Behind the Book: Ed Kurtz
What the hell does Wypipo mean, anyway? And why am I—ostensibly a dead serious author of horror and crime fiction with precious little humor in my work—doing this in the first place?
In Memoriam: Author and Founder of Soho Press, Juris Jurjevics
Juris Jurjevics is a legend in the publishing world. Full stop. When he started Soho Press with my parents, Laura and Alan Hruska, back in the mid-eighties, he had already made a name for himself as one of the best editors in the industry in New York. In those...
INTERVIEW WITH JESSICA FELLOWES
BRIGHT YOUNG DEAD by Jessica Fellowes brings to life the mid-1920s amid a strong “who done it” mystery. Fellowes, known for writing the companion books to the Downtown Abbey TV series, has used those skills to write a riveting historical...
FIVE THINGS you didn’t realize you were dying to know about collective nouns
Let’s go with the old journalism five Ws. What: You know them, collective nouns, also known as terms of venery, are those singular words we use to label groups of things, like a pride of lions, a school of fish or a quiver of arrows. When they are familiar we...
FIVE THINGS about NANTUCKET COUNTERFEIT: A Henry Kennis Mystery and Steven Axelrod
1) Your protagonist, Henry Kennis, has to be the world’s most literate police chief, bar none. How did you decide to create a cop who writes poetry on the side? Steven Axelrod: First of all, I write poetry myself — very much like the accessible...
FIVE THINGS – AN EMPIRE FOR RAVENS by Mary Reed and Eric Mayer
1) The John the Lord Chamberlain series, of which this is the 12th installment, was the very first novel published by Poisoned Pen Press back in 1999… How did you and Eric manage to connect with the Press, since they had virtually no track record back then?...