Monday, March 21, 2016
A Repeat from this Blog in 2006
SleuthSayers: Blood Dreams: Bill Crider here. Jan Grape’s a bit under the weather, and she asked me to fill in for her today. I didn’t have time to dash off any deep thoughts, but I did have something for her. It’s a piece I published on my own blog 10 years ago, and I was considering reprinting it soon. So instead of reprinting it on my blog, I’m using it here.
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I'm always impressed by the role of serendipity in finding authors. In your case (I may have told this story somewhere before), I was on my way from Bloomington to Chicago after a meeting at IUB (must have been 1994/1995/1996), stopping in Lafayette for dinner. In a strip mall, there was a book store (I think selling only remaindered books), and I saw a paperback copy of (as I recall) Shotgun Saturday Night. I loved the cover photo, read the blurb on the back cover, and thought it sounded interesting, bought it (for a hot dollar), read it that night, and started looking for more. And found them...and have been buying them ever since. The only things on SYKM's Bill Crider page that I haven't read are the westerns, of which I have only read Outrage at Blanco.
If I had not found that paperback in that store in Lafayette (which was closed the next time I drove by), well, that would have cost me 30+ books I have enjoyed greatly.
I for one am very glad you found it.
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