Poverty Bay, as some of you have already noticed, is now for sale here on Kindle and nook.
When it came out Poverty Bay was nominated for an Edgar Award from Mystery Writers of America. Along with it’s predecessor, The Rainy City, it was also nominated for a Shamus Award from the Private Eye Writers of America and won that year. It was a glorious thing to have written two out of the five nominees for best paperback original that year. But then, glorious things are rare, which is why they are glorious. The series garnered five more nominations for Shamus awards.
The two boys in this story were inspired by a couple of twins I met when I was eleven. Clearly, they left an imprint, because I only knew them for one afternoon, yet twenty some odd years later I made them central characters in a novel. One thing I got in reader feedback on this one was that Kathy wasn’t in evidence as much as she had been in The Rainy City. People wanted to see Kathy with Thomas. In later books she plays a larger role. The hokey jokes were all used on my kids when they were growing up, but a number of adult readers have commented that they liked them, too. There’s nothing like a hokey joke.
I love the Thomas Black series. Is there going to another? If so, when will it be published?
There are two almost-completed Thomas Blacks waiting in the wings. As soon as all of the Thomas Black backlist is placed on Kindle and Nook I will make a decision about the Blacks. You will see them, it’s just a matter of when.
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