Copper Smith

Male

Minneapolis, MN

United States

Profile Information:

Hometown:: New Orleans
About Me:: I write uncomfortably clever neo noir in courier font. Imagine a head-on collision between Raymond Chandler's '52 Buick and Chester Himes's '74 Cadillac.

My audio fiction podcast Uppercut Avenue features stories like this:

http://ia600400.us.archive.org/30/items/Inseparable_18/Inseparable.mp3
I Am A:: Reader, Writer
Website:: http://uppercutavenue.com
Books And Authors I Like:: Money Shot
by Christa Faust

The Long Goodbye
Raymond Chandler

Invisible
by Paul Auster

Yellow Medicine
by Anthony Neil Smith

Lush Life
by Richard Price
Movies And TV Shows I Like:: I like Scorsese films, blaxploitation and cockney accented heist movies.

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Ellen Norton

Hello! Thanks for the friend invite. I'm finding that I am not on here much, but I appreciate the invite.

Jul 14, 2010
Lexi Revellian

Hi Copper, thanks for the friend invite :o)

Lexi

Jul 19, 2010
Lexi Revellian

Hmm...not sure about littering...

Do you know, I haven't read any of your favourite authors. Dear me.

Jul 20, 2010
Lexi Revellian

I will look out for Lush Life. Mark you, writing and self-publishing don't leave much time for reading. I used to get through three books a week.

Jul 20, 2010
Cathryn Grant

ok, I admit I turned away slightly at the wood chipper scene in Fargo! But I loved it ... excellent dark humor.

Sep 8, 2010
lee caleca

LOL!

Sep 8, 2010
Michael Phelps

Hi Copper Smith,

Thanks for being my friend on CrimeSpace!
Michael Phelps

Sep 8, 2010
Siobhan C Cunningham

Thanks for the friend link. :-)

Sep 8, 2010
Sunny Frazier

You might want to get a copy of Holli Castillo's New Orleans mystery, GUMBO JUSTICE.

Sep 13, 2010
Caroline Trippe

Goofus and Galant? I have to confess I don't know them....

Sep 14, 2010
Caroline Trippe

Copper, I'm not sure what comment I'm supposed to be approving? Not sure what this means...

Sep 14, 2010
Amanda Groetzinger

I grew up with Goofus and Galant and I always wondered what happened to Goofus to make him so mean. LOL I think it is a great peice. :)

Sep 15, 2010
Justine

Don't know who Goofus and Gallant are.

Sep 15, 2010
Cathryn Grant

Re:
"Remember Goofus and Gallant?
Read all about Goofus's drift to the dark side in 'Always the bad example.'

No wood chipper scene, I promise." I will check it out, swamped at day job has cut into fiction reading time. (!)

Sep 16, 2010
Cathryn Grant

btw, love the tagline for your blog!

Sep 16, 2010
Ian Edward

I didn't know we were plural when we updated profiles either, but then The Beatles did sing, 'I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together' so it's all starting to make sense.

Sep 16, 2010
Stan Cutler

Hello Copper,
Thanks for accepting me as a friend. I was impressed with your bio on crimespace. recently, I self-published a novel that shares setting and characters with the HBO series Boardwalk Empire and I'm hoping to get some benefit from the $millions being spent to promote it. I'm almost a virgin to social networking and blogging but have been told that it's the way to get exposure. Any advice?

Sep 27, 2010
Lee Franklin

Thanks for the welcome, Copper!

Sep 30, 2010
Mary McFarland

Copper, I'm on it (writing the 2nd novel), and the third and fourth and fifth! So thanks for the straight talk, which is hard to get from anyone nowadays. Time is money.

Oct 1, 2010
Amy Dawson Robertson

Hey Copper -- thanks for adding me. I like Courier. :-)

Oct 11, 2010
Amy Dawson Robertson

Thanks, Copper -- looking forward to getting to know you here!

Oct 14, 2010
Anne Claybrook

Copper: I know it's been a long time since you sent this but I couldn't help but respond. I used to LOVE G&G, but I felt sorry for poor Goofus. How awful to always be held up as the bad example. I always thought Gallant was a complete drip. What a jerk. Who'd want to be his friend? He had such a sanctimonious grin on his face!

I recently tried to find some of the old G&G "comics" from our era. They are hard to find. Thankfully, they have gone by the wayside and are no longer held out to children to as examples of "right" and "wrong" behavior. As if one person can always embody the one or the other.

Oct 14, 2010
henya drescher

Thanks, my friend, for inviting me to become a part of this space life...

Hapve a great day!

Oct 22, 2010
Sam Peds

Are you a proper copper?
From NoLa? (It's hard to tell)

Nov 23, 2010
Gerald Gehrig Griffin

Cooper, delighted to be your friend. If you would, please visit my web site, www.authorgeraldgriffin.com, and sign my Guest Book. My friends are welcome there. Looking forward to our chats, and Merry Christmas!

Dec 1, 2010
Margy Rydzynski

Hello, Copper and thanks for your friend request. And good luck with your podcast. I've experimented with that myself and think an accompanying podcast to a book is a nice touch. Let me know if you'd like any suggestions for platforms, etc. I've dabbled, but would be happy to let you in on what I've learned.

