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Scribble, Scribble, Scribble…
Y’all know the story, right? The Duke of Gloucester, patron to Edward Gibbon, upon receiving the second volume of Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: “Another damned thick book! Always scribble,...
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A Burglar’s Complaint
A couple of months ago, a woman named Bianca emailed me from Germany. Could I write something around 700 words long for a New York guide book called 38 Hours? I could and I did, and they’ve just now...
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A whole lot of rhubarb…
That’s what my Frequent Companion and I encountered two weeks ago at the annual Rhubarb Festival in Aledo, Illinois. We also saw the Bear Tree in Bloomington and the Kokomantis in Kokomo, and posted an...
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Eine nicht-so-kleine Nachtmusik…
Keeping close tabs on your book sales is a good sign that you’ve got too much time on your hands. Still, technology makes the process irresistibly simple. Click! The page is refreshed, and look at...
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Eine nicht-so-kleine Nachtmusik, Act Two—
I published this blog post yesterday, June 18, and later discovered that most of the links went to the wrong places. This should have been easy to correct, but it wasn’t, and it took an hour and a half...
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Back in stock!
~David Trevor here. A week ago LB found three hardcover first edition copies of the Hard Case Crime/Subterranean Press double volume of Strange Embrace and 69 Barrow Street, two examples of what LB has...
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David Trevor Reporting—
~David Trevor here, reporting from LB’s eBay Bookstore. I just spent a couple of hours uploading new listings, and LB says tell everybody what you’ve got to tell them and then you can go home. Well...
View ArticleSweet praise for TCOOL
Terry Zobeck is a participant in a Yahoo members-only newsgroup centering on magazine fiction, and a devoted reader and collector with particular expertise on Dashiell Hammett. Recently, and with some...
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How to Enjoy July
How to Enjoy July… Not difficult at all, really. All I have to do is take a minute to recall how long it took summer to get here and it’s no great trick to rejoice in its presence. But this past week...
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LB gets to run his mouth…
I say yes to quit a few interviews, but some of them work out better than others. The quality of the questions is a big factor, and I suspect my own mood at the time makes a difference as well. The...
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HERE COMES OUR BLUE-EYED GIRL!
And not a moment too soon. I’m back from five weeks on the North Atlantic, the same cruise I took two years ago to write The Burglar Who Counted the Spoons. This time I shared my cabin with a beautiful...
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TOFR #1: Along Came the IRT
The other day I was reviewing subway routes with my granddaughter Marisa, and noticed that, when I spoke of the IRT, she had no idea what I was talking about. New York’s remarkable urban transit...
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Report from LB’s Bookstore
~David Trevor here. I just wrapped our last hardcover copy of Borderline for shipment to a customer in Fishers, Indiana. (LB says he had breakfast there in June on his way to the Rhubarb Festival in...
View ArticleWords to read while listening to Ralph Vaughan Williams…
Recently my publicist at Hard Case sent out copies of The Girl with the Deep Blue Eyes to some friends of mine, mostly writers. “Larry thought you might like a look at his latest,” her note said, to...
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LB’s Bouchercon schedule
Come Thursday, I’ll be on a train to Raleigh, where I’ll spend the weekend at Bouchercon, memorably labeled by Nathan Detroit as the oldest established permanent floating mystery convention in the...
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Bernie Rhodenbarr invites you to Steal This Book!
I published The Burglar who Counted the Spoons in 2013 on Christmas Day, and the true first edition was this signed-and-numbered hardcover limited, with Manny Schongut’s painting mounted on its...
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Pants on fire!
David Trevor here. (But that’s obvious. My prose isn’t as smooth as LB’s, or anywhere near as uplifting as Erin’s. Deal with it.) A little history, okay? In 1976 LB started writing a fiction column for...
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Coincidence? I don’t think so.
You don’t have to believe in coincidence to be struck by the way things tend to coincide. I’ve been busy these days, working on an expanded and updated edition of Writing the Novel from Plot to Print....
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False modesty is better than no modesty at all…
The professional backwater of anthologist is ideal for an antiquated scribbler. I get to add new books to the shelves, with all the attendant ego gratification that my name on a book cover still...
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Bernie Rhodenbarr’s secret recipe—
I just posted this on Facebook, where it seems to be getting a lot of attention. So here it is for the rest of y’all: BERNIE RHODENBARR’S PEANUT BUTTER & JELLY SANDWICH 1. Locate breadbox in host...
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