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 | Nov 18, 2020 | Audiobooks, Bernie Rhodenbarr, Books
Well, hello there. Let me begin with apologies, and abject ones at that. I’ve just had a look at my most recent newsletter, and am reminded that I’d called it LB’s Blue Moon Newsletter, to acknowledge that I’d somehow lost the knack of regular communication. That was...
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 | Aug 3, 2020 | Dead Girl Blues
When Dead Girl Blues first became available for preorder, I wrote this essay for Janet Rudolph’s Mystery Fanfare. I don’t know that it went precisely viral, and that’s an idiom that’s less appealing these days, anyway. But a lot of people read...
by LB | Jul 27, 2020 | Dead Girl Blues, Matthew Scudder, Newsletter
Um, strictly speaking, you get a discount of 57.22460658083%… David Trevor here, and I’ll keep this short and sweet. LB’s accountant told the Great Man that we ought to increase the price on our Matthew Scudder ebooks. “They’re too...
by LB | Jul 23, 2020 | Dead Girl Blues
Ah, I get it. You’re being ironic. Well, I suppose so, but the statement’s not that far from the literal truth. There was a good stretch of time, up until perhaps a dozen years ago, when I spent a disproportionate amount of my days and nights inscribing my...
