Welcome To CrimeSpace

Winner of the Spinetingler Magazine Special Services To The Industry Award, CrimeSpace is a place for readers and writers of crime fiction to meet. Find new authors to delve into and discuss the latest in crime fiction. Share photos, videos and make some friends. Pull up a chair at the bar and share your poison.

JOINING CRIMESPACE

For those of you looking to join CrimeSpace, the requirements are simple: You need to have a genuine interest in crime fiction. While there are a number of authors on the site, the main focus of CrimeSpace is not promotion. It's community.

Latest Activity

Colman replied to QualityBookReviews's discussion What are you currently reading?
"Currently wading through Randy Wayne White's The Man Who Invented Florida  "
2 hours ago
Colman posted a blog post

ROBERT CRAIS - FREE FALL

  Synopsis/blurb....Elvis Cole is just a detective who can't say no, especially to a girl in a terrible fix. And Jennifer Sheridan qualifies. Her fiance, Mark Thurman, is a decorated LA cop with an elite plainclothes unit, but Jennifer is sure he's in trouble - the kind of serious trouble that only Cole can get him out of. Five…See More
2 hours ago
Jill Golick is now a member of CrimeSpace
9 hours ago
J W Nelson replied to J W Nelson's discussion Finding an editor
"Thanks, Jed. Excellent advice!"
13 hours ago
J W Nelson replied to J W Nelson's discussion Finding an editor
"Hi, Martyn, I was seeking some general opinions on the variety of editors that might be worthwhile, especially from the published/experienced participants in Crimespace.  thanks!John"
13 hours ago
Austin S. Camacho posted a blog post

Come to your Senses

To write good fiction you have to be able to use all five of your senses, as I discuss today in my blog, Another Writer’s Life. http://ascamacho.blogspot.com/See More
14 hours ago
C.S. Miller posted a status
"Read the first chapter of the New CS Miller DC Mystery *****10th & Penn***** www.csmillerbks.blogspot.com 10th & Penn COMING IN JUNE!"
17 hours ago
Martyn V. Halm replied to J W Nelson's discussion Finding an editor
"Without sounding critical, why post this question if you have connections with copy editors? I'd think if your wife is a copy-editor, you could've answered your own question, or am I wrong?"
18 hours ago

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Please read the information on Promotion. Note that the forum is for discussion only, not for blatant self promotion (BSP). Appropriate announcements can be made in the Events forum or your member blog.

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New series you must check out... 1 Reply

I've posted about this book before but with the second in the series coming out in the next few weeks, I recommend anyone gets into this series...I spotted this article in the mail online, if you've…Continue

Tags: Watkinson, Douglas, Hawk, Haggard

Started by Connor Moore in Reading Room. Last reply by I. J. Parker on Monday.

No E-book for Stephen King's New "JOYLAND" 7 Replies

In a move to bump up…Continue

Started by Jack Getze in The Main Bar. Last reply by Linton Robinson yesterday.

ITW Roundtable: Thrillers that challenge the status quo 1 Reply

Please join me this week at ITW's Roundtable, where we are discussing the question, "What are your favorite thrillers that question conventional wisdom or the status quo?" I had the opportunity to…Continue

Tags: thrillers

Started by L. A. Starks in Reading Room. Last reply by Eric Christopherson on Monday.

Finding an editor 13 Replies

Does anyone know of a resource list of honest and competent editors who I could contact regarding an edit of my crime novel?  CrimeSpace seemed to be a good place to ask this question. thanks in…Continue

Tags: editors

Started by J W Nelson in Writer's Den. Last reply by J W Nelson 13 hours ago.

True crime ... a springboard to fiction? 1 Reply

One of the articles in my recently published true crime ebook inspired my first novel. So kick back, have a pina colada (as it says in the Main Bar description) and check out the others.DARK DEEDS:…Continue

Tags: murders, child, Boston, Strangler, wife

Started by Susan in The Main Bar. Last reply by Susan May 14.

Interesting Forbes article on Self-publishing 2 Replies

Interesting article about self-publishing in Forbes recently…Continue

Started by David DeLee in The Main Bar. Last reply by Patrick Balester on Sunday.

Looking for Published Novellas for podcast

At Crime City Central we are looking for published crime novellas (dead tree published) to air on our podcast in serial form. Up to 24,000 words, more or less. Old or recent, even OOP, but you must…Continue

Started by Cher in Schmooze Lounge May 8.

Bid on a manuscript critique for a good cause! 2 Replies

Manuscript critiques, cocktails for 4 at Folio Literary Management's NYC offices, a scholarship to the Salt Cay Writers Retreat, and more including my offering: signed books and rocks from my…Continue

Started by Karen Dionne in The Main Bar. Last reply by Karen Dionne May 6.

Shakespeare Wrote Murder Stories 9 Replies

Perhaps it’s worse in Oxford, like the weather. Oxford, England, that is: a city stiff with history, bristling with dreaming spires, and teeming with writers. You can hear the scratching of their…Continue

Tags: Distant Thunder, Redemption Blues, Shakespeare

Started by Tim Griggs in The Main Bar. Last reply by Tim Griggs Apr 26.

Cover Copy Help 8 Replies

Looking for feedback on this. Thoughts?COLTIn four days, Everett Harbaugh will celebrate his twentieth birthday.Maybe.Home from college for the weekend, Everett is shocked to discover that he was…Continue

Started by Jude Hardin in The Main Bar. Last reply by J J Durham Apr 19.

Blog Posts

ROBERT CRAIS - FREE FALL

 

 

Synopsis/blurb....

Elvis Cole is just a detective who can't say no, especially to a girl in a terrible fix. And Jennifer Sheridan qualifies. Her fiance, Mark Thurman, is a decorated LA cop with an elite plainclothes unit, but Jennifer is sure he's in trouble - the kind of serious…

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Posted by Colman on May 23, 2013 at 6:19pm

Come to your Senses

To write good fiction you have to be able to use all five of your senses, as I discuss today in my blog, Another Writer’s Life. http://ascamacho.blogspot.com/

Posted by Austin S. Camacho on May 23, 2013 at 5:53am

Book Review: "Dying Voices: The Carl Burns Mystery Series" by Bill Crider

Professor Carl Burns starts the fall semester at Hartley Norman College preparing again to teach the sophomore level course on American Lit.  While he has a few jitters regarding the start of the new semester he is very much dreading the upcoming Edward Street Seminar as their most famous alumni, Edward Street, returns to the small campus. The idea of a seminar celebrating the work of Edward Street had been hatched by the new university president Franklin Miller as a way of raising…

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Posted by Kevin R. Tipple on May 22, 2013 at 12:07am

Review: Sacred Games by Gary Corby

First Line: The procession wound past the Sanctuary of Zeus.

The procession consists of athletes, trainers, priests, officials, and spectators who are gathering for the Olympic Games of 460 BC. The most important contest is the pankration, the deadly martial art of ancient Greece.…

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Posted by Kittling: Books on May 21, 2013 at 6:25pm

Murder at the Pencil Factory: The Killing of Mary Phagan Now in eBook

From award winning criminologist R. Barri Flowers and the bestselling author of THE PICKAXE KILLERS and THE SEX SLAVE MURDERS, comes a powerful new historical true crime short, MURDER IN THE PENCIL FACTORY: The Killing of Mary Phagan 100 Years Later.

 

On the…

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Posted by R. Barri Flowers on May 21, 2013 at 4:28am

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