The Daily Beast runs my profile of Al Roker, the TODAY Show's weatherman and feature reporter, on the day that his first mystery novel, THE MORNING SHOW MURDERS, is published. Here's how it opens: Al Roker is a marvel of time management. He has to be,...

In this week's Publishers Weekly, Jordan Foster looks at what happens when mystery becomes literary fiction and vice versa - aka, we've got another round of the genre wars debate, but from the angle of dispensing with categorization...

Maj Sjowall, in this amazing profile by Louise France of the Observer, talks about the ten-book Martin Beck series, her life with Per Wahloo, and why the money she's made off the books is nowhere near what it ought to be. Which sounds somewhat similar...

Over at the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Rege Behe gathered an impressive number of writers like Anne Rice, Gregg Hurwitz, Ayelet Waldman, Alafair Burke and Hallie Ephron to talk about authorial presence on the Internet - what works, what doesn't, and...

A couple of choice items at The Bookseller today. First up, Otto Penzler re-establishes his self-named imprint in the UK, moving from Quercus to Atlantic. The common thread? Anthony Cheetham, who used to run things at Quercus and is now doing the same...