Whipped Cream Difficulties

I’ve been trying to find a way into this for the past couple of days now, which is why I’m a little behind.

Paul Conrad, former cartoonist for the LAT.

Robert Schimmel, stand-up comic.

Larry Ashmead, prominent book editor. Ashmead edited books by a lot of people I like, including some well-known mystery writers.

Joe Domenici, local Austin thriller writer (Bringing Back the Dead).

Lawrence and Bill Crider both have posts up at their sites about Joe. I’m not going to pretend I knew Joe real well; both Mike the Musicologist and Lawrence knew him better than I did. I basically just saw Joe every year at Armadillocon, and the occasional convention in between. But he was always happy to see me, and I was glad to see him around. When Bringing Back the Dead came out, I thought it was a pretty spiffy book, and I’m glad I had a chance to tell Joe that. I don’t know why he seemed stunned by that; after all, the truth is the truth. You can’t have opinions about the truth.

Mike and I both got email from Joe quite a while back asking for permission to Tuckerize us in the next book. I’m not sure what Mike’s response was; mine was basically, “F- yeah!”. I was enormously pleased and honored that Joe would do something like that. Joe emailed us both back in early May to let us know the next book, The Death Factory, was tentatively scheduled for “Sping/Summer 2011”. I’m hoping it comes out and doesn’t get lost in the shuffle. Joe deserves better than that.

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