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As I prepare for a special edition of Crime Wave centered no Walter Mosley, I thought it high time I shared Crime Wave #4, "Contender for the Crown," in which I discuss the genius that is Megan Abbott's noir novel Queenpin. You can read the...
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I interviewed Ryan Wick about his forthcoming novel Safe Cracker, hand to hand combat and picking locks. Behold! The third installment of Crime Wave is on Ink Heist.
https://inkheist.com/2020/04/02/crime-wave-3-picking-locks-with-ryan-wick/...
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Ink Heist ran my second Crime Wave column, Will the Real Donald Westlake Please Stand Up? You can read about this titan of crime fiction here...
Posted at 9:18 pm
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Just a quick update to let you know that the crime novel MISTER MADAME is coming along swimmingly. I expect the rough to be done by the end of March and will have more updates as things proceed.
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Posted at 8:53 pm
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Laurel Hightower said this in her review of THE ISLE:
There's an excellent blurb on the front of this book along the lines of it being from one of Nathanial Hawthorne's nightmares. It's a great quote, because it credits the way Foster has captured that archaic...
Posted at 8:24 pm
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The Crime Wave article for February is off to the gentlemen of Ink Heist. This time I used the wayback machine to examine my favorite Crime writer, Richard Stark. Here's a sample:
When a fresh faced guy in a Chevy offered him a lift, Parker told...
Posted at 3:52 pm
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Last night Linda Jones and I spent two hours talking with Rich Duncan, Laurel Hightower and Shane Keene - the Ink Heist crew. We covered all manner of subjects about writing and narrating and our favorite books but also went seriously off the rails and...
Posted at 10:10 pm
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Quick updates:
The horror novel-to-be Spite House is pushed back while I work on the crime novel, Mister Madame, about an ex-con (and former run away) tracking down a kind who ran away from home to the mean streets of New York. It's coming along swimmingly and I...
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The good folks at "What Are You Afraid Of Podcast are including an audio sample of THE ISLE in Episode 134.
Here's a description of the episode:
We are back with episode 134: I MOVED ON TOP OF A FREAKING NATIVE BURIAL GROUND IN LANCASTER (True Story!)
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Posted at 6:13 pm
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2020 is here and it's time for my brief and futile effort at organizing my office for the year's writing effort. Current project: a crime novel titled MISTER MADAME. (Why is the picture tilted? I have no idea).
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