In DARKNESS, MY OLD FRIEND, Lisa Unger brings us back to The Hollows, the suburban New York town where FRAGILE was set. Many of the characters—including Jones and Maggie Cooper and their son Rick(y)—are also part of this new story, as are some we met only briefly in...
FRAGILE came out last year (before I had this blog to talk about it), and is just now out in paperback. Because Lisa’s new book, DARKNESS, MY OLD FRIEND is set in the same place and picks up many of the characters from FRAGILE, I thought it made sense to write about...
When I was a kid, I was tormented for being a bookworm. A nerd. That, of course, was long before the interwebs changed everything.I’m as much of a bookworm and nerd today as ever I was. The difference now is that I can find people like me. People who get as excited...
I’ve made a few changes to the blog, and wanted to get your reaction to them because, well, the whole point here is that this stuff is enjoyable to read…and I think format has a lot to do with that.First, because the ever-wise Lawrence Block pointed out that...
This week’s post at Hey, There’s a Dead Guy in the Living Room includes 15 (yep, fifteen!) tips to establish and maintain a blog or website that works. Especially for authors, but applicable to pretty much everyone.
Disclaimer: The Young Turks is a client of the PR agency for which I work. So I’m writing here about a client. They have neither asked me to do so nor are they paying me to do so. What follows is my honest—if unrepentant—personal opinion.I’ve been working with and...
It is rare indeed when one author publishes two exceptional books in one calendar year. This is such a year for Michael Koryta.As if THE CYPRESS HOUSE isn’t enough of a masterpiece (and it is), THE RIDGE, Koryta’s second book this year, is equally enthralling.THE...
