Albert Tucher's Posts - CrimeSpace2024-03-29T06:05:29ZAlbert Tucherhttp://crimespace.ning.com/profile/AlbertTucherhttp://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/60993308?profile=RESIZE_48X48&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1http://crimespace.ning.com/profiles/blog/feed?user=3sujb4p0np2fr&xn_auth=noThe Same Mistake Twice: New Diana Andrews novellatag:crimespace.ning.com,2013-07-24:537324:BlogPost:3754162013-07-24T13:28:01.000ZAlbert Tucherhttp://crimespace.ning.com/profile/AlbertTucher
<p>Prostitute Diana Andrews has a business problem, and his name is John Doe.</p>
<p><a href="http://store.untreedreads.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=6_261&products_id=1006&zenid=4kn0e0jl6sodbj56shkqfpt0o0" target="_blank">Available here.</a><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/70763282?profile=original" target="_self"><img class="align-center" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/70763282?profile=original" width="200"/></a></p>
<p>Prostitute Diana Andrews has a business problem, and his name is John Doe.</p>
<p><a href="http://store.untreedreads.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=6_261&products_id=1006&zenid=4kn0e0jl6sodbj56shkqfpt0o0" target="_blank">Available here.</a><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/70763282?profile=original" target="_self"><img class="align-center" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/70763282?profile=original" width="200"/></a></p>New Diana Andrews story: The Retro Looktag:crimespace.ning.com,2012-06-18:537324:BlogPost:3462522012-06-18T20:30:00.000ZAlbert Tucherhttp://crimespace.ning.com/profile/AlbertTucher
<p>Prostitute Diana Andrews has to get the Atlantic City police off her back, even if it means breaking up a casino rip-off and solving two murders, one twenty years cold and the other scalding hot.</p>
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<p>New from Untreed Reads. Also available from Amazon and Barnes & Noble.</p>
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<p><a href="http://store.untreedreads.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=6_261&products_id=429" target="_blank">The Retro Look</a></p>
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<p>Prostitute Diana Andrews has to get the Atlantic City police off her back, even if it means breaking up a casino rip-off and solving two murders, one twenty years cold and the other scalding hot.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>New from Untreed Reads. Also available from Amazon and Barnes & Noble.</p>
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<p><a href="http://store.untreedreads.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=6_261&products_id=429" target="_blank">The Retro Look</a></p>
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<p>My review of the Write Stuff conference, held every March in Allentown, Pa., is now up at Elaine Ash's Ashedit blog. I'll give you a one-word summary here: recommended.</p>
<p><a href="http://ashedit.wordpress.com/2012/04/10/write-stuff-conference-2012/">http://ashedit.wordpress.com/2012/04/10/write-stuff-conference-2012/</a></p>
<p>My review of the Write Stuff conference, held every March in Allentown, Pa., is now up at Elaine Ash's Ashedit blog. I'll give you a one-word summary here: recommended.</p>
<p><a href="http://ashedit.wordpress.com/2012/04/10/write-stuff-conference-2012/">http://ashedit.wordpress.com/2012/04/10/write-stuff-conference-2012/</a></p>Mysterical-e Winter 2011-12 issuetag:crimespace.ning.com,2012-02-24:537324:BlogPost:3324122012-02-24T14:07:53.000ZAlbert Tucherhttp://crimespace.ning.com/profile/AlbertTucher
<p>The new issue of <em>Mysterical-e</em> is live, with my stand-alone storyThe Tango Queen.Set at Harvard in 1947, it's pretty far from Diana Andrews territory.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.mystericale.com/index.php?issue=current_issue&body=file&file=tango.html">http://www.mystericale.com/index.php?issue=current_issue&body=file&file=tango.html</a></p>
<p>The new issue of <em>Mysterical-e</em> is live, with my stand-alone storyThe Tango Queen.Set at Harvard in 1947, it's pretty far from Diana Andrews territory.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.mystericale.com/index.php?issue=current_issue&body=file&file=tango.html">http://www.mystericale.com/index.php?issue=current_issue&body=file&file=tango.html</a></p>BSP: Diana Andrews at Untreed Readstag:crimespace.ning.com,2011-12-19:537324:BlogPost:3246402011-12-19T13:01:39.000ZAlbert Tucherhttp://crimespace.ning.com/profile/AlbertTucher
<p>It was supposed to be a lucrative job posing as a rich man's girlfriend, but that was before someone ended up dead. Now the police are leaning on prositute Diana Andrews and making her cooperate with them. From Cape May to darkest Morris County, New Jersey, she must investigate old money and murder and hope she's not the next victim.</p>
