have you had a chance to visit my blog, The Graveyard Shift?>>

Not only have I been there, I've already recommended it to several writing buddies!

Hi, Lee--

Thanks for the invite. I've read your fascinating responses to Qs on the crimescenewriter list--and your bk is on it's way. Should have been here today, in fact. Small world. :)

Candace

hi Lee, how are you?
I read your book and it's great! but then I started to write my wip set in England--thought I should because i've lived here so long--but now have decided (permanetly I think) to definitely set in New York--but in the fifties. i love nostalgia. still, your book is so helpful and I might just pop up every now and then with the odd question. it's funny I wrote a lot of it both ways. and prefer or feel more comfortable with the states based location
btw have also checked your blog. such helpful info on that.
know any elderly former NY Detectives, though? ho ho.
seriously, I'm immersing myself in some early 87th precinct novels by Ed McBain so that should help a lot.
all the best,

Lee, I just read your article and commented on both that and the distressed cops on Julia Buckley's blog. Thanks for taking a look at my interview there--a great start to my virtual tour for Death Will Get You Sober. :) Liz

I don't know. How many keepers would you need to secure the deli meats?

You're right, Lee--I've seen your name everywhere lately but haven't gotten to The Graveyard Shift yet or seen your other articles. I can see I have to remedy that. Where can I find "Takin' Bacon"?

Maybe cops should carry a small sub on their duty belts. You know, to bring people back around after they've been shot with a Taser.

I think the residual tension finally left my neck and upper back sometime after lunch. Apparently Subway has a cure they didn't know about. Go Jared.

Hi Lee. I just read your piece about the pepper spray incident in the new Sisters in Crime newsletter, and I have to tell you that LOL is not just an expression--I literally laughed out loud. Great story! :) Liz

Having a hard time getting my mind around Dexter,
He's got the look, appeal, Intellect. Maybe it's just my Romantic side, debating the good and evil thing. What is it about him that keeps you?

Hi, Lee, I just took a hit from a Taser X26 in my citizen police academy tonight. Yikes that hurt. I asked for the five second ride but managed to get out the words "Stop it." after three seconds. I opted for the aligator clips instead of the barbed probes, but I still got blisters on my shoulder blades. How many ways can i say "Uncle?"

I really enjoy your The Grave Yard Shift blog and have passed it along to my other friends. I always find something that I had taken for granted that wasn't true. thanks again.

Hi, Lee,

Glad to call myself your friend. If Jeffery Deaver found your book helpful, I'm wondering where I can find it.

P.S. Your list of authors could well be mine. Also, I found Dexter on Netflix and watched all they had to offer. Loved it. Of course, I also loved Darkly Dream Dexter and other Deaver books.

Margaret

laughing, I'm stillllll here...you know how it is, another e-mail pings in and you say, oh well, let me look at that....and you're lost in cyberspace again:)
I think you're right, to be frank, I doubt I'd find ground again for darn near a year:) I was a mad woman for about 2 months after finding out I was finally publishing::) Godawmighty, made a complete "A" of myself bouncing around everywhere:):) I'd probably wake up in the ER if Ihad the same experience you did!:)
L. (sigh, I think I left this somewhere unknown, didn't hit the comment back thingy, so if you see it twice, it's not an illusion, it's just my amazing computer skills!:)

Thank you for the invitation Lee:) I'll be back tomorrow to look through your forum, The Graveyard Shift (that reallly appeals to me:) and definitely take a look at your book...how fantastic that Jeffery Deaver called it a masterpiece...for me, that would be the stuff dreams are made of, it would take me a month to recover!:)
L.

Thanks! I sure will.

Lee, just got your Police Procedure and Investigation book. I'm looking forward to sitting down and reading it through. Though probably not all in one sitting, just looking at the thickness of the book, lol!

Lee, I just read your interview in Mysterious Musings, via In Reference to Murder. Not just informationla, but timely for me. That night I was writing an arrest scene; your comment taught me the cops don't need to Mirandize the suspect right away, if they aren't going to ask a question. A minor thing, but it added to the verisimilitude. The book is already on my Amazon Wish List for my next purchase run. Thanks, and good luck.

Hey Lee, Thanks for the add. It's been awile since St. Louis. Hope things are going well.