Just finished The Oligarch's Daughter. @JoeFinder is such a pro! He starts with a killer concept and this one rockets all the way to the last page. Beautifully structured and paced, it's got shades of The Firm -- a solid guy caught in alluring circumstances -- and features a

“He uses a knife. I use wit.”

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Tomorrow's a big one at the Skirball Community Center. We have @robertcrais, @SJRozan, and @chrisricewriter. And me throwing them hardballs for this year's Inventing the Page for Writers on Writing with Sisters in Crime @SINCnational.

Our house is like Jurassic Park. People who don’t understand the breed think they are constantly trying to kill one another.

I was still just a kid when I sold my first book to @simonschuster. I still remember how excited I was to meet with Chuck Adams and Michael Korda. I grabbed books off every shelf I saw, so many that they had to mail a box home to me. It was like catching a glimpse of heaven.

Jack Johns’ reading list for the week for young Evan.

Lily went to the movies this weekend and promptly decided on her Halloween costume for this year.

Tickets for the 2025 Harbor Springs Festival of the Book (Sept 26-28) SOLD OUT in 15 minutes! Luckily, you can still add your name to the waitlist for a general admission ticket :

Evan Smoak storms the UK!. Paperback of Nemesis airdropping today. #booksky

RT @thrillerwriters: Online Thriller School Spotlight ✨. The Lisa Panel! with @LisaGardnerBks, @lisajewelluk, @LisaScottoline, @lisaunger &….

Writing view. Not bad.

A masterpiece. How can I describe CROOKS? It's like if Elmore Leonard wrote the Godfather or George V. Higgins penned The Sound and the Fury -- but with a deep human poignancy that is @lou_berney 's alone. Berney's extraordinarily sensitive insight, dry-wit flourishes, and

Superb play. Simply superb.

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Thank you to all my fellow @thrillerwriters members for stepping up and filling the shelves of the Palisades Charter High School Library after it was devastated by the fires.

RT @BrewCrewCritic: Have you read every Mitch Rapp book multiple times like me? Are you looking for a new book series to binge? Evan Smoak….

“I have a great respect for the semicolon; it’s a very useful little chap.” Abe Lincoln. “Do not use semicolons. All they do is show you’ve been to college.” Kurt Vonnegut . What's your vote, readers?

RT @robertcrais: Hey, LA people! Event alert! Come see me, Rozan, Rice, and Hurwitz talk about the craft of writing on Wed., Aug. 13 at t….

A breakdown of 25 legendary literary feuds. In the case of Rushdie and le Carré's fallout, the inimitable Christopher Hitchens (friend to Rushdie) remarked: "One’s job on such occasions, when seeing the embers begin to cool, is to blow on them as hard as possible.”.