Kevin Smith
>
> I finish this solid-potato salad with a comment on
Michael Collins.
> Count me among his fans; as far as I know, he is
alive and well and
> still active. Maybe Doug Greene, our resident
encyclopedia, knows
> details of Collins's current projects.
>
> Regards,
>
Actually, the true encyclopedia is Jiro Kimura, but I can say
a bit.
Michael Collins is still an active writer. A couple years
ago, a collection of his non-genre stories appeared
from a small press. Name escapes me. I have corresponded
with
Michael/Dennis recently over the possibility of Crippen &
Landru's publishing
his uncollected Dan Fortune stories, under the tentative
title
FORTUNE'S FORTUNES. Likely publication will be late next year
or
early 1999. (C&L is really booked up right now, and since
I work
full time, I can't publish more than 4 or 5 books a year.
Perhaps I
should start the Crippen & Landru Endowment Fund, but
people would
probably realize that it would actually be the Doug Greene
Early
Retirement Fund.)
I look forward to meeting some of you at the Bouchercon. I'm
on two
panels--one about small presses, the other on
Locked-Room
Mysteries--one of the panelists will be Bill Pronzini, whose
works
are well know to may rara-avisians.
Speaking of Bill, as were were (sort of), C&L will
publish a second
collection by Bill, CARPENTER & QUINCANNON, PROFESSIONAL
DETECTIVE
SERVICES next summer, and a second collection by his wife,
Marcia
Muller, McCONE AND FRIENDS in 1999
Doug
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