Jan 1, 2011
Margy Rydzynski

No problem. I really like multi-media story telling.

Jan 1, 2011
Carol Bridgestock

Happy New Year Copper! Thanks for the friendship on Crimespace!

Jan 1, 2011
Mark Porter

Thanks for the add, Copper. First one.

Mark

Jan 25, 2011
Mark Porter

Hey Copper, I have seen Kiss a couple of times. Paul Stanley's voice shakes the ground.

My fave Paul Stanley quote; "Once I checked into a hotel in Toronto. I opened my blinds and a naked woman had scaled the flag pole outside my window and was waving to me. Now call me cynical but I don't think that would have happened had I been a bank manager."

Jan 29, 2011
B.R.Stateham

But Copper, that can be said about any genre. If you write hard sci-fi, basically your fan fictioning Isaac Asimov, etc.

And I don't agree. Lots of writers try to mimic Raymond Chandler. But no one comes close. What you're saying is no one has talent enough to take the ingredients of Noir and turn it in a different direction. I find that disconcerting any writer would say that. If that's the case, why would anyone write?

Mar 17, 2011
Susan

Yes, Copper, I do feel fortunate to stir the music/writing into my Music & Mayhem hook. Sort of a N'awlins gumbo? Still, you probably use your musical skills and abilities in your writing more than you think. Maybe you could use this as the basis for a talk? Guitars and Gumshoes? okay, maybe not. :) Just a thought.

Mar 19, 2011
Susan

Very cool your Uppercut Avenue. Love the photo ... a smoking cigarette and a gun. Who could ask for anything more??

I'm off to New Orleans in 2 days ... with a review copy of my latest noir suspense novel, DIVA, to take along. Totally psyched. While it's snowing in Boston, no kidding, I'll be sampling New Orleans' best wares, and visiting w/my friends.

Y'all keep writing while I'm gone! :)

Mar 22, 2011
Timothy London

Cheers Copper.

Apr 5, 2011
Caroline Trippe

Hi Copper, At present I have a website under construction, but three of my books can be previewed on the Blurb website, which may give you an idea. I have temporarrily removed one of the books, "Persephone," for editing. These are my most direct references to mythology. The paintings tell the story as much as text.

http://www.blurb.com/search/site_search?search=Caroline+Trippe&...

Apr 9, 2011
Craig Austin

Hey Copper, thanks for the friend request.

Apr 12, 2011
Laura McNaughton

Thanks for adding me as a friend! I love 'Charade' - fun plot, nice twists, great cast, Cary Grant at his comedic best ... who could ask for more?

Apr 30, 2011
Jennifer Thomson

Thanks for the friend request. Very cool name, by the way. Can really see that standing out on the bookshelves.

May 14, 2011
Jennifer Thomson

Funny you should ask that Copper, my book's about a one-legged barmaid who kills a customer who gets a bit too handy with a stiletto heel through the skull, and goes on the run with a safe load of gangster's cash and a gun. Because she's a woman I thought I'd have to give a reason for the extreme violence she used, so she's a naughty by nurture kinda gal. I think you can get away more with naughty by nature when it's a guy.

P.S. Copper, you've made a mistake with your Twitter name on your profile, 'en' twice (I'm now following you and that's why I noticed - I'm @jenthom72)

May 17, 2011
Jennifer Thomson

It's very violent. Like Jack Bauer on a bad day. In a dress.

May 17, 2011
Jennifer Thomson

Ha. When I think about the damage she could have done with both legs.

May 17, 2011
Robin Lamont

Hi! Yeah, it seems I change careers every decade or so. Hope this is the last one. What do you like to read? Do you write also? Am slogging my way through marketing this book, and working on another that's a kind of satire/suspense - maybe that is another career, who knows?

Jun 15, 2011
Robin Lamont

You read women authors - dark, like Denise Mina? Loved her earlier books.

Jun 17, 2011
Noir Nation

Hi,
I've been back in the US for a week seeing to the tornado damage on the family cotton farm in Limestone County Alabama. I'm back in the saddle now. Would love to hear from you. -Alan

Jul 24, 2011
P.I. Barrington

Thank you! You're my first friend here!

Sep 14, 2011
nigelpbird

Should you be interested, Blasted Heath are giving my collection 'Beat On The Brat' for free over the next 12 hours. You'll find it at http://www.blastedheath.com/?p=4466 if you're interested. I'd be grateful if you could pop over.

Thanks,

nigel

Dec 10, 2011
John Schmierer

Thanks for adding me to your list. I gotta tell ya, I'm just now finishing YELLOW MEDICINE and I like it a lot.

Mar 30, 2012
Christopher Valen

Thanks for the invite!

May 1, 2012
Christine Husom

It's nice to meet you here, Cooper. Thank you for adding me!

May 5, 2012
Jackson Burnett

Copper, thanks for your welcome and invitation. You've got an interesting page here. I look forward to reading more.

Jun 15, 2012