RG Belsky Blog - R.G. Belsky

5-Star Reader Review for YESTERDAY'S NEWS

5/14/2018

Wow, love this terrific new 5-star reader review on Amazon for YESTERDAY'S NEWS!
"Where has this author been hiding out? Why am I just discovering him now - who knows? But I can enthusiastically say that I haven’t been this entertained, intrigued and surprised by a book like this one in an extremely long time. And I read 1-2 books a week.
"I don’t want to give you a synopsis cause I’m lousy at it and also terrified I will say/write too much. But please, please believe me if you are looking a mystery, suspense story with twists and turns that makes the pages jump from screen to screen (I use a Kindle) faster than you could imagine - than this is the one for you.
"Mr. Belsky may I thank you for providing me with one of the most insane 24 hours of trying to conduct my life and finish this book concurrently. It was worth every minute." - Linda Dalton

Book Tour for YESTERDAY'S NEWS.....

4/21/2018

Getting ready for the May 1 launch of YESTERDAY'S NEWS, my new mystery and the start of the Clare Carlson series. Here's what I have planned so far:

April 26 – Featured article about me will appear in Town & Village, local Manhattan newspaper.

April 27-29 – Attending Malice Domestic mystery conference in Bethesda, Md.
Will speak on panel called “Stop the Presses” – about real life news stories which inspire mystery fiction.
Also, will participate as “Author Speed Dating” event, pitching YESTERDAY’S NEWS to up to 200 readers.

May 1 – Interview with me in The Big Thrill magazine. This stays up on line all month with heavy social media promotion by International Thriller Writers.

May 1 - Featured interview on the Kiss and Thrill website www.kissandthrill.com

May 1 – on Fran Lewis blog radio show talking about Yesterday’s News http://www.blogtalkradio.com/fran-lewis

May 1 – Fresh Fiction: Will be promoted with banners and other materials on FrechFiction.com for the first week of May – with some materials staying up on site through the month

May TBA – I’m scheduled to be the featured post on the Killer Nashville blog – writing about Clare Carlson and Yesterday’s News in “The Joys and Heartbreaks of Changing Series Characters.”

May 4 – Will appear for an hour on Internet radio show out of Pittsburgh that I've done in the past. http://www.blogtalkradio.com/lcs

May 5 – At Mystery Bookshop in Mechanicsburg, Pa. as part of “Before They Were Authors” event – talking about my career as a tabloid journalist and how it inspires my mystery writing.

May 7 – - Will appear for an hour on the Peter Moses radio show in Westchester County, WVOX White Plains.

May 8 – Book launch party for Yesterday’s News at Mysterious Bookshop in NYC.

May 25 – Featured blog post on Jungle Red (women mystery writers website): “Honest, I’m Telling You the Truth…Just Not All of It.”

May TBA – I’m scheduled to be the featured post on the Killer Nashville blog – writing about Clare Carlson and Yesterday’s News in “The Joys and Heartbreaks of Changing Series Characters.”

May TBA – Will be featured blog post for a week on Mystery Writers of America-NY site.
“ I Do a Lot of Research for My Mystery Novels…Well, Sort Of.”
May TBA – will do blog for Poisened Press (Ariz) bookstore website – on turning real life news stories into mystery fiction plots.

May TBA – Featured interview on Richard Ehisen mystery writers website: https://www.richehisen.com/

May TBA – will participate for full week in May as part of International Thriller Writers online author roundtable

May TBA – Feature article about me will appear in Princeton Packet, local New jersey newspaper.

May TBA – will sign stock copies of book at Cloak and Dagger bookstore in Princeton NJ

May 30 – Speak to Killer Coffee Club at Barnes & Noble in Ithaca NY

June 1-2 – Speak at Maine Crime Wave mystery convention in Portland, Maine.

June 1-30 Participate in Partners in Crime blog tour – consisting of 22 blog posts, reviews, interviews over 30 days.

June 9 - Speak to Coffee and Crime Book Club at Mystery Lovers Bookshop in Oakmont, Pa.

July 13-14 – Will attend ThrillerFest in NYC

August 10-12 Will attend Deadly Ink mystery conference in New Brunswick, NJ

August 23-26 – Will attend Killer Nashville mystery writers conference.

Sept. 6-9 – Will attend Bouchercon mystery conference in St. Petersburg, Fla.

Sept. 26 – Will speak and sign books at Book in a Bar sponsored by Learned Owl Bookstore in Hudson, Ohio.

