Sell Books! Get Rich

I got this unsolicited email today: Get Bookstore Orders for your Books!! Would you like to get your book on the shelves in bookstores nationally? Visit www.WritersUniverse.net  today!! Writer’s Universe meets monthly with book buyers as well as representatives from major libraries across the country — We will get you book orders! Book Store and … Read more

More Viewer Mail

I get a half-a-dozen emails like this a week (the typos are his own): Good day Sir., I don’t know if this is the right medium for this, but I am trying to submit a Television series idea to see a posibility of it being shot. The series story is one which has affected millions … Read more

Lots of Lee Going On

Collectibles

There’s some exciting TV and film news about several of my books that I wish I could tell you (and hope to be able to soon). But while I wait for the greenlight to share that news with you, I can tell you this… There’s a MYSTERY 101 marathon this weekend….all five movies in the … Read more

I’m Flattered

I've been fortunate that every one of my 15 MONK novels has earned a great review from author Bill Crider and, I am pleased to report that MR. MONK GETS EVEN, my final book in the series, has kept that record intact. He says, in part: Goldberg managed to do a great job of giving the … Read more

Writers Are Suckers

You won’t find anybody more gullible, more eager to be scammed, than aspiring writers. Of course, aspiring writers could avoid being taken by simply following one rule: You don’t pay anyone to get published. They pay you. But, apparently, that simple rule is too complex for some wanna-be authors to comprehend. Novelist J. Steven York … Read more

MURDER BY DESIGN: Chapter One

The legal term for what I am about to share with you in this first chapter is “hearsay,” meaning I didn’t witness any of it myself. I’ve cobbled together this pivotal event in Edison Bixby’s extraordinary life from what I was told by people who were there, what I’ve read on the internet, and what … Read more

My conversation with Fake Lindsay Gibson

My conversation with Fake Lindsay Gibson <gibsonlindsay321@gmail.com>, a scammer pretending to be the clinical psychologist who has written a number of non-fiction books about emotionally immature parents. Why they picked her as their lure into a book marketing scam is beyond me… but it gave me a chance to have a lot of fun. FAKE … Read more

My Conversation with Fake Ali Hazelwood

Here is my conversation with Fake Ali Hazelwood <hazelwoodali069@gmail.com>. I am not familiar with her, but this is now the second time I’ve been hit up by Nigerians pretending to be lesser-known authors. Perhaps they think they have a better shot at being believed if they think smaller in terms of fame and fortune of … Read more