NEWS

NEW SHORT STORY
David's short story "Returning to the Knife" is included in the e-anthology West Coast Crime Wave available October 17, 2011. The ebook can be purchased from Amazon.

LATINO!
The Latino Author has graciously added David to its author listings due to his setting his two most recent novels in Central America and Mexico. Not bad for a güero!

ARTICLE SELECTED FOR INCLUSION IN ANTHOLOGY
One of David's articles on characterization written for Writer's Digest magazine has been selected as "some of our best content on the craft of fiction" for inclusion in the upcoming anthology, Writing Novels & Short Stories. (Publication date not yet determined.)

PUBLISHING NEWS!
David's forthcoming book—CHARACTER: The Art and Craft of Human Portrayal in Fiction, Film and TV—will be published by Penguin Books in early 2013.

WE HAVE A WINNER!
Do They Know I'm Running? was named Best Novel—Rising Star category by Spinetingler Magazine.

SHORT STORY
The story David co-wrote with Luis Alberto Urrea for Lone Star Noir—"Who Stole My Monkey?"—has been selected for inclusion in Best American Mystery Stories 2011, which will appear in October 2011.

AN INTERVIEW WITH J. SYDNEY JONES FOR SCENE OF THE CRIME
Read David's interview with J. Sydney Jones, author of the Viennese Mystery Series, for his blog devoted to mysteries and thrillers with a distinct sense of place.

DAVID BLOGS ON MURDERATI
David has been added to the stellar roster of the blog MURDERATI. His postings appear every other Wednesday. (For an archive of his postings to date, go here.)

DAVID BLOGS ON NEEDLE SCRATCH STATIC
Read David's review of three Kate Atkinson short stories that he wrote for Gordon Harries' stellar blog, Needle Scratch Static.

PRISON LITERARY THROWDOWN
Read David's dialog with Michael Tolkin for the Mulholland Books website about their experience as part of the first ever Literary Throwdown inside San Quentin State Prison. (You can also listen to NPR's Weekend Edition piece on how the Throwdown turned out, and read David's Commentary piece about it.) Back in June David joined five other authors from the outside, competing against six inmate writers from the San Quentin Creative Writing Class run by Bay Area authors Keith and Kent Zimmerman, in association with Litquake, the largest nonprofit literary festival on the West Coast.

CRIME-THEMED POETRY
David joins Ken Bruen, Reed Coleman and others in Lineup #4, a collection of crime-themed poetry, available April 1, 2011. Read the poemsoncrime.blogspot.com to learn where you can find a copy. Go here for a blog tour featuring commentary from a broad range of authors on the collection's merits (David's can be found here.) And go here for a podcast of readings from David, Reed Farrell Coleman, and Keith Rawson among others.

BEST BOOKS LIST!
Read the stellar review of Do They Know I'm Running? in January Magazine's Best Books of 2010: Crime Fiction

SHORT STORY
Read David's short story "Stray" on the Fiction page for The Smoking Poet, an online literary magazine (his story is the second one, about halfway down).

MORE POETRY
David's poem "Youth on the Moon" was chosen Poem of the Week by Belinda Subraman for Gypsy Art Show, her blog on the creative arts.

DAVID'S LATEST ESSAY
Read David's essay, "Insulting Your Intelligence (Just gimme some noiriness)" on the impressive and always interesting Mulholland Books website.

DAVID'S INTERVIEW ON THE CRIME OF IT ALL
Read David's interview with Len Wanner of the University of Edinburgh, who has launched one of the most intelligent, comprehensive and just plain gorgeous websites devoted to writing and writers of any kind: The Crime Of It All.

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).

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.