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As Richard Castle wrote 7 NYT Bestsellers. Emmy & WGA nominee. Author of USA Today Bestseller: THE ACCIDENTAL JOE tomstraw.com
I'm thrilled and delighted to join the great Lisa Gardner to discuss her amazing new novel, You'll Be Sorry, live and in-person, at RJ Julia a week from tonight. If you miss this, You'll Be Sorry! Details at rjjulia.com/event/2026-0...
Strange but True: Mama Cass DOTD in the London flat of Harry Nilsson on the top floor of this London building. Keith Moon died in the same room four years later. As heard from my barber when I got my haircut in the Geo. F. Trumper Mayfair shop on the ground floor years back.
Pen Hygiene Day. During which the author honors his tools. Some older than the author. IYKYK.
My office until the Charles Salzberg event at The Mysterious Bookshop event at 6pm.
Sure, it's all fun and games until somebody gets hurt. Come join the horseplay with my pal Charles Salzberg tomorrow evening at 6 in Tribeca.
When I met Peter Lassally, exec producer of The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, I'd never written a monologue or worked in late night. He took a chance and hired me on a 13 week contract. I stayed 4 years and owe much to this man who I called The Gentleman because he was. Rest in peace, sir.
HBD Adam Savage, Mythbuster. Here’s that time in Craig Ferguson’s Late Late Show green room when we swapped glasses to see if anyone could tell who was who. His only experiment that failed.
Things to do indoors on a hot day: Finish that watercolor sketch from Porto, Portugal. The Before and the After.
Tonight I made paella for dear friends in Rhinebeck. They’re just mad about saffron.
I think of heart. Gene Wilder and I were writing a project as he recovered from Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma. He said, "We have to knock off early. Mel and Anne are coming over." Weeks later, "Got to wrap soon. Mel and Anne are coming over." Mel kept showing up to show the love. Happy 100th, you big softie!
Last night, in Bridgeport, showered by the people with love during the standing-o, James Taylor doffed his hat with a humble expression that reminded me of a Norman Rockwell "Four Freedoms" painting.
One more Portugal post. In Porto, walking a back alley in the Ribeira neighborhood, this place caught my eye. I had to do a watercolor sketch, now a work-in-progress. Travel inspires.
I loved my visit to Portugal. But there's something about that moment when you wallet-swap euros for greenbacks, relax into speaking English again, and look out the window and enjoy this final approach to New York JFK.
Tchau, Porto. Thanks for the relaxed friendliness, the cuisine, the research, the culture, and the ideas!
Stopped at this Porto café-bake shop that makes a whopping 10-thousand iconic pastel de nota tarts a day! How would Lucy and Ethel ever keep up?
About to enjoy a free sample at Porto’s Bolhāo food marketplace while we shopped ingredients for this morning’s cooking class.