Philly is Murder |
Philly is Murder was the name of the event, and sometimes it is, but not on this night. Upstairs at the Irish Pub (the one at 11th and Walnut), it was one of those rare Mystery Writers Associati...
Posted by D. H. Dublin, a.k.a. Jon McGoran on Wed, 02 Apr 2008 06:08:00 PST |
Some Things Never Change... |
When my first book came out, Body Trace, I was asked by several interviewers if there was any influences I had as a young writer. I listed several writers who had an impact on me, but I also mentione...
Posted by D. H. Dublin, a.k.a. Jon McGoran on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 05:27:00 PST |
True Crime Fiction |
Crime is wrong. I know that. And so is spam, even the non-criminal variety (unless it's me, shamelessly promoting my next book, like Freezer Burn, which comes out June 3, 2008 from Penguin Books...
Posted by D. H. Dublin, a.k.a. Jon McGoran on Fri, 08 Feb 2008 09:56:00 PST |
ALA à la MWA |
I recently participated in a book-signing event organized by the Mystery Writers of America (NY) at the American Library Association's winter conference in Philadelphia. As always, whenever I stop wri...
Posted by D. H. Dublin, a.k.a. Jon McGoran on Sat, 26 Jan 2008 04:11:00 PST |
Book Signings, The Sequel |
In my last post, I wrote about some book signings that had gone pretty well, and how they prompted me to set up some more for a few weeks later. Late November, early December, I figured, thinking it m...
Posted by D. H. Dublin, a.k.a. Jon McGoran on Thu, 29 Nov 2007 10:36:00 PST |
Easily Embarrassed, Impossible to Shame |
An increasingly prominent aspect of my evolution as a writer has been the systematic removal from my being of the any sense of shame. It starts when you're a young writer, when you first swallow your ...
Posted by D. H. Dublin, a.k.a. Jon McGoran on Sun, 04 Nov 2007 01:23:00 PST |
BEA |
Went up to BEA in New York this past Saturday, signing copies of Body Trace with the Mystery Writers of America.
I rode up with Citypaper strongman and man of (many) letters Duane Swierczynski and I...
Posted by D. H. Dublin, a.k.a. Jon McGoran on Tue, 05 Jun 2007 06:46:00 PST |
Hearing Voices |
One of the aspects of writing that has become more of an issue as my career has progressed is the need to quickly shift gears. When I was working on my first novel, I had the luxury of taking my time ...
Posted by D. H. Dublin, a.k.a. Jon McGoran on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 07:23:00 PST |
And so it begins... |
So it seems I am blogging.
It is something I have been thinking about doing for a long time, but never quite got around to until now. Thanks for joining me. I'll be trying to post regulary here...
Posted by D. H. Dublin, a.k.a. Jon McGoran on Mon, 26 Mar 2007 06:13:00 PST |
