A Double Dose of McDonald

One of my favorite writers, critics and people, Craig McDonald, has scored a two-fer of a book deal:

First there’s the fiction:

Journalist Craig McDonald’s HEAD GAMES, based on the theft of Mexican

Revolutionary Pancho Villa’s head in the 1920s, to Benjamin LeRoy of

Bleak House, for publication in fall 2007, in a two-book deal, by

Svetlana Pironko at Author Rights Agency. Russian rights to Antonina Gall at Arabesque, in a nice deal.

Then there’s the criticism:

Journalist Craig McDonald’s ROGUE MALES: Conversations &

Confrontations About the Writing Life, interviews with major American

and European crime fiction authors, to Benjamin LeRoy of Bleak House,

for publication in 2007, in a two-book deal, by Svetlana Pironko at

Author Rights Agency.

What more is there to say other than congratulations? This is such cool, cool news.