The reviews are arriving—and I’m very, very pleased. I wanted to share them with you. I won’t bog you down with the full text, which repeatedy recaps the storyline, so here are pertinent excerpts: Crush is “addictive…(with) a shockeroo cliffhanger.” –Publishers Weekly...
CRUSH (Karen Vail novel #2) Copyright (c) 2009 Alan Jacobson. All Rights Reserved. PROLOGUE 675 15th Street NW Washington, DC “So the dick says to the woman, ‘I got nothing.'” Karen Vail burst out laughing. Here she was, out on...
Forgive me…it’s been four months since my last post (sounds like a confession). But I haven’t been off in blog vacationland. I’ve been researching and writing the next Karen Vail novel, which will follow Crush (due out NEXT MONTH!!). That’s the other thing I’ve been...
Let’s take a brief break from my series chronicling the behind-the-scenes production process involved in publishing my forthcoming September thriller, Crush (if you haven’t yet read these posts, start from the first entry; if you’re reading this somewhere other than...
I’m back amongst the living again…my copyedits have been handed in and I’m back to outlining and doing research for—oops, almost spilled the title of the new Karen Vail novel I’m working on. (If you’re new to my blog, rewind…or, rather, click on the link to the right...
While I was away (from the blog space) news hit my inbox. What’s the news? Wait—for those who are joining us mid-blog (is that a term?), I’m documenting the production process of getting the next Karen Vail novel written and into print. So scroll down (or look to your...
Key Jack Bauer’s voice: “Previously on 24…” Oops. Sorry, got carried away. I’m enjoying this new season of 24 (after last season’s disaster, they needed to come back strong or their franchise would die a death not unlike Tony Almeida’s. Then again, Tony didn’t really...
If you’re just tuning in, go back and read my first entry, since this is a continuation. Go ahead, I’ll wait. (Did you read it? C’mon, scroll down.) Okay…last time I gave you a little background on the beginnings of the new Karen Vail novel. (What’s it called? Not so...
The time has gotten away from me (more on that later)…which is why it’s taken me so long to get the blog up and running. But I hope to make the long wait worth your while. Here’s what you can expect from my blog… Raw. Uncooked. Uncensored. And unedited. Although I...
Karen Vail is no ordinary FBI agent. She’s a profiler, brought to life by Alan Jacobson’s seven years of unprecedented access to, and research with, the FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit. The 7th Victim has been raved about by reviewers, readers…even one of the founding...