Monday, April 27, 2009
Mystery author DENISE SWANSON in Nashville
Tomorrow night (Tue, Apr 28, 6:30 PM) mystery author Denise Swanson will be at Nashville's Mysteries & More Bookstore to discuss and sign her books. Mysteries & More is in Lenox Village, 6965 Sunnywood Drive, Nashville, TN 37211. Call (615) 837-3300 or get directions here.
Best Mann 1.10: BANG BANG

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Friday, April 24, 2009
Help Len Wein restore his life's work!

Wein also lost a lifetime of awards and comics and books and artwork. That's something, considering the scope of his comics career: The co-creator of Wolverine and Swamp Thing (among others), he has served as writer and/or editor for several companies, on a multitude of comics -- including Spider-Man, Batman, X-Men, Watchmen, The Hulk, Superman, Daredevil, Fantastic Four, Justice League of America, Star Trek, The Twilight Zone, The Simpsons, Futurama, and many others.
Friends and fans are working to help him restore the collection of comic books he's worked on. Details at The “Let’s Rebuild Len Wein’s Comic Book Collection” Project.

Tuesday, April 21, 2009
The return of FEMME NOIR

This year, Free Comic Book Day is Saturday, May 2. Comic book retailers all over the country will be giving special edition comics FREE to anyone who walks into their stores. (Check your local shop for participation and rules.) Titles printed especially for the event include The Avengers, Disney/Pixar's Cars, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Transformers Animated/G.I. Joe, Aliens/Predator, Atomic Robo And Friends, DC Kids Mega Sampler, NASCAR Heroes: Origins #1, Owly And Friends, William Shatner Presents #1, Wolverine: Origin Of An X-Man, and more. (Many stores also run special sales during the event as well.) Details at freecomicbookday.com.
Monday, April 20, 2009
Best Mann 1.9: "Robbing that bank was stupid!"

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Saturday, April 18, 2009
Chester Campbell's THE SUREST POISON

Chester happens to be president of The Middle Tennessee Chapter of Sisters in Crime. The group meets the second Tuesday every month (except Jan and Oct), 6-7 p.m. at Davis-Kidd Booksellers in Green Hills. (The meetings are open to the public.)
About The Surest Poison:
Three seemingly unrelated murders crop up during the investigation of a decade-old chemical dump that plagues a rural community west of Nashville. Former park ranger Sid Chance, whose career as a small town police chief was cut short by malicious accusations, is coaxed out of self-imposed exile to pursue the case. But Sid soon finds himself confronting the unsavory people responsible for his past troubles ...
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Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Mysteries in Nashville

(If you must know, our purchases today included titles from Rex Stout, Agatha Christie, Donald Westlake, and Wilkie Collins. We were so overwhelmed with the selection, we had to leave before the list got any longer.)
Mysteries & More is located in Lenox Village at 6965 Sunnywood Drive, Nashville, TN 37211. Get directions here -- it's worth the drive!
Monday, April 13, 2009
Next time on CASTLE (Apr 13)
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Saturday, April 11, 2009
Crime (fiction) takes a holiday
For the Easter break, Erica's and my crime/mystery comic Best Mann For The Job is taking a week off. But rest assured that, come the week of April 19, Sheriff Grace Mann will be back on the job.
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Thursday, April 09, 2009
Romancing book readers
With all the troubles rumbling through book publishing right now -- dwindling sales, fewer books on schedules, and massive layoffs -- Harlequin is one of very few publishers actually thriving. The New York Times reports how romance fiction (and, to a lesser extent, SF & fantasy) are beating the statistics.
Monday, April 06, 2009
Next time on CASTLE (Apr 6)
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Sunday, April 05, 2009
Best Mann 1.8: "Sounds like they've called the cops ... "

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Preview #1: Sheriff Grace Mann
Preview #2: Deputy Todd Baxter
Preview #3: Rev. Hezekiah Mann
Preview #4: Elizabeth Mann
Friday, April 03, 2009
Publishing: some good news, and some bad news
My literary agent, Chip MacGregor, recently outlined several updates in the world of book publishing: some of them good, some of them bad, and one of them an out-and-out head-scratcher ...
Thursday, April 02, 2009
Mr. Monk and the Final Season

Meanwhile, Season Seven comes to DVD July 21 (Info at TVShowsonDVD). And the latest tie-in novel in stores is Mr. Monk is Miserable, by Monk writer Lee Goldberg.
Related links:
MONK ends with season eight
Mr. Monk and the Finished Manuscript
The stars shine for MONK 100
MONK: New therapist, new episodes
ADRIAN MONK: The face of OCD
Wednesday, April 01, 2009
MySpace vs. Blogger
I just discovered that MySpace indiscriminately blocks EVERY SINGLE LINK to blogspot, taking you to a page that calls it "spam" and "very much like head lice." (The legal term for this is defamation.) Until they decide to fix this problem, MySpace is officially useless to me.
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