Category: Blog
May 30, 2009
Galleys
Today I received bound galleys for Hardball, which is always an exciting time in the life of a book. It’s a strange time, too, because it represents a kind of […]
READ MOREMay 29, 2009
Photo Finish, cont
II Wayland Davenport had died the same year as my client’s mother. Poor Hunter, Senior, losing his wife and his father at the same time. His mother Mildred […]
READ MOREMay 23, 2009
Photo Finish ( A V I Warshawski story)
Note: I’ve been juggling a few too many things lately to work on my alchemy story, so I thought I’d post a story I wrote a few years back that […]
READ MOREMay 16, 2009
Their Eyes Were Watching God
A friend of mine is a librarian in the Chicago system. She’s actually second-in-command at my favorite branch, the Bee branch in Bronzeville Recently, the librarians made a retreat. In […]
READ MOREMay 13, 2009
Vampires
“It’s a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.” This is the captivating opening sentence of Pride and Prejudice and […]
READ MOREMay 8, 2009
New York: Hardball and Dorothy
I’m back from New York, where I spent an energizing morning with my publishers, talking about plans for the publication of Hardball, the next book in my V I series. […]
READ MOREMay 3, 2009
Potpourri
I hope everyone saw The Bookwitch’s tribute to Pete Seeger, who turns 90 today. It’s Sunday night in Chicago; I leave for New York early Monday. I’ve been proofing galleys […]
READ MOREApril 29, 2009
May 1 is Indie Day
This is a post by Kevin Guilfoyle, a fine writer, whose posts and thoughts are always deeply helpful to me. Here’s a chance to see one or more of your […]
READ MOREApril 27, 2009
Manifestation à la rue
In the north of the northern hemisphere, April is the month of wild mood swings. One day it’s 80 under a beaming sun, the next it’s 50 with a bracing […]
READ MOREApril 23, 2009
Adios, Texas?
Texas Governor Perry isn’t ruling out secession as the statement of the proud and independent people of Texas to the U.S. government. Texas is tired of paying federal taxes and […]
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