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Hometown:
Milwaukee, WI
About Me:
See, this is when I am forced to choose between first and third person and I'll be damned if I can manage it.

Jennifer Jordan, special features and short fiction editor for Crimespree Magazine.
Editor of EXPLETIVE DELETED and it's sequel, SLOPPY SECONDS.
Writer of short stories and whimsies that have been smattered all over.
Hoarder of books, two of which are done and no one has read and one which is being written that may break that trend.
Voracious reader of crime fiction and adorer of crime writers and readers.
Unrepentant meat eater.
Freak.
Babbler extrodinaire.
I Am A:
Reader, Writer, Editor
Website:
http://humanunderconstruction.blogspot.com/
Books And Authors I Like:
Megan Abbott
Sherman Alexie
John Baker
J.G. Ballard
Ray Banks
Trey Barker
Mark Billingham
Cara Black
Anthony Bourdain
Donari Braxton
Ken Bruen
John Burdett
Alafair Burke
Declan Burke
James Lee Burke
Jan Burke
Sean Chercover
Michael Chabon
Daniel Chavarria
Sean Chercover
George C. Chesbro
Craig Clevenger
Mark Coggins
Reed Farrel Coleman
Michael Collins
Mark T. Conard
John Connolly
Colin Cotterill
Bill Crider
Blake Crouch
Sean Doolittle
Barry Eisler
David Ellis
Maggie Estep
Robert Ferrigno
Neil Gaiman
John Galligan
Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza
Victor Gischler
Tod Goldberg
Chris Grabenstein
Sara Gran
Allan Guthrie
Lian Hearn
Libby Fischer Hellman
Vicki Hendricks
Gregg Hurwitz
Charlie Huston
Greg Iles
Paul Johnston
Graham Joyce
William Kent Krueger
Joe R. Lansdale
Jonathan Lethem
Thomas Lynch
Douglas Lindsey
Kelly Link
Laura Lippman
Robert Littel
Stuart MacBride
Tim Maleeny
Michael Marshall
Carlton Mellick III
Rick Mofina
Christopher Moore
Margaret Murphy
Stewart O'Nan
Scott Phillips
Dav Pilkey
Graham Powell
Manuel Ramos
Cornelia Read
Kat Richardson
John Rickards
Michael Robotham
S.J. Rozan
J.D. Salinger
Marcus Sakey
James Sallis
Walter Satterthwait
Will Self
Nathan Singer
Karin Slaughter
Keith Snyder
Jerry Stahl
Jason Starr
Olen Steinhauer
Duane Swierczynski
Mark Timlin
HP Tinker
Steven Torres
Nichelle Tramble
Kurt Vonnegut
Robert Ward
Kevin Wignall
Charlie Williams
Movies And TV Shows I Like:
So Graham Norton, Penn and Teller's Bullshit, Family Guy, Idiocracy, Amelie, Jackass, Rosenkranzt and Guildenstern are Dead, Life on Mars, more I can't think of without getting up from my comfy chair...

The galley for EXPLETIVE DELETED

found it's way into my hands this weekend and it has renewed my passion for these profound, dark gems that inhabit it's pages.


Now I sit in front of the computer with scads of new story submissions for Crimespree and veritable stacks of books in need of reviewing. Time for a pot of coffee and some horribly energetic music after I down a bottle of vitamin B complex.

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Follow My Lead

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived. - Gabriel Marcel


Writers are like magicians in their ability to pull characters out of their hats. The well-written protagonists become almost real people that can
stay with the writer and the reader well after the book is finished. They run
the gamut from Beowulf to Hamlet; from Holden Caulfield to the
Vampire Lestat; from the almost iconic Sherlock Holmes and Sam Spade to John
Rebus. The list is endless and

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Posted on March 11, 2007 at 2:14pm — 2 Comments

Jennifer Jordan

Face the Music

How often, while your mind is immersed in a mystery, does the lead
character slip a favorite cd into his player while he’s driving to parts

unknown?

Or perhaps when he’s drinking a bad day away?

When Mr.
“Heroic-Lead” listens to music, he listens for the same reasons
we do -
to escape. But in that freedom, we crawl inside his head for a while and
feel his thoughts. Ian Rankin’s “Let It Bleed” is the quintessential

example as it is a classic albu
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Posted on March 11, 2007 at 2:10pm — 7 Comments

Jennifer Jordan

The Funny Bones

Lenny Bruce said that all of his humor was based on destruction and despair and nothing less can be said of the following writers. They have
melded the two seemingly polar opposites of crime fiction and humor into intelligent
tales of people at their best and their worst. By meeting the darkest moments
of their lives with humor, their characters show a resilience and humanness
difficult to emulate with purely straight fiction. For the reader, the droll

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At 4:41am on November 12, 2009, REID JACKSON (pen name) said…
add me my requests full
At 10:20pm on September 18, 2009, Robert Crisman said…
Jennifer,
I'm another of the 14 trillion writers trying to get published. I write novels and stories about junkies and heisters and other lost dogs. I'm also a novice at finding my way around the internet and a computer moron to boot. Does Crime Spree publish stuff from unknowns? If so, would you be interested in looking at some of mine? If you want a quick idea of what I do, I've had three stories posted recently on A Twist of Noir: Downtown, about two women trying to stay clean off heroin; Stevie Wonder, about an old pool hall buddy, and; Strike Three And an Old Friend's Goodbye, about the kind of send-off a junkie gets from his friends when he od's at their pad.
These stories are pretty representative of the stuff I do. Hope you're interested, and thanks for considering.
Robert Crisman
At 10:13pm on August 31, 2009, Paul Brazill said…
Na zdrowia!
At 8:33am on May 30, 2008, Dan Coleman said…
Hi, Jenifer,
If interested, have a free read of my novel, FOUL SHOT, before it's published. A brief synopsis is on my site via my page here, and the full ms will be up in a few days. Or email me at coastar2002@yahoo.com, and I'll send it over as a document.
At 1:15pm on March 20, 2008, L.J. Sellers said…
Hi Jennifer
Now I know where to go when I need to find a new crime author. And it's alphabetized. I love editors.
At 3:52am on February 2, 2008, JackBludis said…
You have more authors listed than I've read in the last ten years. How did you miss Cormac McCarthy?
At 3:20am on July 29, 2007, Cara Black said…
hey Jen, I'm new here...new book? tell me...all ears
At 10:57am on July 24, 2007, Jennifer Jordan said…
Patricia, oh she of the ability to stay awake in the bar far after Jen has gone to bed, no one is more surprised than me that that book is now in existence. Well, except Neil Smith. That lovely hunk of man flesh!
At 10:29am on July 24, 2007, Patricia said…
Hey Jen...I remember when this was first taking shape...wow and now you have an ARC...congrats!
At 10:00am on July 24, 2007, colin cotterill said…
hello, jennifer
i still wear my disco badge with pride. madison was one of the few times in my life i didn't say anything stupid. i came out of it more 'interesting' but without any new friends. thanks for forgiving me.
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