Guest Bloggers

As a new forensic thriller writer, I don’t have much in the way of great writing advice to give – I’m still trying to hoover up all that I can find. But I can take up Michael …

One of the things I’m often asked is “Just how realistic is CSI?” My standard reply is that CSI is excellent forensic science fiction – it captures the spirit of the work very well, …

Reading over my last post, I realize how snotty my comment about “outgrowing cozies” must have come across. Not that I’m not snotty, but I expressed myself poorly there: it’s …

We’re in Palm Beach at the moment, where Cricket’s dad has a fantastic house – a sprawling white pile with handsome grounds that sweep down to the water, a view consisting exclusively of …

I figured that, since you don’t know me from Adam, I should say something about me.

My name is Jonathan Hayes, I’m English, I live in New York City, where I work as a senior medical …

Another week in August, and two new guest bloggers taking over. With a brief interruption to add the obligatory BSP link to my review of Mercedes Lambert’s GHOSTTOWN in tomorrow’s LA …

This week’s guest bloggers occupy vastly different places on the crime fiction spectrum. Tomorrow we’ll meet Charles Finch, a young American author clearly comfortable with the Victorian …

Hello!  Robyn Young signing in from Brighton, England…  Oh God.  Already I sound like I’m eighty-nine and have just discovered the telephone.

Blog virgin I’m afraid. …

Starting tomorrow, a slew of guest bloggers will take the reins here in sequence, although my presence won’t completely go away – there are Weekend Updates to collate, news to comment on …

Eternal optimist that I am, I had hoped that we were past the time when book pages were axed and book review editors were pruned away like so many dead branches. It’s seems that I’m wrong. …

if I didn’t–what do they call it on TV–give a shout-out to my favorite Soho Crime writers. Now that I’ve dispensed with my two “canned” posts, I’m going to …

There seems to be some confusion as to what a publicist does and how to employ her effectively. From time to time, one does hear an awful lot of kvetching about the uselessness of publicists, as we …

You’ve published so many books that Nora Roberts is looking over her shoulder with worry. You don’t need a publicist; you need a personal assistant, right? Here are a few things that you might have …

Hi – this is Thalia Proctor, signing in from London as guest blogger for today.

I’m rather daunted, looking at previous posts, by being asked to do this; not being an author or reviewer …

And by five, I also mean last, because it won’t be long before August turns to September. So it seems fitting to switch up the theme here and invite two guests who are very much a part of the …

Again, the drill applies: I’ll be back for the Weekend Update and cede the blog to our fine guests for the remainder of this week.

Wednesday’s host is Larry Gandle, a frequent contributor …

Our first guest has already introduced himself, but that doesn’t mean I can’t do a more formal intro, too. So Tuesday’s guest blogger is, indeed, George Pelecanos, and his newest …

   I recently read Accidental Genius, the newly released John Cassavetes biography by Marshall Fine, author of the Peckinpah bio, Bloody Sam.  Accidental Genius is thorough, respectful …

   Last Tuesday night, on the pub date of my new book, I did an event at Magnetic Fields, a bar in Brooklyn.  I first read a passage from Drama City, and then Steve Wynn and his band, …

George Pelecanos here.  I will be with you tomorrow, issuing some random thoughts.  Don’t look for any of those cool highligthed things that can link you somewhere else, because I …

Just like last week, this post will appear at the top of the blog for the rest of the week with guest blog contributions below this one – until the Weekend Update returns to its rightful …

Yes, it’s that time of year, the publishing holiday known to one and all as August. So just like last year and the year before, Confessions will be handed over to a series of guest bloggers over …

Thanks to Sarah for giving me this chance to chat with you. I very much hope I will meet some of you at Bouchercon. I am taking the train to Madison. What should I read?

1. The Sleeping Car Murders …

Is it more difficult to succeed in places like Omaha or Little Rock? or in my case Detroit. I remember hearing Sara Paretsky speak at the American Popular Culture meetings a few years back. She said …

Writing groups have been a mixed bag for me. I have belonged to five over the years. The first–the one that lambasted that early story–ended abruptly when the women arose enmasse and …

Many thanks to Sarah for thinking of me for today. I had a few moments of pure bliss before realizing I was surely asked to sub here because I was the only left without a blog of her own.

It’s …

It’s 97 degrees with a heat index of 105 in my little town in Maine. When, oh, when will the world learn to listen to the Episcopalians?!?

Nikita Lalwani’s first novel THE SQUARE ROOT, about a young British

Indian adolescent math prodigy whose parents are grooming her to attend

Oxford University at age fourteen, to Jennifer …

A selection of frivolous news links. Because it’s too hot to think of anything serious.

Parents beware! Our preteens might be reading about S-E-X. Or shopping, which may be worse, seeing as …

The fifth book in my series is coming out this October. (No, wait–marketing wouldn’t like that. The fifth book in my Clare Fergusson/Russ Van Alstyne series, All Mortal Flesh, is coming …

Some of you know Aliya Whiteley for her short stories, which have appeared or are forthcoming in Pulp.net, Shred of Evidence (later in the ADVENTURE OF THE MISSING DETECTIVE anthology), Demolition and …

It’s always very cool when friends of mine get good news, and this certainly qualifies:

Kevin Wignall’s FOR THE DOGS, optioned to Stone Village Pictures (The

Human Stain, Love in the …

…revealed over at the LBC Site. Post your thoughts and opinions over there.

And so, the Great Guestblogger Month comes to a close today, and our final guest will be Jenny Siler. I’ve professed several times here about how much a fan I am of her books — ever …

Partly in response to Sarah’s August 22^nd posting regarding Donald Westlake and Charles Willeford’s WORDS OF WISDOM, and partly because this same subject has been on my mind recently, I would like …

Chances are, if you’re involved at all in the New York-based mystery scene, you’ve run into, or at least have heard of, C.J. Carpenter. And if you aren’t or haven’t, then …

I’m back with more ‘the virgin-writer-gets-deflowered’ stories. Okay, the ‘virgin’ part may have been wishful thinking.

The first time I read my material in front of people. I was recently asked to …

Yes, I have been deflowered. It’s not what you’re thinking. That deflowerment happened a long, long, long….well it happened awhile ago. Today, I’m writing about my deflowerment as a writer. I’m …

My introduction to Megan Abbott was probably about as pure as one could get. Until her debut novel DIE A LITTLE showed up in my mailbox, I didn’t know who she was. It wasn’t till I …

I want to thank Sarah again for this great opportunity to step forward from lurker status and guest blog. I’d sure love to do it again, if you’ll have me back.

Also, thinking on and off …

If you’re at all a fan of PI fiction and didn’t suddenly crawl under a rock in the last few years, it’s a very good bet you know of Kevin Burton Smith. His love of all things PI …

I suppose I’m cheating a bit as Clea did submit a rather provocative essay for the blog a few weeks back. But I liked it so much that I thought to bring her back. Her current book — and …

There are hardboiled writers. There are noir writers. There are demented writers whose work you can’t quite classify. And then there’s David Bowker.

I discovered his work a few years back …

Hi. David Bowker here. Sarah the whiplady asked me to blog, so here goes. I’m spending a lot of time at the moment trying to think of an idea for a bestseller. I’ve always rather liked the idea of …

Really, Barry Eisler needs little introduction — he’s not only in demand for his panel, moderating, writing advice and cover boy skills, but if you’ve not read his four thrillers …

This week I kick off what I refer to as the Backspace Blog Week — called that because my first two guest hosts participated in a panel I moderated at the first Backspace Writers Conference, held …