#1 New York Times Bestselling Author & TV Producer
I loved those men's "action adventure" series novels of the 60s, 70s, and 80s… like THE DESTROYER, MACK BOLAN and THE DEATH MERCHANT. Those series are virtually extinct now… …which is why I've teamed up with eight other writers on THE DEAD MAN, an original ebook series of short novels that blends the horror of Stephen … Read more
Now you can get both of my acclaimed "Charlie Willis" crime novels — MY GUN HAS BULLETS and DEAD SPACE — combined together in DOUBLE HEADER for just $4.99. That's two books, complete and uncut, for the price of one. MY GUN HAS BULLETS When Beverly Hills Police Officer Charlie Willis pulls over a speeding Rolls … Read more
Victoria Strauss at Writer Beware offers an excellent primer today on how to spot, and avoid, literary representation scams. As it turns out, the sample solicitation she's using was sent by Dan Grogan, an ex-employee of Jones Harvest, a two-bit and particularly sleazy vanity press. Clearly, Dan learned from the best. Here's some of Victoria's … Read more
I've written a lot over the years about Brien Jones and his sleazy vanity press Jones Harvest (most recently, I blogged about his hilarious offer to turn your book into a screenplay). Now Bonnie Kaye's Jones Harvest Victims Blog has posted an open letter from Donna Hamilton, one of Brien's former employees, to the poor suckers … Read more
Today, Los Angeles lost a great bookstore. Authors got an email today from Kirk Pasich and Pamela Woods, owners of the Mystery Bookstore, announcing that they are closing their store on January 31. It's like hearing that close friend has been diagnosed with a terminal, and incurable, illness. We have very much enjoyed owning the … Read more
The Ian Fleming Estate has realized what so many other published authors already know — that if you own the digital rights to your backlist, it makes more financial sense to publish the ebooks yourself. So the estate is publishing the digital versions of the Bond novels themselves, cutting out Penguin, which still has the … Read more
I am just catching up on all the comments, tributes and blog posts about my mother Jan Curran, who died last week. Desert Sun reporter Bruce Fessier, who wrote my mother's obituary, also wrote this touching blog post: Jan Curran, my dear friend and an enormously popular society editor for The Desert Sun and Palm Springs … Read more
When THE WALK came out in hardcover seven years ago, nobody noticed it. I figured that was the end…but 15 months ago, I re-released it as an ebook. It was an immediate success and has sold nearly 12,000 copies so far and is still going strong. I want to introduce THE WALK to the next … Read more
Joe Konrath, F. Paul Wilson, Blake Crouch and Jeff Strand have collaborated on DRACULAS, an original novel for the Kindle. It's yet another intriguing Konrath e-book experiment. He wrote about it all on the Huffington Post. He said, in part: "Draculas" will be exclusive on Kindle for a year, as a favor to Amazon since … Read more
I've been inundated with emails from people asking me about that Steve Cannell clip I posted yesterday. It was from a two-part episode of DIAGNOSIS MURDER entitled "Trash TV." It was actually Steve's second appearance on the series as Jackson Burley, a burned-out, action-adventure TV producer from my book MY GUN HAS BULLETS, which I wrote … Read more