I’m writing everyday. I’m putting my butt in the chair whether I feel like it or not. That’s how books get finished.

Some days are good. Some days are just okay. But I rarely regret making the time and doing the work.

As Carlos Castaneda on mindset: “The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.”

Here are 3 crime fiction links, 2 quotes, and 1 question for this week:

3 LINKS

• Publisher’s Weekly talks to Michael Connelly about needing little sleep, collaborating with law enforcement, buying back Bosch, and writing female detectives. Already chomping at the bit to get the next Ballard/Bosch book in a few months.
  
  
• The first reviews (expect a lot more) are starting to pop up for Whitehead’s HARLEM SHUFFLE. The Guardian again finds Whitehead resisting easy categorization in the best sense possible. Can’t wait to read this one.
  
  
• NPR’s All Things Considered talks to Paula Hawkins about stashing bodies, tragedy, loss, and unreliability.

2 QUOTES

Two quotes from Connelly’s Harry Bosch this week:

• “When one link is broken, the chain will come loose.”
  
• “Hollywood. You build a city in the desert, water it with false hopes and false idols, and eventually this is what happens.”

1 QUESTION

• What is your favorite Bosch book? I’m partial to ANGLEL’S FLIGHT.

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Until next Thursday, happy reading,

Mike

Author the Max Strong thriller series