Blog Archives

Evolution of a Novel: How Death at the Savoy Came to Be

Posted on May 29, 2022 by ronbase — Leave a comment

Susan Walker, former editor of Quill and Quire, who also served as the Toronto Star’s book editor, and no slouch when it comes to all things literary, has written a wonderful piece about how my new novel (with Prudence Emery),…

Tagged with: Death at the Savoy, Douglas & McIntyre, Nanaimo Girl, Prudence Emery, Quill and Quire, Ron Base, Susan Walker, The Sanibel Sunset Detective, Toronto Star
Posted in Uncategorized

Tales From the Tour: Old Girl Friends, Movie Moguls, Sad Stories, and a Blind Raccoon

Posted on March 17, 2014 by ronbase — 2 Comments

If I’ve learned anything the past couple of months it is this: Do not do a book signing with a blind raccoon. Trouper is the raccoon in question. Kyle Miller has written a children’s book devoted to Trouper’s adventures. She…

Tagged with: A Hard Day's Night, Amazon, Bill Clinton, Brockville, Chicago, Chuck Hagel, Columbia Pictures, CreateSpace, David V. Picker, Eastern Ontario, Emma McLaughlin, Florida, George Stevens, Hillary Clinton, James Bond, John Wayne, Kyle Miller, Last Tango in Paris, Max von Sydow, Midnight Cowboy, Musts Maybes and Nevers, Paramount Pictures, Ron Base, Sanibel Island, The Greatest Story Ever Told, The Nanny Diaries, The Sanibel Sunset Detective, Tom Jones, Trouper, United Artists
Posted in Uncategorized

Standing In Airports, Holding A Book, Listening To Stories

Posted on December 21, 2012 by ronbase — Leave a comment

This week a reader of The Sanibel Sunset Detective novels e-mailed me several questions, ending with this one: “Why does a man with ten published books to his credit spend his time hawking a handful of them in an airport?”…

Tagged with: Another Sanibel Sunset Detective, Captiva Island, Chicago, Ford, Fort Myers, Fort Myers Beach, France, Galapagos Islands, Germany, Hitler, James Patterson, Nazis, Ontario, Pete's Time Out, Sanibel Island, Shanghai, The Sanibel Sunset Detective, Windsor, World War II
Posted in Uncategorized

Sanibel, My Sanibel

Posted on November 30, 2011 by ronbase — 1 Comment

Coming across the causeway that links Sanibel Island to the Florida mainland, you can see the wakes thrown off by distant pleasure craft in San Carlos Bay like great white rooster tails in the bright morning sunlight. The sunlight turns the causeway into…

Tagged with: Big Arts Center, Captiva, Gulf of Mexico, islands, Jose Gaspar, Livingston Taylor, Over The Rainbow, Sanibel, seashells, She Sells Seashells, The Sanibel Sunset Detective
Posted in Uncategorized

The Florida Book Tour

Posted on November 14, 2011 by ronbase — 2 Comments

Next week I’m back in Florida promoting my new novel, The Sanibel Sunset Detective Returns. This is the second in a series of action-packed mystery thrillers set against the backdrop of one of North America’s last, unspoiled paradises. It features…

Tagged with: Bailey's General Store, Captiva Island, Florida, Fort Myers, MacIntosh Books, mystery thriller, Sanibel Island, Sanibel Island Bookshop, The Sanibel Sunset Detective, Tree Callister
Posted in Uncategorized

The Private Detective Inside Me

Posted on August 5, 2011 by ronbase — Leave a comment

In the late 1970s, working as a journalist for a New York syndicate I went down to Murrell’s Inlet, South Carolina, to interview the legendary mystery writer, Mickey Spillane. Beginning in 1947, Spillane wrote a series of hard-boiled novels starring…

Tagged with: Captiva, Florida, I, Mickey Spillane, Mike Shane, mystery, Sanibel Island, The Jury, The Sanibel Sunset Detective
Posted in Uncategorized