PLAYING DEAD - now available in E-book

1/16/2018

"Relentlessly engaging. Richard Belsky is a thriller writer who knows what he is doing." - Michael Connelly

First published in 1999, now available on E-book for the first time from HarperCollins for just $3.99....

https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062852625/playing-dead

Praise for LOVERBOY

12/27/2017

“LOVERBOY carries you along a fast-paced track, fools you into thinking you have it all figure out, then slams you into a blank wall around the corner.”
--- Star Ledger of NJ

“Belsky writes about newspaper reporters in a way that only a newspaper reporter can, capturing the energy, edge and craziness of the newsroom….in a prose as crisp as a just-off-the-press first edition.
---Boston Herald

“Lucy Shannon is a gem with her mordant humor, cynicism and love of a good story…LOVERBOY is one of those sparkling quick tales that one encounters far too seldom.
---Erie Times-Union

“Lucy will keep you reading. Isn’t that what good reporters do?”
---Chicago Tribune

First published in ’97, now available for first time as an ebook…just $3.99

LOVERBOY Now on ebook....

12/26/2017

"For six horrific years, a psychopath held the city in his fist - a media-hungry maniac who committed thirteen brutal murders before vanishing without a trace.

"It was the high point of newspaper reporter Lucy Shannon's life."

LOVERBOY, my thriller from the '90s, is being re-released today in ebook for the first time by HarperCollins. Just $3.99 now on Kindle......

https://www.amazon.com/Loverboy-R-G-Belsky-ebook/dp/B076H1Z243/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1514293678&sr=1-1&keywords=loverboy+belsky

"Terrific book!" - Hank Phillippi Ryan

12/21/2017

Thrilled to get this early praise from wonderful mystery writer Hank Phillippi Ryan for YESTERDAY"S NEWS:

"What a terrific book! A complex and compelling non-stop cat-and-mouse chase--and you're never quite sure which one's the mouse. Even the savviest of readers will be gasping in awe at Belsky's impressive story-telling skills." - Hank Phillippi Ryan Agatha, Anthony and Mary Higgins Clark award winning author

Donald Bain

10/27/2017

So sad to hear about the death of Donald Bain, the wonderful and prolific author of the Murder She Wrote books, Margaret Truman's "Capital Crimes" mysteries and so much more during his lifetime. I met Donald and his wife/co-author Renee Paley-Bain at my first mystery conference for the Gil Malloy books, and they were unbelievably kind to me. Renee actually asked me to autograph a copy of The Kennedy Connection for her, and Donald surprised me by sending me an enthusiastic email afterward telling me how much he loved the book. I have proudly used one of his lines from that email ("Gil Malloy for President!) as an author blurb ever since.
This is me with them at Killer Nashville in 2015. Renee died not long afterward, and now they're both gone too soon. RIP.

LOVERBOY: Dec. 26, available for pre-order

10/23/2017

"LOVERBOY carries you along a fast-paced track, fools you into thinking you have it all figured out, then slams you into a blank wall around the corner." - Star-Ledger of NJ

It's official! LOVERBOY - my '90s thriller about a legendary serial killer from the past who may or may not be back murdering people - will be re-released on Dec. 26 by Harper Collins in paperback and ebook. You can pre-order the Kindle version now for just $3.99...

https://www.amazon.com/Loverboy-R-G-Belsky-ebook/dp/B076H1Z243/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1508758127&sr=1-1&keywords=loverboy+belsky

Loverboy & Playing Dead

10/12/2017

Excited to announce that two thrillers I did in the '90s - LOVERBOY and PLAYING DEAD - are being re-released by Harper Collins in a few months. They'll be available in both paperback and (for the first time) e-book. Both books are about newspaper reporters chasing after serial killers (Hey, I write what I know!). More details to come soon...

The Cinderella Murders

9/1/2017

Excited to announce that I've just signed with Oceanview Publishing to do a new book for 2019: a thriller called THE CINDERELLA MURDERS. It will be my second mystery featuring TV journalist Clare Carlson - the first one, YESTERDAY'S NEWS, comes out in May 2018. Here's the official announcement from the "Recent Deals" section of Publishers Marketplace:
August 25, 2017 - THE CINDERELLA MURDERS, by R.G. Belsky
Fiction: Thriller

R.G. Belsky's THE CINDERELLA MURDERS, for a TV news director, the murder of a homeless woman is just another day at the office, until that homeless woman's name is discovered on a hit list along with several prominent and influential people, to Pat Gussin at Oceanview, by Nalini Akolekar at Spencerhill Associates (World).