by Admin | Dec 1, 2019 | Bernie Rhodenbarr, Books, News + Events, Newsletter, Nonfiction, The Crime of Our Lives
Oh, really? Is something wrong? “Rabbits Rabbits?” Look, I get it. It’s the first of the month, and you always tweet that curious phrase because you seem to think it brings a month’s worth of good luck. Do you honestly believe it makes a...
by Admin | Sep 26, 2019 | Anthologies, Bernie Rhodenbarr, Books, For Writers, From Sea to Stormy Sea, News + Events, Newsletter, Nonfiction
Is this going to be like one of those Garrison Keillor reports from Lake Woebegon? Kind of folksy and droll? Probably not. It’s true that if I had a couple of elves named Folksy and Droll I could probably find work for them. But for now I just want to share a...
by Admin | Aug 22, 2019 | Audiobooks, Books, News + Events, Newsletter
This won’t take us long. As many of you know, I’ve accepted a position as writer-in residence at Newberry College in (duh) Newberry, South Carolina. And I’m glad I did—the campus is lovely, my colleagues are engaging company, and my students are...
by Admin | Aug 12, 2019 | Audiobooks, Books, Midcentury Erotica, News + Events, Newsletter, Non-Series Novels
“The Joys of Retirement,” eh? That’s really big type you used there. So? It’s almost as if you don’t believe it yourself. You know, if there were a special font for Irony I’d be on it like a mongoose on a cobra. My putative...
by Admin | Jun 24, 2019 | Anthologies, Books, Matthew Scudder, News + Events, Newsletter
Earlier this week, I told you all about the indefatigable Anthony Trollope, and how he filled whole library shelves by writing 250 words a day, day in and day out. I remember. As did I, but what I remembered turned out to be wrong. Which is to say that I stand...
by Admin | Jun 20, 2019 | Anthologies, Audiobooks, Books, News + Events, Newsletter
Sometime last year I started writing a new piece of fiction. It was very dark, very nasty, and more than a little disturbing, and when I was about 15,000 words into it, I found I didn’t want to write any more of it. While I wasn’t yet ready to toss it, I...
