New Reviews

by toby8897 on October 17, 2011

Scorch City has received two great reviews recently, pasted below. Library Journal: When they accept the midnight request to move the body of an emaciated blonde from the riverbank near the Uhuru Community, journeyman reporter Frank Frings and analytical police lieutenant Piet Westermann put themselves in the middle of a tense clash between violent racists [...]

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Dreaming in Black and White

by toby8897 on August 25, 2011

I was going to write a post along the lines of “the soundtrack for Scorch City,” meaning, I guess, music that would make a good accompaniment to reading the book. I gave this a little bit of thought and eventually asked myself why the hell would you want accompanying music for a book? This started [...]

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Still more book covers

August 15, 2011

Last summer I took some photos of book covers found in the collection of paperbacks up at my family’s summer house. I was up a couple of weeks ago again and found some more, which follow: Sunday the Rabbi Stayed Home I have no idea what this book is about, though I read the first [...]

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Editing

August 11, 2011

Scorch City’s release date — August 30 — is fast approaching. In the meantime, I’m working on final edits to the manuscript for my third book. Editing is, in many ways, more important than the actual writing of the first draft (at least it is for me). I feel a certain freedom when I’m writing the [...]

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First Scorch City Review

July 23, 2011

Publishers Weekly has published the first review of Scorch City, describing it as a “worthy follow-up to The Vaults.” You can read the whole review at PW. Scorch City won’t be available until the end of August, but in the meantime you can listen to the first chapter of The Vaults at the iambik website [...]

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Dog Days

July 18, 2011

I’m talking with my agent tomorrow about the manuscript of my third novel. The last month and a half have been something of a break from fiction writing while he has had the manuscript and I’ve held off on doing anything very drastic until I hear back from him. What did I do with my [...]

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Audiobooks and Agents

July 2, 2011

Iambik sent me the files for the audiobook version of The Vaults. I’m supposed to listen to the whole thing and get back to them with any changes/edits by next Friday. They are aiming at a July 13 release. The cool thing about Iambik is that their audiobooks are available as downloads for $6.99 — [...]

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New Website

June 21, 2011

So I’ve redone my website. It may take a little while to get out the bugs and get all the different headlines/metadata/text fonts and colors straight, but otherwise I hope people find it to be a more pleasurable website experience. Right now I’m waiting for my agent to read the manuscript of my third book, [...]

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Better, Not Easier

June 18, 2011

I just sent the manuscript for my third novel to my agent. Unlike both The Vaults and Scorch City, I haven’t had anyone else read it before sending it to him. In large part this was just a time issue as I finished the draft just in time to send it off. It’s always a [...]

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The Vaults around the Internet

June 18, 2011

I’ve been doing a number of interviews with book-related web sites as well as a guest blog post or two. I will update the list as more are published. Interview with Solely Fictional Interview with Writ Guest post for Joseph’s Reviews Interview with Melanie’s Book Addiction Interview with Writers Read about what I’m currently reading [...]

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