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Tuesday, March 9, 2010, 4:49 am
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 Joe Konrath recently changed the covers for some of his weaker-selling Kindle books and saw his sales shoot up overnight. He suggested that I do the same thing for some of my books and I am following his advice. I just changed the covers for my sho…

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Monday, March 8, 2010, 1:49 pm
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Saturday, March 6, 2010, 1:51 am
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ELLERY QUEEN MYSTERY MAGAZINE has just announced the winners of their Readers Choice Awards for the best stories of 2009 and I am stunned, and pleased, to discovered my Artemis Monk story “The Case of the Piss-Poor Gold” made the list.First place:Mike…

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Monday, March 1, 2010, 1:16 pm
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Post from Lee Goldberg
Monday, March 1, 2010, 9:25 am
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My Kindle sales for February we up a tick from last month. THE WALK sold 573 copies in 28 days vs 536 in  31 days in January. MY GUN HAS BULLETS sold 167 copies and THREE WAYS TO DIE sold 136. Last month, BEYOND THE BEYOND, priced at $1.99, sold 7…

Post from Lee Goldberg
Monday, March 1, 2010, 9:25 am
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My Kindle sales for February we up a tick from last month. THE WALK sold 573 copies in 28 days vs 536 in  31 days in January. MY GUN HAS BULLETS sold 167 copies and THREE WAYS TO DIE sold 136. Last month, BEYOND THE BEYOND, priced at $1.99, sold 7…

Post from Lee Goldberg
Wednesday, February 24, 2010, 1:23 am
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When Harlequin announced it was creating a vanity press, the Romance Writers of America took the extraordinarily courageous act of immediately delisting the publisher from their Approved Publishers list. The Mystery Writers of America, Science Fiction…

Post from Lee Goldberg
Tuesday, February 23, 2010, 12:59 am
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The LA Times announced the 2009 book prize finalists today. The winner will be announced at the awards ceremony on April 23.2009 LA Times Book Prize FinalistsBiography ”The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR’s Secretary of La…

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Monday, February 22, 2010, 10:36 am
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Sunday, February 21, 2010, 9:18 am
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I got the following emails this week from self-published authors eager to get some attention for their books, both of which were “published” by Booksurge. I have removed the names of the authors and the links, but otherwise the emails are unedited: 
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Post from Lee Goldberg
Saturday, February 20, 2010, 11:55 pm
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I can’t believe that Tiger Woods’ many mistresses, most of them “hostesses” and porn stars, actally think they deserve sympathy from the public or an apology for him. I choked with laughter watching one of them on TV a few weeks back tearfully saying …

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Saturday, February 20, 2010, 11:36 pm
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 Last summer, Mystery Readers Journal devoted an issue to Los Angeles and my contribution was to share the many ways I have described the city in my books.  The following is an excerpt from that article.

I grew up near
San Francisco, a c…

Post from Lee Goldberg
Saturday, February 20, 2010, 8:23 pm
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My Mom writes on her Active Senior Living blog about a marketing event at the senior living facility where she set her book:
It’s so damn dumb. It’s a senior prom and there are women downstairs dressed like they are preparing to walk down the aisle as…

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Saturday, February 20, 2010, 8:49 am
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This is my favorite fan letter of the week:

I read a book of Criminal Minds by another author and really enjoyed it. The story was true to the characters and I learned even more about them. Everything was written very true to the TV series. Mr. Mo…

Post from Lee Goldberg
Wednesday, February 17, 2010, 7:40 am
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My friend author Gar Anthony Haywood has taken a long hiatus from attending conferences. But he’s coming back for Left Coast Crime next month. But he’s not going to be the same guy he was in the past.

I’ve revamped the act I used to do in public s…

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Monday, February 15, 2010, 10:33 am
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Saturday, February 13, 2010, 10:27 pm
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Since my surgery on Wednesday, I have been trying to write with my dictation software. It hasn’t gone well. Not because of the software, which has been working fine (I am using it to write this post). The problem is me and it’s mental. Or maybe tactil…

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Saturday, February 13, 2010, 2:34 am
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I hate it when authors use reflecti0ns as a way to describe how their characters look. It always feels lazy and flat. But, for some reason, the horror cliche of having an image suddenly appear in a mirror never seems to lose its shock value. Just take…

Post from Lee Goldberg
Wednesday, February 10, 2010, 9:45 pm
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..and not for the long overdue nose job, pec implants and scrotum lift.As I mentioned a few days ago, I’m having more surgery on my right arm again today so I may be absent here for a while…Then again, I said that before my second surgery on my arm …

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Wednesday, February 10, 2010, 7:38 am
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I’m a sucker for unusual reference works about the media, whether its books, movies or TV shows (and you gotta love McFarland for publishing so many of them). Bradley Mengel’s “Serial Vigilantes of Paperback Fiction” was a must-have for me, even befo…