THIS JUST IN …
Who’s this Mayo guy, anyway?
Funny you should ask, as I do my best to explain to uber-interviewer Jeremy L.C. Jones, over at the always excellent site, BookLife, just what makes me tick….
Hey! Where’d this Needle come from?
Why, it's Needle: A Magazine of Noir! And if I may be so bold, it's one of the hottest looking publications to come along in some time. I'm not just saying that because the brand-spanking-new issue, Winter 2010, contains one of my stories, a tale of drugs, murder, and...
Everybody’s reading it!
Like Hotcakes, I Tell Ya….
Much bookishness has happened in Mattland since my last update…. For instance, Bootleggers, Lobstermen & Lumberjacks continues to sell like hotcakes! Over the next few weeks, I'm scheduled to do a number of radio, podcast, and print interviews on behalf of the...
Bootleggers is #1!
According to my publisher's national accounts sales rep, Bootleggers, Lobstermen & Lumberjacks is its #1 best-selling title on Amazon and elsewhere this week. Go, book, go! Also at Amazon, for two weeks now, Bootleggers, Lobstermen & Lumberjacks has held all...
Hot New Antho!
My Western Steampunk short story, "Scourge of the Spoils," is due for release in early November, 2010, in the DAW Books anthology, Steampunk'd. But why wait? The book's available for pre-order RIGHT NOW! Woo hoo! (You know you need it.... ) Here's a sneak preview of...
B, L & L Goes Digital!
Bootleggers, Lobstermen & Lumberjacks will soon be available (October 5) as an e-book! Click here to pre-order your very own Kindle copy of what is sure to be the season's hottest-selling book about Bootleggers, Lobstermen and Lumberjacks.... Oh my!
A First Sighting!
My lovely wife, Jennifer Smith-Mayo, was out and about this weekend, photographing for the upcoming Vermont and New Hampshire books we're working on. She dropped in at The Yankee Bookshop, in Woodstock, Vermont, and saw my new book on the shelf! Ayuh, Bootleggers,...
Hot Off the Presses!
Although the official release date isn't until October, Amazon is already shipping my newest non-fiction book, Bootleggers, Lobstermen & Lumberjacks: Fifty of the Grittiest Moments in the History of Hardscrabble New England! It's 300 pages of gritty grimness and...
I Heard That….
A while ago I was asked to participate in a mini e-panel for Jeff Vandermeer's excellent site, Booklife, about how music affects one's writing, and vice-versa. Click here to read all about Birds, Breathing & the Song of Passing Cars: Writing & Music #5.