The Best of Lori Prokop

I love Lori Prokop. My favorite online huckster never quits. She has re-invented herself yet again and is offering you the benefit of her enlightenment…and another chance to get rich! But before I share her amazing new self and her astonishing new business venture with you later today, I thought we should celebrate all the … Read more

Hollywood, Berlin

We wrapped our fifth day of shooting at about 1:30 Monday morning and it was  past 3 am by the time I got back to my hotel. I woke up at about 11 am and spent a couple of hours doing laundry in the basement of my hotel, where I also ran into one of … Read more

The Word on The Last Word

I have been getting lots of emails about THE LAST WORD, the final DIAGNOSIS  MURDER novel. I would say that 95% of the response has been positive…the rest, well, far less so. Here’s a small sampling of some of them: From Patrick Casey: I finished reading "The Last Word" last night and I must say … Read more

Writer Beware!

I got this email today from an aspiring screenwriter. I’ve removed the names: My name is X. I am a writer.  Producer Z has been corresponding with me via email concerning one of my screenplays.  He asked me to email to him the first 10 pages of my script.  Before sending it I Googled him … Read more

Review Copies

I’ve received a limited number of review copies of MR. MONK AND THE TWO ASSISTANTS (July 2007) and DIAGNOSIS MURDER: THE LAST WORD (May 2007). If you’re an established reviewer and would be interested in receiving copies one or both books, please send me an email as soon as possible at Lee@leegoldberg.com with the name … Read more

The First Word on The Last Word

Mark Baker, a frequent visitor here and an Amazon top reviewers, has given his eOpinion on DIAGNOSIS MURDER: THE LAST WORD, the final book in the series. He says, in part: About a quarter of the way into it, I was getting bored and wondering where it was going. Then things really took off and … Read more

Tit for Tate

I am getting lots of hits today from people looking for information about the vanity press Tate Publishing. Here’s what I wrote about the company last year, when I got the following email from someone… My daughter (14 years old) recently submitted (through her school) a children’s book that she wrote.   Surprisingly, she received … Read more

Hey, Did You Know That if Fanfiction Went Away, There Would Be No More Gays or Lesbians? What would we watch late at night on Cinemax?

I got a long email the other day. It turns out it’s from the same blogger who thinks I’m a sad little man who longs to write fanfiction.  She writes, in part: I am a fanfiction writer, a slash fanfiction writer at that, I am not as illustrious or ambitious or zealous as some but … Read more

King of the Hill

For a guy who says he doesn’t want people to know that Stephen King is his Dad, Joe Hill is making sure everybody knows it.  From Publisher’s Weekly to yesterdays Los Angeles Times,  he seems to be coming out everywhere as King’s s0n to promote his new book "Heart-Shaped Box." Publisher’s Weekly wrote: Joe Hill, … Read more