October 2009 Blog Posts (190)

Its not a crime story, but try out my new blog spot

I have a new blog spot dedicated to serializing the first book of my fantasy. The book's entitled, Roland of the High Crags: Evil Arises. Starting on the 15th of this month I'm adding the first installment of the book. Every month afterward comes another installment.

You can go check it out now. I wrote a short intro. for it and posted it. Find it at www.rolandofthehighcrags-evilarises.blogspot.com

Added by B.R.Stateham on October 5, 2009 at 11:00am — 1 Comment

Excerpt of THE SENATOR'S DAUGHTER

How in the world did he expect her to sleep with him lying next to her all night? She already felt the heat from their close proximity, reaching up to undo some of the top buttons of her shirt. She fluffed the material against her hot skin, thanking God for the cool air of the fan overhead.

In the end it wasn't enough. As Brent settled into an exhausted sleep, Sophie lay there burning up, listening to his soft snores and undoing yet another button, and another. She tried to inch away… Continue

Added by Tory Richards on October 5, 2009 at 10:44am — No Comments

How do you know when you're being taken for a sucker?

Royalty statement came in for one of my books--the police-procedural series I'm writing. Oddly enough, I get the strongest impression I'm being screwed. When the book came out it was within three months of the first royalty reporting months. It sold X number of books. This second royalty statement comes almost a year to the publishing date later. A year's worth of advertising, book signings, internet ads, discussions, blogging---a year's worth of getting several very good reviews from fans and… Continue

Added by B.R.Stateham on October 5, 2009 at 2:30am — 9 Comments

Review: DOUBLE EXPOSURE by Michael Lister

Tyrus Books, 2009

ISBN 13: 978-0-9825209-2-5

Trade Paper, 204 pages

$14.95, U. S. / $16.50, Canada

Reviewed by Larry W. Chavis

Remington James has a lucrative job in advertising, a wife he loves but from whom he is drifting, and an emptiness of soul he can not fill. When his father dies, Remington returns to his northwest Florida hometown to carry on his father's business and see to the needs of his invalid mother.… Continue

Added by Larry W. Chavis on October 5, 2009 at 2:30am — No Comments

CAN I DO IT

It's four am

I'm writin again,

Lookin at the next chapter

do I add laffter?

It's a crime fiction

need good diction,

Want to make it intriguing

my spellin a frigging,

Develope the plot

make it hot,

Maybe a twist

need be on my list,

This is the crossroad

where I decide the load,

It must keep your attention

save me from detention,

They say the way you… Continue

Added by RONALD FEASEL on October 4, 2009 at 8:30pm — No Comments

Guaranteed Way to Hear Back on a Full Submission

If you're waiting anxiously like a stray dog at a county fair trash can for a response on a full submission, try going on a honeymoon. As in, your honeymoon. My holiday from e-mail and the rest of reality yielded the one message I'd been anticipating for four months, from an agent who had requested a full.

(If on the off-chance someone thought the government finally hauled me off, my nuptial is why I haven't been very active in CrimeSpace of late.)

Alas, the high… Continue

Added by Benjamin Sobieck on October 4, 2009 at 12:00pm — 2 Comments

Guest Appearance at Mayors' Reception

I was delighted to be asked to the Mayor of Havant’s reception and the grand opening of the newly refurbished arts and heritage centre in Havant, Hampshire, called The Spring, on 2 October.

The mayor of Havant, Jackie Branson, was entertaining all the mayors from around Hampshire and the Isle of Wight – twenty two of them I believe. It is a tradition that each mayor takes it in turn annually to host an event and to give a small gift to… Continue

Added by Pauline Rowson on October 4, 2009 at 12:58am — No Comments

New Story up at Thuglit

Hey Everybody,

My new story Chickens is up at Thuglit...hope you enjoy

...also check out new stuff by Jimmy Callaway and Mike MacLean

Added by Matthew Quinn Martin on October 3, 2009 at 11:30pm — No Comments

Meet me in DC, VA OR MD this weekend!

Reminder: today’s writer seminar is “Pushing the Electronic Envelope Even Farther: Using Cyberspace to Advance Your Career” at 9am in the Bernstein-Offit Building at 1717 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.

Then a book signing at Waldenbooks from 1 pm to 5 pm at 10101 Brook Rd, Glen Allen VA.

TOMORROW it’s north to Annapolis to meet some new friends in a Borders Bookstore I haven’t visited before. I’ll sign my novels in that store from 2 pm to 6 pm. If that’s near… Continue

Added by Austin S. Camacho on October 3, 2009 at 9:15pm — No Comments

New Thug Lit!

That’s right, a brand spankin’ new Thug Lit is up, featuring “Little Gun” by yours truly. Wait, there’s more! Call now and we’ll include cool neo-noir by CrimeSpace regulars Jimmy Callaway and Matthew Quinn Martin… at no extra cost!

