Bill Blum (b. 1950) is the author of three legal thrillers: Prejudicial Error, The Last Appeal and The Face of Justice, published by Penguin/Putnam. An author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created The legal thriller is a sub-genre of Crime fiction in which the major characters are Lawyers and their employees [1] His non-fiction writing has appeared in numerous publications, ranging from The Nation to The Los Angeles Times. This article is about the US Publication. For other newspapers magazines and alternate uses by the same name see The Nation (disambiguation. The Los Angeles Times (also known as the LA Times) is a daily Newspaper published in Los Angeles California and distributed His work has reviewed in such publications as The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times,[2] Entertainment Weekly[3] and Ellery Queen magazine. Entertainment Weekly (sometimes abbreviated as EW) is a Magazine published by Time Inc