August 2010 Blog Posts (170)

Sondheim in the West Bank

I’m in between drafts of a novel, so I thought I’d look for something to clear my head. Inspired by a BBC broadcast last week in honor of the 80th birthday of Broadway lyricist and composer Stephen Sondheim, I’ve been working on a musical version of my Palestinian crime novels. (Only in the shower, so far…)

I’m thinking of updating the Romeo and Juliet story and setting it in Bethlehem. In tribute to the Sondheim-Bernstein classic “West Side Story,” it’ll be…

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Added by Matt Rees on August 5, 2010 at 5:05pm — No Comments

TOP SUSPENSE, THE RAVEN AFFAIR, GETS FIVE STARS FROM APEX REVIEWS...

The Raven Affair http://SNEDELTON.com

Steven Nedelton

ISBN: 9781934337783

Asylett Press

(paperback, soon e-book, kindle)

Reviewed By Renee Washburn

Official Apex Reviews Rating: FIVE STARS

A no-nonsense assassin at the top of his game, The Raven is a highly

effective "problem solver" whose methods and results are beyond question. So,

with the end of World War II long since passed and an infamous war… Continue

Added by STEVEN NEDELTON on August 5, 2010 at 11:03am — No Comments

TOP SUSPENSE, THE RAVEN AFFAIR, GETS A 'FIVE' FROM THE US REVIEW

The US Review of Books

PO Box 11, Titusville, NJ 08560

www.theUSreview.com

The Raven Affair

by Steven Nedelton http://SNEDELTON.com

Asylett Press, Inc.

(paperback, soon ebook, kindle)

reviewed by Peter M. Fitzpatrick

"The Second World War is not over. Destabilize and confuse, that's their game. It's the super wealthy, I'm sure. Now they're using America as their battering… Continue

Added by STEVEN NEDELTON on August 5, 2010 at 10:59am — No Comments

Tough-Love In A Writer's Critique...

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Added by Earl Merkel on August 5, 2010 at 3:00am — 3 Comments

'Requiem for the Ripper' now available in Paperback

Hey everyone. Now I'm really, really excited, because the final part of my Jack the Ripper trilogy, Requiem for the Ripper is at last available in paperback as well as in e-book format. the book can be found at Amazon.com and at the publisher's site, at… Continue

Added by Brian L Porter on August 5, 2010 at 12:32am — No Comments

Israel Museum gets funky

I was the first journalist to interview James Snyder when he arrived in 1997 from a sinecure at New York's Museum of Modern Art to head the Israel Museum, the country's premier cultural institution.

Snyder had neat white hair, a trim build encased in a seersucker suit, and a black tie. This, in a land where dressing up means putting on a T-shirt that has sleeves. As I listened to his East Coast drawl, I took one look at him and figured he wouldn’t…

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Added by Matt Rees on August 5, 2010 at 12:32am — No Comments

Thuglit closes

ThugLit is done

Noir powerhouse Thuglit has released issue 38, which it appears will be their last.

Started in 2005, Thuglit was one of the longest-running crime fiction zines. Editor Todd Robinson said in an interview with Outside… Continue

Added by Chris Rhatigan on August 5, 2010 at 12:19am — 1 Comment

A Study in Red at # 2 at Amazon.com

Following on from the good news about A Study in Red at Amazon.co.uk, the book has now reached the heady heights of Number 2 in the US Jack the Ripper Mystery/thriller charts at… Continue

Added by Brian L Porter on August 4, 2010 at 10:59pm — No Comments

Swept Up in a Bestseller

Everyone agrees that nobody knows what makes a bestseller. Books that were BLOCKBUSTERS often leave me asking, "On whose block?"

