I have some exciting news to share with you all...I have joined The Daily Beast, Tina Brown's web magazine, as a critic and will be writing a weekly column about thriller/mystery fiction.
I will still be contributing to the Chicago Sun-Times on occasion, but have given up the monthly roundup column I wrote for the paper for the past six years. I enjoyed writing that column and was a little sad to say goodbye to it. However, I decided it was time to move on to new things and when this opportunity came to me, I jumped at it.
My first column -- a roundup of "5 Hot Summer Thrillers" -- is now live over on The Daily Beast. It contains short reviews of the following books:
- Michael Connelly - The Scarecrow
- Lee Child - Gone Tomorrow
- John Sandford - Wicked Prey
- Lisa Scottoline - Look Again
- Jeffery Deaver - Roadside Crosses
I hope you'll stop by to take a look. And please leave a comment once you're there.
This news is chock full o' awesome.
Posted by: Graham | June 05, 2009 at 09:43 AM
Good news, I'll be glad to see regular reviews from you again.
Posted by: Corey Wilde | June 05, 2009 at 10:18 AM
Congratulations. I look forward to you beastliness!
Posted by: Paul Brazill | June 05, 2009 at 03:54 PM
I'll look into it. Thank you.
Posted by: LTC | June 05, 2009 at 07:09 PM
Congratulations! How did this opportunity come about?
By the way, do you know you have a big banner advertisement for Booksurge across the top of your blog?
"The publishing industry has evolved. Have you? Self publish, market and sell your book with Booksurge."
Lee
Posted by: Lee Goldberg | June 05, 2009 at 11:51 PM
I'm also looking into the daily beast. (Why the "daily beast", one wonders.)
Glad you will be active again. I'm still missing this blog.
Posted by: I. J. Parker | June 06, 2009 at 01:52 PM
"The Daily Beast" was the name of the fictional newspaper in Evelyn Waugh's novel Scoop, a satire of Fleet Street. It's supposed to be quite funny, but I haven't read it.
Posted by: David J. Montgomery | June 06, 2009 at 03:16 PM
Lee,
Thanks for bringing that up. I'll go in and block those sites for displaying their ads. (They have to be blocked individually, but I'll keep an eye out for them.)
Posted by: David J. Montgomery | June 06, 2009 at 03:43 PM
Glad to know your voice will be heard once again.
Carol
Posted by: CarolK | June 08, 2009 at 06:31 PM
Excellent news, David! Congratulations.
Posted by: Sean Chercover | June 16, 2009 at 11:07 AM
Michael Connelly's Scarecrow is a great book..I really really enjoyed reading it (and I do read a lot but rarelly have kind words for books)..hope you gave that book a good review :)...but I guess I will have to go and find out on my own...
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