Fact: the NYPD was forced to cancel its January, 2010 Police Class due to budget cuts.
Fact: The NYPD anticipates that there will over 3,000 fewer cops on the streets in 2010 due to these same cuts.
Fact: Mayor Bloomberg expects to cut $1.75 billion in spending over...

A little over two years ago, I was staying at the Anchorage Hilton in Anchorage, Alaska for the yearly Bouchercon mystery writers convention. The conference generally draws in the neighborhood of 1,200-1,500 attendees, but was an intimate 500-600 in 2007, mostly due to the time, cost and effort required of...

I've been blogging at the Huffington Post for nearly a month now, and I haven't yet touched on my bread and butter, my passion and my current profession: the Crime Novel. I'm a crime addict, a thriller writer, a lover of everything that goes bump (and bang, and slash, and...

Gerald Rigatoni
Rigatoni Associates Literary Agency

Dear Editor -

We're thrilled to offer you this proposal for the very first book by one of the hottest celebrities in Tinseltown, SHIVERS ME TIMBERS (And Everything Else!) by Kelli Shivers. In the bestselling tradition of Paris Hilton, Bret Michaels,...

It is not hyperbole to say that Bill Simmons, aka The Sports Guy, is probably the most popular sportswriter in the country. And he got there via a path that, in the 1990's, was unconventional to say the least: he found an audience on...

I love bookstores. Love them. Take me clothes shopping and I turn into the eight year old in the car, whining, "Are we done yet?" while every normal person around me rolls their eyes at my incredible impatience. But take me to a mall comprised entirely of bookstores and I...

I should have a Kindle. Or a Sony e-reader. Or a Cooler, an iRex, or some sort of tablet that plugs directly into my brain, then downloads whatever book I'm thinking of in .005 nanoseconds. I'm a book addict, and as Milton might say (not the "Paradise Lost" guy, the...