Print/Web Articles and Interviews with Libby:

Libby discusses "Where do you get your ideas?":

"Advice for writers' block sufferers" - WBEZ, Oct. 15, 2009

"Northbrook author goes crime-traveling in latest" - Evanston Review, Oct. 8, 2009

"Get to Know... North Shore author Libby Hellmann" - Trib Local, July 31, 2009

"Crime novel author on marketing and selling your writing" - OnText.com, June, 2009

C.J. Lyons' Thriller Spotlight on Libby Hellmann - April, 2009

Featured Writer on Jerry Peterson's web site - April, 2009

"Secrets of the Suburbs" - Chicago Reader, May, 2008

New Mystery Reader interview - May, 2008

Keith Raffel interviews Libby - April, 2008

Sarah Wisseman interviews Libby - March, 2008

Read a Q&A with Libby about Easy Innocence - February, 2008

Chicago Writers Association interview – Summer, 2006

"Sweet Home Chicago" – PW BEA Show Daily, June, 2004

"Interview with Libby Fischer Hellmann" – Mystery One, Summer, 2003

"Sex, Lies, and Book Sales" – PW, April, 2003

"Interview with Libby Hellmann" – Mysterical-E, Autumn, 2002

By Libby:

"Ross Thomas/Briar Patch" – Mystery Muses: 100 Classics that Inspire Today's Writers, edited by Jim Huang (Crum Creek Press, 2006)

"24 Turns 5" – CrimeSpree Magazine, Winter, 2006

"No Ordinary Bookclub" – CrimeSpree Magazine, Winter, 2005

"Why I write Jewish" – Mystery Readers Journal, Spring, 2004

"Writing Ugly" – The Mystery Morgue, Breakthrough Promotions, May, 2004

"My Story" – Futures Magazine, December, 2003

"Doing it By the Book" – MyShelf.com, December, 2002

"An Eye For Mysteries" – Mystery Scene, November, 2002

Podcasts, Audio, Video:

Listen to Libby on Milwaukee Public Radio's Spoken Word - March 9, 2010
(Libby's segment begins 37:30 into the show.)

Listen to Libby on the Mystery Matters radio show - 2009

Listen to Libby's Bleak House Books podcast - 2008

Criminal Masterminds interview with Vicki Delany - August, 2008

Chicago Blues Book Trailer

2007 Interview with Libby by WriteNow Coach Rochelle Melander

Listen to an audio interview of Libby conducted by Zoë Sharp (16 minutes) – August, 2006

Libby's Posts From The Outfit Blog - Originally posted on The Outfit Collective

January 24, 2010: "Eleanor"

January 10, 2010: "Where Evil Lives"

December 27, 2009: "The State of Reviewing"

December 13, 2009: "The Writing Jones"

November 2, 2009: "On the Road"

October 18, 2009: "This Was My Bouchercon... How was yours?"

September 28, 2009: "And Now For Something Completely Different..."

September 13, 2009: "I Have Always Depended on the Kindness of Mystery Writers"

August 30, 2009: "First Impressions"

August 16, 2009: "Desperately Seeking..."

August 5, 2009: "I Hate To Write"

July 5, 2009: "Ready To Commit Murder"

June 21, 2009: "Once Upon A Time In Iran"

June 9, 2009: "The Other Hat"

April 12, 2009: "The Mob's Worst Nightmare"

March 11, 2009: "Follow Me"

February 22, 2009: "The Chutzpah Factor"

February 6, 2009: "I Screwed Up"

January 21, 2009: "I Kinda Wish I'd Been in DC"

January 5, 2009: "Coming Attractions—Crime in Chicago"

December 19, 2008: "Hey, You Talkin' to Me?"

December 3, 2008: "Wha 'cha Gonna Watch this Season?"

November 17, 2008: "Jon Burge and the Theater of Corruption"

October 15, 2008: "Cold Case Already?"

September 28, 2008: "Sex in the White House"

September 11, 2008: "Not My Job"

August 27, 2008: "Gerbil Wheels and News Junkies"

August 11, 2008: "Culture Clash"

July 25, 2008: "A Chicago Cop's Story"

July 9, 2008: "Let Me Count The Ways..."

June 6, 2008: "Aiders and Abettors"

May 20, 2008: "Apocalypse Now?"

May 4, 2008: "Fake News"

April 17, 2008: "Chandler and the Fairer Sex"

April 1, 2008: "Lessons From the Road... or the Adventures of Thelma and Louise"

March 15, 2008: "Chandler, 'One Book, One Chicago' and The Outfit"

February 28, 2008: "Guilty TV Pleasures"

February 13, 2008: "Prufrock and Me"

January 27, 2008: "White Collar Crime Fiction"

January 10, 2008: "Reading is Fundamental"

December 10, 2007: "Explanation or Excuse?"

November 27, 2007: "A Drew Peterson Reality Check"

November 6, 2007: "Gunfights, Interrogations, and More"

October 21, 2007: "Titles, Blackwater, and more"

September 26, 2007: "Violence: To Everything there is a Time?"

September 2, 2007: "A Pox Upon Your Newspeak"

August 17, 2007: "The Lighter Side of Crime"

July 31, 2007: "What is Evil?"

July 15, 2007: "Amy, We Hardly Knew Ye"

June 28, 2007: "Summer in 'Da City"

June 13, 2007: "Endings"

May 28, 2007: "Memorial Day—Chicago Style"

May 10, 2007: "Teachers"

April 23, 2007: "Vonnegut, Propaganda, and Fox"

April 9, 2007: "Not In My Neighborhood"

March 22, 2007: "Chicago Blues"

March 9, 2007: "Queen For A Day"

February 18, 2007: "Reading and Writing"

February 2, 2007: "The Grace Kelly Factor"

January 14, 2007: "24 Turns 6"

December 30, 2006: "Not Such a Vast Wasteland"

December 12, 2006: "Bad Cops, Women, and Chicago"

November 27, 2006: "Giving the Devil His Due"

November 9, 2006: "The 15 Minute Solution"

October 24, 2006: "Vote Early and Often"

October 7, 2006: "The Prodigal Wordsmith: Coming Back to Words"

September 21, 2006: "The Gun Range"

September 5, 2006: "Chicago Blues"

August 20, 2006: "Skype Me at Seven: The Future of Book Signings"

August 3, 2006: "Writers, Gods, and Atheists"

July 18, 2006: "Mayor Daley as Willie Stark?"

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