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Ross Thomas

Q&A with Bobby Matthews, author of Living the Gimmick

By J.B. Stevens

August 5, 2022

Recently I had the opportunity to speak with Bobby Mathews, an exciting up-and-coming author. His new novel Living the Gimmick ($14.95 paperback and $4.99 eBook) was released last spring and is getting rave reviews. His follow-up, Magic City Blues, is due later in the year—both from Shotgun Honey. J.B.: Bobby, thanks for speaking with me, it’s…

The Edgar Awards Revisited: Briarpatch by Ross Thomas (Best Novel; 1985)

By Doreen Sheridan

August 9, 2019

Ross Thomas’ Briarpatch won the Edgar Award for Best Novel in 1985, the year my younger brother was born, eight years after my own birthday. Like the protagonist of the novel in relation to his decade-younger sibling, I spent several years being my brother’s de facto parent until he went off to college. I didn’t…

Blood Innocents by Thomas H. Cook

Otto Penzler and I, or Hopeful Luddites Talk Digital

By Lyndsay Faye

December 1, 2011

I’ve never downloaded an electronic book. My book has sold a number of Kindle copies, which leads me to feel a strange imbalance—what does it mean that I produce material for a media I don’t engage in? I am not one of the people who insist that all books must be printed matter, and can…

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