5 Books That Changed my Life 1. THE SCARECROW OF OZ by L. Frank Baum. I'm not sure why this one was the one to hit me, in particular -- we had a beat-up copy of THE LAND OF OZ at home, and that's the one I read over and over and over again -- but THE SCARECROW OF...
5 Forgotten Writers Whose Works Inspired Me When I Was Much Younger When I say certain writers are forgotten, that doesn’t mean they’re unknown. It just means that hardly anyone reads them these days. Some of them were famous in their time. Some were...
5 Things Writers Get Wrong About Cars and Driving When, as a pre-teen, I began reading books written for adults, one of the first things I noticed was that every author was a damn botanist. Each descriptive passage, it seemed, lavished...
5 Things Writers Get Wrong About Cars and Driving When, as a pre-teen, I began reading books written for adults, one of the first things I noticed was that every author was a damn botanist. Each descriptive passage, it seemed, lavished...
FIVE MOVIES THAT CHANGED MY LIFE By Timothy Hallinan I read at least twenty books, possibly thirty, for every movie I see. Books change my life virtually on a daily basis, usually in tiny increments—a glimpse of something I didn't know, a glimmering of moral...
The problem with creating a protagonist in a crime series and writing her in the first-person voice is that often readers – and my friends – confuse her traits with my own. Alex Cooper is a prosecutor in New York City – a job I held for thirty years – but unlike...
