I'm excited that the paperback version of BLACK OUT hits the stores this week ... Check out the trailer!
April 2009 Archives
This weekend I'll be heading down to Palm Beach for the first Writers Live! Murder They Wrote event at the Hagen Ranch Road Library. If you're in the area, I'd love to see you. I'll be on a panel with Jim Born (Burn Zone) and Ted Bell (TSAR) from 10 am - Noon on Saturday, April 18. I know we're going to have a great time! Brad Meltzer will also be speaking later in the day.
Check out Oline Cogdill's "Off The Page" blog for more info ...
Oline's blog is a great one to check out in general for all kinds of book news, reviews and event information.
I hope to see some of you at the event!
What I'm reading:
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
by Anne Lamott
Ocean's Favorite Book:
Fancy Nancy: Explorer Extraordinaire!
by Jane O'Conner and Robin Preiss-Glasser
What I'm watching:
24
One of my favorite authors -- and people -- Alafair Burke gave me the opportunity to totally geek out and talk about the crime television shows I love now and loved as a kid. Suffice it to say, after rambling on in print about everything from "Moonlighting" to "Hawaii Five-O," from "The Wire" to "Battlestar Gallactica," I have realized that I watch way too much television -- and have for most of my life. In Alafair's really great article, other favorite authors Laura Lippman, James Lee Burke, Linda Fairstein, SJ Rozan (and more) talk about their own small screen love affairs.
I heard someone say that this is the first generation of writers to be as heavily influenced by television and film as we have been by literature. I always cringe to think that it might be true. Television gets such a bad rap. But I think the fact that a group of writers had so much to say about television -- warts and all -- reminds me that there's a lot of quality programing and it's getting better all the time. Story is story -- on the big screen, the small screen, the book in your hand. The writing, the character development, and the act of authentic imagining are some of the critical elements of a great tale -- and it can be told anywhere, in any medium.
So, thanks, Alafair for putting me in touch with my inner television nerd. I'm going out to buy "Hill Street Blues" on DVD!
What I'm watching:
"Lost"
What I'm reading:
The Watchmen
by Alan Moore and Dan Gibbons
Ocean's Favorite Book:
Pout Pout Fish
by Deborah Diesen and Dan Hanna
What I'm listening to:
Dead Can Dance/ A Passage in Time
I heard someone say that this is the first generation of writers to be as heavily influenced by television and film as we have been by literature. I always cringe to think that it might be true. Television gets such a bad rap. But I think the fact that a group of writers had so much to say about television -- warts and all -- reminds me that there's a lot of quality programing and it's getting better all the time. Story is story -- on the big screen, the small screen, the book in your hand. The writing, the character development, and the act of authentic imagining are some of the critical elements of a great tale -- and it can be told anywhere, in any medium.
So, thanks, Alafair for putting me in touch with my inner television nerd. I'm going out to buy "Hill Street Blues" on DVD!
What I'm watching:
"Lost"
What I'm reading:
The Watchmen
by Alan Moore and Dan Gibbons
Ocean's Favorite Book:
Pout Pout Fish
by Deborah Diesen and Dan Hanna
What I'm listening to:
Dead Can Dance/ A Passage in Time
