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Review - Mad Men, Bad Girls & The Guerrilla Knitters Institute, Maggie Groff

Title: MAD MEN, BAD GIRLS AND THE GUERRILLA KNITTERS INSTITUTE

Author Name: Maggie Groff

Author's Home Country: Australia

ISBN: 9781742610795

Year of Publication: 2012

Publisher: Pan MacMillan Australia

Location: Gold Coast, Byron Bay

Book Synopsis

When a secretive American cult moves to the Gold Coast, freelance journalist Scout Davis's investigative antennae start quivering. She sets out to expose the cult's lunatic beliefs and bizarre…

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Added by Karen from AustCrime on April 27, 2013 at 4:19pm — No Comments

Laura Childs, Nancy West, Joyce & Jim Lavene, short stories, giveaways & more in KRL

Up in Kings River Life this morning we have a review of Nancy G. West's latest mystery "Dang Near Dead", a fun guest post from Nancy where she interviews her main character & a chance to win a copy of not only this book but the one before it http://kingsriverlife.com/01/12/dang-near-dead-by-nancy-g-west/

Also up in KRL this morning, a review of Jim & Joyce Lavene's latest supernatural…

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Added by Lorie Ham on January 13, 2013 at 3:37am — No Comments

This whole genre

When blogging, there are days when the first question is what to blog about. Today is that type of day. In real life, this is a re-playing a movie that I actually bought a copy of. My son was with me for the earlier part of the day. Right now it is dark out: it is 5:30pm local time. The Germans are like the English in that they kept the 24 clock after the world wars - weird that in the end they agreed about that...This involves a side issue about misunderstanding when using different…

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Added by Miriam Pia on January 5, 2013 at 2:52am — No Comments

Trial of Outlaw Frank James Begins - 1883

This is my first blog post on Crime Space...I'm the author of "Murder & Mayhem 52 Crimes that Shocked Early California 1849-1949" (2012, Schiffer). I have a regular blog at www.mikeb63.blogspot.com that has spotlighted crime stories and other things for the past year. Visit my author website www.michaelthomasbarry.com for more…

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Added by Michael Barry on August 22, 2012 at 12:00pm — No Comments

The steps of releasing a Mystery Novel...I think...

My new novel is set for release in Sept and I can't wait but oh the work that goes into a release. I always knew it was a lot of work but until you actually do the work involved you really have no idea. First you have to write the novel, which I'd always heard was the easy part and I thought, 'Yeah, right.' But as it turns out the wisdom set down by those who did it before me holds true. That really was the easy part.Then came the first round of edits, which I normally do while writing the…

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Added by Ronald S. Barrios on June 9, 2011 at 3:12pm — No Comments

Amazon & Smashwords Merge!

Amazon and Smashwords are now the same company. Details from the Smashwords Blog:

(Los Mirages, Calif. and Seattle WA) – April 1, 20111 – Smashwords, a leading ebook distributor, today announced a definitive agreement to acquire Amazon for $149.99 a share or $69 billion, a 20%…

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Added by Benjamin Sobieck on April 2, 2011 at 9:08am — 4 Comments

Social Networkers Need Table Manners

http://mitziszereto.com/blog/social-networkers-need-table-manners/

Added by Mitzi Szereto on February 2, 2011 at 1:58am — No Comments

What do David Morrell, Barack Obama, and myself have in common?

We've all had books repped by Dystel & Goderich Literary Management.

Today my friend Brad Schoenfeld and I signed up with John Rudolph, a former editor who recently joined D&G, to rep Frame-Up, our crime thriller set in New York City.…

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Added by Eric Christopherson on November 5, 2010 at 10:30am — 4 Comments

Review - Pelagia & The Red Rooster, Boris Akunin

Book Title: PELAGIA AND THE RED ROOSTER

Author: Boris Akunin

Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Copyright: 2010

ISBN: 978-0-297-85297-1

No of Pages: 410

Book Synopsis:

Returning from the Synod in St Petersburg - an an official rebuke of her crime-fighting ways - Pelagia finds herself aboard the Steamer Sturgeon, dodging pickpockets, zealots and a sinister man with a detachable eye. But the brutal murder of the would-be Messiah in the cabin next door… Continue

Added by Karen from AustCrime on November 1, 2010 at 3:26pm — No Comments

Book signing, Oceanside, CA

As part of my trip to the US to see some of the filming of my novel, The Kult, I've got a book signing arranged at:

Barnes & Noble

El Camino North Shopping Center

2615 Vista Way

Oceanside, CA 92054

Date: October 6th

Time: 17.00 - 20.00

It would be great to meet as many people as…

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Added by Shaun Jeffrey on September 25, 2010 at 9:00pm — No Comments

Technophobe no more!

