Craig McDonald's Blog – June 2009 Archive (3)

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.

Added by Craig McDonald on June 30, 2009 at 11:07pm — No Comments

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.

Added by Craig McDonald on June 30, 2009 at 1:25am — No Comments

WHY WE FIGHT: SAVE OHIO’S LIBRARIES

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 journalism was pushed to the brink of financial self-endangerment well before the economy went south.

As I write this, Shaman Drum, a terrific… Continue

Added by Craig McDonald on June 24, 2009 at 1:24pm — 7 Comments