I just hit 49 books read for the year, which is the most I’ve read as an adult and I’m on track to finally hit the 52 books in a year goal I’ve long craved. I still have three more books to read and I suspect my current read, THE BEST BAD THINGS by Katrina […]
I just did a bit of on-the-fly calculation (the procrastination skills of a writer are varied, indeed) and when I type my handwritten pages into the computer, I’m cutting about 10%. This matches up with what I usually end up cutting between first and second draft because I do like to ramble, especially in dialogue. […]
My first visit to Aunt Agatha’s Mystery Bookshop corresponded to my first visit to Ann Arbor when friends from my Flint-area high school theater and choir program trekked out to our closest cultural mecca. They went to find music stores and other quaint shops, I navigated my way (poorly) toward Fourth Avenue where I knew […]
As I’ve been making great progress on this new book I’ve been wondering where the hell all of this great stuff was hiding for the ten other books I’ve written. There’s certainly been flashes, but nothing like this. And it’s not for lack of practice. I don’t stick with much, but I’ve stuck with writing […]
I see a lot of people crapping all over the new novel from Bill Clinton and James Patterson. In general, I find it pretty awful when anyone looks down on what anyone else reads, but the good these two men in particular have done for our field can’t be overstated (and that doesn’t even take […]
Later today I will be leaving for Bouchercon and this one is special for me. Thirteen years ago I attended my first Bouchercon – in Toronto – as a wide-eyed noob with no publishing credits and some very naive ideas about how long it would take me to get my first novel published. But I […]
I know us Midwestern folks are more prone to think of creepy stories involving blizzards and tornadoes, but I have a piece in this awesome new anthology of Southern Gothic stories that’s on sale today. Buy it now and maybe save it to keep you warm (and haunted) in the dead of winter. Thanks again […]
Bouchercon is quickly coming upon us (though not quickly enough for me as I want to see all of my friends RIGHT NOW – but also, I have a lot that needs to get done between now and then so it’s probably good that we still have some time) and the programming schedule has been […]
For the last several months (truthfully, for the last year or so), my schedule has really started to spin away from me. Deadlines and projects and tasks have been feeling oppressive and overwhelming and my productivity has been a shell of what I know it can be. So after reflecting on what was going on, […]
I get that it’s bad form for authors to claim any one book of their’s as their favorite, and it’s even worse form to talk about how awesome any of their books are (we’re supposed to be humble and self-effacing and all of that crap), but my form’s always been a bit bad. It started […]
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