by LB | Jan 4, 2021 | A Writer Prepares, Anthologies, For Writers, Hunting Bufflo, The Darkling Halls of Ivy
…And not a moment too soon. There’s a lot to be said for 2020, and fortunately there are a lot of other people around to say it. I’d rather turn the page and talk about what’s new for this promising new year. I’ve a few items to bring to...
by LB | Sep 12, 2020 | Audiobooks, Dead Girl Blues, Jill Emerson, LB's Classic Crime Library, LB's Collection of Classic Erotica, The Darkling Halls of Ivy
Let me begin with an apology. It’s been forever since my last communication, and that’s not because the whole enterprise has slipped my mind. Every night I go to bed telling myself I’ll get to work on a newsletter first thing in the morning, and...
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 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,...
by Admin | Jan 7, 2020 | Anthologies, Books, From Sea to Stormy Sea, Keller, News + Events, Newsletter, Nonfiction
That’s what you’re gonna go with? “A Vision for 2020?” Kind of lame, huh? I think the preferred phrase is “locomotionally challenged.” But it could be worse. You could have an exclamation point at the end. Or a string of dots. I...
