5 million views and the Hugh Wheeler Patrick Quentin Critical Biography

As the Passing Tramp blog achieved fifteen years of existence late last november, its views also starting shooting upward. In December there were around 140,000 views, in January 146,000, in February 135,000, in March 267,000 and in April 213,000 (month not quite over). A few days ago, the lifetime blog views surpassed five million. If the current views rate holds I will be adding 2-3 million views every year.I have committed a quarter-century of my life now to chronicling vintage crime fiction history so this development, at least, is gratifying. There have been a lot of disappointments as well, however. One such disappointment is not having gotten my joint critical bio of Hugh Wheeler and Richard Webb published. I didn't go the academic route this time but rather commercial and I found that publishing non-fiction commercially is a tough row to hoe. Agents were duly impressed, if not amazed, with the depth and breadth of the research, but felt the book needed more of a "narrative…