Bill Loehfelm's Blog, page 53

Because it’s a day to celebrate, too. We still here,...

Because it’s a day to celebrate, too. We still here, us.

The Soul Rebels - “504” (by Rounder Records)

"All day people had drowned. In parking lots, in their backyards, in their cars, in second-floor..."

““All day people had drowned. In parking lots, in their backyards, in their cars, in second-floor bedrooms, in first-floor pantries, in every household hiding place imaginable, and in the middle of wide-open, empty streets. Who drowns in a house? Or staring up at streetlights and billboards through six feet of hot, dirty water? Who drowns while straining to reach for their own rooftop, leaving torn fingernails behind in the eaves as the water carries them away?””

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From THE DEVIL IN HER WAY

A small slice of Maureen’s New Orleans. Handsome Willy’s in the...

A small slice of Maureen’s New Orleans. Handsome Willy’s in the CBD.

“The Devil in Her Way is everything you want a crime novel to...

“The Devil in Her Way is everything you want a crime novel to be: morally twisty, richly textured and filled with soul. And perhaps its greatest gift of all is the battered-but-not-broken Maureen Coughlin, a hero with whom we will go anywhere.”
        - Megan Abbott, author of DARE ME and THE END OF EVERYTHING

Meet Josephine, one of my editorial assistants. Always up for a...

Meet Josephine, one of my editorial assistants. Always up for a late night walk around the Garden District to discuss plot and character problems.

Burke day at the book store.

Burke day at the book store.

Carl Hiaasen, J.K. Rowling, Sara Gran … not often do I...

Carl Hiaasen, J.K. Rowling, Sara Gran … not often do I get to hang in that kind of company.

"Bill Loehfelm’s smartly written fourth novel, “The Devil in...

"Bill Loehfelm’s smartly written fourth novel, “The Devil in Her Way,” is a police procedural that succeeds by placing an intriguing heroine in a fascinating city. The heroine is Maureen Coughlin, a tough-talking, chain-smoking rookie cop who fights to save some teenagers from lives of crime. The city is New Orleans, post-Katrina, where lives of crime and lives devoted to good food, music and related pleasures have long been known to coexist.

At one point Maureen, a newcomer to the City That Care Forgot, sums it up nicely: “New Orleans was like some bizarre cross between the third world and an enlightened civilization that had advanced beyond ordinary American worries.”- from Patrick Anderson’s Washington Post review.

amandaonwriting:Daily Writing QuoteYes. This.

amandaonwriting:

Daily Writing Quote

Yes. This.

For writing inspiration I keep Grumpy Dennis Lehane by my...

For writing inspiration I keep Grumpy Dennis Lehane by my office door. Whenever I leave my office I can hear him grumble “Why aren’t you still writing?" When I’m at my desk, I can feel him watching me, saying, “Toughen up. Write more. Write better."