July 5, 2006
I've added some blog links up at the top here. If you're not there, it's not a slight, it's just that I've stuck the ones up there that I check most regularly, and that changes off and on. And, frankly, I'm lazy about that sort of thing.

Tobias Buckell--you know, I'm not sure I spelled his name right up there--is a new sci fi writer and he's got an interesting blog.

I'm a big fan of Paul Levine's work and he's a hell of a nice guy. He's got a blog he shares with a few other authors.

Robert Gregory Browne's a TV writer and new novelist, his first novel coming out in 2007. His blog is dubbed Anatomy of a Book Deal, though he's just as likely to talk about the creative process.

Murderati is a handful of mystery authors including my friend Jeff Cohen. There was a recent guest post by PJ Parrish that's well worth the trip where she discusses the slippery slope of staying published and the mysteries of paperback original versus hardcover.

Keith Snyder--you gotta read he latest series of essays on fear. I don't know if Keith is still calling himself a mystery author or not. He's still writing short stories, and he's a composer, musician, film maker, director, graphic designer, father of twins--a Renaissance Man, in other words.

Rick Riordan--author of the award winning private eye series featuring Tres Navarre, which I suspect is becoming seriously overshadowed by the amazing success of his books for kids featuring Percy Jackson. So far two books in that series, Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief and Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters. Percy is a demi-god, a son of Poseidon, and he spends part of his time at a camp for demi-gods in upstate New York called Camp Half-Blood when he's not otherwise trying to keep from getting killed by various Greek myth monsters or appeasing the capricious nature of the gods. I recommend both series highly.

And then there's the usual suspects: Joe Konrath, who's currently on a 500 store book tour (God, makes me tired just writing it), Eric Mayer, who co-writes historical mysteries with his wife Mary Reed, Lee Goldberg, who writes for TV, TV tie-ins, original novels and probably the backs of cereal boxes and greeting cards, for all I know; and PJ Parrish, whose real name is Kris Montee, who co-writes bestselling mysteries with her sister Kelly.

Best,
Mark Terry