Never Gets Old
The day the new books arrive never gets old. It’s happened now 20 plus times, and it’s still as exciting as it was decades ago when I started. And this time the audio books arrived at the same time.
The day the new books arrive never gets old. It’s happened now 20 plus times, and it’s still as exciting as it was decades ago when I started. And this time the audio books arrived at the same time.
When I was a kid, besides playing basketball, football and tennis with my friends and classmates, I spent a good deal of time alone. In my early teenage years, I set up a shop in the basement of our house alongside my brother’s imitation radio disc jockey studio complete with control board with lots of
Since 1987 when I published Under Cover of Daylight with W.W. Norton, I’ve been learning about book reviews. I’ve learned a lot of lessons in these years. For one thing, whether the review is good or bad, its impact on the sales of the book is one of the great imponderables of publishing. Does it
Richie is one of my earliest dogs. He was named after Richard Diamond, a TV detective on a show we used to like. Richie had a white diamond-shaped mark on his back, ergo, Richie. Detectives, dogs. Two things that started early and persisted over the decades. Richie liked to chase cars and despite our best
From a very early age I’ve had my nose in a book. I can’t say for sure what caused my fascination with reading. My brother, for instance, who is only two years older and had pretty much the same upbringing as I did, was not a great reader when we were young. So I
My dad was an amateur photographer. Maybe even a semi-pro. He set up his own darkroom in our basement and developed his own photos for many years. When the family was out in public together, he almost always had a camera in hand, embarrassing the hell out of all of us. We got used to
2017 is a big year for me. I turn 70 this year. That’s one thing. And I’ve got a new book coming out in September, When They Come For You, with a new protagonist, Harper McDaniel, who I hope to stay with for a few more years. I also have a new publisher, Thomas and
“Maybe Dats Your Pwoblem Too” Since “Maybe Dats Your Pwoblem Too” a poem I wrote about Spiderman, shows up in a lot of anthologies and text books and therefore becomes assignment material for students of many ages, I frequently get emails requesting more information on the poem. So I’ve prepared the following to answer some
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