events, Newsletter, Non-Series Novels
So you’re getting out a newsletter, eh? Not gonna let a little thing like a pandemic rein you in? I won’t pretend it’s what I’m in the mood for. But, self-quarantined or not, I’m fortunate enough to be able to go on doing what I do, and...
by Admin | Mar 17, 2020 | Bernie Rhodenbarr, Books, Dead Girl Blues, News + Events, Newsletter, Non-Series Novels
All those exclamation points. I know. I’ve been reading too many comic books. But I’m excited, and it’s hard for me to contain myself. The big news is that my new novel, Dead Girl Blues, is now available for preorder. I thought I’d have to wait...
by Admin | Feb 26, 2020 | Anthologies, Bernie Rhodenbarr, Books, Dead Girl Blues, News + Events, Newsletter, Non-Series Novels
Well, that’s vague. I suppose it is. But I’d rather think of it as inclusive. I have a batch of topics to expound upon, and their only common denominator is, um, my humble self. So here you have it, a little of this and a little of that, numbered to...
by Admin | Jan 17, 2020 | Anthologies, Keller, Martin Ehrengraf, News + Events, Newsletter
A while back, I shared a reading list I’d prepared for a Newberry College course in mystery fiction. It was a pretty decent list, I’d say, but a couple of weeks into the course, I tossed it. My class was supposed to be Reading Crime Fiction for Pleasure,...
