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Shelf Life: Mega Book Launch!!

Today is a special and important day for me as this is book launch day and it’s no ordinary book launch. This is because I don’t have one book out today, but six! Thomas and Mercer have come out with revised and […]

November 13, 2012January 9, 2015

Shelf Life: The Next Big Thing

Camille Minichino, author of three mystery series and Alyx Morgan have invited me to take part in an ongoing blog chain called The Next Big Thing. In it, each person is asked a series of questions meant to get the information for […]

October 29, 2012January 9, 2015

Shelf Life: Play With Me

I was in Seattle over the weekend for a couple of dramatizations of my short stories. Over on nearby Vashon Island, the Vashon arts center performed a dramatization of The Taskmasters (from ASKING FOR TROUBLE) and played a studio recording of Old […]

October 22, 2012January 9, 2015

Shelf Life: The Roar Of The Track

Audible has bought the audio rights to the Aidy Westlake series. They picked up DID NOT FINISH and HOT SEAT with an option for a third title. You could see the audio books available very soon and I’m eager to know who […]

September 24, 2012January 9, 2015

Shelf Life: Broadway Bound

As I mentioned a little while ago, a theater company in Seattle bought the rights to adapt my short story, THE TASKMASTERS (from ASKING FOR TROUBLE), into a stage play. Well, the theater has been booked and the date set and the […]

September 17, 2012January 9, 2015

Shelf Life: Relying On The Kindness Of Strangers

Last week, news broke in the UK that a well known author posted glowing reviews on Amazon of his own work, while trashing other writers, all done under a variety of fake names. This news comes on the back of another author […]

September 10, 2012January 9, 2015

Shelf Life: Loves Labors Lost (and Found)

It’s Labor Day, so it’s a short one today and it’s to do with my old publisher, Dorchester. A couple of years ago, they hit the financial skids and when things get tough, things get murky, especially when it comes to royalties […]

September 3, 2012January 9, 2015

Shelf Life: A Question of Violence

From time to time someone at a book signing or conference or something will bring up violence and the writer. Someone will say, “Aren’t you glorifying violence?” or some such. It’s usually at this point I have to take down my banner […]

August 13, 2012January 9, 2015

Shelf Life: Night Courting

A few years ago, I discovered night court existed. I remembered the sitcom from the 80’s, but that was about it. Well, NYC has a night court. Under state law, anyone arrested has to be arraigned within 24 hours of an arrest […]

August 6, 2012January 9, 2015

Shelf Life: Going Dark

A revised version of ASKING FOR TROUBLE will be coming out at the end of the year. Working with the editors on it, a comment came back that a couple of the stories in the collection were too dark and they wanted […]

June 18, 2012April 22, 2015

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