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Stranglehold Reviews

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Ed here: I'll be upfront with you here. I wrote my friends James Reasoner and Bill Crider and asked them how much they'd want to give me good reviews for my novel Stranglehold which will be out mid-October. Before I always paid them $1000 each. But this time they demanded $14,563.27 and in American dollars only. Be that as it may I want to thank them both for being such good buddies and for posting these reviews.

Stranglehold - Ed Gorman by James Reasoner

A couple of years ago I was in real re...

Interview with Otto Penzler in Library Journal

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Ed here: Very interesting interview with Otto Penzler from Library Journal.


Q&A: Otto Penzler on The Best American Noir of the Century
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By Mike Rogers Sep 16, 2010

Otto Penzler is a household name to mystery lovers. Editor, publisher, bookshop owner, and mystery aficionado extraordinaire, he is the driving force behind two new volumes, The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories, a collection of vintage hard-boiled mysteries, and ...

Writer Matthew Bradley - Kevin McCarthy R.I.P.

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Snatch Me If You Can by Matthew Bradley

September 13, 2010 by bradleyonfilm

I was saddened to learn this morning that Kevin McCarthy had gone to that great Green Room in the sky—saddened but not shocked since he was, after all, 96 and had enjoyed, by any standard, what could conservatively be called a good run. His screen career stretched over more than sixty years, and got an early boost with a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination as Biff in Death of a Salesman (1951), which by a bizarre co...

Mystery Scene Fall issue -

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Fall Issue #116
Kathy Reichs, William Kent Krueger, Mystery Cookbooks, Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Sister
and much more!

Forthcoming Fall Issue

Hi everyone,

We've got a terrific Fall Issue in the works. Kathy Reichs, whose forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan stars in both print and TV, has taken multi-tasking to unprecedented levels. She's a fascinating person and a great interview. We also talk to William Kent Krueger, long known as a "writer's writer," but now a general favorite. Sherloc...

Andrew Coburn

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Lee Goldberg sent this last night:

I can't recall if you guys are fans of Andrew Coburn....but I got this note today that might be of interest to you.

Tell him! This is a pivotal time in Andrew Coburn's life. He is my dad. He's written, I think, 14 novels and though he hasn't stopped writing (been writing lots of short stories published online and in university periodicals), he is struggling with a life-threatening illness. His family is around him, of course, but he needs to be reminded there...

So long, old friend--Kevin McCarthy

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There are a number of Kevin McCarthy obituaries on the net today the best being the NY Times one which you can find here. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/13/mov...

I've written before about our friendship with Kevin and I do mean "our." He was much taken with Carol and they had long talks when I was gone. Kevin was an old school gentleman and a very kind man. In the sixteen or seventeen years of our friendship I only heard him say something unkind about one...

Claude Chabrol, R.I.P.

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Claude Chabrol

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Les Biches (Chabrol's "comeback "film)


Ed here: At least part Chabrol's work was like Simenon's in that it deals with the intersection of crime and the middle class. A directior sent me a DVD of a Chabrol film and asked my opinion of it as something we might adapt and work on together. It was only available in French so I had to go with the sub-titles. I watched it several times and each time got something more from it. It was that rich. We did a treatment but couldn't get anybo...

Matheson Uncollected Volume Two

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In many ways Matheson Uncollected Volume Two (Gauntlet Publishing) is the most unique of all Richard Matheson collections inasmuch as it contains two horror novels that Matheson decided to set aside plus his own screenplay for "What Dreams May Come" as well as ten short stories, two of which have particularly interesting histories.

"Now Die In It" was the short story that sparked the novel Ride The Nightmare, one of Matheson's tightest, sharpest suspense novels that was later turned into a ve...

New Books: Esperanza by Trish J MacGregor.

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Names by Trish J MacGregor.

Ed asked me to write something about my novel Esperanza (TOR, September 14, 2010). So this piece about names seems appropriate.

For most of us, the name we're given at birth is the one we use until death. Women sometimes change their last names when they marry, but retain their first names.

I was born Patricia, but have nearly always been called Trish. My last name at birth was Janeshutz, a name few could spell or pronounce. I wrote my first two novels as Trish Jane...

NBC bringing 'The Dark Tower' to both TV and movie screens

Ed here: This is one of my favorite Stephen King projects. Really rich powerful storytelling. This could be amazing esp. if Ron Howard directs.

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Stephen King overload? NBC bringing 'The Dark Tower' to both TV and movie screens
September 9, 2010 | 11:06 am

In an unconventional move, Stephen King's "The Dark Tower" -- comprising seven novels, short stories and comic books -- will be made into both thr...