Ed Gorman's Blog, page 226

Who knew? Jimi Hendrix & Philip Jose Farmer

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Ed here: Thanks to my friend (and fine writer) Tracy Knight I was able to talk to Philip Jose Farmer and correspond with him. I'd been reading him since I was thirteen. He was and remains one of my heroes. And as a Jimi Hendrix fan I'm glad to see they connected intellectually if in no other way. This is from Galleycat..

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Jimi Hendrix and His Science Fiction Bookshelf

By Jason Boog on Sep 08, 2010 02:23 PM

Most people don't remember anymore, but rock legend Jimi Hendrix was a science fiction bo...

A very nice piece about reading Vonnegut

Jacket Copy The Los Angeles Times
(scan down to find it)

The Reading Life: Rediscovering Vonnegut
September 7, 2010 | 7:00 am by David L. Ulin

The rental house on Cape Cod where I've spent part of nearly every August since I was 9 years old has an amazing library. It's one of the appeals of the place: the opportunity to dig around in all those books, familiar and unfamiliar at once. They're not my books -- and yet, after all this time, I know them so intimately that it almost feels as if they we...

THE WALK by Lee Goldberg

I once said that I "bought" Lee Goldberg's novel THE WALK for Five Star Books. Not so. What I did was recommend that they buy it. It had to go through the usual process. The Tekno editor had to read it and approve it then the Thorndike editor had to read it and approve it. Everybody in both offices loved it. I mention this so you'll know that I did play a hand in the book's publication.

Then and even more now that I've read it again I feel it's a book far richer than most suspense novels. The ...

Publisher's Weekly Review of Noir 13

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From Publisher's Weekly:

Noir 13
Ed Gorman, Perfect Crime (www.perfectcrimebooks.com), $14.95 paper (252p) ISBN 978-0-9825157-5-4

Gorman (Stranglehold) showcases the darker side of his talents in this solid collection, a mix of previously published and original stories. Gorman is comfortable with futuristic settings ("The Baby Store," in which a couple deals with the loss of a child and the prospect of having another) as well as fantasy ("A Little Something to Believe In," in which a changeli...

This article was adapted from a Q&A Don Winslow conducted...

This article was adapted from a Q&A Don Winslow conducted by screenwriter Shane Salerno on the Mulholland Books website.

From Jason PinterBestselling thriller writer
Posted: September 2, 2010 10:13 AM

Let's change direction a bit. As much as we all love controversy and feuds (real or imagined), sometimes the most interesting stories are the ones behind the books. With that in mind, below is an original post from New York Times bestselling author Don Winslow on his new novel Savages. Winslow is a...

Dave Zeltserman on ebooks

This first appeared in Kevin's Corner, Kevin Tipple

From: Kevin's Corner
BOOK REVIEWS AND MORE.....
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 01, 2010

Guest Blog--E-Books and The Future by Dave Zeltserman
Please join me in welcome Dave to Kevin's Corner with his thoughts on E-books and the future of publishing.


There's a lot of fear and loathing right now among authors and publishers regarding eBooks. Is this the beginning of the end for print books? The death of publishers? Will eBooks be a boon or the final stake in ...

Forgotten Books: Pity Him Afterwards by Donald E. Westlake; HARRY SHANNON

Forgotten Books: Pity Him Afterward by Donald E. Westlake


Every once in awhile I get stoned just watching a literary master do his work. The last two nights I was flat out dazzled from beginning to end with Donald Westlake's 1964 novels PITY HIM AFTERWARD.

The story concerns an escaped madman who takes the identity of a man who is headed to a theater that does summer stock. While we see the story several times from the madman's point of view, we're never sure who he is. This is a fair clue myst...

Advance Booklist Review of Stranglehold

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Advanced Review – Uncorrected Proof

Gorman, Ed (Author) Oct 2010. 240 p. Minotaur/Thomas Dunne, hardcover, $24.99. (9780312532987).

Dev Conrad, a political consultant, is curious why his client, a congresswoman seeking reelection, is behaving oddly and disappearing for hours at a time. Following the woman to a motel, he observes her entering a room and then leaving it again, 10 minutes later. When Dev checks out the room and finds (literally) a bloody mess, he starts to wonder just what his cli...

Dick Lochte's Top 20 Private Eye Novels

Ed here: In addition to being both a fine novelist and short story writer, Dick Lochte is also the current President of The Private Eye Writers of America. Each writer has his own lists to make but Dick's is especially interesting to me because he lists novels I've never seen on any other list before. And now I want to read or reread them. Keep scrolling down after the Top 20 Novels because Dick gets into movies and tv. Cool stuff.


TOP 20 PRIVATE EYE NOVELS (in alphabetical order – one per aut...

I say this without a whit of exaggeration TIED-IN edited ...

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I say this without a whit of exaggeration TIED-IN edited by Lee Goldberg and written by Lee and other members of the International Association of Media Tie-In Writers is the most fascinating, entertaining and honest book about the writing life I've ever read.

With writers such as Max Allan Collins, Tod Goldberg, Nancy Holder, Donald Bain, Greg Cox, William Rabkin and many others dealing with their experiences of converting movies, tv shows, movies and games into novels, we see the pleasures an...