Tag Archives: Damaged Goods

Bidding Your Baby Goodbye

Posted on May 29, 2014 by mainecrimewriters

Hey all. Gerry Boyle here, just picking up around the study today. Notebooks, ripped sheets of paper, sticky notes, scrawled and illegible reminders, books held open with other books, wrinkled manuscript pages of my new McMorrow novel, ONCE BURNED. Because … Continue reading →

Posted in Gerry's Posts, Uncategorized | Tagged Damaged Goods, Gerry Boyle, Islandport Press, Jack McMorrow Mysteries, Maine Crime Writers, maine mysteries, mystery writers, mystery writing, Once Burned, Port City Black and White | 3 Comments

What Was I Thinking?

Posted on April 8, 2014 by mainecrimewriters

Hey all. Gerry Boyle here. And I want to tell you about my new assignment. In 20 years of writing mystery novels, it’s a first. My new publisher, Islandport Press, has asked me to write introductions to my early books, … Continue reading →

Posted in Gerry's Posts, Uncategorized | Tagged Bloodline, Brandon Blake, Damaged Goods, Deadline, Dick Francis, Down East Books, Gerry Boyle, Islandport Press, Jack McMorrow Mysteries, John D. MacDonald, Maine, maine mysteries, Once Burned, Port City Black and White, Robert B. Parker, Rumford, The Godwulf Manuscript, Travis McGee, writing introductions | 6 Comments

Maine Winter Noir

Posted on March 20, 2014 by mainecrimewriters

Hey all. Gerry Boyle here. I’m a little tired today so bear with the typos, should there be any. I was up in the middle of the night, as has become my habit of late. I wake up, try to … Continue reading →

Posted in Gerry's Posts | Tagged Brandon Blake, crime stories, crime writing, Damaged Goods, Islandport Press, Jack McMorrow Mysteries, Maine Crime Wave, Maine winter, Port City Black and White | 4 Comments

In With the Old—and the New

Posted on March 5, 2014 by mainecrimewriters

Hey all. Gerry Boyle here, and I’ve been looking forward and backward of late. Forward because Islandport Press, a smart independent publisher in Maine, is going to publish my next Jack McMorrow novel, ONCE BURNED. Backward because Islandport has made … Continue reading →

Posted in Gerry's Posts | Tagged Brandon Blake, crime stories, crime writing, Damaged Goods, Islandport Press, Jack McMorrow Mysteries, Port City Black and White, Port City Shakedown | 12 Comments

Somethin’ Happening in Here

Posted on February 18, 2014 by mainecrimewriters

Hey all. Gerry Boyle here. And I’m feeling sort of nostalgic. This is partly because I’ve had a lot of interest from publishers of late in my backlist, AKA my early books that are hard to find. Gratifying to know … Continue reading →

Posted in Gerry's Posts | Tagged Amazon, book publishing, Brandon Blake, crime stories, crime writing, Damaged Goods, Down East Books, George Packer, Gerry Boyle, Jack McMorrow Mysteries | 11 Comments

It’s All In Your Head

Posted on February 3, 2014 by mainecrimewriters

Hey all. Gerry Boyle here, just off the bike and ready to write. Well, this being Maine, you’re probably figuring I wasn’t riding the roads. Like most serious cyclists in this neck of the woods I’ve moved to a trainer, … Continue reading →

Posted in Gerry's Posts | Tagged Brandon Blake, crime stories, crime writing, Damaged Goods, Daniel Craig, Down East Books, film adaptations of novels, Gerry Boyle, Jack McMorrow Mysteries, James Bond, Kenneth Branagh, mystery writing, Port City Black and White, Port City Shakedown, Wallander | 5 Comments

Devil in the Details

Posted on January 16, 2014 by mainecrimewriters

Hey all, Gerry Boyle here, just back from having a cup of tea in a local cafe, where I read emails from my literary agent and an editor (the business end of the book business), and wrote out plot notes … Continue reading →

Posted in Gerry's Posts | Tagged book research, Brandon Blake, crime stories, crime writing, Damaged Goods, Down East Books, Gerry Boyle, how to research a crime novel, Jack McMorrow Mysteries, Maine Crime Writers, Port City Black and White | 3 Comments

Wind chill and other writing devices

Posted on January 2, 2014 by mainecrimewriters

Hey all. Gerry Boyle here, wishing you a happy 2014. The year is off to a chilly, snowy start in my neck of the Maine woods. Temps way below zero every night, remnants of the pre-Christmas ice storm glistening and … Continue reading →

Posted in Gerry's Posts | Tagged Brandon Blake, crime stories, crime writing, Damaged Goods, Down East Books, Gerry Boyle, Jack McMorrow Mysteries, maine mysteries, Maine winter, mystery writers, Port City Black and White | 9 Comments

Imagining Ayla Reynolds–If Only

Posted on December 17, 2013 by mainecrimewriters

Hey all. Gerry Boyle here. And I had an entirely different post planned for today (good news on the book front) until I read Amy Calder’s story in the Waterville Morning Sentinel marking the two-year anniversary of the disappearance of Maine … Continue reading →

Posted in Gerry's Posts | Tagged Ayla Reynolds, Brandon Blake, crime stories, crime writing, Damaged Goods, Gerry Boyle, Jack McMorrow Mysteries, Maine, Maine Crime Writers, missing persons, Port City Black and White, Port City Shakedown | 8 Comments

When One Book Leads to Another

Posted on December 2, 2013 by mainecrimewriters

Hey all. Gerry Boyle here, lifting my nose out of a a couple of books. That I’m reading, I mean, flipping back and forth like the two works were one. I don’t know how you read (feel free to fill … Continue reading →