The Lemon by S.E. Boyd

The Lemon by S.E. Boyd is a fun and entertaining novel written by Kevin Alexander, Joe Keohane, and Alessandra Lusardi, with S.E. Boyd a made-up author from the three writers of the book. 

They tell a story that starts with the death of Joe Doe, a beloved food travel show host, and then details the coverup of the more unseemly aspects of the hotel room death, including the actions of local Irish bellhop Smilin' Charlie McCree, and Doe's famous chef friend Paolo Cabrini. Two other great character in the book are Nia Greene, Doe's agent/business partner and Katie Horatio, a website writer who fabricates a connection with Doe and parlays it into an entirely new career.

It's definitely a fun read, one highly recommended.

Writers on writing - by King, Sager, Jones, Sherman & Keohane

Lately on the subject of writers and writing, there's been some great stuff I've seen lately that feels to group into a couple of categories.

In the general writing wisdom category were two great pieces with first Stephen King apparently in 1986 writing the first-person "Everything You Need to Know About Writing Successfully – in Ten Minutes" and the other piece of writing wisdom was provided by Mike Sager with the short "Tips" page from his website.

Still in the general subject of writing wisdom, but more specifically maxims about his own writing, were some rules recently come across that Chuck Jones, writer of Wile E. Coyote & The Road Runner and who passed away in 2002, put to paper and which were passed along in the below tweet:

Still obsessed with Chuck Jones' coyote/roadrunner rules. Awesome to so clearly, concisely define your characters. pic.twitter.com/MRd4zguD93
— Amos Posner (@AmosPosner) March 4, 2015

In the writing about great writing from others category were two pieces to note here, first with Ed Sherman for Poynter writing "Why there’s not a single Alex Rodriguez quote in ESPN’s 12,000-word profile" about the profile done by J.R. Moehringer and then Joe Keohane for Columbia Journalism Review doing "Hurting for Words" about the new Michael Paterniti book Love and Other Ways of Dying, with the below tweet listing out the stories featured:

When all your devastating dreams show up in your mailbox. pic.twitter.com/rQnWy8BwEj
— Ben Montgomery (@gangrey) February 24, 2015