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About Me

David J. Montgomery writes about authors and books for several of the country's largest newspapers, including the Chicago Sun-Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, Boston Globe and South Florida Sun-Sentinel.

In the past, he has contributed to such publications as USA Today, the Washington Post, Kansas City Star, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel and National Review Online.

He lives in the Washington, DC suburbs with his wife and daughter.

My Interests

My website: DavidJMontgomery.com
My blog: Crime Fiction Dossier
My day job: Goldstar Events

Music:

Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Merle Haggard, Breaking Benjamin, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Depeche Mode, Jimmy Buffett, Buck Owens, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Keane, George Strait, The Police, Staind

Movies:

The Godfather, The Manchurian Candidate, Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Terminator 2, The Shawshank Redemption, Casablanca, The Silence of the Lambs, Goodfellas, North by Northwest, It's a Wonderful Life, Groundhog Day, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Four Weddings and a Funeral, While You Were Sleeping, When Harry Met Sally, The Usual Suspects

Television:

24, Friends, The Sopranos, Alias, House, American Idol, Scrubs, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Wire, Seinfeld, Deadwood, Rescue Me, 30 Rock, Grey's Anatomy

Books:

Ross Thomas, Lawrence Block, Michael Connelly, Robert Ferrigno, George Pelecanos, Barry Eisler, Laura Lippman, Joseph Finder, Denise Hamilton, M.J. Rose, Lee Child, Harley Jane Kozak, Dean Koontz, Charlie Stella, Julia Spencer-Fleming, Daniel Silva, David Morrell, Gayle Lynds, Elaine Flinn, James O. Born, Jim Fusilli, Thomas Perry, Jonathon King, Steve Brewer, Chris Mooney, Gregg Hurwitz, Robert Ward, J.A. Konrath, Michael Crichton, Thomas Harris, Robert Ludlum, Walter Mosley, Mario Puzo, J.K. Rowling, Roger Zelazny, Robert Heinlein, Robert B. Parker, Elmore Leonard, Paul Levine, F. Paul Wilson, Janet Evanovich, P.J. Parrish, Ken Bruen, Harlan Coben, and many, many more.

My Blog

2007 Gumshoe Award Winners Announced

The 6th Annual Gumshoe Awards are given by Mystery Ink to recognize the best achievements in crime fiction. This year's nominees were chosen from books first published in the United States in 2006. ...
Posted by David J. Montgomery on Tue, 01 May 2007 06:25:00 PST

2007 Gumshoe Award Nominations

Mystery Ink announced today the nominees for the sixth annual Gumshoe Awards. The Gumshoe Awards are given by Mystery Ink each year to recognize the best achievements in the world of crime ficti...
Posted by David J. Montgomery on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 08:17:00 PST

Virginia Festival of the Book

It's just been announced that Lee Child will be the featured speaker at the Virginia Festival of the Book's Crime Wave program, to be held next March in Charlottesville. The VA Book Festival is a wond...
Posted by David J. Montgomery on Sat, 23 Sep 2006 08:37:00 PST

10 Greatest Detective Novels -- follow-up

Okay, the debate on my list of the 10 Greatest Detective Novels has been raging for a while now... Let's see if we've come to any conclusions. Here is my original list of seven, which I'm still feelin...
Posted by David J. Montgomery on Sat, 23 Sep 2006 08:39:00 PST

Video for Michael Connelly's "Echo Park"

There's a new video for Michael Connelly's Echo Park (an excellent book, by the way) over on YouTube, which was directed by my buddy Lee Lankford. The video is a dramatization of the first section of ...
Posted by David J. Montgomery on Sat, 23 Sep 2006 08:40:00 PST

How to find reputable agents and publishers

Over on Lee Goldberg's blog, one of the current discussions is on the topic of the legitimacy (or illegitimacy) of various publishing operations. A reader posted a question that I thought was a good o...
Posted by David J. Montgomery on Sat, 23 Sep 2006 08:40:00 PST

Killer Year update -- "Vinnie's Head"

I read my fourth Killer Year book and didn't even know it! (Okay, technically it's only my third, since C.J. Lyons had to drop out of the group. But still.) I devoured Marc Lecard's superb, twisted, h...
Posted by David J. Montgomery on Sat, 23 Sep 2006 08:41:00 PST

Authors who blog and other diversions

Over at Buzz, Balls & Hype, M.J. Rose has an excellent post on author blogging. Apparently, mega-publishing company Holtzbrinck (Holt, St. Martin's Press, FSG, Tor, etc.) has launched an initiativ...
Posted by David J. Montgomery on Thu, 10 Aug 2006 09:54:00 PST

A new mystery writer confab

Bob Morris, the excellent Florida crime novelist and all-around terrific guy, has a blog. Okay, that's not much of a surprise, since the only person left on earth without a blog is my sainted mother. ...
Posted by David J. Montgomery on Wed, 09 Aug 2006 03:41:00 PST

Blurb: Frederick Forsyth's "The Afghan"

"Thriller master Frederick Forsyth returns from retirement to resume his brilliant career as one of the best writers in the business. The Afghan is a superb post-9/11 thriller, set in a brave, new - a...
Posted by David J. Montgomery on Tue, 08 Aug 2006 08:55:00 PST