Shortly after my first novel came out, I received a very kind email from Bill Rosemann, an editor at Marvel Comics, who expressed an interest in having me write some scripts for Marvel. Something about my fiction suggested to him that I might have something to contribute to comics, and he compared Benjamin Weaver, the [...]

I am heading out for a week of family vacation, but I leave you all with a review I have out this weekend in The Washington Post.  The book, Methland by Nick Reding, is pretty terrific.  Methland is a social history of methamphetamine in American culture, but Reding looks at this history through the lens [...]

Bar Refaeli displays Stephen King's excellent penmanship. This is really a terrific idea. I don’t know why I never though of publishing any of my fiction on a naked Israeli. My efforts to write a novel on my cat have met with only mixed results. Maybe it’s the black fur.

With just over a month to go before the publication date of my sixth book, The Devil’s Company, I still have no idea how I am going to understand the experience of a new novel without the traditional ritual of the book tour. My publisher decided to skip the tour this time around, in part [...]