SPORTS ILLUSTRATED AUBURN ISSUE
It only took 17 years to be featured on SI again. This time as a writer. Check out the Back Page/Final Say column of SI’s special National Championship issue for Auburn. The issue just hits newsstands today.
007 returns 2012
Regular readers of this blog know what I fan I am of Ian Fleming and the James Bond films. So I was pretty pleased to see this item move across the wire today. MGM finally announced Bond 23 with not only Daniel Craig returning but Sam Mendes directing. This is going to be great. Read […]
CHILEAN MINER VISITS GRACELAND
The first Elvis song that Chilean miner Edison Peña heard was “Heartbreak Hotel.” Peña was in high school at the time, and it was the start of a lasting devotion to Elvis that will bring him to Graceland next week as part of the late singer’s birthday celebration. Edison Peña “Muchas gracias,” said Peña, a […]
THE RANGER jacket design
Here’s an early Christmas gift to my wonderful readers from the good folks at G.P. Putnam’s Sons. This is the jacket design for THE RANGER — in fine bookstores across the nation on June 9, 2011.
THE RANGER Soundtrack
For the last dozen years, readers have been asking me about putting together a soundtrack for each book. Since a ton of my inspiration and mood comes from music, I’ve long thought this to be a pretty good idea. The problem comes in wrangling all the legal rights to the songs and how and where […]
My French teacher would be so proud . . .
Next month, Devil’s Garden will be published in France. This will be my fourth novel for Le Masque and my longtime editor, Marie-Caroline Aubert — they also published Dark End of the Street (Blues Bar), Dirty South (Dirty South), White Shadow (Tampa Confidential). Translations often keep an English title but often changed to something that […]
NICK TRAVERS STORIES
It seems that most of my email these days focuses on one question: Where is Nick Travers? Don’t fret, folks. He’s still around. If you read Nine Below Zero in the Delta Blues short story collection, you’ll know he’s happily living in an Airstream trailer in Clarksdale, Mississippi. He also showed up in Last Fair […]
INFAMOUS CHRISTMAS & GEEZER NOIR
Don’t forget that Square Books in Oxford, MS still has signed copies of Infamous. I also will be glad to personalize copies at the store in the coming weeks — until Christmas. Also take note the new noir collection Damn Near Dead 2 has just been released. This was the last collection put together by […]
Irvin Kershner
By now, most of you heard that Leslie Nielsen died. One of the all-time great comedic performers. But you may not have heard about Irvin Kershner’s death. Kershner was an old-hand when he took the reigns of THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK in the early 80s. This is without doubt the greatest film in the Star […]
MORE INFAMOUS
Even though I finished INFAMOUS some time back and have moved onto new books, I’m still kind of obsessed with the “Machine Gun” Kelly story and some of the side characters who’ve been lost to history. Last week, I just stumbled across more images of my favorite character in the tale — 12-year-old Geraline Arnold. […]