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<p>It was supposed to be a lucrative job posing as a rich man's girlfriend, but that was before someone ended up dead. Now the police are leaning on prositute Diana Andrews and making her cooperate with them. From Cape May to darkest Morris County, New Jersey, she must investigate old money and murder and hope she's not the next victim.</p>
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<p><a href="http://store.untreedreads.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=6_261&products_id=285">http://store.untreedreads.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=6_261&products_id=285</a></p>Crimebaketag:crimespace.ning.com,2011-11-20:537324:BlogPost:3226242011-11-20T23:56:58.000ZAlbert Tucherhttp://crimespace.ning.com/profile/AlbertTucher
<p>My report on the 2011 Crimebake conference is over at Elaine Ash's blog:</p>
<p><a href="http://ashedit.wordpress.com/2011/11/20/crimebake-2011-albert-tucher-reports/">http://ashedit.wordpress.com/2011/11/20/crimebake-2011-albert-tucher-reports/</a></p>
<p>My report on the 2011 Crimebake conference is over at Elaine Ash's blog:</p>
<p><a href="http://ashedit.wordpress.com/2011/11/20/crimebake-2011-albert-tucher-reports/">http://ashedit.wordpress.com/2011/11/20/crimebake-2011-albert-tucher-reports/</a></p>Happy New Year from Diana!tag:crimespace.ning.com,2010-12-28:537324:BlogPost:2592892010-12-28T13:13:12.000ZAlbert Tucherhttp://crimespace.ning.com/profile/AlbertTucher
<p>In <em>The Work Wife</em> prostitute Diana Andrews solves the case and explains some things about herself. The story is now online in the Winter 2010-2011 issue of <em>Mysterical-e.</em></p>
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<p><em><a href="http://www.mystericale.com/index.php?issue=current_issue&body=file&file=work.htm">http://www.mystericale.com/index.php?issue=current_issue&body=file&file=work.htm</a></em></p>
<p>In <em>The Work Wife</em> prostitute Diana Andrews solves the case and explains some things about herself. The story is now online in the Winter 2010-2011 issue of <em>Mysterical-e.</em></p>
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<p><em><a href="http://www.mystericale.com/index.php?issue=current_issue&body=file&file=work.htm">http://www.mystericale.com/index.php?issue=current_issue&body=file&file=work.htm</a></em></p>BSP: Diana Andrews story with a difference.tag:crimespace.ning.com,2010-12-06:537324:BlogPost:2577492010-12-06T18:15:26.000ZAlbert Tucherhttp://crimespace.ning.com/profile/AlbertTucher
<p>Lest it ever be said that I lack chutzpah ...</p>
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<p><a href="http://temptationmag.wordpress.com/2010/12/06/shoot-me-by-albert-tucher/">http://temptationmag.wordpress.com/2010/12/06/shoot-me-by-albert-tucher/</a></p>
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<p>(Temptations Magazine is a new erotica zine.)</p>
<p>Lest it ever be said that I lack chutzpah ...</p>
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<p><a href="http://temptationmag.wordpress.com/2010/12/06/shoot-me-by-albert-tucher/">http://temptationmag.wordpress.com/2010/12/06/shoot-me-by-albert-tucher/</a></p>
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<p>(Temptations Magazine is a new erotica zine.)</p>Deadly Ink Conference.tag:crimespace.ning.com,2010-06-08:537324:BlogPost:2374462010-06-08T18:00:37.000ZAlbert Tucherhttp://crimespace.ning.com/profile/AlbertTucher
<p>I hope I will see some of you at the Deadly Ink conference in Parsippany, NJ, June 25-27. Conference organizer Debby Buchanan has asked me to sit on two panels, one of short story writers, and the other called "Writing the Opposite Sex."</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.deadlyink.com">www.deadlyink.com</a></p>
<p>I hope I will see some of you at the Deadly Ink conference in Parsippany, NJ, June 25-27. Conference organizer Debby Buchanan has asked me to sit on two panels, one of short story writers, and the other called "Writing the Opposite Sex."</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.deadlyink.com">www.deadlyink.com</a></p>BSP: New Diana Andrews story.tag:crimespace.ning.com,2010-02-01:537324:BlogPost:2259662010-02-01T12:39:27.000ZAlbert Tucherhttp://crimespace.ning.com/profile/AlbertTucher
"Changing the Game" is now online as "A Twist of Noir" no. 342. Diana listens to her instincts, and it's a good thing that she does.<br />
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http://a-twist-of-noir.blogspot.com/search/label/Al%20Tucher
"Changing the Game" is now online as "A Twist of Noir" no. 342. Diana listens to her instincts, and it's a good thing that she does.<br />
