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John Kenyon interviews me for a record-setting third time at his excellent Things I'd Rather Be Doing site... We talk about interviewing, blending/balancing fiction and nonfiction and some up-coming projects.

Brian Lindenmuth interviews me — a broad, wide-ranging discussion about genre, changing gender roles and the state of the mystery/crime novel among other topics at Spinetingler Magazine.

To promote the autumn release of Busted Flush Press' new Ken Bruen/Reed Farrel Coleman collaboration, TOWER, I agreed to interview Ken, Reed and the novel's editor, Allan Guthrie. The first of the three interviews, this one with Ken, is now available HERE.

These are grim times to be someone who makes their living with words.

I’ve already stood witness to the decimation of the newspaper trade. I’m watching the New York publishing industry repeat many of the same mistakes their newspaper brethren made the past five to ten years. Print… Continue

(Author’s note: Rogue Males: Conversations & Confrontations About the Writing Life, is a collection of author interviews. It includes Elmore Leonard, Lee Child, Pete Dexter, James Ellroy, Daniel Woodrell, Craig Holden and James Crumley. Rogue Males also features an account of… Continue

(Author’s note: Rogue Males: Conversations & Confrontations About the Writing Life, is a collection of author interviews. It includes Elmore Leonard, Lee Child, Pete Dexter, James Ellroy, Daniel Woodrell, Kinky Friedman and James Crumley. Rogue Males also features an account of a trip to the desert to interview crime fiction greats Ken Bruen and James Sallis about the craft of writing. During the next few weeks, I’m sharing a little bit about each of the 16 writers featured in… Continue

Sandra Ruttan interviews me about interviewing authors here.

(Author’s note: Rogue Males: Conversations & Confrontations About the Writing Life, is a collection of author interviews. It includes Elmore Leonard, Lee Child, Pete Dexter, James Ellroy, Daniel Woodrell, Kinky Friedman and James Crumley. Rogue Males also features an a… Continue

Jedidiah Ayres interviews me at Hardboiled Wonderland regarding the Hector Lassiter series, including PRINT THE LEGEND, coming early in 2010 from Minotaur Books. We also discuss ROGUE MALES: CONVERSATIONS & CONFRONTATIONS ABOUT THE WRITING LIFE which was officially released this week by Bleak House Books.

A great write-up on ROGUE MALES: CONVERSATIONS & CONFRONTATIONS ABOUT THE WRITING LIFE at Hardboiled Wonderland.