Robert B. Parker was my favorite writer at the time and I had read all his stuff and was looking for something similar. Stick caught my attention at a mall book store in Torrance, California, 1983, even though it was vastly different from Parker’s work. Glad Mr. L had a stable of books and stories and scripts that I searched for and devoured.

JohnMcFetridge - 02 May 2009 02:44 PM

“Quentin Tarantino mentioned him.”

“Tarantino’s Jackie Brown.”

“Travolta on Johnny Carson promoting Get Shorty.”

“Out of Sight was my favorite movie as a teenager.”

This is very depressing for a novelist to read

I don’t understand why it would be.

Elmore will take new fans however he can get them!

Oh, of course, every novelist will take any new readers they can get.

The little smiley/winkie thing at the end of my post was supposed to let you know it was (mostly) a joke.

But you know, it’s hard enough to get a book published, then hard enough to sell the movie rights (if they ever sell at all), then hard enough to actually get the movie made (never mind it being a good movie) to be thinking that’s the way to attract readers to the book.

But yeah, anything that attracts new readers is good.

I was in prison. in prison you would be suprised at the variety of books that are passed around. i was given “pagan babies”. This book was good enough to make me look into more EL books.

It was in an AA meeting.

It must have been 83 or 84. I saw an article on him in either Esquire or Rolling Stone. I bought La Brava, then Swag, then then then then. Read close to everything he has written