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Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.087209
EAN: 9780425165478
ISBN: 0425165477
Label: Berkley Trade
Manufacturer: Berkley Trade
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 272
Publication Date: February 01, 1999
Publisher: Berkley Trade
Studio: Berkley Trade
Sales Rank: 968921

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First came Speaking of Murder, a compelling collection of interviews where bestselling mystery and suspense authors revealed their lives behind the pages. Now comes Speaking of Murder, Volume II, assembling more of the brightest names in the genre to discuss what inspires them, what scares them, why they write what they do--as well as what subjects they don't touch upon and why. Dean Koontz talks about the struggle to bring his books to the silver screen...Walter Mosely discusses the impact mystery fan President Clinton has had on the genre...Nancy Pickard comments on the changes that have occurred for women mystery writers in the past two decades...Lawrence Block compares and contrasts himself to his series character Matt Scudder...and much more. The complete "line-up" includes:
* Dean Koontz
* Robert B. Parker
* Walter Mosley
* Lawrence Block
* Nancy Pickard
* Michael Connelly
* Edna Buchanan
* Donald Westlake
* Margaret Maron
* Julian Rathbone
* Paul Doherty
* Robert Crais
* Margaret York
* Laurie King
* Nevada Barr
* Joy Fielding
* Barbara Parker
* Loren D. Estleman
* J.A. Jance
* Janet Evanovich
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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Another collection of interviews
This is the second volume of interviews with popular mystery writers. It contains 22 interviews covering different aspects of the authors backgrounds.

An interview with Janet Evanovich covers her development as a writer. It was a long hard road, including a couple of early novels that were not published, and several years writing romance novellas before finally arriving at the Stephanie Plum series.

An interview with J.A. Jance covers her early career (starting out selling insurance), and the necessity of marketing your own material. She indicates it was 50 percent writing and 50 percent marketing when she started out, doing booksigning tours on her own dime (no support from the publisher).

You get a good picture of how the various authors got started ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Speaking of interviews, volume two is a winner


The second volume of interviews with best-selling authors of mystery and suspense is an insightful book that provides fans with information about favorite authors. The twenty-two interviews include a Who's Who with noted writers like Koontz, Evanovich, Jance, and Parker (Robert B.) providing readers with motivations and inspirations to their story lines as well as why they avoid some topics.

The Gorman-Greenberg duo provides another insider's look at fan favorites. The interviewers consist of individuals with varying degrees of fame within the field. The dialogues are for the most part interesting though they occasionally drags on too long. Still, another masterful non-fiction from the kings of anthology interviews.

Harriet Klausner

 


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