I didn’t have much time for social media, blogs, etc. this week (sadly, it does recharge me), but I was able to scrape up a few links for this here post. Hope you enjoy these odds ‘n ends over the week about books and reading that caught my eye. You’ve probably seen some/most/all of them, but just in case:
- Sad news to start with, Janet Asimov died this week — I wish I could find a better obituary. I really enjoyed the Norby novels that I read (almost half of them, it turns out — I wish I knew I had more to read back then, and a way to get them. Ahhh, the 80s.) and the anthology of “lite SF” she edited with her husband blew my mind — at the time, I didn’t know people not named Adams and Aspirin could write that kind of stuff.
- Chinbeard announces the 3rd (and, alas, final) Derek & Dave Philpott book — this will reportedly be focused on 1990’s British(ish) artists. Which means a lot of it will fly by me, but the stuff that doesn’t will probably be golden.
- Writers with a Badge: Two Retired Female Cops Talk Fiction vs. Reality — I haven’t read either of these authors, but I’ve often wondered what police officer/detective turned writers.
- Let’s Make A Murder: A Quick & Dirty Guide To Crafting A Whodunnit — Duncan MacMaster writes a great guest post on The Beardy Book Blogger. I know my site skews more to the reader then the writer, but this is a worthwhile post even for us non-practitioners.
- Don Winslow: The Making of a Drug War Epic: A Powerhouse Crime Trilogy Takes on the War on Drugs — another great piece on The Border, a book I’m working really hard to get to.
- What To Do When Your Crazy Thriller Plots Come True: An Author Wrestles With Fiction Becoming Truth — Lee Goldberg talks about his fiction hitting a little to close to home
- Authors, do you know what book bloggers actually do?
- The book of the show of the book – 11 top crime shows, 11 great reads — books based on shows, shows based on books.
- Book-ish Related Podcast Episodes you might want to give a listen to, both from Hank Garner’s Author Stories:
- The Author Stories Podcast Episode 575 | Elaine Shannon Interview — I haven’t listened to this yet, but how an interview with the writer of Hunting LeRoux: The Inside Story of the DEA Takedown of a Criminal Genius and His Empire be anything but fascinating?
- This Week’s New Releases I’m Excited About and/or You’ll Probably See Here Soon:
- The Border by Don Winslow — the end of the Winslow’s Cartel Trilogy. Looks fantastic. Hope to get to it soon.
- Circle of the Moon by Faith Hunter — The fourth Soulwood novel brings the action. I loved it when I talked about it a few weeks back
- Death & Honey by Deliah S. Dawson, Kevin Hearne, Chuck Wendig — includes novellas by all three. The only one I care about (which might be a mistake) is the Third Oberon’s Murder Mystery!
Bookstooge
Read that “what do book bloggers do” post. Do other people really do all that tripe she talks about? If so, they have my sympathies (regardless of the fact that I now consider them idiots) and I no longer wonder that so many book bloggers burn out. I was tired just reading it all.
What a joke. That kind of book blogging is not a hobby but a second job. I want nothing to do with anything remotely resembling that. In fact, I punch the very Idea itself right in its idea’y face!
*bobs and weaves* *bobs and weaves*
And this is why I will never become a famous in a teacup blogger ?