Author and Trial Attorney
(from Crimespree Magazine) As news of the upcoming publication of my next novel, The Dead Hand, began to spread, the editors at Crimespree Magazine asked if I would be willing to share with their readers some insights into the types of research involved in writing such a novel. I was happy to ...
Writing is a lonely pursuit. You spend all those hours on your own, writing and rewriting your novel, hoping that it's working, hoping that your readers will enjoy it, worrying that maybe you're kidding yourself, that maybe you're producing the literary equivalent of the Hollywood bomb. Thus nothing makes an author ...
As my publisher and I prepare for the release this fall of The Dead Hand, the next novel in the Rachel Gold series, I had the pleasure to "sit down" (in the electronic media sense of that term) for a fun conversation about writing with David Alan Binder, the writer, musician, and ...
Murder mystery writer introduces murder mystery film to murder mystery fans at this year's St. Louis Jewish Film Festival. The writer is me. The film is Fire Birds. And if you're a fan of the noire mystery movie--a rich tradition that dates back to such classics as The Maltese Falcon and The Third Man while ...
. . . for what the Maplewood Public Library has labeled An Evening with Michael Kahn. Here is a link to a description of the event, which should be lots of fun. I will be discussing and fielding questions on the topic of "Why Truth Is Stranger than Fiction?" Here is ...
We authors are accustomed to being the interviewees, i.e., the ones giving the answers to the questions. Thus it was a pleasure to settle down with fellow attorney-author Jonathan Watkins and finally get to ask some of the questions I've often wished an interviewer would ask me. And it was even ...
In my other life as an intellectual property lawyer, I receive almost weekly proof that copyright law is the gift that goes on giving. This time it's in the form of the world's most famous monkey selfie, which first surfaced, in this blog and others, last year when an earlier copyright ...
As a lawyer by day and an author at night, I've had times when the realm of fiction intersects with the realm of reality. One example, gleaned from my years representing newspapers and publishers, is the law of libel, where the jury must decide whether the allegedly defamatory statement is ...
The other night I settled down to watch "The Big Lebowski," a terrific Coen brothers film that features three of my favorite actors (Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, and Steve Buscemi) playing three of my favorite characters (the Dude, Walter Sobchek, and Donny Kerabatsos). The Dude, Donny, and Walter I'd last watched ...
On this, the day after Independence Day Weekend, I pause to give a shout-out to my publisher and its support of independent bookstores--the ones who still have bookshelves with books on them. Like most mid-list writers, each of my first seven novels eventually went out of print and were available only ...