I'm starting to get so techno-savvy, it's frightening! I've just uploaded my very first video on this site (and youtube, blogger, twitter and facebook). I'm now the proud owner of a blog and will soon have Down Among the Dead Men out as an ebook. This is the second novel in my humorous Rafferty & Llewellyn crime series and was first published by Macmillan/St Martin's Press and Worldwide in 93/94 and is long out of print. Now it's going to get a whole new life as an…

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Added by Geraldine Evans on September 4, 2010 at 3:46am — 2 Comments

SOME MORE REVIEWS

Woody Haut (NEON NOIR, HEARTBREAK AND VINE) reviews TOROS & TORSOS. Novelist Charlie Stella reviews PRINT THE LEGEND. Naomi Johnson also weighs in on… Continue

Added by Craig McDonald on December 7, 2009 at 12:37am — No Comments

Mystery Writer's Roundtable

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Added by Anna Nicholas on November 25, 2009 at 2:00am — No Comments

"Ripped from the headlines" plots & people

Sandra Parshall

[Cross-posted from the Poe's Deadly Daughters blog]

I know a woman who could be transferred to the pages of a novel exactly as she is, to become a marvelously twisted character. She would be a plausible killer because of her unmatched talent for holding a grudge and her relentless vindictiveness. She would make an even more believable victim because everyone who knows her longs to be rid of her.

I’ll probably use her in a book sooner or later.… Continue

Added by Sandra Parshall on April 10, 2009 at 1:06am — 6 Comments

INTERVIEW AT PULP PUSHER

Alison Janssen, editor of Bleak House Books (who performed the neat hat trick of editing three Edgar® Award finalists in the same calendar year) interviews me at Pulp Pusher about past works, future projects and other topics (including the author/editor relationship).

Added by Craig McDonald on February 23, 2009 at 1:16am — No Comments

T&T BACKSTORY #5: HEMINGWAY & HOMICIDE

You can make a good case for Ernest Hemingway having left a profound mark on hardboiled crime fiction.

Graduate students and crime fiction aficionados have murdered trees arguing whether Hemingway influenced Dashiell Hammett or whether inspiration ran the other direction.

Raymond Chandler incorporated Hemingway in his fiction, wrote an astonishingly inept parody of Hemingway prose and staunchly defended Hem’s much-pilloried novel Across the River and Into the… Continue

Added by Craig McDonald on September 14, 2008 at 11:17pm — No Comments

T&T BACKSTORY #4: HEMINGWAY & DOS PASSOS

A portion of Toros & Torsos takes place in Spain early in 1937 as Hector Lassiter joins Ernest Hemingway and novelist John Dos Passos in Madrid during the early days of the Spanish Civil War.

In T&T, Hector has gone to Spain as a favor to Pauline Hemingway — agreeing to watch over a sometimes erratic Ernest, while at the same time doing what he can to contain Hem’s growing preoccupation with journalist Martha Gellhorn, the woman destined to become the third of four Mrs.… Continue

Added by Craig McDonald on September 8, 2008 at 10:34am — No Comments

T&T BACKSTORY #2: SURREALIST ART AND MURDER

The Hector Lassiter series is all about secret history — a blending of fact and fiction that aims to get at something like the hidden truth.

Toros & Torsos (aka, Hector Lassiter #2), spins on the premise that surrealist art and theory may have informed or inspired several bloody, unsolved crimes of the 20th Century — most notably the murder of Elizabeth Short, the so-called “Black Dahlia” as she was dubbed by panting L.A. journalists circa January 1947.

The… Continue

Added by Craig McDonald on August 25, 2008 at 10:49am — No Comments

T&T BACKSTORY: THE GREAT KEYS STORM OF ’35

The coming Labor Day weekend marks the 73rd anniversary of the Great Florida Keys Storm of 1935 — still the most powerful hurricane to strike the United States. At this writing, another hurricane is threatening the Keys — a tropical storm named Fay.

The ’35 hurricane occurred at a time before tropical storms were given names. Storm forecasting was an uncertain science. And officials charged with the responsibility of informing and evacuating citizenry in the storm’s path were more… Continue

Added by Craig McDonald on August 18, 2008 at 12:42am — 1 Comment