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My reading of my short story "The Devil's in the Details" is now up at CrimeWAV.com.
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Number 13 of 16 ROGUE MALES: CONVERSATIONS & CONFRONTATIONS ABOUT THE WRITING LIFE essays now up.
November 21
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My series focusing on interview subjects featured in Rogue Males: Conversations & Confrontations about the Writing Life resumes with Ken Bruen at my new blog site. Also, details regarding a newsletter contest continuing through the February 2010 r...
November 19
It looks good, Craig. Hemingway has always been an interest of mine.
November 12

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Hometown:
USA
About Me:
Crime novelist, graphic novel writer and author of two nonfiction collections of crime fiction author interviews.
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Writer
Website:
http://craigmcdonaldbooks.com
Books And Authors I Like:
Ernest Hemingway, William Lindsay Gresham, Davis Grubb, James Crumley, James Ellroy, James Sallis, Daniel Woodrell, Ken Bruen, Alistair MacLeod, John Prebble, Lester Dent, William Blake, William Butler Yeats, Breece D'J Pancake, Charlie Stella, Tom Russell, Pete Dexter, Craig Holden, Megan Abbott, Laura Lippman, Cormac McCarthy.

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Craig McDonald

SHORT STORY AT CRIMEWAV.COM

My reading of my short story "The Devil's in the Details" is now up at CrimeWAV.com.

Posted on November 24, 2009 at 1:37pm —

Craig McDonald

ROGUE MALES INTERVIEW SUBJECT #13: DANIEL WOODRELL


Number 13 of 16 ROGUE MALES: CONVERSATIONS & CONFRONTATIONS ABOUT THE WRITING LIFE essays now up.

Posted on November 21, 2009 at 9:43am —

Craig McDonald

NEW BLOG SITE

My series focusing on interview subjects featured in Rogue Males: Conversations & Confrontations about the Writing Life resumes with Ken Bruen at my new blog site. Also, details regarding a newsletter contest continuing through the February 2010 release of my next novel, Print theContinue

Posted on November 19, 2009 at 1:18am —

Craig McDonald

GUEST BLOGGING AT HARDBOILED WONDERLAND

I do a guest turn as part of Hardboiled Wonderland's series on narrative songs that run to the dark side of the street.

My pick: Bruce Springsteen's "Highway Patrolman" from NEBRASKA.

Posted on September 29, 2009 at 12:00pm —

Craig McDonald

ROGUE MALES REVIEW

Oline Cogdill reviews ROGUE MALES: CONVERSATIONS AND CONFRONTATIONS ABOUT THE WRITING LIFE.

Posted on August 13, 2009 at 12:09am —

Craig McDonald

ROGUE MALES: SUBJECT #11, LEE CHILD


(Author’s note: Rogue Males: Conversations & Confrontations About the Writing Life, is a collection of author interviews. It includes Elmore Leonard, Stephen J. Cannell, Pete Dexter, James Ellroy, Dan… Continue

Posted on August 1, 2009 at 10:37am —

Craig McDonald

ROGUE MALES: SUBJECT #10, RANDY WAYNE WHITE


(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, C… Continue

Posted on July 12, 2009 at 11:31pm —

Craig McDonald

NEW INTERVIEW AT THINGS I'D RATHER BE DOING

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.

Posted on July 7, 2009 at 5:19am —

Craig McDonald

NEW INTERVIEW POSTED AT SPINETINGLER

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.

Posted on June 30, 2009 at 11:07pm —

Craig McDonald

TOWER INTERVIEW #1 WITH KEN BRUEN NOW POSTED

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.

Posted on June 30, 2009 at 1:25am —

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At 4:59pm on April 4, 2009, Jacqui Horwood said…
thanks, craig. i appreciate you getting back to me.
At 11:31am on April 4, 2009, Jacqui Horwood said…
Hi Craig - is your book "Art in the Blood' available in Australia? Thanks - Jacqui
At 12:03pm on March 10, 2009, Rodney Wiethop said…
If you have not read Toros & Torsos ...stop what your doing, rush out buy it and then find a quiet place to read the best fiction/non fiction writer going today. Time well spent. Kudos Craig
At 1:48pm on February 4, 2009, Rodney Wiethop said…
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
At 6:14am on February 2, 2009, roger smith said…
I'll watch out for it on Amazon
At 6:06am on February 2, 2009, roger smith said…
We do seem to like the same stuff. When are you publishing the Rogues?
At 11:31am on November 18, 2008, jedidiah ayres said…
Thank you sir. I'm brannew to the interweb
At 2:29am on July 12, 2008, Kandy Williams said…
Yes, Craig, you're right....CODIS is what I was looking for. Thanks for the info.
At 9:36pm on June 29, 2008, Craig McDonald said…
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...
At 4:02pm on June 29, 2008, Keith Rawson said…
Mr. McDonald,,

Thanks for accepting me as your friend. I'm a huge fan of Headgames and I recently received a review copy of Toros & Torsos. (Which is my next read after Donkey Punch by Ray Banks) I do have quick question for you if you have the time to answer it? First off, I love Lassiter and I'm glad that you've continued on with the character into a second book. However, do you believe that series fiction is hindering or helping the overall growth and readership of crime fiction?Do you think the genre is suffering from a lack of creativity due to series characters? I
 
 

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