2019-02-26 17:19
There are two less gas consuming automobiles on the roads now, by some link or chain down to me. I was involved in two catastrophic car accidents in less than three days' time. A bit of brai… Read More
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2018-08-06 15:17
Snowball's last day on the planet was last Thursday. I haven't been able to do anything since. Today I'm determined to mine the muck and pull something through that needs doing. The poor guy… Read More
2018-07-29 19:07
Earl Javorsky's third novel, and second in his "Charlie Miner series, Down to No Good, is hopefully the sign of great things to come. The book itself is written in a hard-bitten st… Read More
2018-07-24 23:14
Back from New York, the Noir @ the Bar was a lot of fun--best crowd I've seen at the Shade bar in the Village--and my car is even out of the shop. It shot craps coming back from Florida a co… Read More
2018-06-13 02:24
Every year there's a jewel of a conference in one of the happiest places on Earth not named Tijuana, the Key West Mystery Fest. I go every year and you should, too, or at least this year. It… Read More
2018-06-10 20:52
I was just on Amazon's site and I forgot a biggie for my list of Books I Will Not Read: ANY BOOK that comes up as a "Sponsored" book when you do a search on a particular writer. That's a dis… Read More
2018-06-10 02:02
Books with titles similar--they don't have to be exact--to Sins of the Father or The Good Son, The Good Wife, or probably The Good [anything]. Nothing with the word "Prodigal" in i… Read More
2018-06-09 05:49
Hey, there, it's been a while. There was a time there when I thought there was no way I'd ever recover from the busted hand but now, though still buried, I believe I can see the makings of a… Read More
2018-03-28 13:06
This Saturday, March 31st, I get to go to one of my favorite places in the world, Minneapolis's own Once Upon a Crime Bookstore. Formally owned by Gary Shulze and Pat Frovarp, it has been ta… Read More
2018-03-27 16:18
I just returned from the Liberty States Writers Conference in Iselin, NJ. Wonderful folks--though a lack of impulse control may have left a poor impression on some of them--and my sinuses ar… Read More
2018-03-17 01:40
Finally or at last or why not, as we speak an updated website version is being ftp'ed up to the GoDaddy servers wherever they are. This has a small and not very good cover scan of The Digest… Read More
2018-02-06 20:46
I can't think of a time the past few years where I haven't been crying in my soup over not having enough time to meet my obligations. I've stated here in the past that one of the pieces of a… Read More
2017-10-24 01:28
Since so many people do post-Bouchercon reports, I probably don't have a lot to add. I know that my biggest disappointment was in not seeing people I was planning and hoping to see… Read More
2016-12-05 20:00
Must blog something of substance soon. Must update web site.But first....Whether you love or hate Amazon, I just read where their new company-owned brick and mortar stores are going to have… Read More
2016-10-17 19:58
Because everyone loves free books! Today I seem to like exclamation points!MAD DOG BARKED was chosen to be part of Stacy Alesi's BookBitch.com's October giveaway of a half dozen new crime fi… Read More
2016-10-17 00:49
"Disniheritance Provision: Not for any lack of love or affection, I hereby provide no provision herein for my daughter, ISA H. ERICKSON or my son, RICHARD C. OLLERMAN, JR., nor for any of th… Read More
2016-08-27 23:28
This is a very good book about the Nazi occupation of Paris in the second world war from the perspective of an American husband/Swiss wife couple that lived on one of the swankiest streets o… Read More
2016-08-14 21:20
So this is happening Wednesday evening. It's organized by Eric Beetner and his events are always fun, always fast-paced, and always over too soon:Then there's my Thursday morning panel at 9:… Read More
2016-07-25 23:47
I am absolutely crestfallen by the news of veteran crime, western, horror, and men's adventure writer Bill Crider. Apparently Bill has found out very recently that he's ill, so ill that he s… Read More
2016-07-21 13:32
Life likes its curve balls. When I did my trip through Florida, culminating in the wonderful Key West Mystery Fest, I came home for about a week and a half, and then I heard my mother had co… Read More
2016-07-18 05:27
I've been out of town forEVER, my mother passed away suddenly, and when I cure my own zombie-ism, I will write a longer blog. Right now, here's a brief review of a book I finished on a loooo… Read More
2016-06-08 20:26
Almost like the heading says, I am now in my eighth different hotel room in my eighth different city on the eighth consecutive day. Right now I'm in Fort Myers and after a convoluted sequenc… Read More
2016-05-27 17:27
Drove down to Concord last night to meet Pulitzer Prize-winning Richard Russo, get some books signed (I'm a very occasional fan boy), and sit in the front row of an interview taped for NPR… Read More
2016-05-20 18:40
Stark House is mostly known for its reprints of classic crime novels--sometimes in a bargain, two-novel format like the Ace Doubles of old. But apparently it comes out with a paperback origi… Read More
2016-04-22 16:30
We went to the same junior high school in north Minneapolis, although separated by about four years. Later, I went to high school with his future bass player, Mark Brown, who played in a ban… Read More
2016-04-17 18:27
I really need to dig out from beneath every damn thing since last week's trip for a signing to Minneapolis but I'm not there yet. I am trying, though, very hard. In the meantime, I agreed to… Read More
