Researching what no longer exists!

Interesting blog post here today about how to do research for novels set in ancient Athens!

I'll be gawking at this tomorrow

I've walked past this corner at 34th and Broadway almost every workday for four years now, and never noticed that the corner isn't Macys!  It's an entirely different store!

Click here to see the whole story! The picture with the subway? That's the old Sixth Avenue El!

yowza!

The book I'm reading next...even if I have to kill to get it

Lifted shamelessly from The Inc.Blot

Wo ist "Endstation Chaos"

This is the German cover for the book titled TERMINAL STATE here in the US. Jeff Somers has a great blog post about it here.

Of course, I made the comment Endstation Chaos was the name of my subway stop.

Jeff quickly corrected me: "It's the name of your office."

Hmmmm, he might be right.

Ringing FE7-7355

A new short story by Sean Ferrell.

When wrong is just right!

Cover design is a big deal in book publishing. Get the wrong one, and buyers pass you up in the store faster than you can hiss "don't judge a book by its cover!"

We have been very fortunate to have brilliant covers for Gary Corby's two books from Minotaur.  His debut, THE PERICLES COMMISSION is one of my all time favorites:

The Australia editon went in a very different direction but I love it as well:

Now, what you and I probably wouldn't catch right away, but Gary (meticulous researcher that he is!) did was there is something very wrong about this coin!  Here's his blog post about finding out what was wrong.