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- Hometown:
- Louisiana Expat in the Great Plains
- About Me:
- My first crime novel, The Suicide Cop, will be published in 2010 by Minneapolis-based Bethany House Publishers.
I was once arrested for a crime I didn't commit . . . I once served as the foreman of a hung jury. The defendant was later found innocent . . . In 1973, I earned an honorable mention in a child modeling contest. I have shunned the runway since . . . My first novel, written while I was in college, was about spies. A professor compared me to Prufrock (not Eliot, Prufrock). Knopf rejected it with a form letter. I am grateful . . . I once directed Peter Graves in a corporate training video. Graves forgot his shirt on the set.
- I Am A:
- Writer
- Website:
- http://www.jmarkbertrand.com
- Books And Authors I Like:
- Georges Simenon (the hard novels more than the Maigret books), Graham Greene, Jean-Patrick Manchette, Friedrich Durrenmatt, Philip Kerr, Ken Bruen, Jorge-Luis Borges, Sebastien Japrisot
Guide to Bertrand
"The Inside Job" | Hardluck Stories, Spring 2005
"Midafternoon Apocalypse" | The New Pantagruel, Summer 2005
"The Beautiful Girl" | Infuze Magazine, 2004
"The Print Version" | Infuze Magazine, 2006
Also, I've re-posted a couple of flash fiction pieces below which originally appeared at Flashing in the Gutters. I've written a novel called The Pattern of Wounds, and now I'm working on another one while my agent attempts to sell it. Wish me luck.
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The Body We Left
This is another flash fiction piece that originally appeared at Tribe's excellent Flashing in the Gutters site.
Way out there, we couldn’t do anything but bury the girl and leave a marker for someone to find. With Ray already limping from his knee injury, we couldn’t carry her back, and if we just left her in the woods, half naked and cut up so bad, animals would come along and no one would ever find her, or even know who she was. So I dug with the camp shovel, doing what I cou
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The Code You'll Live By
This short piece originally appeared on Tribe's excellent Flashing in the Gutters site.
Not your fault your first shot missed, not your fault the punk returned fire. Not your fault Reymond's vest didn't cover his paunch or that he stood stock still in the doorway, fumbling with the thumb break on his new duty rig.
Not your fault he got killed.
Punk was Reymond's word. Everyone on the street was a punk to him. Or a kid.
You don't have to comfort the griev
… ContinuePosted on April 21, 2007 at 12:01pm —
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Jim McKenna
My book, The Beatitudes, is a paranormal thriller set in New Orleans. It will be out in the fall and I am donating all royalties directly to the New Orleans Public Library Foundation. Libraries support the infrastructure of a great city, so I have started The Beatitudes Network to promote awareness of the importance of public libraries in NOLA.
The blogsite www.beatitudesinneworleans.blogspot.com describes the Network, has excerpts from The Beatitudes, recipes, and more. Merci mille fois. Lyn Lejeune.
Writers, please pass the word…..it’s for a good cause….don’t let the libraries of New Orleans or the US go the way of The Great Library of Alexandria. P.S. just posted an excerpt on my Crimespace page.