Today for your enjoyment we have another example of a heavyweight author earning extra nickels under the guise of a pseudonym, giving readers boners and creating wildly unrealistic sexual expectations for the horndogs who read the books.
This time it’s crime thriller icon Lawrence Block, whose acclaim is such that he’s won four Shamus Awards, and three Edgars. He’s also seen his novels 8 Million Ways To Die, The Campus Tramp and Deadly Honeymoon made into films of varying quality, and he wrote the screenplay for the recent critically acclaimed film My Blueberry Nights.
But it was as Sheldon Lord that he really let his hair down, penning salacious books like Stud, as well as the lesbian themed tales below. He also flaunted his utter immunity to writer’s block by publishing fiction under the names Jill Emerson, Chip Harrison, Paul Kavanaugh, and Andrew Shaw. It’s an astonishing output. Maybe when Block wrote Stud he was thinking about himself.
As we move forward with this website we hope to expand beyond crime novels and read some of these sleaze efforts. They seem to be crime adjacent in the sense that the women are similar to femmes fatales. We’ve looked around the auction sites and learned that these books are generally pretty expensive, but we figure someone will sell them at low prices eventually. We’ll report back.