Those who know me can guess that I do not care about vampire boyfriends, Glenn Beck's rantings, or the people you meet in heaven. But even in my favorite genre, mystery, I'm puzzled by what others like that I find insipid or overdone or unbelievable. It may be Grouchy Reader Syndrome, which…

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Added by Peg Herring on August 4, 2010 at 9:40pm — 2 Comments

Lost and Found

I lose a lot of productive time because I put my reading glasses down in the wrong place and can’t find them when I need them. Ultimately I end up buying yet another pair – at which point the missing pair magically reappears. This works for keys too. In fact, the easiest way to find anything lost… Continue

Added by Austin S. Camacho on August 4, 2010 at 8:56pm — No Comments

Review of Local Guest of Honor Michael Allen Dymmoch's novel

Death in West Wheeling

by Michael Allen Dymmoch

Five Star Mysteries, Hardcover,

182 pages, Hardcover, $25.95

IBN1594144583

Who knew author Michael Dymmoch, who has written such solid noir mysteries

as "White Tiger," "The Fall" and "M.I.A.", could put together such a funny,

even hilarious novel as this one, set in a small town in West Virginia, or

somewhere close by? Homer Deter is currently acting sheriff and he has to

investigate the mysterious… Continue

Added by Love Is Murder Conference on August 4, 2010 at 3:44pm — 1 Comment

Interview Part 2

Part two of an interview I did with E.B. Davis over at Writers Who Kill is up.

Drop by and leave a comment. You could win a signed copy of Murder at http://www.writerswhokill.blogspot.comTimber Bridge or Where the Dreams End.

Added by KD Easley on August 4, 2010 at 8:00am — No Comments

Why blog? Here's why!

Ann Simon explains why one writer can’t keep from blogging on my main blog at Another Writer’s Life - http://ascamacho.blogspot.com . And hey, how come my blog…

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Added by Austin S. Camacho on August 3, 2010 at 9:21pm — No Comments

Ernest Hemingway, Detective--Read All About It at SCENE OF THE CRIME

Hemingway on the Case: The Mystery Novels of Michael Atkinson

August 3, 2010 by Scene of the Crime | Edit…

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Added by J. Sydney Jones on August 3, 2010 at 4:28pm — No Comments

Mississippi writers comment on the growth of ebooks

Mississippi writers comment on the growth of ebooks in digital article by Joe Lee…

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Added by Darden North, MD on August 3, 2010 at 2:26pm — No Comments

Czech author copies!

Here's something fun - my author copies of Freezing Point finally arrived from the Czech Republic! What I want to know is, who's that "Jeffu Kleinmanovi" guy mentioned in my acknowledgements?…

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Added by Karen Dionne on August 3, 2010 at 10:30am — 3 Comments

Author Update

The Borders in Tysons Corner isn’t the busiest store in the chain, but I still had a good time at the book signing. Not only did I make some new fans but some good friends stopped by to say hi and upgrade their collections of my novels (a shout-out to Joni Jackson Langevoort, ace thriller writer Richard Gazala and his cute friend Heather.) Familiar faces always make these events even better!

Also, this month’s edition of the International Thriller Writers newsletter, the Big…

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Added by Austin S. Camacho on August 3, 2010 at 7:11am — No Comments

Crime Writers: Learn about police work from an expert

Lee Lofland—author and retired law enforcement—talks about how he uses prior police experience to help other authors write about crime fighting. Learn about the Writer's Police Academy where everyone gets hands-on experience in all aspects of law enforcement on Hook'em & Book'em.

Added by Mark Young on August 3, 2010 at 4:01am — No Comments

I've received a copy of the Turkish edition of my crime thriller novel In Cold Daylight

I knew it was being published in Turkey but didn't know when. And I always get a buzz when I see one of my books translated into another language. This one looks good. I believe the Turkish publisher has changed the title of the book, but I've no idea what it means. Perhaps someone who speaks Turkish might tell me. (Title is below).

In Cold…

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Added by Pauline Rowson on August 3, 2010 at 3:50am — No Comments

A book you wouldn't know about if you weren't reading this

A rescue helicopter almost wiped out Apollo 11 as the capsule fell toward the Pacific Ocean, says writer Scott Carmichael in Moon Men Return, his new book out from the Naval Institute Press.

Carmichael grew up in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, not far from where I live. He’s now a senior investigator with the Defense Intelligence Agency in Washington.

Said a reporter in her story after she… Continue

Added by Jerry Peterson on August 3, 2010 at 2:17am — 1 Comment