A personal request

April 17, 2012

Below is a short, personal parody I wrote of a camping trip I took with friends a year and a half ago. We hiked across the Beartooths (they’re plural, and it is tooths, don’t argue with me) in Montana, a truly incredible trip and great experience. Along...

An enormous loss — Bill Cook

April 16, 2011

Bill Cook, who with his wife Gayle financed and oversaw the incredible restoration of the West Baden Springs Hotel and French Lick Springs Hotel, brought Pete Dye in to create a one-of-a-kind golf course, and generally restored the beauty and life to an area that sat...

Tragic news in the mystery community

September 20, 2010

http://www.murderbooks.com/ If you can make the memorial service, do so. If you can’t, buy a book from David Thompson’s store — we just lost the most passionate bookseller in the business, and one of the finest people I’ve ever known....

On genre

June 28, 2010

Thought I’d tackle this one after receiving an e-mail interview from the excellent writer Tom Piccirilli who said he’d begin by asking the obvious question, the one I’m probably tired of answering: why switch genre? I realized that beyond being a...

Castles

May 18, 2010

Michael Connelly is appearing in the ABC show “Castle” tonight. You can find the episode here: http://abc.go.com/shows/castle and feel free to contact Michael to urge him not to take the big-dollar acting offers and give up on writing. I know I will. On...

Writing Fuel

May 10, 2010

After writing up the short post below about Larry McMurtry’s great memoir, I got to thinking about my favorite quotes on writing — there are plenty — and it occurred to me that a fairly common question in interviews is whether I have any quotes above...