Idol Talk
Rick PullenLove a good mystery? A great thrilIer? I interview your favorite crime fiction authors and go behind the public face to bring their real stories to life. Fun anecdotes, wild career twists, and always a bit of luck play into their bestseller stardom.
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Isabella Maldonado says every aspiring author she meets wants to throw rocks at her. Not once, but thrice. First, for stumbling upon and signing with an acquiring editor at her first writer’s conference. Second, for signing with the first a...
Naked Ambition Is Free Right Now
I’ve never done this before and won’t again. But through Wednesday, April 8, you can get a free copy of the ebook edition of my bestselling political thriller Naked Ambition. My debut novel hit number one in thrillers on Amazon less than th...
John Grisham has lost his love of the game.
As a new baseball season opens, one of crime fiction’s biggest baseball fans is no longer sitting in the stands. John Grisham has lost interest in the game even after writing a novel about baseball and considering another. He loves reading...
John Grisham on his First Novel, A Time to Kill
One of the best-known stories about John Grisham is how he got his start. But there’s another story not often talked about of how he lost a fortune.
The young lawyer was turned down by every publisher his agent approached until a startup,...
Ed McBain Never Did that Before
Bruce DeSilva was working as a reporter at the Hartford Courant—the nation’s oldest continuously published newspaper—when the Los Angeles Times purchased it with the goal of competing with the Boston Globe. With the Times’ blessing, DeSilva...
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Award-winning investigative reporter and magazine editor Rick Pullen Interviews famous crime novelists for his newsletter IdolTalk. He’s written three novels, one a bestseller.
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