I came across some interesting tidbits on the web over the last few days. Thought I’d share:
1. A guy named Scott Lynch wrote fantasy excerpts on his weblog. A publisher read the entries. Lynch got a book deal with Bantam Dell’s Spectra imprint. His hardcover release date for Lies of [...]

I was flipping through the New York Times Book Review looking for the article on Sebastian Junger’s newest, A Death In Belmont (as I mentioned yesterday and, if you missed yesterday, this is the guy who wrote The Perfect Storm), and saw an ad for Indecision by Benjamin Kunkel. I blogged about this book [...]

I’ve been waiting for Sebastian Junger’s newest, The Belmont Strangler. In the wake of the memoir scandals visited on all of us by James Frey and others, Junger writes about a murder of an elderly woman (Bessie Goldberg) in his old neighborhood. Junger was about six years old at the time. A [...]

First, we have a second April contest winner: Phyllis Lamken of Victor, Idaho. Congrats!
Now, for those who haven’t purchased a copy (or 40) of my April release in the anthology When Good Things Happen To Bad Boys - it’s only been out a week but, really, why haven’t you? - [...]

This one is really more of a book spotlight than an author spotlight. It’s Deadly Housewives, an April 2006 anthology release from Avon Trade.

The publisher describes it like this:
In the expert hands of fourteen unsurpassed storytellers, being a housewife takes on a whole new meaning. Get ready for a lethal mix of [...]

I’m a fan of Jamie Sobrato’s blog. Actually, I’m a fan of Jamie Sobrato. My only complaint is that she does not blog often enough. Kids, husband, full-time writing career - yeah, whatever. A girl could get carpel tunnel syndrome clicking on Jamie’s website link 40 or 50 times a day [...]

Patricia Cornwell. Everyone has a theory about her. Seems as if everyone has something to say about her:
-She was the subject of a 1996 scandal involving an alleged lesbian affair and FBI officials, which all lead to a kidnapping, death and a court case.
-A copycat killer used her book Postmortem as a [...]

Have a bit of a mini-rant over at AR’s All A-Blog today. I’m too exhausted to write something else. Go over there.

A few months ago I drafted an entry and linked to an article by Dayo at Yale. The article was one which, in my view, gave the standard chick-lit-ruins-women argument based on what appeared to be the reading of a few chick lit offerings and the reviewing of back cover blurbs. The argument [...]

Looks as if I’m not the only one who loves free books… Here I thought I’d get a few entries and, well, let’s just say you guys sent in more than a few. Wow - who knew?
Using advanced scientific analysis, I have chosen a winner for the first week of the April contest. [...]