Gallery
National Book Award winner Louise Erdrich and I show off our 2013 Minnesota Book Awards.
Signing copies of THE DEVIL AND THE DIVA with co-author Renee Valois.
Me and Steve Stillwell, former owner of Once Upon A Crime Mystery Bookstore in Minneapolis. He was very important to my career when I was coming up. (That's the talented Jess Lourey in the background).
The young lady on the right is Kerri Miller of Minnesota Public Radio. Along with the news, she does "Talking Volumes," interviewing nationally prominent authors - just not me. Oh well...
William Kent Krueger add I hamming it up at a gala for the Ramsey County Public Libraries.
My first signing at Once Upon A Crime Mystery Bookstore in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Making friends at the World's Best Donuts in Grand Marais, MN.
That's me in the middle during a panel at the 2015 World Mystery Convention in Raleigh, NC with Michael Koryta, Hank Phillippi Ryan, Lawrence Block and the luminous Alison Gaylin.
Anne Frazier (aka Theresa Weir) and I at a signing for the Halloween anthology DEADLY TREATS that Anne edited.
Erin Hart and I at the Mystery Writers of America table during the 2011 Twin Cities Book Festival.
At the grand opening of the Victoria, MN Public Library.
In a previous life I worked in advertising, often writing, producing and occasionally directing TV spots.
With one of my heroes - the great Lawrence Block - at the 2015 Shamus Awards Banquet.
Taken at the Style Speak Volumes fashion show for the benefit of the Stillwater Public Library system from left to right: author/musician Douglas Woods, Angela Halgrimson who writes children's books with titles such as "Nobody Likes A Booger", the luminous PJ Tracy, my pal Julie Klassen who claims to write Regency Romance novels but who actually writes thrillers, myself, illustrator Kayla Harren who is an actual New York model (she taught me "The Turn"), young adult novelist S. A. Bodeen, non-fiction literary writer Carolyn Porter and Tom Combs who writes medical thrillers.
Outside the home of Sinclair Lewis in Sauk Centre, MN. Lewis was the 1st American to win the Nobel Prize for literature - in 1930.
Inside the Rabbit Room of a pub in Oxford, England called The Eagle and the Child where CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien were reputed to hoist a few. Only they called it "The Bird and the Baby" - those loveable scamps.
This is the pub in Edinburgh where Robert Louis Stevenson was inspired to write The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - or so they say. Google Deacon Brodie - great story.
Me in front of the Elephant House, a café in Edinburgh, Scotland where Ian Rankin, Alexander McCall Smith and a little-known author named JK Rowling worked on their novels.
That’s me with Devin Abraham, the new manager of Once Upon A Crime Mystery Bookstore in Minneapolis, MN.
Editor, publisher, owner of the Mysterious Bookshop in New York and my pal Otto Penzler.
My all-time favorite event poster. Am I the guy in the fedora? Let’s say yes.