J.E. Fishman's Blog

Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!

On May 16, 2017, at half past one in the afternoon, I held a loaded pistol in my hand for the first time ever.

This may come as a surprise to those who are aware of the fact that I have occasionally featured guns in read more

The post Bang! Bang! Bang! appeared first on J.E. Fishman.

In my novel The Prisoner of Hell Gate — and perhaps in real life — Typhoid Mary is what we call a sympathetic monster. Yes, she did bad things. Yes, she was a bad person. But was she all bad? And what made her bad? read more

The post Is Typhoid Mary Bad Enough for You? appeared first on J.E. Fishman.

Ah, the artistic life. Sleep late. Vacation at will. Stick it to the man. Watch the royalties roll in.

Yeah, um—not so much! It’s more like this:

Wonder whether anyone will ever pay you for the work you just agonized over.

If someone does—be they read more

The post 3 Surprising Things About Being a Novelist appeared first on J.E. Fishman.

I had a meeting last week with my publishing team at Picador, an imprint (at the end of a long string of imprints) of Macmillan, which resides in the iconic Flatiron Building on Fifth Avenue.

On the way up in the elevator, the doors opened

The post appeared first on J.E. Fishman.

This weekend I attended my editor’s funeral. He was 27 years old.

I had planned to relaunch my occasional (but lately non-existent) email newsletter with a discussion of recent doings in my private and professional life, entitled “Two of the Hardest Things I Have Ever read more

The post I Was Going To Write About Hard Things appeared first on J.E. Fishman.

I’m in New York for ThrillerFest and was privileged to have dinner last night with one of my sources for Bomb Squad NYC.

We went to Gradisca, about an eight-minute walk from Bomb Squad headquarters. (Ten minutes from the fictional headquarters.) The owner comes from read more

The post Pasta by Mama appeared first on J.E. Fishman.

The talented and interesting writer Don Mitchell, whom I met years ago through the Nervous Breakdown literary website, has roped me into an informal author blog tour, connecting me to Carol Houlihan Flynn, who officially passed the ball to me.

As often happens, I soon read more

The post A Stop on the Blog Tour appeared first on J.E. Fishman.

The following post originally appeared on the Venture Galleries website.

The actor Philip Seymour Hoffman and I were neighbors in the way many New Yorkers are neighbors, which is to say: I never met him, never spoke a word to him. Our apartments were four read more

The post Shared Pain and an Artist’s Tragedy appeared first on J.E. Fishman.

Someone all too recently explained to me that reposting the same content in two places (as I’ve been doing between here and Venture Galleries) offends the Google gods. Who knew? So go here for the latest post. read more

The post I Walk the Line appeared first on J.E. Fishman.