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Guest Blogger: Albert Tucher - Early Noir

Today's Guest Blogger is Albert Tucher who gives us a nice little ditty about Early Noir- and I do mean EARLY! http://pdbrazill.blogspot.com/ Continue

Added by Paul Brazill on November 15, 2009 at 9:53pm — No Comments

CRAFTING TWISTS AND DROPPING CLUES

Today I gave a mini version to the Las Vegas Quill Keepers of the workshop I'll be presenting at the Las Vegas Writers Conference in April 2010...in...where else? Las Vegas. The title is "Crafting Twists and Dropping Clues." It was very well received, so I can't wait to present it complete with Power Point and a short interactive workshop. While preparing the presentation, I realized that one of my all-time favorite Twist and Clue movies was "The Usual Suspects." I revisited it and wow---did I… Continue

Added by Morgan St. James on November 15, 2009 at 2:21pm — No Comments

Daughter Am I Blog Tour -- Final Week!

My Daughter Am I blog tour is winding down -- I have seven days to go (eight if you include today) and I don't know whether to be sad or to rejoice. Since my promotion motto is "Promotion is just another word for party," I decided to rejoice and have an end of blog tour party on the 22nd and 23rd. You are all invited, of course. The most interesting aspect of the tour has been coming up with unique guest pos… Continue

Added by Pat Bertram on November 15, 2009 at 12:30pm — No Comments

WHY I WRITE MYSTERIES

I grew up in a house full of readers where everyone’s favorite pastime was to gather around the fireplace and read, talk about books, or read aloud from books such as The Hound of the Baskervilles. Gradually I became aware that some of my parents’ favorite books were mysteries, but I didn’t really understand why until I started to write one. Traditional mysteries are layered puzzles, like archaeological digs. The best ones are rich in character and setting, hard to put down but satisfying to f… Continue

Added by Sarah Wisseman on November 15, 2009 at 8:00am — 1 Comment

MORAL DILEMMA Ch. 2

CH. 2 FAST JACK He was moving along smoothly as the wheels clicked over the separations in the sidewalk- tic-tic-tic. Jack was a striking figure in his wheelchair. The caps just below his knees added to his total look of mystic and curiosity. They were stainless steel caps just below the knees were his legs had been shot off. His upper body was muscular with his arms betraying his strength. He had a square jaw and was an attractive man topped with pure blonde hair cut short. Judging from his arm… Continue

Added by REID JACKSON (pen name) on November 15, 2009 at 12:45am — No Comments

Germany Remembers Fall of Berlin Wall & CROSSROADS

Sphere: Famous Street Was Caught Between East and West Merkel, who grew up in East Germany and was one of thousands to cross that night, recalled that "before the joy of freedom came, many people suffered." She lauded Gorbachev, with whom she shared an umbrella amid a crush of hundreds, eager for a glimpse of the man many still consider a hero for his role in pushing reform in the Soviet Union. THRILLER CROSSROADS provides some of the subtleties hidden behind the past decad… Continue

Added by STEVEN NEDELTON on November 14, 2009 at 8:00pm — No Comments

The Ballad Of The Kid at THRILLERS KILLERS N CHILLERS

My story The Ballad Of The Kid is at Thrillers Killers N CHillers http://pdbrazill.blogspot.com/ Continue

Added by Paul Brazill on November 14, 2009 at 7:35am — No Comments

Who is that woman, and why is she smiling?

That would be me! And I'm smiling because I'm the new Managing Editor of the International Thriller Writers' webzine and newsletter THE BIG THRILL. Very happy to be in a position to give back to an organization that's done so much for me. If you've never been to the website, be sure to check it out. And if you love thriller… Continue

Added by Karen Dionne on November 14, 2009 at 4:30am — 4 Comments

Page proofs and the jitters

The page proofs have arrived for the new Inspector Horton crime novel Blood on the Sand which is being published on 25 February 2010. This is the final stage before the novel goes to print and perhaps… Continue

Added by Pauline Rowson on November 14, 2009 at 3:56am — No Comments

Is Abbas really ready to quit this time?

Worn out has-been or drama queen? Interpretations of the Palestinian president's threat to quit vary greatly. By Matt Beynon Rees - GlobalPost JERUSALEM — Sometimes a quitter really does quit for good. The Palestinian Authority president, Mahmoud Abbas, announced last week that he wouldn’t run for re-election in the proposed Janua… Continue

Added by Matt Rees on November 14, 2009 at 1:21am — 2 Comments

Insanity Defense?