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http://a-twist-of-noir.blogspot.com/search/label/Al%20TucherBSP: Not a Diana Andrews story.tag:crimespace.ning.com,2009-12-21:537324:BlogPost:2229122009-12-21T14:40:28.000ZAlbert Tucherhttp://crimespace.ning.com/profile/AlbertTucher
My story The Only Amateur is now online in Issue 3 of Scalped. It's my second stand-alone. It's also my first male protagonist after thirty Diana Andrews stories, which I mention because of our discussion on men writing women.<br />
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The theme of Issue 3 is "sexual distortion," and I think it's worth checking out.<br />
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<a href="http://www.scalpedmagazine.com/03_tucher_albert_amateur.html">http://www.scalpedmagazine.com/03_tucher_albert_amateur.html</a><br />
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Al Tucher
My story The Only Amateur is now online in Issue 3 of Scalped. It's my second stand-alone. It's also my first male protagonist after thirty Diana Andrews stories, which I mention because of our discussion on men writing women.<br />
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The theme of Issue 3 is "sexual distortion," and I think it's worth checking out.<br />
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<a href="http://www.scalpedmagazine.com/03_tucher_albert_amateur.html">http://www.scalpedmagazine.com/03_tucher_albert_amateur.html</a><br />
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Al TucherFirst blog post.tag:crimespace.ning.com,2009-07-16:537324:BlogPost:2073342009-07-16T13:43:57.000ZAlbert Tucherhttp://crimespace.ning.com/profile/AlbertTucher
For my first blog post in Crimespace, some BSP:<br />
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I have two new stories out, neither of which is a Diana Andrews story. She is my series character, a suburban prostitute in northern New Jersey.<br />
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The first story, "Bismarck Rules," focuses on Diana's sidekick in my unpublished novels, another hooker named Mary Alice Mercier aka Crystal. It's now oneline in the "Oregon Literary Review."<br />
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http://orelitrev.startlogic.com/v4n2/OLR-rickert.htm#Bismarck<br />
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I guess it's safe to say now that it has taken…
For my first blog post in Crimespace, some BSP:<br />
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I have two new stories out, neither of which is a Diana Andrews story. She is my series character, a suburban prostitute in northern New Jersey.<br />
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The first story, "Bismarck Rules," focuses on Diana's sidekick in my unpublished novels, another hooker named Mary Alice Mercier aka Crystal. It's now oneline in the "Oregon Literary Review."<br />
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http://orelitrev.startlogic.com/v4n2/OLR-rickert.htm#Bismarck<br />
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I guess it's safe to say now that it has taken me almost ten years to get this story published. Its length, 7500 words, and its dark subject matter made it difficult to place.<br />
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My novella "The Acting Librarian" appears in the current issue of "Mysterical-e."<br />
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http://www.mystericale.com/index.php?issue=current_issue&body=file&file=librarian_story.htm<br />
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This one is very different.<br />
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I work as a cataloger at the Newark Public Library, a place with an awesome span of institutional memory. One of my colleagues, still active in 2009, started his career in 1947, which was also the year that Beatrice Winser died. She, in turn, came to Newark in 1895 as Assistant Librarian (Assistant Director in today's terms.) She was a fascinating bundle of Victorian contradictions. Progressive on the rights of women and minorities, she was a demented micromanager. Thousands of pages of her memos survive. When you have read her four single-spaced pages on pasting a label into a book, you know how to paste a label into a book. She also treated her staff with a paternalism that no one would tolerate today.<br />
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In the end she abused her nearly total power over her subordinates less than most in her position would have done. She also laid a foundation that sustained the Newark Public Library through two generations of difficult times. She deserves a fictional tribute, and I hope this story measures up.