David Trevor here, doing for LB what he can’t seem to do for himself. In our most recent newsletter, which was devoted entirely to the deluxe Subterranean Press editions of The Burglar Who Met Fredric Brown and The Autobiography Matthew Scudder, he promised another newsletter dealing with the June 24 release of the Scudder ebook and paperback. “In a matter of days,” he said.

Right.

I reminded him this morning, not for the first time. He used a couple of words you might find in The New Yorker but not in The New York Times. Not yet, anyway. Then he said, “You do it.”

The time frame right now is such that it’s more important to get this done than to get it done right, so here goes.

1. The Autobiography of Matthew Scudder releases on Saturday, June 24, the day after tomorrow as I write this. If you’ve put off preordering out of a fear of commitment, well, at this late date it’s only technically a preorder, and will guarantee ASAP delivery of ebook or paperback:

AMAZON              BARNES & NOBLE             KOBO              APPLE          
                THALIA                        SMASHWORDS              VIVLIO 

2. Just hours from now, which is to say at 6pm on Thursday, June 22, LB will be making his only public appearance for the book at The Mysterious Bookshop at 58 Warren Street in Lower Manhattan. It’s a little late to urge you to drop everything and hurry to the bookshop, but if you want a signed copy of TAOMS, that’s the only place you’re going to be able to get it…and their stock is pretty close to exhausted. You can click the link and order online, but if signatures really matter to you, I’d suggest a phone call to 212.587.1011.

3. LB was planning to pack this with email with quotes and reviews, but I grabbed a few for the Amazon order page, and time’s running out, so I’m making an executive decision and saying the hell with it. Here’s an extract, though, from Vick Mickunas’s terrific review in the Dayton Daily News:

“This is Scudder’s back story; where he was born, what his family was like, how he became a cop, a detective, and also, an alcoholic. To this reviewer the most fascinating bits in this story revolved around how Scudder became a police officer. We meet his partner, an older cop who demonstrates how he thinks policing should work, the occasional bribe notwithstanding. And we get to see how Scudder washed out of the force to become the private investigator Block has been writing about for half a century. Devotees of the Scudder books will not want to miss this one. If you have never experienced any of the stories in this series I think after you read this autobiography you’ll be intrigued to comprehend there are another 19 Scudder books already out there just waiting for you to devour them.” ~Vick Mickunas, Dayton Daily News

4. I should also mention the audiobook. Peter Berkrot reads Scudder, Romy Nordlinger reads Elaine, and LB appears briefly as, um, himself. Same June 24 release date.

Okay, that’s gonna have to do it. Whatever I’ve misspelled or gotten wrong or left out altogether is something we’ll all have to live with. And here, in case you missed it, are the links once again for TAOMS:

AMAZON              BARNES & NOBLE             KOBO              APPLE          
                THALIA                        SMASHWORDS              VIVLIO  

Cheers,

David Trevor sitting in for

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