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Sorry I haven\u2019t gotten out a Newsletter this year, but I\u2019ve been working diligently on The Panther\u00a0<\/em>\u2014 a John Corey novel \u2014 and I\u2019m happy to report that it will be done in early May. Publication date for The Panther<\/em>\u00a0is scheduled for October 16, which gives everyone enough time to buy the book and read it before the world ends on December 21, 2012. The Panther\u00a0<\/em>will also make a great Christmas gift \u2014 but you should give it before December 21, because\u2026well, you know why. In conclusion, I want to wish my Christian friends and family a Happy Easter, and my Jewish friends and family a Happy Passover. And the same to all our men and women serving in the armed forces and other national security services around the world.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m also happy to report that you can now pre-order The Panther<\/a> online. The Panther<\/a> will also be available as a Hachette AudioBook<\/a> and, of course, as an eBook. If you order both, you can read it on your eBook reader while listening to it on audio. This is a little weird, I know, but some guy in Billings, Montana tells me he\u2019s done this with my books, and he doesn\u2019t have to use his hearing aid or his reading glasses. Let me know if you understand this.<\/p>\n

Back in May 2011, the annual Mystery Writers of America anthology titled The Rich and the Dead<\/a> was published. You may recall that I was the anthology editor, and that I contributed a short story to the book titled \u201cDeath Benefits.\u201d I\u2019m now happy to announce that my publisher, Grand Central Publishing, will be offering my short story on Kindle, in August. Check it out \u2014 it\u2019s a good deal and a good read.<\/p>\n

Next month, in May, the mass market paperback edition of my most recent novel, The Lion<\/a>, will be published. Included in this edition will be an excerpt from The Panther<\/u> at no extra charge..<\/p>\n

At about that time \u2014 May or June \u2014 I will be posting these Panther<\/u> chapters on my website. Let me know how you like them.<\/p>\n

As I\u2019ve mentioned in past Newsletters, I get hundreds of emails every month and I assure you I read every one of them. Unfortunately, I can\u2019t reply to every one of them, though I do try to reply to as many as I can. Thanks to everyone who\u2019s emailed me so far this year, and I look forward to hearing from you again. Especially the guy in Billings, Montana.<\/p>\n

Hollywood news: I got a call from a major producer who says that Aaron Eckhart is really interested in playing the character of John Corey. Eckhart is a great actor and if you saw him in
\u201cThank you for Smoking,\u201d you\u2019ll agree. He was also in \u201cThe Dark Knight\u201d and he strikes me as the perfect actor to play John Corey. What the producer is proposing is a cable TV series, along the lines of \u201d Homeland\u201d, in which each of the Corey books \u2014 Plum Island<\/a>, The Lion\u2019s Game<\/a>, Night Fall<\/a>, Wild Fire<\/a>, The Lion<\/a>, and The Panther<\/a> \u2014 is presented in ten or twelve weekly segments during the season. This could be interesting because it\u2019s a much longer format than a 90-100 minute feature film, and most of the book can be adapted to the screen. I\u2019ll keep everyone up to date.<\/p>\n

In conclusion, I want to wish my Christian friends and family a Happy Easter, and my Jewish friends and family a Happy Passover.\u00a0 And the same to all our men and women serving in the armed forces and other national security services around the world.<\/p>\n

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Sincerely,
\"Nelson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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