Laura Lippman and Mark Billingham

by Jeff Abbott on August 18, 2010

Two of my favorite authors, who both have new and much praised books out this week, talk about the writing life. Not to be missed. I am mentioned, of course, with reverence.

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Death’s Excellent Vacation Hits New York Times List

August 15, 2010

I wrote earlier about my participation in a terrific new short story collection called Death’s Excellent Vacation, edited by the amazing Toni L. P. Kelner and Charlaine Harris. Great news: Death’s Excellent Vacation is debuting at #8 on the New York Times bestseller list for hardcover fiction. This is extraordinary for a short story collection; [...]

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Naming Characters

August 9, 2010

One of the surprisingly difficult challenges in fiction writing is finding great, memorable, descriptive names for your characters. Today at Nameberry.com, the premiere baby names site, I blog  about my process for naming characters, with specific examples of how I used Nameberry (or the bestselling books by its creators, Linda Rosenkrantz and Pamela Redmond Satran, [...]

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Death’s Excellent Vacation

August 3, 2010

My very first paranormal short story appears in a great new anthology hitting bookstores today, Death’s Excellent Vacation. Edited by Charlaine Harris (the megaselling author behind the Sookie Stackhouse books, the basis of HBO’s True Blood series) and the ever-energetic Toni L. P. Kelner, the collection focuses on what happens when summer holidays and the [...]

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Writers’ Project at Exaclair

July 5, 2010

I’ve mentioned before my huge love for Clairefontaine notebooks and for Exaclair/Quo Vadis planners/journals. I always have to have a Clairefontaine to start a new project. The paper is great, the products are very well made and  a joy to use, and the people at Exaclair are very nice. Recognizing that many of their customers [...]

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Get a Jolt of Adrenaline in UK and Ireland

June 25, 2010

Hi all. Obviously the blog has been incredibly quiet. Mostly because I spend any online time with readers on Facebook and Twitter, and because I’m trying to get the next writing project(s) done. But I did want to let people know that Adrenaline is out in the UK and Ireland this week. If you go [...]

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Trust Me Out In Paperback

April 6, 2010

Trust Me is out in paperback today (Tuesday, April 6) in the US from New American Library/Onyx. I really like the cover. If you didn’t catch the book in hardcover, I hope you’ll give it a try in paperback. The book has seemed more timely than ever as of late, with reports of how the [...]

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My Big News

February 2, 2010

I’ve mentioned a bit about a new series of books I’m working on. I can now say that in the US, this series will be published by Grand Central, a division of Hachette Book Group. I’m thrilled to be with Grand Central, and to be working with the terrific team there, including the editor who [...]

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I Am Not Contributing to Your Overload

January 22, 2010

Over at the Murderati blog, J. T. Ellison writes eloquently about information overload and writers. I think she’s absolutely right. I get more done when I disconnect from the Internet than I do at any other point. You have to quit thinking of the Web as a necessary information feed and think of it as [...]

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The Organized Writer: Best and Less than Best of 2009

December 21, 2009

Here’s my list of my favorite tools for organized writers in 2009. And my list of products that are good, but could be better. I have no interest in doing a worst list. Best Of 2009: Scrivener. I had tried Scrivener a couple of times before, usually partway through a book, and I couldn’t get [...]

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The Organized Writer: Planner(s) for 2010

December 17, 2009

I really have to look at the world sometimes with two pairs of eyes. One is long term, the other is short term. Everything I do today should contribute to the long term goals that I have. (Oh, God, I sound like a self-help book. But this is still a true statement.) I’ve long used [...]

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