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Post-Katrina AIDS relief

On Thursday, November 17, at 7 p.m., New Orleans writer Greg Herren will join Tim and me at a Houston booksigning event to raise money for the New Orleans AIDS Task Force (NO/AIDS), an agency which helps individuals impacted by HIV and AIDS. NO/AIDS has partnered with Houston’s Montrose Clinic with the particular aim of helping the Gulf Coast’s displaced and otherwise hurricane-affected AIDS population.

The event, at Meteor Lounge, is sponsored by Borders, which will donate a portion of every book sold to NO/AIDS.

We are also accepting donations from those who can’t attend. If you would like to contribute (any amount helps!), please make your check payable to NO/AIDS Task Force and send it to Timothy J. Lambert, P.O. Box 131845, Houston, TX, 77219.

NO/AIDS Task Force is a 501(c)3 organization; your contributions are tax deductible to the fullest extent of the law.

The Spirit of New Orleans

I’ve been fascinated by author Greg Herren’s posts about his return to New Orleans and the things he’s seeing and doing there. Yesterday, we got a Kensington catalog and Greg’s new mystery, MARDI GRAS MAMBO, which is coming out in March, has an enticing cover. I can’t find it online so I’ve asked for a .jpg from the publisher which I’ll post when I get it.

The truly amazing thing is that in the midst of helping other New Orleans friends, moving his stuff between apartments, and managing his busy schedule as a writer and editor, Greg generously shared his good fortune with Tim and me. Although you can’t see it in the picture below, those are Bar-B-Q Fritos that were just delivered to us from Greg today because he finally located a New Orleans source.

Is he a class act or what? Thank you, Greg.

I support dealers!

Book dealers, that is.

If you are interested in rare and collectible children’s and illustrated books, check out EMMAURICE Books.

If you are interested in rare, used, and out-of-print books with a focus on mystery, science fiction, and horror, check out Christine Kovach, Bookseller.

Maybe you’ll find the perfect gift for yourself or some hard-to-buy-for person in your life.

All that glitters…

Occasionally when I need something familiar for a quick read, I take down Dennis Hensley’s book Screening Party. If you’re not familiar with it, it’s a collection of (somewhat fictionalized) articles he wrote based on movie nights with his friends, and it includes their witty commentary while watching such movies as Pretty Woman, Jaws, The Sound of Music, Body Guard, and many others. Over the course of the book, the reader gets attached to these friends and their individual personalities, and some of their quips are The. Best. Dialogue. Ever.

The last time I grabbed the book, I reread the first couple of pages of the Glitter chapter. Tonight I picked up the book again, and it reminded me that I’d never actually seen Mariah Carey’s movie. Fortunately, because of Dennis’s book, Tim bought the DVD long ago, and he was game to watch Glitter (again) with me.

Now that I’ve actually seen the movie, I not only re-laud Dennis Hensley’s brilliance, but I realize again that Tim is a truly wonderful, self-sacrificing friend. I just hope Whisper’s career didn’t end up in the (g)litter box.

Bonus Photo for Tim fans

We sold our first book in 2000, and it came out in October of 2001 (happy birthday, Daniel and friends!), so I guess the first time all four TJB writers were in the same place at the same time was in the spring of 2001. I thought it would be a good idea to get some publicity photos, and my friend Sarena recommended a really excellent Houston photographer.

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An Out-of-Compound Experience

Tonight I had to run some errands, so on a whim, and with low expectations, I stopped by our neighborhood Borders. Alas, no copies of THREE FORTUNES were on the shelf. I picked up another of Greg Herren’s mysteries, MURDER IN THE RUE DAUPHINE (New Orleans being on my mind this evening). I also noted that FARB’s TRUST FUND BOYS looks good in its new trade paper release.

As I was leaving, one of the associates asked if he could help me, so I asked if he could look up two books–Lori L Lake’s HAVE GUN WE’LL TRAVEL, which I’ve heard a lot about, and, well… THREE FORTUNES IN ONE COOKIE by Cochrane Lambert.
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