Welcome to CrimeSpace Craig. Your site and books look really good and I look forward to reading them through. I'm very new here and already I'd seeing my book collections going to be increasing at an unusual rate. :-)

And a lurker moves out of the shadows ... glad to have you on board, Craig.

Thank you, Daniel, for creating such a great place to lurk, and now, to move around "out of the shadows..."

And Kim, thank you so much for the warm welcome. Very pleased by the prospect to help make your shelves sag with new titles.

Hey, Craig! Welcome to Crimespace. Your novel looks great! Hope to see you back at the Poisoned Pen soon. I had a book signing there Saturday and a ton of people showed up. Great fun!

Hello Craig,

Greetings from Connemara! Just waiting to get my hands on HEAD GAMES !

Slan, Pat.

'Winter Bone' - check! I have put it on my TBR pile. Thank you for the recommandation

Hi Craig. Assuming you like darker fiction, skip SC and wait for the next one.

I'll let you know when the review copy gets here.

Cheers,
Sandra

Craig...thanks for the nice post re' Vachss. He's a helluva guy. Parts 2-4 well worth stickin' around for!
Hey, like your fav authors...we must talk about Papa some time, he da man!!
Best
Tone.

Hey Craig--I picked up your book at Bouchercon in Alaska. Looking forward to reading. . . .

Thanks for the welcome. This is a great site!

Thanks for posting the Spillane/Hunter/Parker video. Great stuff.

Thanks for the videos. Good Stuff.

Craig ... I had to leave the comp last night. What happened to the Block interviews???

Hey Jack, I think the Block Interviews were just something that YouTube auto scrolled at the end of the Spillane clip. But I've posted the first of the six-part Block interview you were evidently seeing last night...

Thanks for the add, Craig! And thanks for posting some really cool interviews over there. I'm going to have a fun Sunday morning. :-)

Thanks for the nice comments on Sons of Spade. I haven't been on Crimespace for some time but hope you've been enjoying the last couple of posts on SoS as well. By the way, seems we also both like Pulppusher.com!

Cool. Julee has a way of getting into one's soul.

Best,
H-

Thanks Craig,

I've seen your face regularly here on crime space, but I never realized that it is the face behind those wonder- and insightful interviews with James Ellroy.

It seem that you had your last interview (2006 ?) for a while online and removed it when your interview book came out. I hope you don't mind me asking, but do I recall it correctly that he asked you whether you liked "The Cold Six Thousand" ("Did you dig it ?") and you said "yes" and he answered that only 30% of it's readers liked the book.

In that part of the interview Ellroy seemed demure, almost depressed. I wondered if he will just rewrite the third book or if he will totally dump it. Do you know more ?

And congrats for the Edgar nomination. As I will review all candidates prior to the announcement of the winners I look forward to read "Head Games"

Drink a lot of beer. It'll come soon after.

Crossing fingers for you for the Edgar (but also for, like, three others in that category. Still, the home team rules!)

Thanks for adding me. I look forward to reading your work!

They used to screen b and w movies late on weekday afternoons, assuming I suppose that old films weren't that sinister. I first saw both Night of the Hunter and To Kill a Mockingbird when I was about 12 and they are still two of my most memorable viewing experiences.

Hi Craig,

just read "Head Games" and was surprised: Under the disguise of a typical US-American crime story in form and setting it is an ambitious literary work (hope, you understand my clumsy description).

Bernd, thank you so much for your assessment of "Head Games"...you've truly made my day.

thanks so much! I needed that today! and thanks for being my friend.

Thanks so much for the welcome :) It was a pleasure meeting and speaking with you today.

Hey Keith,
Thanks so much. As you know from reading Head Games, I didn't exactly start my series in the expected way. Pretty much, quite the contrary; Head Games would more likely be most writers' last book in a series. So, yeah, I think the series format can be kind of deadening. For my part, I went in with a notion of a seven-book series, then intend to get out. It's a number that allows you to maintain quality, and if you know you're going to get out in a limited number of books, well, anything goes, in theory.

Interesting you mention Ray...I think his plan with Innes is similar to mine: write a really strong, short series that allows you to honestly focus on/portray the cumulative physical and psychological effects of violence and acute trauma on a series character and really carry that toward it's logical outcome. When Ray's guy takes a beating, he doesn't shrug it off like so many series characters seem to do.

All that said, I'm working on a standalone right now...

Yes, Craig, you're right....CODIS is what I was looking for. Thanks for the info.

Thank you sir. I'm brannew to the interweb

We do seem to like the same stuff. When are you publishing the Rogues?

I'll watch out for it on Amazon

Craig, I absolutely loved Head Games & just picked up a LE copy of Toros & Torsos, from David at MBTB in Houston. I cant wait to read it. Great stuff. Rod Wiethop