Remember me? Sorry this page hasn’t been updated in forever, I’m really frustrated that things have gotten so hectic (beyond hectic) that I haven’t been able to write practically anything. It’s worse than that, actually, I’m down to about a novel a week for the last month and a half or so. Still no time to write anything, but I figure at least I can dump a bunch of miscellany links and whatnot.
- I have to start with this one: On Becoming 1/3 of Robert B. Parker — I’ve made no secret of the fact that I’ve been disappointed (to put it mildly) with Michael Brandman‘s efforts taking the helm of the Jesse Stone books — as much as I’ve appreciated his work on the movies. I’ve only read Coleman’s piece in the In Pursuit of Spenser book — and about 1/3 of Walking the Perfect Square so far — but I’ve got a really good feeling about this.
- Speaking of Robert B. Parker, here’s a nice lil’ piece, A Conversation with Ace Atkins
- How you help authors the most — Kevin Hearne answers a question I’ve always wondered: what’s the best way to get your book buying dollars to help an author?
- Brad Parks, who’s becoming one of the more reliable mystery writers around, recently paid tribute to Sue Grafton at a mystery convention. Watch his Alphabet Sue
- Retaining the Look of a Series — I thought this blog post from Strange Chemistry about the design of covers for a series was quite fascinating.
- The genre debate: Science fiction travels farther than literary fiction — The Guardian gives us yet another defense of SF/F’s ability to do what “literary” fiction cannot
- On the lighter side, a nice little Buzzfeed post: 33 Reasons Why You’re Addicted To Books
- and lastly, I second everything here: A Few Things I’ve Learned As An Avid Reader
- I know I’m forgetting a few, but here are the new releases I’m most excited about/interested in since I last posted:
- The Dragon Business by Kevin J. Anderson — looks like fun
- Attack The Geek: A Ree Reyes Side-Quest by Michael R. Underwood — One of the most fun Urban Fantasy series around gets a new entry. Yah-hoo!
- The Thousand-Dollar Tan Line by Rob Thomas and Jennifer Graham — The first in a hopefully very long Veronica Mars series. Not as good as I hoped, but fun enough to keep me wanting more. I’ll try to write more soon.
- Heaven’s Queen by Rachel Bach — The Paradox series ends here. Can’t wait.
- Dawn’s Early Light by Pip Ballantine and Tee Morris — The third Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences novel. Should be fun.
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