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Jan.28.2013
My concern is that an accumulation of facts about a book or an author makes one think they know what book and author are about. It is but a rake skimming across a pond. You'll find some interesting things but your knowledge of what lies beneath is opaque. [DE]
Insu Lee...
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Jan.21.2013
When I started doing book reviews on this blog, I made two promises to myself:
1) I would only write positive reviews. This isn't because I love every book I read--far from it--but because I am averse to publicly lambasting other people's writing. I decided that, if I don't like something I'...
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Jan.16.2013
While having dinner recently, the lovely lady I was with suddenly asked, “How’s your writing going?
I took a moment and said, “Are you asking about my new book?”
“Yes, tell me about it.”
She’s one who’s suggested I do a sequel to, Sons In The Clouds. And although I haven’t dismissed that idea,...
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Jan.12.2013
Sweet Tooth, by Ian McEwan
One thing I enjoy about what we call this particular version of postmodern literature is the tinkering with structure, and McEwan is a master of that talent. Too, he, like most gifted writers, is a student of human tics, psychology, the subtleties that make us unique,...
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Jan.05.2013
There are a couple of new interviews with me up on the interwebs: not exclusively about the novels I'm releasing this spring (Season of the Wolf, River Runs Red, Missing White Girl, and Cold Black Hearts, all from DarkFuse, and Star Trek: The Folded World from Pocket Books, if you're keeping...
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Dec.23.2012
Perhaps Christmas week is the wrong time to blog magazines, but I am left-handed, after all, and tend to pay scant attention to convention. I will, of course, sandwich these around my usual Pogo Christmas greetings.
Harper’s Magazine, December 2012
I suppose a year-end issue of a magazine like...
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Dec.21.2012
2012 was another busy and rewarding year with two new DI Andy Horton Mystery crime novels, (number seven and eight in the series published), A Killing Coast and Death Lies Beneath, set against the backdrop of the sea on the South Coast of England; some lovely reviews in the UK and the USA; radio...
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Dec.14.2012
For years, I’ve had difficulty sleeping at night. I have no trouble falling asleep, that’s never been an issue. Typically, I can sleep maybe two or three hours and then I’m awake. Then after I fall back to sleep again I’m awake every two hours until I’ve had enough, call it quits, and get up....
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Dec.05.2012
Years ago, if you were like the rest of us, you were a little bit wacky and a little bit cynical, and that led us to Kurt Vonnegut's books. He wrote as if he were a good-hearted anarchist, and he wrote plenty, and so we had a lot to read.
Now his books - and books about him - are experiencing a...
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Dec.04.2012
Phil Naessens' show for December 4th, including his interview with me, is up, and you can find it here.
Phil's show is something like an audio magazine, and he takes on some rather interesting subjects. If you have time, take in the whole show.
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