Crime novelist Lisa Reardon is in jail in Michigan for allegedly shooting her father. According to the Detroit Free Press:
Lisa Ann Reardon’s father is in stable condition today as she sits in the Washtenaw County Jail, according to the Washtenaw County Sheriff’s Office. He fled inside the home in the 6300 block of Brand after [...]
Senator Ted Kennedy has died following his long battle with brain cancer. He was 77 years old. He has done a great deal for this country, and I wish his family well.
There’s a new Rumpelstiltskin in town, but he’s not going after the miller’s daughter. This Rumpelstiltskin has set his sights on authors, who, according to critics, may unwittingly spin him buckets full of gold. Judging from the panic issuing from home offices and cafes across the country, you’d think he was trying to steal our [...]
Join me tonight at the Verdi Club in San Fran for the Litquake Goth Hop. A number of authors have been asked to channel our inner Satan and write short pieces for the evening; I’m working on mine as we speak. Naturally, I planned the outfit long before I even began thinking about the prose. [...]
Louis Ross, the foster father of the 5-year-old boy who disappeared from behind a Rockridge shoe store in Oakland on Monday, went on local television yesterday to plead for the little boy’s return. View the video here.
Hassani Campbell was apparently walking from the car to the shoe store–where Ross had gone to open a [...]
Amazon UK recently asked me to contribute a list of ten indispensable books for the Author’s Choice column. See my list here.
Today for SF Gate, I wrote about a social gaming company with an office in the Arctic Circle. Guess what? They’re hiring! Not a bad place to relocate for someone who wants to go [...]
A five-year-old boy who suffers from cerebral palsy disappeared from his father’s car in Oakland’s Rockridge neighborhood yesterday.
From the San Francisco Chronicle:
Police said they didn’t believe the boy could have gone far if he left the car by himself. He uses leg braces to walk and has difficulty walking.
Hassani is described as a black boy [...]
No One You Know is the next book club pick for the Times Media Group, which includes 14 Northern California newspapers. There’s an excerpt from the novel in the Marin Independent Journal today. Excerpts will be running in several newspapers over the next couple of weeks.
Book club discussions of No One You Know will take [...]
This article about the routine kidnapping of small children in China by child traffickers, and the state’s criminal lack of interest in aiding the parents of kidnapped children, is truly alarming.
In America, when the unthinkable crime of child abduction happens, there is at least a general sense that law enforcement will make every effort within [...]
I just heard the news that John Hughes has died. For those of us who came of age in the eighties, his name means more than the movies. It brings back a whole slew of memories: names of boys and girls we knew, and places they took us, and the things we did and didn’t [...]
