Lawrence Block Interviews Jill Emerson
Lawrence Block: Well, where to begin? Let me say I understand you have a book coming out in September, and—
Jill Emerson: We.
LB: I beg your pardon?
JE: We have a book coming out in September. Getting Off, published by Hard Case Crime. By Lawrence Block writing as Jill Emerson. That’s what it says, right there on the cover.
LB: Yes, of course.
JE: Your name’s bigger.
LB: Uh. . .
JE: Lots bigger. My name’s in small type, the same size as the subtitle. You remember the subtitle?
LB: I believe it’s “A Novel of Sex & Violence.”
JE: There you go. Lawrence Block, big as a house, and then Jill Emerson and Sex and Violence, all in teensy weensy letters.
LB: You seem the slightest bit resentful.
JE: Oh, does it show?
LB: It was the publisher’s idea. In fact I had to fight to get your name on the cover at all.
JE: What’s the problem? Your publisher doesn’t like girls?
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Jill Emerson: We.
LB: I beg your pardon?
JE: We have a book coming out in September. Getting Off, published by Hard Case Crime. By Lawrence Block writing as Jill Emerson. That’s what it says, right there on the cover.
LB: Yes, of course.
JE: Your name’s bigger.
LB: Uh. . .
JE: Lots bigger. My name’s in small type, the same size as the subtitle. You remember the subtitle?
LB: I believe it’s “A Novel of Sex & Violence.”
JE: There you go. Lawrence Block, big as a house, and then Jill Emerson and Sex and Violence, all in teensy weensy letters.
LB: You seem the slightest bit resentful.
JE: Oh, does it show?
LB: It was the publisher’s idea. In fact I had to fight to get your name on the cover at all.
JE: What’s the problem? Your publisher doesn’t like girls?
to read more: http://tinyurl.com/4xha7js
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Aug 13, 2011 05:37PM
I love this, thanks for posting! Hopefully we'll see more of the Jill Emerson books in print. With proper credit to you as well Mr. Block :)
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Thanks Steven. All of the Jill Emerson novels are eVailable, and if the demand is there they can probably be made available in Print-on-Demand editions, but my guess is that eBooks is where their future, like virtually all of backlist's, is to be found. I note too that I screwed up the link to the blogsite, where the Jill Eerson interview continues at length. Let's try again: http://lawrenceblock.wordpress.com/ji...
You'll note there a second interview with Jill, plus notes on the individual books, etc.
Even this little snippet is a great laugh. You obviously have such fun with your psuedonyms!
They're the ones who have all the fun, Anthony. I just try to keep them out of trouble...
Lawrence wrote: "They're the ones who have all the fun, Anthony. I just try to keep them out of trouble..."Don't keep them too much out of trouble!
And man, how many books are there called "Passport to Peril?" haha -- I just saw your post about yours, and I read the Hard Case reissue of the one by the "other" Robert Parker.
And man, how many books are there called "Passport to Peril?"They seem to be infinite. There's even a series now of "Passport to Peril" Mysteries. I suspect the title's been in play as long as we've had passports, though not quite so long as we've had peril.
Thanks for posting the interview. Do your pseudonyms ever argue as to whose turn it may be for a book or co-author credit?
Gregg wrote: "Thanks for posting the interview. Do your pseudonyms ever argue as to whose turn it may be for a book or co-author credit?"Abby Westlake once wrote a piece on what it was like living with five different guys—Westlake, Stark, Tucker Coe, etc.
Mine seem to coexist peaceably enough...
I also meant to ask-do any of your characters ever run into each other or are you planning to do any crossover type stories? I apologize if you already have and I just haven't read them yet. I know that Keller avoids working in NYC, but would there be an occasion for him to "bump" into Scudder or Scudder into Rhodenbarr, etc.?
No, I get that question occasionally, and the answer's always the same: I don't care for that kind of crossover, and will never write it. My characters live in very different universes, and they don't overlap.
I think that I can understand that-one or the other character may suffer or be weakened by the interaction or that character's specific universe might be permanently altered in some way -maybe something like matter colliding with anti-matter.I am not (obviously) a writer, but an avid reader, and I really want to thank you for the opportunity to learn a little about your art and specifically your work.
