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I was at a Half Price today and found a Dan Roman private eye novel by Edward Mathis. After reading a few pages I bought both the Mathis nov...

John D. MacDonald Biography Schaffner Press: Upcoming Releases Archives: "BLOODSHOT RAINBOW: The Life and Work of John D. MacDonald Jam...

On Mystery*File tonight there's a review of a novel by Amber Dean. Who? Yes, Amber Dean. I've written before about my sentimental at...

Day after day we hear about publishing houses letting employees go. Day after day we hear about how bad the holiday season was for books. Da...

I started reading John Updike early on in the Sixties. I've managed to keep his first two collections all this time. I've always tho...

This is for Bill Crider. Even when I'm on the exercise bike and watching tv I can't handle those entertainment news shows. I look fo...

As many of you know, Mike Resnick is a highly acclaimed writer of both science fiction and fantasy. His books and stories are held in great ...

From Galleycat: Publishers Assess the Damage from November Last week, the U.S. Census Bureau issued its retail figures for November 2008, in...

This is from my favorite political website Talking Points Memo and head dude Josh Marshall is my favorite political writer. You want to know...

Lots of questions here: How much are the writers being paid? Are agents called in to negotiate? Will this become a standard part (numerous v...

Congratulations to my friend Paula Guran: (from Locus today) Juno becomes imprint of Pocket - posted at 1/20/2009 08:51:00 PM PT Wildside P...

From the saucy front cover photo of Janet Leigh to the gritty back cover promo sheet for a spaghetti western the new issue of Cinema Retro i...

If you were a science fiction reader in the Forties or Fifties you were likely a faithful reader of Henry Kuttner under his own or numerous ...

This is a good time for Tom Piccirilli. The International Thriller Writers gave him the award for The Midnight Road and now his novel The Co...

It's impossible to call any book by Stephen King forgotten but by now some of the novels he wrote early on are less discussed than they ...

A shout out to Patti Abbott for her Forgotten Books Friday. One of the real pleasures of the week. - Congratulations to the Edgar nominees. ...

I was at the doctor's today (flu) so I had my choice of reading Parents magazine or watching TV (I forgot to bring a book). The people a...

I ran across this today and was surprised I hadn't seen it on my friend Bill Crider's website. Now I'm not going to provide link...

A busy portable typewriter falls silent Don Westlake, author of 100 novels, dies of a heart attack BY ROBERT BYRNE (A photo accopmanies the ...

A bit over seven years ago I had two surgeries for thyroid cancer. I posted some larky comments about it on my blog. A number of people thou...