VOOK EDITIONS OF THE CHOPIN MANUSCRIPT AND THE COPPER BRACELET (WATCHLIST VOLS. 1 & 2) NOW AVAILABLE
Vook ("The Smart Book") has issued both The Chopin Manuscript and The Copper Bracelet in digital/video format. The latest innovation in book technology, Vook provides video commentary on the book from the author(s) as part of the digital presentation—at extremely affordable prices.
BIBLIO BAGGINS' JUNE READING LIST
Noted book blogger Biblio Baggins chose three thrillers for his June reading, and he has some nice things to say (and puts David in some stellar company: James Crumley and Lee Child).
PRISON LITERARY THROWDOWN
David joins five other authors from the outside, competing against six inmate writers inside the walls of San Quentin State Prison.Bay Area authors Keith and Kent Zimmerman, in association with Litquake, will host the very first Literary Throwdown that will happen inside the walls of San Quentin State Prison. It takes place on two consecutive Friday evenings, June 11 and June 18, 2010 from 6:30 - 8:30 pm, at the Zimmerman brothers' Creative Writing Class on the San Quentin H-Unit yard. Six Bay Area journeymen published authors will compete on June 11 against six designated inmate students in the writing Throwdown. Three Hollywood authors/screenwriters will serve as judges at the June 18 class. Litquake, the largest nonprofit literary festival on the West Coast, enlisted the authors. Click here to download a PDF with all the details. Listen to NPR's Weekend Edition piece on how the Throwdown turned out. Read David's Commentary piece about the Throwdown and how it affected him.
MUTH CHOOSES DO THEY KNOW I'M RUNNING
Tim Muth, who writes one of the best blogs out there on what's happening in present-day El Salvador, chose Do They Know I'm Running? and Horacio Castellanos Moya's The She Devil in the Mirror for his summer reading. You can check his posting here.
DAVID'S RECENT BLOG POSTS
David's most recent blog postings on Red Room are titled "Women Make the Best Detectives" and "Life is Luck and the Lucky Are Scared."
NEW SHORT STORY
David published a short story titled "The Axiom of Choice," which appeared in The Strand, Issue XXVII 2009. The website Mathematical Fiction, devoted to the portrayal of mathematicians in fiction, offered a fascinating précis here.
Teamster Official Gives Copy of Blood of Paradise
to El Salvador's President
Ron Carver, Assistant Director of the Port Division, International Brotherhood of Teamsters (right), hands a personally dedicated copy of Blood of Paradise to El Salvador's new president, Mauricio Funes (left). For the whole story, see my recent Commentary.
PUBLICATIONS
David's first three novels are now available in audio form through Audible.com.
David's short story Pretty Little Parasite, which originally appeared in Las Vegas Noir (Akashic Press), has been re-issued in Best American Mystery Stories 2009 (Houghton Mifflin), edited by Jeffrey Deaver and Otto Penzler. It also includes stories by Alice Munro, James Lee Burke, Alafair Burke, Michael Connelly, Chuck Hogan, Joyce Carol Oates, and a notable host of others.
