Under A Tree. With A Book.

Those of us that contribute to The Rap Sheet, January Magazine’s crime fiction blog, have been chiming in with our summer reading lists over the last few weeks. So far, we’ve heard from editor J. Kingston Pierce, contributing editor Stephen Miller and, most recently, yours truly.

Here’s the link.

And today I'm chuffed about the launch of The Outfit, the new blog by Chicago-area crime fiction authors Barbara D’Amato, Sean Chercover, Michael Allen Dymmoch, Kevin Guilfoile, Libby Hellmann, Sara Paretsky and Marcus Sakey. These guys have done a great job with suspense. This has been the most hotly anticipated blog debut that I can remember. (Which doesn’t actually mean that much. I’m hardly an expert on blog debuts. Still.)