Ask the Author: R.G. Belsky
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R.G. Belsky
No, that was not me.
R.G. Belsky
Well, thanks, Bella! Glad you're enjoying my books.
I created the Clare character because I needed a woman narrator to tell the story I wanted to write in the first one (Yesterday's News). Because of that plot, a male character like Gil just wouldn't work. It was originally supposed to be a stand alone book, but the publisher wanted to turn Clare into a series. So the second book (Below the Fold) is out now - and two more are on the way (for 2020 and 2021).
Hopefully one day soon, I can write another Gil Malloy book. I like Gil too!
Thanks for reading them all...and feel free to contact me by email at belskyrg@gmail.com with any other feedback.
R.G. Belsky
I created the Clare character because I needed a woman narrator to tell the story I wanted to write in the first one (Yesterday's News). Because of that plot, a male character like Gil just wouldn't work. It was originally supposed to be a stand alone book, but the publisher wanted to turn Clare into a series. So the second book (Below the Fold) is out now - and two more are on the way (for 2020 and 2021).
Hopefully one day soon, I can write another Gil Malloy book. I like Gil too!
Thanks for reading them all...and feel free to contact me by email at belskyrg@gmail.com with any other feedback.
R.G. Belsky
R.G. Belsky
It's the greatest unsolved murder case in history. And no, I don't believe a word of the Warren Report....
R.G. Belsky
Below The Fold is out now, Debi. Hope you'll try it and like Clare's latest adventure. Maybe day on Clare & Gil. As I've said when asked that before, I'm not sure how they'd get along: It could be a torrid romance or they might kill each other - or maybe both! Let me know how you like Below The Fold...
R.G. Belsky
No, I'm not related to your family, Susan. No Bronx connection. It's actually a name I've seen a lot in the NY area...
R.G. Belsky
Thanks for writing, Frances. Glad you enjoyed the book.
My theories are somewhat similar to the Gil Malloy theories in the book - I don't know exactly what happened, but I don't believe Oswald was the lone shooter. In THE KENNEDY CONNECTION, I portrayed Oswald as having an iron-clad alibi for the time and place of the assassination - which was fiction. But it allowed me to pursue the line that "If Oswald didn't do it, then who did?" In real life, I think he probably was involved in some way with the events of that day- but got in over his head with people who set him up to take the lone blame for the assassination.
I took the opportunity to visit Dealey Plaza for the book and was fascinated to see it all in person. I also walked Oswald's route from the rooming house to the Tippitt murder to his arrest at the Texas theater (which made me even more convinced he couldn't have done that all within the Warren Commission timeline.)
My speculation is it was some combination of all the usual suspects I talk about in the book - the mob, right elements, anti-Castro militants, etc. Like you, I fear we will never know the answer. But I am convinced the Warren Commission report was not even close to the truth.
Meanwhile, if you liked THE KENNEDY CONNECTION, hope you'll try the most recent Gil Malloy mystery - SHOOTING FOR THE STARS.
My theories are somewhat similar to the Gil Malloy theories in the book - I don't know exactly what happened, but I don't believe Oswald was the lone shooter. In THE KENNEDY CONNECTION, I portrayed Oswald as having an iron-clad alibi for the time and place of the assassination - which was fiction. But it allowed me to pursue the line that "If Oswald didn't do it, then who did?" In real life, I think he probably was involved in some way with the events of that day- but got in over his head with people who set him up to take the lone blame for the assassination.
I took the opportunity to visit Dealey Plaza for the book and was fascinated to see it all in person. I also walked Oswald's route from the rooming house to the Tippitt murder to his arrest at the Texas theater (which made me even more convinced he couldn't have done that all within the Warren Commission timeline.)
My speculation is it was some combination of all the usual suspects I talk about in the book - the mob, right elements, anti-Castro militants, etc. Like you, I fear we will never know the answer. But I am convinced the Warren Commission report was not even close to the truth.
Meanwhile, if you liked THE KENNEDY CONNECTION, hope you'll try the most recent Gil Malloy mystery - SHOOTING FOR THE STARS.
R.G. Belsky
Fortunately, I've never had it. I actually really enjoy and look forward to writing.
R.G. Belsky
For me, as a fiction writer, it's getting to make stuff up. I've spent all my career as a journalist dealing with facts. Now I can make the story go in any direction I want...
R.G. Belsky
Just write. Simple as that. Lots of people talk about writing, the key is actually doing it. No matter how talented you are, you have to eventually sit down and do the lonesome job of writing something
R.G. Belsky
My book The Kennedy Connection features a New York City newspaper reporter named Gil Malloy. It's the first in a series from Atria of Malloy books. I just finished the third one, which will be out sometime in late 2015. Now I'm busy trying to promote The Kennedy Connection which will be published on August 12...
R.G. Belsky
I just get up every morning and do it. That's really all there is to it. Raymond Chandler once said that the trick to writing is to set aside a period of time each day ( an hour, two hours, whatever) where you're not allowed to do anything but write. You can't watch TV, send a letter (now an email), etc. You don't HAVE to write anything. But you can't do anything else. Out of boredom, Chandler said, you'll eventually write. Good advice from the greatest mystery writer ever.
R.G. Belsky
Like many Americans, I've always been obsessed by the unanswered questions about the JFK assassination. So I decided to take a "what if" approach and come up with a novel based on the premise that Lee Harvey Oswald didn't do it. The book is set in present day and involves current murders - but many of the answers lie in the past
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