October 14, 2019
If you write books you can go for months, and even years, with very little feedback from the outside world. You may have put out books that had really positive reader, critic, and sales response but,...
View ArticleApril 25, 2020
My novel The Medusa Deep, sequel to The Midnight Games, is still scheduled for this fall – I’ve got my fingers crossed that Wolsak & Wynn will be able to issue it then! Like everything else,...
View ArticleAugust 23, 2020
The thing about writing books is, it takes a long time. My Midnight Games sequel, The Medusa Deep is now scheduled for spring 2021 so I am working on a third book to make a trilogy. There have been...
View ArticleNovember 3, 2020
Wishing all the best to our friends in the U.S.A. on this pivotal day! If you need a bit of levity, Hamilton Public Library asked me to do a reading for their Virtual Storyteller series. I agreed...
View ArticleMarch 3, 2021
Is the pandemic state of suspended animation starting to thaw? I have accepted Scott Thomson’s kind offer to put the recording we made with Germaine Liu and John Oswald on Scott’s Bandcamp page. A...
View ArticleKirkus Reviews: January 2022
“Lee enhances his novel with references to the Lovecraft mythos [and] elements that smoothly tie into real-world events, including World War II. Nate’s no-nonsense attitude befits a worthy hero, but...
View ArticleDavid Lee in Pat and Skee
photo by Sally At this writing (March 2022), I’m having a great time (that’s me on the left) playing double bass with Chris Palmer on guitar, at Hamilton’s Theatre Aquarius in Sky Gilbert’s Pat and...
View ArticleStopping Time – in Italy
Excited to see an early book of mine, Stopping Time: Paul Bley and the Transformation of Jazz (Véhicule 1999) in a new incarnation published by Quodlibet Chorus in Italy. “Liberare il tempo: Paul Bley...
View ArticleAn interview with Abdul Wadud; 43 years on
The New York Times recently did an article on the African American cellist Abdul Wadud (1947-2022) and I’m glad to say, linked it to an interview I did with Wadud for Coda Magazine in 1980. Thanks for...
View ArticleThe Great Outer Dark
There was a lot of positive response to my 2015 Lovecraftian sci-fi novel The Midnight Games, so I told the publisher I would make it the cornerstone of a trilogy. Easier said than done: I wasn’t able...
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