by Admin | Oct 1, 2018 | Anthologies, Audiobooks, Books, For Writers, LB's Collection of Classic Erotica, Matthew Scudder, News + Events, Newsletter, Nonfiction, Resume Speed, Short Stories
Let me tell you about my week. A couple of days ago I subwayed a few stops uptown on the #1 train to the Automedia Production studio, where I narrated “The Burglar on the Screen,” my contribution to Hollywood vs. the Author. Edited by the estimable Stephen...
by Admin | May 24, 2018 | Books, Matthew Scudder, News + Events, Newsletter, Resume Speed, Short Stories
Huh? I don’t even know what that means. In journalism, the lede is what you start off with, because it’s the most important part of the story. Thus you are well advised to lead off with it—and when you don’t, you’re burying the lede. So...
by Admin | Apr 30, 2018 | Books, Matthew Scudder, Newsletter, Resume Speed, Short Stories
…even as all of y’all may be wondering why the falling leaves template is here to announce the long-awaited vernal season. I was going to try passing it off as a nod to my readers in Australia and New Zealand, whom I do in fact cherish, but the actual...
by LB | Jan 14, 2017 | Audio, In Sunlight or in Shadow, Matthew Scudder, Resume Speed, Sinner Man
Ideally, something I wrote. Three books of mine came out last month, and let me briefly commend them to your attention. The most recent is Resume Speed, just out in hardcover from Subterranean Press. It’s a novella about a fellow who wakes up one morning in...
by LB | Dec 10, 2016 | In Sunlight or in Shadow, Jill Emerson, LB's Classic Crime Library, LB's Collection of Classic Erotica, Newsletter, Resume Speed, Sinner Man
…and the Gift List begins with a picture: “Sour Bleu,” painted by Edward Hopper in 1914. You know its proverbial value in verbiage, and we’ll double it by adding the first 1000 words of the story Robert Olen Butler wrote for In Sunlight or in...
by Admin | Nov 14, 2016 | Books, In Sunlight or in Shadow, Jill Emerson, LB's Classic Crime Library, LB's Collection of Classic Erotica, News + Events, Newsletter, Non-Series Novels, Resume Speed, Short Stories
…but everything old is new again, under the right circumstances. Take this AHMM cover. It’s ten years old, celebrating the magazine’s fiftieth anniversary, and I’d rather show you the cover of the sixtieth anniversary issue, a copy of which is...
