Grab-bag post: Promo for Donald Westlake e-books, Lawrence Block, Parker week at The Sindiecate

Here’s a nice two-minute promo for Donald Westlake’s e-books from Open Road/Mysterious Press, featuring Otto Penzler, Brian Garfield, Lawrence Block, and William Link (Columbo and Murder, She Wrote) speaking Westlake’s praises.

“Meet Donald Westlake”

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Open Road has released thirteen Donald Westlake titles to date, including three rare sleaze titles co-authored with […]

2010: The year in Westlake

Note: New content will be light to non-existent for the next week or two, as I travel to celebrate a belated Christmas and an on-time New Year with my family back home.

In the meantime, I hope you enjoy this (very) hurriedly-written summary of 2010.

I hope that your holidays have been and will be […]

What’s going on with Hard Case Crime?

Hard Case Crime’s printer and distributor, Dorchester Publishing, isn’t quite shutting its doors, but it is going to a purely e-book and print-on-demand format. This is unfortunate, to say the least. In addition to mailing me the newest Hard Case Crime novel upon release through their wonderful book club, they were unfailingly polite and […]

Cover art score: Sin Hellcat by Lawrence Block and Donald Westlake

When I was doing my initial writeup on Subterranean Press’ upcoming omnibus volume of three vintage Lawrence Block/Donald Westlake sleaze novels, Hellcats and Honeygirls, I found the original covers for two of the included books, A Girl Called Honey and So Willing. I wasn’t able to find the original cover art for the third […]

Cover art for Westlake and Block’s Hellcats and Honeygirls

Subterranean Press has released Glen Orbik‘s cover art for their omnibus of three vintage sleaze novels co-written by Lawrence Block and Donald Westlake, collectively entitled Hellcats and Honeygirls (previously covered here).

They also announce that they will be publishing one and likely two more volumes of pseudonymous Block (but not Westlake) novels.

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Westlake sleaze reprint carnival!

Wonder Publishing Group has just released Donald Westlake’s 1961 sleaze novel, Campus Doll, as an eBook. It is available for Kindle from Amazon and some other formats from Barnes & Nobles’ Fictionwise. As a bonus, it’s cheap, listed at $5.99.

While it’s always great news when rare Westlake becomes available, I can’t help but […]