Regular visitors to these update/blog entries will already know that I was unable to attend the San Diego Comic Con, where a True Noir panel was a major part of our launch.

My health issues make it difficult to attend the very crowded and spread-out con, not to mention air travel, plus Barb and I are wrapped up in pre-production of our indie film production, Death by Fruitcake (based on the Antiques series she and I write as “Barbara Allan”) with shooting to begin less than a month from now.

My longtime collaborator, Phil Dingeldein, shot a video of me so I could greet the attendees at the panel, and here it is:

My terrific director, Robert Meyer Burnett, interviewed me last October (literally the day after we wrapped Blue Christmas), and Phil shot it and edited this piece into the first of what will be a number of Behind the Mystery episodes.

If you are thinking of backing our KickStarter effort, here’s the web address.

Unlike a lot of KickStarters, we are deep into production and you can order the finished product now, which will be available at the end of the Kickstarter campaign (no endless wait as is the case so often in these crowd-funding offerings).

The panel created some real interest, as in this WBOY coverage.

Here’s some press room interviews with producer Mike Bawden (of Imagination Conisseurs Unlimited, his company with Rob Burnett) and actor Anthony LaPaglia, among others.

And more here:

Some nice pre-panel attention here.

A good one here.

I’ll be posting more video shot by Phil of me discussing Nate Heller, this project, and my fiction generally, in the coming weeks. Also more excerpts of the interview Rob Burnett made with me.

Again, if you’re interested in my work at all, you’re going to love True Noir: The Assassination of Anton Cermak.

Your support will allow us to do more – we have big plans, but we need your help.

Here’s a nice write-up on this year’s Strand Magazine Critics Awards, in which I won a Lifetime Achievement award.

There’s a nice if brief write-up about my Batman graphic novel (adapted from the Kia Asamiya original, Child of Dreams.)

Here’s an appreciation of Wild Dog, the homemade costumed hero Terry Beatty and I cooked up once upon a time.

This article talks about seven movie novelizations that are worth reading, and Road to Perdition is one of them. Unfortunately, they don’t mention that the later Brash Books edition is my entire novelization (originally cut from around 90,000 words to 40,000 for the paperback tie-in edition at DreamWorks’ demand).

The Brash Books edition of the full Perdition novel is here.

Finally, here’s one of several recent write-ups about the film version of Road to Perdition and how Tom Hanks ranks it among his favorite film roles.

M.A.C.

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