2016-04-11 17:38
Before I take the time and get my thoughts down on losing the former owner of the wonderful Once Upon a Crime Mystery Bookstore in Minneapolis--there are a lot of feelings there--I wanted to… Read More
2016-04-02 21:25
When Truth Always Kills was published, ostensibly in December but it didn't seem to be widely shipping until January, the professional reviews were very good. But with the late shipping… Read More
2016-03-21 18:50
I could write about the goings-on, the Garmin GPS having no clue how to get me to the entrance of a public parking ramp, hanging out with Adrian McKinty at the bar and asking inappropriate q… Read More
2016-03-18 04:38
Go. Go now. We can race. If you leave now, you might beat me. The Noir at the Bar events are always great, but they'd be better if you were there. Yes, you, I'm looking at you Read More
2016-02-29 23:58
This weekend I'll be in Albany, NY at the Albacon convention. I'll be appearing on three panels and moderating a fourth aside from looking forward to a great conference, I'm anxious to get a… Read More
2016-02-16 16:09
2016-02-10 15:31
In the far olden days, I almost never ever put a book down once I'd started it. That led to the reading of some incredibly horrible books, at least one of which still affects me today. Anal… Read More
2016-02-05 19:14
It has been confirmed. I will be back in the old home town of Minneapolis for a Saturday, April 9th, 12:00 signing at the great Once Upon a Crime bookstore in south Minneapolis. If you're ar… Read More
2016-02-04 14:08
I was just invited to participate in a Noir @ the Bar reading in Philadelphia by the founder of this august movement, Peter Rozofsky. It will be at March 19th at the Society Hill Playhouse… Read More
2016-01-17 12:48
Apparently, Irishman and current Aussie is in country and will be at the Noir at the Bar in Manhattan reading tonight. So I'm off on a looooong drive for that. He says I should be prepared t… Read More
2016-01-11 01:44
I was asked to participate in the International Thriller Writers Round Table discussion this week. The topic is about whether ambiguity is increasingly blurring the concepts of good and evil… Read More
2015-11-26 16:28
This is only the second review I've seen for my next book, TRUTH ALWAYS KILLS, but it's still a bit early. I hope.It comes out on December 11th and this review was printed in today's paper… Read More
2015-11-26 16:26
It's been a while, but you know how things are. They're the same with you.Went to ThrillerFest in NYC for my first time a few weeks ago. It was a very nice time and met some new people like… Read More
2015-11-19 05:29
Last Sunday's Noir at the Bar event in Manhattan went, I thought, very well. However, a competing MWA event at another venue, the Giants/Patriots game, and probably as well the very visible… Read More
2015-11-11 03:16
This Sunday, November 16th, I'll be part of this month's Noir @ the Bar group in Manhattan. It will be at Shade in Greenwich Village and run from six to nine at night. If you've never been… Read More
2015-03-29 21:58
I did an over the phone interview for Suspense Magazine today that was broadcast live over some number of channels:http://www.blogtalkradio.com/suspensemagazine/2015/03/29/suspense-radio-one… Read More
2015-03-17 12:24
I rolled my Jeep on Sunday. I think I went around twice, possibly three times, though all I could really swear too is once. It's fairly disorienting flipping a car: there's the "Oh, crap" mo… Read More
2015-02-27 00:11
...then I should be roasting much better in a few months after I catch up on a bunch of things that coaching high school sports (that stuff goes on every day!) and an over-full plate left me… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
My birthday was yesterday. Mostly I spent it feeling poorly, the victim of chronic Lyme disease and chronic fatigue syndrome, which may or may not be related. Yay, I get to have one of those… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
One of the "myths" of being a writer is how exciting it MUST be to get published. Not so. It makes one a mass of anxieties: will anyone buy the book? Will anyone like the book? Will the publ… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Booklist reviewed "Truth Always Kills" and though they mis-wrote a character's nickname as "Randy the Cat" (cats may be randy, Felix may have had a brother, but this is just wrong) the revie… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Today is the day that my new book, "Truth Always Kills," is released. I'm still working on the new website but there are buttons that work there that let you click through and order online… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Box came today. Perfect condition. No padding necessary, it was a wraparound cardboard box. Beautiful, I think, my shipping problem with Amazon is on vacation!I peel the strip, I open the bo… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
...on the post below, are they? Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
And by "meek" I mean me.This week the newest book from Stark House Press came out, featuring two classic books by Charles Williams and with a really, really (read: way too) long introduction… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Yup, they've done it again. All the replacement books from Amazon came, and two, a whole two out of six, have arrived in what I would deem "as new" condition. The Henrietta Lacks book, and A… Read More
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