#1 New York Times Bestselling Author & TV Producer
There have been lots of questions and concerns among professional “tie-in” writers — the authors who write books based on TV shows, movies, games, etc — about Amazon’s new Kindle Worlds program. So the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers, which I co-founded with Max Allan Collins, approached Amazon’s Philip Patrick, Director, Business Development and Publisher of … Read more
I get asked all the time what the correct order of my eight DIAGNOSIS MURDER books is… so here you go, in chronological order: The Silent Partner – Dr. Mark Sloan is assigned to LAPD’s “unsolved homicide” files. As he reopens one case on the murder of a woman whose killer currently sits on Death Row, … Read more
Joel Goldman and Ed Gorman are two of my favorite authors…and two of my favorite people. They’ve both inspired, entertained, and educated me so much over the years. And now, coincidentally, they’ve both given lengthy interviews this week about their careers, their approaches to their craft, and how they have coped with life-changing illnesses while … Read more
Janet Evanovich and I visited the morning show on WISH-TV in Indianapolis to talk about THE HEIST. Here’s the clip: #1 New York Times best selling author JANET EVANOVICH & TV writer LEE GOLDBERG
It wasn’t easy for me to walk away from writing the Monk books. After 15 novels over seven years, I’d become very attached to the characters. Monk, Natalie and the rest of the gang were always on my mind because I was always writing the books. But I decided it was time for a change … Read more
It’s easier to win admission to the Harvard Medical School than a seat in Professor Walter’s legendary screenwriting seminars at UCLA Richard Walter was my screenwriting professor at UCLA…and, in large part thanks to what I learned from him, I’ve had a long and successful career as a TV writer/producer and screenwriter. His former students … Read more
Now, for the first time anywhere, both of Lee Goldberg’s widely acclaimed “Charlie Willis” crime novels — My Gun Has Bullets and Dead Space — are combined together, complete and uncut, in one incredibly low-priced ebook. MY GUN HAS BULLETS When Beverly Hills Police Officer Charlie Willis pulls over a speeding Rolls Royce hell-bent for … Read more
The publishers of Ian Hamilton's The Disciple of Las Vegas: An Ava Lee Novel are attempting to position the book as Canada's answer to Steig Larssen and, get this, Ian Fleming, which says a lot about Canadian thrillers…and none of it good. Imagine Jack Webb adapting The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and that will give … Read more
Anthony Neil Smith on writing COLDER THAN HELL, out this week on Amazon… Look, I don’t do supernatural. I just flat out thought that was beyond me. I write crime novels about people doing awful things to each other, no ghosts or monsters or demons in sight. But this Dead Man thing, I was watching … Read more
Mr. Monk Gets Even, my 15th MONK novel, was published today. The series of books will continue, with my friend Hy Conrad picking up where I left off, but this is the end for me and my long, wonderful, association with Adrian Monk. It began when “Monk” creator Andy Breckman hired me and my then-TV writing … Read more