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Your chance to own a piece of Bernie
In 1977, Bernie Rhodenbarr made his debut in Burglar's Can't Be Choosers. In 1995, he had his seventh appearance in The Burglar Who Thought He Was Bogart. And eight years later, in late 2003, a woman in O'Fallon, Illinois, bought the original manuscript of Bogart....
Getting By on a Writer’s Income
Recently, to give you all a taste of one of the new books for writers I ePublished in 2011, I posted a Writer's Digest column of mine ("Writing, Always Writing") from The Liar's Companion. Enough of you responded enthusiastically to prompt me to Do It Again. So here's...
Writing, always writing…
In 1976 I began a monthly instructional column on fiction writing for Writers Digest, and kept at it for fourteen years. Two books, Telling Lies for Fun & Profit and Spider, Spin Me a Web, grew out of that job, and they're both still in print many years and...
No, I won’t give you a blurb. Here’s why:
Sometime next month I'll sit down with The Cocktail Waitress, an unpublished novel by James M. Cain. Hard Case Crime's Charles Ardai, who's published many worthy novels (not a few of them mine), unearthed Cain's manuscript, edited it with his characteristic...