Samuel Haskell Jr. is accused of murdering and dismembering his wife and his in-laws in the Tarzana home they shared in ...

“Blown,” the new, funny and sometimes raunchy novel from L.A. writer Mark Haskell Smith, begins on a ship adrift with one dying passenger and $12 million in cash.

Mark Haskell Smith Black Cat Press: 352 pp., $14 paper The first sentence of “Baked,” the new thriller by Mark Haskell Smith, features a four-letter profanity.

Ballantine has acquired world English rights to a memoir by Sam Haskell, former executive vp and worldwide head of television at WMA. Haskell book rights to Ballantine ...

Former WMA TV topper Sam Haskell has inked a deal with Ballantine to publish a non-fiction book blending his experiences in showbiz with “life lessons” on ethics and morality.

Haskell tells me he hopes his book will be an invitation for humanity to start doing that, paying attention, as a first step toward preserving the earth’s many sounds.