Benjamin Sobieck's Blog – October 2009 Archive (2)

Review of B.R. Stateham's "Murderous Passions"

B.R. Stateham’s “Murderous Passions” (Publish America, 2008) sets forth an ambitious task for its protagonists and readers: two detectives have four separate homicides to solve in one novel.

The result is manna for those starved for honest-to-goodness police procedurals. Stateham’s old school style shrugs off today’s trendy… Continue

Added by Benjamin Sobieck on October 15, 2009 at 2:00pm — 3 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