Joe Lansdale is also a martial arts master:
http://www.joerlansdale.com/shenchuan/shen/Shen.htm
...though my meetings with him lead me to think he doesn't think of himself
as a "tough guy." He comes off instead as self-assured and amiable.
Ron C.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com [mailto:rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com] On
> Behalf Of davezeltserman
> Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 7:45 AM
> To: rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: RARA-AVIS: Re: talking tough
>
> Jim,
>
> I never ran into you at the few conventions I've gone to so I can't answer
that, but I
> did qualify my comment by saying "most".
>
> One mystery writer I know who is genuinely a tough guy (although he's
probably
> too modest to think of himself like that) is Michael A. Black. Black belt
in Tae Quon
> Do, built like a tank, also a cop, he's someone who probably could handle
a couple
> of AQ (as Child likes to call them) in a darkened alley.
>
> --Dave
>
>
> --- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, JIM DOHERTY <jimdohertyjr@...> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Dave,
> >
> > Re your comments below:
> >
> > " . . . if anyone goes to a mystery convention like Bouchercon, you'll
quickly learn
> that most hardboiled writers are not the tough guys they'd like to
envision
> themselves as . . . "
> >
> > Except, of course, for me.
> >
> > JIM DOHERTY
> >
>
>
>
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