Thorn and Bad Axe
I’ve finished a draft of the new Thorn novel (#15) and, I admit, it has an odd title. Usually I’ve opted for titles that have some nautical aspect or hint at its Florida locale. But this time the title uses
An Old Interview
I’m working hard on a new Thorn novel. A bit more than halfway through. This one has been delayed by a couple of medical issues. First, in the fall of 2018, I decided to face the increasing arthritic pain in
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence. The more you look at that phrase, the stranger it gets. As I was reading a fascinating article in the New Yorker recently about AI, I came across this quote about the struggles of trying to
New book, new cover
Harper returns to take care of unfinished business. The novel takes place in Zurich, Spain and Italy. It will be published August 28th.
LaBrava, Me and Dutch and Image Patterns
Image Patterns A quarter of a century ago, I decided to teach a course in crime fiction at the university where I worked for most of my adult life. The focus was on crime novels set in
Cars
This is a King Midget, my first car. My brother, John, (pictured here with Baby, the neighborhood dog) drove it before he turned it over to me when he got his first car, a ’52 Chevy I believe. The King
Outlines
This week I reached the point in the new novel where I decided it was time to do an outline. That point is roughly 75 percent into the book. My version of an “outline” is a one or two sentence
Friends and Books
I’ve been lucky to meet many of the writers I’ve long admired and in some cases I’ve been even luckier to have become friends with some. Back in the early eighties, before I’d published a novel, I was teaching a
Nude Woman in the Grass: How I Fell In Love With Mysteries
(This is a view of the ‘restored” library. The First Presbyterian Church (which I attended in my youth) is on the far right.) NUDE WOMAN IN THE GRASS My love affair with books began as most serious romances do, when
An Interview
Forests of the Night by James W. Hall Published by St. Martin’s Minotaur 352 pages, 2005 Buy it online Novels by James W. Hall: Under Cover of Daylight (1987) Tropical Freeze(1990) Bones of Coral (1992)
