Pro-File: Bill Crider

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1. Tell us about your current novel (or project).

The book that's out now is Murder in the Air, a story about chickens, bad smells, and small-town law enforcement under the direction of Sheriff Dan Rhodes. It would be the perfect Christmas gift for everyone on your list and dozens of others, too. Next year, The Wild Hog Murders will be unleashed upon an unsuspecting world.

2. Can you give a sense of what you're working on now?

I'm (supposed to be) working on a Sheriff Rhodes book about the murder of a young woman who has a lot of close friends. Her death has made a lot men in Blacklin County very nervous.

3. What is the greatest pleasure of a writing career?

It's all good. Writing the books, cashing the checks, having my name on the New York Times Bestseller List . . . okay, I'm lying about that last one, but it would be a pleasure if it ever happened.

4. What is the greatest DISpleasure?

Well, I have to admit that I don't love going over copyedited manuscripts. And not being on the NYT Bestseller List kind of sucks.

5. If you have one piece of advice for the publishing world, what is it?

The e-book revolution is here. Better adjust, and quickly.

6. What is the best piece of writing advice you ever got?

You can't sell it if you don't write it.

7. What is the worst piece of writing advice you ever got?

Pencil, yellow legal pads, longhand. Only way to go.

8. Are there two or three forgotten mystery writers you'd like to see in print again?

Harry Whittington, Charles Williams, William Campbell Gault.

9. Tell us about selling your first novel. Most writers never forget that moment.

That would the The Coyote Connection, a collaborative effort with Jack Davis, and one of the Nick Carter series. When Jack called me to tell me that Ace/Jove was buying the book, I thought he was kidding me. It was a great moment.