The deed is done. I have a publishing contract for my new novel, tentatively titled BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS. I suspect it will stick – the title, I mean, not the blood. Well, actually, the blood … Okay, that’s enough. Don’t want to give away the plot. What I will say is that the book […]
Elizabeth Savitt A recent event here in Palm Beach County, Florida, echoes – in reverse – the injustice meted out to the main character in my book Murder in Palm Beach by a judicial system that sometimes functions more as a good ol’ boy network than an arbiter of justice. I refer to a judge’s […]
Spring is about to, well, spring. I don’t know about you, but I’m doing cartwheels – and, for good measure, handsprings. Not really. Used to do those as a kid, but haven’t done any in *#%@&! years. Actually, I just started doing headstands again after, uh, *#%@&! years. I read that the blood flowing into […]
Tim Dorsey Tim Dorsey is insane. He’s certifiable. That’s the only conclusion one can reach after reading Triggerfish Twist. Actually, for me it wasn’t a conclusion, but a confirmation. I’d already made that observation around 15 years earlier, when I was a writer/editor for Palm Beach Media Group and its flagship magazine, Palm Beach Illustrated. […]
Over the last several years, I’ve written a plethora of blog posts about the three hoaxes of the apothecary: statin drugs, cholesterol, and saturated fats. Hmmm. My penultimate post was titled The Bible and the Toyota. Unwittingly, I seem to be waxing biblical again with this opening, a word play on … well, you probably […]
Mark Twain When one ponders the state of the bookstore industry, a famous line attributed to Mark Twain comes to mind: “The report of my death has been grossly exaggerated.” Tom Corson-Knowles Reports of a death knell for the print book and its retailers apparently are just as wrong. One such assertion was […]
Free books! Spring is almost over, and my favorite season, summer, will come and go before we know it. Isn’t there some way we can just stop time in its tracks, or hourglass, or pendulum, at the Fourth of July or thereabouts? Maybe, with all of the advances in technology, that’s next. We’ll have […]
Booksweeps Before I launch into a dyspeptic treatment of a particular phenomenon I’ve observed in the mechanics of writing, let me thank the hundreds of new subscribers to my newsletter who participated in a recent Booksweeps Crime Fiction and Thrillers giveaway contest. A warm welcome to all of you. Besides writing about the authorial activities […]
On Friday (Aug. 2), your faithful scribe completed a two-week project that consumed him intellectually and emotionally to the point where he was too wired to get to sleep on a couple of nights. That writer, i.e., me, spent almost two weeks composing a long letter to members of the U.S. House of Representatives, urging […]
If you’re a techie, you’ll love The Scarpetta Factor, by Patricia Cornwell. If you’re a technophobe, not so much. The book is one of a series of 17 novels based on Dr. Kay Scarpetta, a forensic pathologist. Aside from your technological orientation, you should have an affinity for intrigue and complex plots that jerk you […]
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