Oh yeah, and there’s a new little Thug in the world. Thug Lit editor Lady Detroit announced the birth of a bouncing baby… Well, she didn't fess up to whether the little one is a boy or… Continue

Added by Mike MacLean on October 3, 2009 at 9:40am — 2 Comments

Akitada Investigates a Historical Murder: "The Kamo Horse."

I get some of my plot ideas from Japanese history and literature. In this case, one of the old chronicles supplied a tale that ended up as a short story.

The TALES OF THE HEIKE is a prose epic that commemorates the bloody battles between Taira Kiyomori and Minamoto Yoritomo which ended the imperial rule and brought in feudal Japan under the rule of a shogun and warlords. The epic contains a number of memorable anecdotal stories, among them that of the murder of the beautiful Lady… Continue

Added by I. J. Parker on October 3, 2009 at 4:00am — No Comments

Letterman Blackmailed? No-- T'was Just A Misunderstanding...

by Earl Merkel

October 2, 2009, 7:50 am

There's a myth --started, I suspect, by writers-- that all writers write "not because we want to, but because we have to." The compulsion to write is, we tell people, an "artist sort of thing."

Uh-huh. Ri-i-i-ght.

Yeah-- that explains why so many of us stare at the morning's blank computer screen, motionless hands poised over the keyboard, until our eyeballs bleed.

And then we do… Continue

Added by Earl Merkel on October 3, 2009 at 2:30am — 1 Comment

Neon pee on the Reeperbahn, and other travels

The whole point of travel is to see Red Light districts around the world. That’s what I assume my German publisher C.H. Beck thinks. Or maybe that's what they think I'll like. Anyway, they keep sending me to Hamburg, which has one of the most famous naughty neighborhoods in the world.

At the invitation of the extremely professional Harbour Front… Continue

Added by Matt Rees on October 3, 2009 at 1:08am — No Comments

Mini Book Tour A Success

There was certainly a welcome in the hillside and on the banks of the River Tyne for me in the north of England this week during my mini book tour, which kicked off at Newcastle City Library and ended at The Richmond Walking and Book Festival. I met some fantastic people who made me very welcome and very kindly bought tons of my books. Thank you.

The new city library at Newcastle is most impressive and a million miles away from the libraries of… Continue

Added by Pauline Rowson on October 2, 2009 at 11:51pm — No Comments

Immersion

Once upon a time I worked in a bakery...for about three days. It was kind of fun, kind of funny. One task taught to me by a kind but verbally challenged worker was the process of what she called "emerging" the doughnuts. It involved a screen that pressed them under the hot oil, and they did eventually "emerge" from it completely cooked.

I do my best writing when immersed in the story, but sometimes it takes a lot to get there: a lot of time, a lot of silence, a lot of freeing my mind… Continue

Added by Peg Herring on October 2, 2009 at 11:05pm — 1 Comment

new photos

I added a photo of my wife with her latest steed. She'doing quite well in competition. Anyone here interested in horses drop me a line . I'm considering a crime fiction in the horse area/

Added by RONALD FEASEL on October 2, 2009 at 9:30pm — No Comments

Meet Me in DC or VA

I cover DC, MD and VA this weekend. Saturday morning I take part in a program presented by the Johns Hopkins University Masters of Arts in Writing Program and the American Independent Writers. The one day writer’s seminar, called “Pushing the Electronic Envelope Even Farther: Using Cyberspace to Advance Your Career,” will help writers take their personal brand to the next level. Our focus will be on online identity for writers of all types. In four sessions attendees will learn about social… Continue

Added by Austin S. Camacho on October 2, 2009 at 9:14pm — No Comments

Win a MacBook Laptop Computer!

Hi everyone-

Please forgive my lapse into BSP, but I'm gearing up for the release of THE GATEKEEPER and thought some of you might want to enter a giveaway I'm running.

One lucky person will receive a brand new MacBook laptop computer. All you have to do is go to my website (www.MichelleGagnon.com) and sign up for my free newsletter, which will grace your inbox fewer than six times a year.

Want to increase your odds? For ten more entries, please answer this… Continue

Added by Michelle Gagnon on October 2, 2009 at 7:19am — No Comments

Two down, one to go.

I'm not a very goal-oriented guy, if you can believe that. But when it comes to today's crime fiction scene, to me, there's a Holy Trinity to shoot for: Out of the Gutter, Plots with Guns, and Thuglit. Well, I've gotten into Plots with Guns twice now, and today we can cross another one off the to-do list. Yes, my story "Your Own Saturday Night" is now live in the current issue of Thuglit, appearing alongside good… Continue

Added by Jimmy Callaway on October 2, 2009 at 5:45am — 2 Comments

September's Best Reads

(Also posted on One Bite at a Time.)

My best reads from September, in the order in which they were read:

Silent Edge, by Michael Koryta. A cold case heats up in a hurry for Cleveland PI Lincoln Perry after he’s hired by an ex-con to find the woman who rehabilitated him. Koryta is a master at treading the line between just enough and too much in plot, characterization, dialog, and whatever other aspects of… Continue

Added by Dana King on October 2, 2009 at 5:27am — No Comments