by LB | Jul 10, 2013 | Books, Non-Series Novels, Short Stories
Open Road has just made Grifter’s Game part of a special promotion, dropping the price all the way down to $2.99 for a limited time. (How limited? I don’t know, but you can see for yourself at Kindle or Nook. If the ePrice is still $2.99, you’re in...
by LB | Jul 2, 2013 | Chip Harrison, John Warren Wells, Newsletter, Short Stories
Here’s a newsletter that went out to subscribers a few hours ago. Some of the material will be familiar to followers of this blog—but not all of it. There are, for example, three books free to Kindlers for the next several days, and the lowdown on Smashwords: I...
by LB | Jun 30, 2013 | Short Stories
Two of my favorite publishers have teamed up to offer Catch and Release. I could say more about it, but I’d much rather yield the floor to Tony Daniel, who has this to say in the July 1 issue of Publishers Weekly: “Crime writer Lawrence Block, who turns 75...
by LB | Jun 19, 2013 | Anthologies, Bernie Rhodenbarr, For Writers, Keller, Newsletter, Short Stories
Here’s a newsletter that went out earlier today to subscribers: Oh dear. Just the other day I got an email from a fellow who wanted to be restored to the newsletter list. I checked, and he was never off it. But it’s been so long between installments that I...
by LB | Apr 24, 2013 | Audiobooks, Catch and Release, Matthew Scudder, Newsletter
This newsletter just went out to subscribers. The border, alas, does not appear here in the blog. Think autumn leaves: I’m not sure the border works. I was going for orange, and this comes close, but it’s spring in New York—finally!—and the template...
by LB | Mar 1, 2013 | Commentary, John Warren Wells, Keller, Short Stories
It’s the first of the month, and it’s my habit to mark the occasion by making “Rabbits, rabbits” my first utterance of the day. This is supposed to bring good luck for the new month. I can’t say it doesn’t work; those months that...
