MY DOC BLANCHARD OBIT IN THE INDEPENDENT AND AT IRRESISTIBLE TARGETS

My obit of Doc Blanchard is in today's Independent: you can link to it and read about what wasn't included in the printed version at my Irresistible Targets site, here. Although I'd conceived of two separate yet equal blogs when I'd started, I've now decided to devote most of my energy to IT, so this site is probably going to lie dormant for a while. If you haven't been looking regularly at IT, please do.....

AND HERE'S TO YOU MRS. MYERSON: Julie Battles Light Literary Incontinence

My modest observations on the British media 'controversy' over Julie Myerson's using her son's drug problems, and her banishing him from the family home, as a device in her new book, have been posted over at Irresistible Targets, here.

IRRESISTIBLE TARGETS

I started this blog as an experiment and exercise, and the first thing I learned was that it would probably be more useful for me, trying to reach an audience, if the format were more specific...so I'm trying a second blog, for crime fiction reviews and maybe some other things.
It's called Irresistible Targets, from the John Stewart song, and it's available at

http://irresistibletargets.blogspot.com

I've opened with the Pelecanos piece as blogged here, and links to a couple of Crime Time reviews.

My imaginary dialogue with Robert B Parker and my rant about the Guardian's review of Fred Vargas last year will be posted soon....