--- Kevin Burton Smith
<
kvnsmith@thrillingdetective.com> wrote:
> I KNOW a lot of his persona IS an act, schtick
he
> trots out because it
> sells books. I mean, he calls himself Mad
Dog,
> greets crowds by
> calling them perverts and pansies, and regales
his
> fans and the press
> regularly with stories of his murdered mother
and
> tales of his life as
> a second story man, breaking into apartments
to
> sniff young girls'
> panties. He's playing a character in public.
In
> real, one-on-one life,
> I have no doubt he's a much nicer, less
cartoonish
> person. He couldn't
> do the work he has done if he wasn't.
>
> He may even be a sweetheart.
***************************************************** Not
everyone who writes hardboiled is working entirely from
imagination, though. Consider Kevin M. Weeks just for one
example: http://aalbc.com/authors/kevin_weeks_story.htm
Patrick King
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