And just in case you haven’t gotten enough on Bruce DeSilva, click “read more” below for his first-person account of getting his novel, Rogue Island, published.
Of course I have to point out the Michigan connections: Otto and Larry are Michigan alumni, and Susanna represents my friend, Lara Zielin, who edits an alumni magazine at Michigan.
I love that even in a city of 8 million people, the writing community is such an interconnected village.

The questions I’m asked most often about my new crime novel, “Rogue Island,” are:  “How long did it take to write?” and “How did you find a publisher?” “That figures,” a friend quipped.  “Nobody wants to read a book anymore, but everybody wants to get published.” So here are the answers: Either 14 years or six months, depending on how you count. And a combination of dumb luck and friends in the right places. It all started back in 1994, when I wa … Read More

via Bruce DeSilva’s Rogue Island