by LB | Jun 8, 2012 | Bernie Rhodenbarr, Evan Tanner, Keller, Newsletter, Short Stories
Ah yes, TGIF, those ever-so-useful initials. Back in my bride’s time as a print-and-runway fashion model, TGIF was a handy mnemonic that her fellow models were advised to write on the insoles of their shoes. I’ll be happy to tell you what it stood for, but...
by LB | Apr 27, 2012 | Audiobooks, Bernie Rhodenbarr, Books, Chip Harrison, For Writers, Keller, Matthew Scudder, Non-Series Novels
No, of course you don’t. But what I’m getting at, albeit circuitously, is that I always thought of reading as an activity one performs with one’s eyes. I’ve since learned that doesn’t have to be the case. Plenty of us get as much or more...
by LB | Apr 22, 2012 | Bernie Rhodenbarr, For Writers, Matthew Scudder
All these things happened in the space of a week or so: 1. My friend Pat reported that the POD paperback of the book he’d co-authored with my friend Dick had gone on sale quietly at Amazon, with a score of copies sold in the first several days. (The eBook has...
by LB | Apr 7, 2012 | Bernie Rhodenbarr
In 1977, Bernie Rhodenbarr made his debut in Burglar’s Can’t Be Choosers. In 1995, he had his seventh appearance in The Burglar Who Thought He Was Bogart. And eight years later, in late 2003, a woman in O’Fallon, Illinois, bought the original...
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...
by LB | Nov 17, 2011 | Bernie Rhodenbarr, Books, Evan Tanner, In Collaboration with Donald Westlake, Jill Emerson, Keller, Lesley Evans, Matthew Scudder, Non-Series Novels
“I’ve just finished the Keller series. Any suggestions as to what to read next?” A fellow tweeted this to me earlier today. The timing was interesting, in that I had just finished proofreading a fifth Keller book prior to submitting copies to my...
