Craig McDonald – video interview – part 2
I will let my introduction to the first half of our interview speak for me. Craig McDonald is an idol and an author whom I greatly respect, and I was thrilled to be able to sit down and talk with him. In part two of my interview with McDonald, which I conducted at the Poisoned [...]
Craig McDonald – video interview – part 1
I don’t think I’ve been more intimidated by an interview subject as I was by Craig McDonald. Here was a man who had interviewed nearly every crime writer of consequence in the past decade: Ellroy. Crumley. Woodrell. Sallis. Bruen. Leonard. And the questions he asked weren’t just your simple, “Where do you get your ideas?” pap [...]
BSC Radar Screen: Ken Bruen Future Releases
Ken Bruen is writing a what!?!? Find out more after the jump……
Book Review – Rogue Males by Craig McDonald
This is a two-fer. First is a review of Craig McDonald’s book Rogue Males. Second, what better way to celebrate a book of interviews then by interviewing the author.
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The Electric Mayhem: December ’08 mystery/crime fiction
The Electric Mayhem: December ’08 mystery/crime fiction In the past I’ve tried to write a full review for almost all of the books that I read. This became difficult as my time shrank but also because some books seemed to only warrant brief thoughts and to stretch them out to a fuller review can be [...]
Book Review – Head Games
Author: Craig McDonald Publisher: Bleak House Books Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: September 2007 In a dusty cantina on the far side of the Rio Grande, larger-than-life and recently widowed crime writer Hector Lassiter and Bud Fiske, a callow young poet sent by True Magazine to profile Hector, are handed a carpet bag. Inside they find [...]
Book Review – Art in the Blood: Crime Novelists Discuss Their Craft
Author: Craig McDonald Publisher: Point Blank Press Binding: Paperback Publication Date: May 2006 Craig McDonald is widely considered to be the best interviewer in crime fiction. He goes into each interview so well equipped with research and thought provoking questions that he possesses the singular ability to put the interviewee at ease. It’s this ease [...]