Die, Vampires Song Download MP3 at: http://www.reverbnation.com/tunepak/2005373 At a party late one night Saw this vixen smile at me She said come up to my room If there’s more you’d like to see. Something told me not to Lust said it had to be She pulled me into her room Used a key to lock the door Started kissing on my neck Took off all the clothes I wore When her fangs scratched my neck My blood began to pour In the c… Continue

Added by Mike on November 14, 2009 at 12:30am — No Comments

The Trojan Project

One Of The Best Books I Have Ever Reviewed The Trojan Project By Eileen Thornton Available from Amazon Stand where you are and listen to the stillness. Do you hear anything? Do you hear the rustling of the trees, the cattle or sheep moving? Do you see anyone out there while looking down from the top of the mountain? Now, look up into the sky and out into the distance. Do you see that green light? Don’t get too close and find shelter before it is too late? The light appears in th… Continue

Added by Eileen Thornton on November 13, 2009 at 11:03pm — No Comments

The Trojan Project

TITLE: The Trojan Project AUTHOR: Eileen Thornton COPYRIGHT: Eileen Thornton FORMAT: Paperback GENRE: Fiction PAGES: 292 PRICE: $12.99 (US), £8.99 (UK) ISBN-10: 1905609094 ISBN-13: 9781905609093 Imagine…you’re waiting for your husband to come home from tending the sheep. Out of nowhere appears a green flash in the night sky. It’s followed by a strange green mist. You hear your friends and neighbors in the valley below screaming with fear. Then there is total silence. You feel so helples… Continue

Added by Eileen Thornton on November 13, 2009 at 11:00pm — No Comments

Writing Funny

I can't do it. I envy those who can. I will admit that as a playwright, I wrote some things that were funny. But in my novels, nobody's going to laugh out loud. I note this because I started reading a friend's MS last night and I did...laugh out loud. She has the knack of being funny without being silly, and entertaining without stooping to farce, which irritates me. I was never a fan of the Lucille Ball-type heroine, so overdrawn and asinine that I wanted to slap her. My friend's small-town h… Continue

Added by Peg Herring on November 13, 2009 at 10:44pm — 4 Comments

Writing Funny

Added by Peg Herring on November 13, 2009 at 10:44pm — No Comments

Meet Me in MD Tomorrow

Saturday I'm stretching a bit out of my usual area to visit the Waldenbooks in Cumberland MD. It's far enough north and west that fans in PA and WV might consider stopping in. I'll sign books there, at at 1262 Vocke Rd, Cumberland, MD, from 1 pm to 5 pm. Continue

Added by Austin S. Camacho on November 13, 2009 at 9:41pm — No Comments

Guest Blogger: Tony Black - Storm A Bruen.

I'm pretty damn pleased that my first Guest Blogger is Mr. Tony Black who pays tribute to Mr Ken Bruen here: http://pdbrazill.blogspot.com/ Pop over and have a nosey. Continue

Added by Paul Brazill on November 13, 2009 at 8:30pm — No Comments

Characters Who Haunt Us

(Cross-posted from Poe's Deadly Daughters) I can’t get the girl out of my mind. I worry about her. I want to know what happened to her after the book ended. Throughout most of Elizabeth George’s Missing Joseph, I found the 13-year-old character Maggie Spence exasperating in the way a lot of teens are. Lying to her mother, sneaking out to rendezvous with a boy she was forbidden to see, engaging in sex long before she was capable of dealing with it emotionally. I wanted to shake some sens… Continue

Added by Sandra Parshall on November 13, 2009 at 7:55am — No Comments

"A Freak'en Mess,' is on my blog

Go to my blog and read a Turner Hahn/Frank Morales short story entitled 'A Freak'en Mess.' It's another one of my noir-police-procedural stories. I'm thinking about collecting all these damn things and going straight to Kindle as a book of short stories (or have I said this, already? Ha! Senility!) Oh. . . and why not join up as a member? You see, you can throw darts at my stories and we'll all feel better. Find it at: http://www.noirtak… Continue

Added by B.R.Stateham on November 13, 2009 at 2:59am — No Comments

Jerusalem's a zoo

When foreign correspondents come to Jerusalem they often ask me for advice on stories and places from which to witness the various conflicts that play out in this city. Next time, I’m going to buy them a ticket to the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo. I go there every Saturday afternoon with my two-year-old son. But perhaps because our favorite animals (the cute little prairie dogs) have hibernated, I noticed that the zoo is a microcosm of all the things I covered here in a decade and a half as a journal… Continue

Added by Matt Rees on November 12, 2009 at 11:51pm — No Comments