by LB | May 1, 2014 | Bernie Rhodenbarr, Newsletter, The Burglar Who Counted the Spoons
50% off on Bernie Rhodenbarr! Well, it’s May, a month that generally deserves every one of its thirty-one days. Don’t tell me about the floods and wildfires, the tornadoes and sinkholes, the hell and high water, the global unrest. We just got through the...
by LB | Apr 8, 2014 | Newsletter
Mixing memory with desire… That’s April’s job, according to T. S. Eliot, when it’s not otherwise occupied breeding lilacs out of the dead land. He labeled it the cruelest month, although I’d say that’s a hotly contested honor, with...
by LB | Nov 13, 2013 | Newsletter
Something Old: Well, not all that old. A year ago we began taking orders for our Limited Edition of Hit Me, the fifth book about Keller. In addition to being a quality small-press production, signed and numbered, the book was philatelically enhanced, with a Personal...
by LB | Nov 6, 2013 | News, Newsletter, Short Stories, Store, The Burglar Who Counted the Spoons
If you just tuned in, you may wonder what the hell I’m talking about. It was not quite a year ago, in the wake of a couple of November marketing campaigns called Black Friday and Cyber Monday, that I tried a bit of counter-programming, proclaimed it to be Orange...
by LB | Oct 22, 2013 | Bernie Rhodenbarr, Newsletter, The Burglar Who Counted the Spoons
Surprised? Well, that makes three of us. I honestly thought I was done writing books, even as my good friend Bernard Grimes Rhodenbarr figured he was through appearing in them. Turns out we were both wrong. A couple of months ago I boarded the MS Veendam in Boston’s...
by LB | Oct 8, 2013 | Catch and Release, Keller, Matthew Scudder, Newsletter
It’s that time of year, isn’t it? Leaves turning, pumpkins ripening in the field, and children creeping like snail unwillingly to school. I was going go treat you to a picture of a pumpkin patch, one that puts a nice seasonal spin on the notion of crop...