Bill Loehfelm's Blog, page 51
January 30, 2014
"some of the hardest work in writing is not crafting the fine sentence, but getting characters to..."
- NYTBR (via aaronburch)
January 27, 2014
"There’s an old writer’s adage: keep your hero in trouble."
- David McCullough (via theparisreview)
January 23, 2014
John Mooney live at the Ogden after hours concert series
John Mooney live at the Ogden after hours concert series
January 14, 2014
Morning meeting with my editorial consultants after a long night...
Morning meeting with my editorial consultants after a long night of writing.
January 13, 2014
nprbooks:
Author Kim Fu has always loved Batman — at least,...
Author Kim Fu has always loved Batman — at least, one version of Batman.
My Batman inflicts a lot of psychological torture, but he remains fundamentally the good guy — moral, principled and triumphant. He outwits and disarms his opponents one by one, prefers fear and technology over fists. He’s a Zen samurai in the shadows. Whenever I came across a Batman who was misogynistic, needlessly brutish or prone to cracking terrible jokes, I simply filed it under Not My Batman.
But then she read Frank Miller’s Batman: The Dark Knight Returns. And suddenly the sharp lines between her Batman and other Batmen, well… they started to get fuzzy. Was her beloved hero a caped crusader or a cruel sadist?
Image courtesy of DC Entertainment.
January 4, 2014
Join Maureen on the streets of New Orleans. (Or you could just...
Join Maureen on the streets of New Orleans. (Or you could just read about it in THE DEVIL IN HER WAY.
December 21, 2013
Favorite Crime Fiction of 2013
Since some folks asked, here’s my list. It was an excellent year for crime novels by women, and based on my reading of 2014 galleys so far, next year will be as well.
The Best, in Alphabetical Order
Save Yourself, Kelly Braffet: I’m not certain why this novel didn’t merit more attention…
You’ll find a certain NOPD rookie on this list.
December 20, 2013
The Strand Magazine's top 20 books of 2013
NOPD ROOKIE MAUREEN COUGHLIN LANDS ON TOP OF A PRETTY PRESTIGIOUS LIST
1) The Devil in Her Way by Bill Loehfelm (Sarah Crichton Books)
2) The Kill Room by JefferyDeaver (Grand Central)
3) The Ophelia Cut by John Lescroart (Atria)
4) White Fire by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child (Grand Central)
5) Twist by John Lutz (Kensington)
con’t.
December 17, 2013
Book Keeping with Bill Loehfelm | Book Keeping
I know it��s sacrilege to say this as a southern author, but I��ve never been able to get through one of William Faulkner��s novels.
In which I’m asked thoughtful questions about reading and writing and proceed to talk about Batman.
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