After a short hiatus, The Bat Segundo Show , the cultural radio program featuring unusual and insightful interviews with today's authors, filmmakers, and cultural voices, has returned to the airwaves, providing eight new installments for those contending with the exigencies of holiday travel. And beginning in 2010, the show will adopt a more regular frequency, airing a new weekly installment every...
by James Scott Bell It's shameless self-promotion day here at TKZ. This week my third how-to book for Writers Digest releases. It's called The Art of War for Writers and I think, in my own unbiased fashion, that it's going to help a ton of writers, not only those fighting the battle get published, but also those who want to stay published. But more on that in a bit. In order to keep this from being...
It's been some time since my last McConfidential, so I'm very pleased to be back with one of my favourite hardboiled detective story authors, Sean Chercover . The natural successor to Chandler, Parker, and Crais, in my humble opinion... Rafe: Tell me a bit about your latest novel or current series. Sean: Trigger City is the second book about Chicago investigative reporter-turned PI Ray Dudgeon, who...
I've been reading a lot of short stories lately and thought I'd recommend a few tonight. On Tuesday I received the new Alfred Hitchcock double issue dated January/February 1010. I've been reading through it and found a number of particularly strong stories: "Game" by Janet E. Irvin is a classic suspense story with some truly chilling moments. Very precisely observed. "The God of Right...
Mystery Scene Update Hi! The ad reservation deadline for Mystery Scene's Holiday Issue has been extended to October 31. Please let me know if you'd like us to save space for you. We'd need the finished ad by November 5th. Design services are available for $75. The Holiday Issue #112 publishes November 15th and stays on the newsstands until February 15th, 2010. BIG NEWS! 1. Lawrence Block's new column...
Hi! The ad reservation deadline for Mystery Scene's Holiday Issue has been extended to October 31. Please let me know if you'd like us to save space for you. We'd need the finished ad by November 5th. Design services are available for $75. The Holiday Issue #112 publishes November 15th and stays on the newsstands until February 15th, 2010. BIG NEWS! 1. Lawrence Block's new column of literary reminisces,...
• First, Mystery Scene magazine brought in as contributors Lynn Kaczmarek and Chris Aldrich, following the closure of their Mystery News tabloid. Now, MS editor Kate Stine is touting a deal that adds author Lawrence Block to her stable of writers. His new column, “The Murders in Memory Lane,” will debut in the upcoming holiday issue of Mystery Scene. In it, says Stine, “This...
Today, I'd like to welcome Elizabeth Zelvin as guest blogger. Liz is the author of Death Will Get You Sober , and the new mystery, Death Will Help You Leave Him . Elizabeth Zelvin is a New York City psychotherapist who has directed alcohol treatment programs and lectured widely on codependency, addictions, and relationships. Her author website is www.elizabethzelvin.com . She currently treats clients...
The November Holiday Issue #112 is just around the corner and Mystery Scene is pleased to announce "The Murders in Memory Lane," a new column of literary reminisces by award-winning author Lawrence Block .
More awards have been given out. This time it was the turn of the Shamus Awards. My thanks go to the Rapsheet for the information. The Awards which are sponsored by the Private Eye Writer's of America were given out at the Shamus Awards banquet which was held at Indianapolis' Slippery Noodle Bar. The winners were as follows:- The E ye (Lifetime Achievement) Award to Robert J. Randisi, author and founder...
(Editor’s note: This is the 66th installment of our ongoing Friday blog series highlighting great but forgotten books. Picking today’s must-read crime novel is Dick Adler, a regular Rap Sheet contributor and a reviewer for both the Chicago Tribune and The Barnes & Noble Review. He previously wrote in this series about Lawrence Block’s When the Sacred Gin Mill Closes.)In 1999,...
We reported recently about the new sponsorship deal that The Crime Writers Association have agreed with Specsavers, ITV3, and Cactus TV over at The Rap Sheet. Now that the nominations for the CWA Daggers have been announced - the excitement is building. Photo from 2008 ITV-3 Thriller Awards (c) 2009 A Karim [Clockwise from top] Mark Billingham, Sharon Canaver, Lee Child, Val McDermid, Mark Billingham,...
Lawrence Block is most recently the author of Step by Step. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Ruminating upon a life of exquisite indolence. Author: Lawrence Block Subjects Discussed: Step by Step as an anti-memoir, exploring childhood experience in print, randomness and finding connections, writing with a greater degree of freedom, Random Walk, concerns about a limited audience, earlier attempts [...]
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