by LB | Feb 14, 2013 | Commentary
This is just too good to keep to myself. An independent bookseller I know landed a major bestselling author for a rare in-store signing. He got the word out, took advance phone and internet orders for signed copies, and called his sales rep at the publisher to make...
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 | Jun 22, 2012 | Commentary, Short Stories, Store
Some months ago I blogged about the eWorld’s potential to enliven the long-moribund market for short fiction. I’m not sure that’s happening, but neither am I sure that it’s not. What I do know is that I’ve ePublished a few dozen short...
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 Admin | May 4, 2012 | In Collaboration with Donald Westlake, Likes to Read
Here’s a review I wrote for a new release by a cherished friend: First, full disclosure: Donald E. Westlake was one of my closest friends for over fifty years. Shortly after his death, I had the good fortune to play a role in Hard Case Crime’s publication...
by LB | Apr 29, 2012 | Commentary, For Writers
A few weeks ago I was looking over the eBook of The Liar’s Bible. I came across a piece I wrote in the early 1980s, “Getting By on a Writer’s Income.” When I posted it on my blog, it got touted and tweeted and reposted to a fare-thee-well. If my site had...
