Month: May 2012

Author and illustrator Maurice Sendak passed away this morning. He was 83. Maurice Sendak was a fixture of my childhood, and those of countless others who loved the bold images and brave children that populated Sendak’s works. I first met him through Where the Wild Things Are, and later through In The Night Kitchen and Higgledy Piggledy Pop!. My favorite Sendak work, however, was not a single book at all. For Christmas one year, I received  The Nutshell Library, a collection of four tiny hardback books in a little pasteboard box. I loved those books. I read them over and

Not the successful ones, anyway, and today we’re discussing why. Last week I talked about distracting The (Anxiety) Blob with reading, work or writing. Much of the time that’s all it takes to convert anxiety into focus – at least for a little while. Sometimes, however, a anxiety doesn’t recede with distraction. It dogs you like a pack of brain-eating zombies – slow moving, but not put off by your foolish flight and desk-chair barricades. The longer you run, the bigger and more determined that anxiety becomes, until you feel like the lone survivor of the Brain-Eating Zombie Apocalypse. (Let’s

Please help me welcome Laura DiSilverio, author of the Mall Cop Mysteries and the Swift Investigation Mysteries. Laura is joining us to celebrate today’s release of the newest Mall Cop Mystery, ALL SALES FATAL. I met Laura at the 2011 Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers’ Conference (have I mentioned I love that con?) where she signed my copy of the first Mall Cop Mystery, Die Buying. I read it in a single night and I’ve been a Laura DiSilverio – and E.J. Ferris – fan ever since. I’ve already got my copy of All Sales Fatal via pre-order – and I’m