by LB | Feb 14, 2012 | Non-Series Novels
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...
by LB | Nov 23, 2011 | Keller, Matthew Scudder, Non-Series Novels
Just got word that Open Road, my eBook backlist publishers, have launched a special promotion, dropping the prices of two books to $2.99 apiece. It’s a one-week-only deal, so I don’t want to waste any time letting y’all know about it. One of the...
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...
by Admin | Aug 23, 2011 | Non-Series Novels, Reviews
Lawrence Block’s Killing Castro (2009) is a prime example of why Hard Case Crime is such an exceptional publisher. A properly “lost” book, Killing Castro first (and last) saw print in 1961 (as Fidel Castro Assassinated), written under the pseudonym...
by Admin | Aug 15, 2011 | LB's Afterthoughts, Non-Series Novels
AFTER THE FIRST DEATH In the summer of 1964, I moved from the Buffalo suburb of Tonawanda to Racine, Wisconsin, to take an editorial position in the coin supply department of Whitman Publishing Company, itself a division of Western Printing. I enjoyed my time in the...
by Admin | Jul 25, 2011 | LB's Afterthoughts, Non-Series Novels
In May, while I was out in California promoting the just-published A Drop of the Hard Stuff, I teamed up with Robert Silverberg for an onstage dialogue at a library in the Bay Area. We talked about our separate genres, crime and science fiction, but much of our talk...
