About this blog thing…

Although several others have made mention of it already, I refrained from putting anything here about my new article in Mystery Scene because, um, I only got my contributor’s copies this morning. (Damn you, Canada Post.) So now that I have seen the final version in the flesh, please do feel free to check out what I have to say on the inimitable subject of blogs by mystery writers. Laura Lippman, Lee Goldberg, Roger Simon, Ray Banks, Jim Winter and SJ Rozan were some of the nice folks who talked to me about why they do it, what effect (if any) blogs have on their writing and sales, and whether they’ll stick around for the forseeable future. Judging by the number of writers–not just in the mystery world–who’ve hitched their post to the blogging wagon since I turned in the final edits in August, I’d say the bloom’s a long way from being off the rose.