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August 29, 2010 No Responses yet

Heard from Hunter tonight. He is now answering questions from copy readers on his latest project, due out later this year, as well as fending off softening suggestions from his left-coast editors concerned that the new novel, Dead Zero (featuring my favorite Swagger, Bob Lee) has guns in it. Heh. See the synopsis on our front page.

May 2, 2010 2 Comments so far

Hunter wrote me to announce that he’s got a piece in a new collection of short fiction called “Agents of Treachery”. I’ve read a couple of Black Lizard Publishing’s collections over the years, and they’re always good. Hunter says:

My story, “Casey at the Bat,” is not really about “a World War II Brigade” (!)(I don’t know who came up with something that lame) but the story of Jedburgh Team Casey, an OSS three-man sabotage unit dropped into France the night of June 6, 1944. Among them is an American lieutenant named James Leets, who was featured in long, long ago’s “The Master Sniper.” (1980) Readers may remember he had a bad hip; “Casey at the Bat” tells how he got it.

I wrote back and asked if we might not see a bookfull of Hunter’s short fiction one of these days, suggesting he had drawer-fulls… but, Hunter replied, no…

I’m really not good at it. I only write it when somebody makes me a cash offer for X by a deadline of X for $XXXX. Otherwise, I have no motivation and the truth is, I’m really pretty awful at it. You’ll see that this isn’t really a short story but a novel squished together to fit in a collection, and that it could have several more parts. Someone once said of one of my stories, “It’s like a shark in a swimming pool. He’s just desperate to get out, to have the room to be himself.” Meanwhile in other news, I’m trying to be a real professional writer and am grinding out, page by page, “Dead Zero” for Simon and Schuster in January. It’s more of a modern thriller, set in today’s international arena with the war on terror as a backdrop and I believe it’s going quite well. On the other hand, it’s a very strange feeling to see the cover and read the catalogue copy before you’re really sure how the book is going to end.

Note the casual mention of a new book at the end…

April 16, 2010 No Responses yet

The Book Center in Cumberland, Maryland, looks like a very cool place. Lots of good books, and premium cigars!

If you’re lucky enough to be within visiting distance, Stephen Hunter will be appearing at The Book Center on next Saturday, April 24, in the early afternoon.

Hunter will give a short talk at 1 pm in the Allegheny Arts Council Community Room, 9 N. Centre, then he’ll sign books at the Book Center.

Email questions to bkcenter@pennswoods.net.

April 6, 2010 No Responses yet

Hunter’s Baltimore Sun colleague – the fellow whose name he borrowed for the fictional family we’re all so enthralled with – has died.

Here is Weyman Swagger’s obituary. A photographer by trade, Swagger wrote this great article about his relationship with Hunter, published sometime in 2007 in the Baltimore Sun.

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Hagerstown, Maryland, newspaperwoman Marie Gilbert got to sit down with Hunter at a recent booksigning.

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An Indiana small-town newspaper writer found reading Hunter’s “American Gunfight” as striking as I did… only he’s probably got more readers. Add yourself to the list at this link.

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Hunter on Imus…

More Imus and Hunter here….

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Writer Donis Casey caught Stephen Hunter and Stephen Coonts together for a speaking engagement last week and penned this review…

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Our man Hunter, on the New York Times Best Seller list? Are the editors on vacation and not paying attention?

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I, Sniper was released this week. It’s a great day in Hunterdom.

Here’s a couple of very interesting internet sightings of Stephen Hunter:

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