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Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Presenting: The Raymond Chandler Map of Los Angeles, a guide to the usual & unusual

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What a kick it is to announce the publication of my second collaboration with Paul Rogers, a fold-out map of the city where Raymond Chandl...
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Sunday, September 28, 2014

Femme Fatales, Hardboiled Dames and Dragon Tattoos: Examining and Expanding the Female Archetype in Noir panel at West Hollywood Public Library

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A panel on hard- and soft-boiled female detectives in contemporary California fiction was held on September 27, 2014 at West Hollywood P...
Thursday, August 28, 2014

Kept Girl Kept Days book sale

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When I plotted The Kept Girl , I chose to set the action over seven sweltering summer days in late August/early September, 1929. To...
Friday, August 1, 2014

Noir California: The Masters of 20th Century Crime Fiction panel at Pasadena Central Library

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A lively noir-themed conversation before an engaged audience of book lovers was held on Thursday, July 31, 2014.  From left to rig...
Monday, July 7, 2014

The Kept Girl is Featured Review in LAPL Reads

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Dome and globe lamp, LAPL Central Rotunda.   When I was growing up in Hollywood, the library was my lifeline to a world of visionary ...
Saturday, July 5, 2014

Come, Let us Party Like Book Patrons Do!

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photo: J. Scott Smith Writing a book is a lonesome experience -- at least it is for me. When I'm at my desk, whether plotting, h...
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Thursday, June 5, 2014

The delights of print

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It was exciting to click the link to "Models for Marlowe," Michael Paraskos' kind review of The Kept Girl in The Spectator ,...