{"id":15237,"date":"2016-03-15T17:36:38","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T22:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=15237"},"modified":"2019-03-21T15:36:05","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T20:36:05","slug":"when-max-allan-collins-comes-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/15\/when-max-allan-collins-comes-around\/","title":{"rendered":"When Max Allan Collins Comes Around"},"content":{"rendered":"

I noticed a couple days back in my referrer logs that someone from Muscatine, Iowa reading the book report for Dead Street<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Muscatine, Iowa, as I learned when I was researching the book report, is the current home of Max Allan Collins, the author of Dead Street<\/em>. So I was pretty sure it was the man himself.<\/p>\n

Given that he linked the report on his blog today<\/a>, I’d say I was correct.<\/p>\n

Collins joins Diane Duane, author of the Star Trek novel My Enemy, My Ally<\/a><\/em> and Joe Clifford Faust<\/a>, author of A Death of Honor<\/em><\/a> as people whom I can honestly include in the plural “you, gentle reader” in my continuing posts. Although in most cases it’s an honorary title. Given my blog traffic these days, plural<\/em> is an honorary title when referring to my readers.<\/p>\n

Also, it’s why although I’m not at Nick Hornby levels in positivity (as his book Ten Years in the Tub<\/em><\/a> indicates, his magazine editors prefer he only have nice things to say about books he reviews), I try to keep snark to the minimum: because the authors are people, too. Besides, all of these people have sold far more books than I have.<\/p>\n

Also also (which is my blog equivalent of P.P.S., which nobody uses any more), this is why I’m thinking about ending my book reports with boilerplate “It’s not as good as MY NOVEL<\/a>!” Just to see if I can get any self-Googling real author to spend a buck on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I noticed a couple days back in my referrer logs that someone from Muscatine, Iowa reading the book report for Dead Street. Muscatine, Iowa, as I learned when I was researching the book report, is the current home of Max Allan Collins, the author of Dead Street. So I was pretty sure it was the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15237"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24386,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15237\/revisions\/24386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}