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While there are many good sites dealing with current fiction, there are only a few that deal with the fiction of past times with any intelli...

From Variety: "Looking to create some buzz, CBS will choose from a pilot slate that includes zombie drama, 'Babylon Fields.' CB...

Can't we forgive Alec Baldwin? He's given us so much By Stephanie Zacharek (Salon) Under Fire, an Actor Lashes Back With a Plan By A...

John Trinian was a working name of Zekial Marko. He was a former > convicted criminal who started publishing when he got out of jail >...

"When I see a Hitchcock movie, as when I read a novel by Graham Greene, I feel I have entered a universe in which evil exists." Th...

Richard Wheeler sends this new story along: Revered bookstore to shut its doors this year By Ramón Rentería / El Paso Times Copyright 2007 b...

The careers of writers and performers have always fascinated me. Sometimes their lives are more interesting than their work. Mark Evanier...

I've always held the opinion that some writers are just too good for the mass market. This is a true of a number of literary writers but...

This week's Entertanment Weekly contains a fine column by Stephen King about rehab for alcoholics and drug users. Noting how many celebr...

From Mary Cannon: Hi, Ed - I purchased Black Wings Has My Angel via amazon.com - A company called Blackmask.com published/reprinted it in 20...

Thanks to tips from Vince Keenan and Bill Crider I checked out the following story from Hollywood Reporter: Wood to produce 'Black Wings...

On Bookgasm today the lead review looks at two books dealing with the history of slasher movies. Not being much of a gore fan, I never cared...

Paiso Publishing, a magazine and game publisher, is establishing a line of books that will hopefully acquaint modern readers with some of th...

Ed here: The battle is joined. There are writers, profession even known writers, who are putting some of their material, including novels, ...

Will there be another two-book year's best anthology? Yes, as far as I know. When will your McCain novel Fools Rush In be available? Rig...

A science fiction writer who, like me, grew up in the Fifties was lamenting the other day that science fiction would never be respectable to...

If you'll forgive me the vanity of quoting myself, I once noted that David Goodis didn't write novels, he wrote suicide notes. I mea...

There's good dark and bad dark. Fiction, that is. To me bad dark is fiction that tries too hard to be dark. Fiction written with the exp...

Every once in a while somebody says to me that they're thinking of writing their autobiography. I try to ease on out the door and run sc...

The London Sunday Times this morning carries an interesting article by Alice Fordham about all the collaborating going on in the the thrille...