thanks, craig. i appreciate you getting back to me.

Hi Craig - is your book "Art in the Blood' available in Australia? Thanks - Jacqui

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

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

I'll watch out for it on Amazon

We do seem to like the same stuff. When are you publishing the Rogues?

Thank you sir. I'm brannew to the interweb

Yes, Craig, you're right....CODIS is what I was looking for. Thanks for the info.

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...

Thanks so much for the welcome :) It was a pleasure meeting and speaking with you today.

thanks so much! I needed that today! and thanks for being my friend.

Bernd, thank you so much for your assessment of "Head Games"...you've truly made my day.

Hi Craig,

just read "Head Games" and was surprised: Under the disguise of a typical US-American crime story in form and setting it is an ambitious literary work (hope, you understand my clumsy description).

They used to screen b and w movies late on weekday afternoons, assuming I suppose that old films weren't that sinister. I first saw both Night of the Hunter and To Kill a Mockingbird when I was about 12 and they are still two of my most memorable viewing experiences.

Thanks for adding me. I look forward to reading your work!

Drink a lot of beer. It'll come soon after.

Crossing fingers for you for the Edgar (but also for, like, three others in that category. Still, the home team rules!)

Thanks Craig,

I've seen your face regularly here on crime space, but I never realized that it is the face behind those wonder- and insightful interviews with James Ellroy.

It seem that you had your last interview (2006 ?) for a while online and removed it when your interview book came out. I hope you don't mind me asking, but do I recall it correctly that he asked you whether you liked "The Cold Six Thousand" ("Did you dig it ?") and you said "yes" and he answered that only 30% of it's readers liked the book.

In that part of the interview Ellroy seemed demure, almost depressed. I wondered if he will just rewrite the third book or if he will totally dump it. Do you know more ?

And congrats for the Edgar nomination. As I will review all candidates prior to the announcement of the winners I look forward to read "Head Games"

Cool. Julee has a way of getting into one's soul.

Best,
H-

You're welcome for the invite!