RUNOFF with CANDY in the Background
It was raining when I came to visit the Seattle Mystery Bookshop, but fortunately I was armed with the give-away umbrella from the 2007 Left Coast Crime, which was held in Seattle.
In spite of the rain, I had a great time signing my latest book, RUNOFF.
Speaking of give-aways, I brought several CDs with a recording of Bill Arney reading the first chapter of my prior novel, CANDY FROM STRANGERS, for public radio station KQED. Bill was the perfect choice to read the piece: he is the voice of the San Francisco Film Noir festival and he lives in Dashiell Hammett's old apartment on the corner of Post and Hyde in San Francisco.
The kicker is, I've placed my fictional protagonist, August Riordan, in the same apartment, so it was doubly appropriate that Bill did the voice work.
If you'd like to take a listen to his reading, you can do so on the Writers Block section of the KQED web site.
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