JWH

James W. Hall is the author of 23 novels. His latest, Trickster, is a new Thorn novel that was released in July of 2022. Sixteen of his novels feature a hardcore loner named Thorn, who makes a meager living tying bonefish flies. Thorn, and his private eye pal, Sugarman, have teamed up to thwart animal smugglers, cruise ship hijackers, rogue medical experimenters, and other assorted villains. Starting out his writing life as a poet, Hall published four collections of poetry, three of them with Carnegie-Mellon University Press. He also taught a generation of novelists as a professor of literature and creative writing at Florida International University. Several of his novels have been optioned for film and Hall wrote the screenplays for two of those projects, Bones of Coral, MGM-Pathe, Gruscoff-Levy Producers. (Co-writer, Les Standiford) And Under Cover of Daylight, (screenplay), Nelson Entertainment, Red Bank Studios Producers.

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.

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Imagination

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

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Book Reviews

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

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Dogs, Dogs, Dogs

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

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Nose in a Book

  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

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Photography

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

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New Website

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

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