All Blog Posts Tagged 'Joe' (7)

Brattleboro: Vermont's Hotbed Of Fictional Crime

Brattleboro, Vt., is a bucolic town — pricked with picturesque church steeples — and home to a vibrant arts community. So it's an unlikely setting for gruesome murder and gritty crime, but that's just what goes on in Archer Mayor's Brattleboro-based Joe Gunther detective series.

Mayor is something of an unlikely character himself. Never mind his New England blue blood background — Mayor has had some grisly jobs. He works as a death examiner for the state's medical office and…

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Added by Love Is Murder Conference on August 5, 2011 at 8:44am — No Comments

Any Joe R.Lansdale fans in the house?

Champion Joe - King of Mojo

Around three years ago, I was fortunate enough to stumble across a copy of Joe R. Lansdale’s Captain’s Outrageous in a Lancaster book shop. To those legions of readers that Joe has already converted, Hap Collins and Leonard Pine are as real as a hot Texas day and a flea ridden dog corpse laying…

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Added by Mark Porter on January 25, 2011 at 3:50pm — 1 Comment

Ten Notable Crimes In 2010

The notable crime stories of 2010 include foreign and American-born terrorists, collegiate and professional athletes, a college professor, the disturbing and ever-increasing problem of bullying, and the satisfying arrest of the man long suspected of having committed a similar murder. I’ve limited my selections to those crimes that actually occurred in 2010, but as always, there are far more notable crimes than there is space to list them.

On January 14, 15-year-old Phoebe…

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Added by Christopher Valen on December 18, 2010 at 1:14am — No Comments

Joe Konrath Quoted in Newsweek

Quoted in the annual books issue of (August 9, 2010):

....“It’s an even playing field for the first time,” says J. A. Konrath, a thriller author (Whiskey Sour) who plans to release all his future novels as self-published Kindle

books. “The gatekeepers have become who they should have been in the

first place: the readers.”…

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Added by Juli schatz on August 17, 2010 at 3:30am — 2 Comments

Mississippi writers comment on the growth of ebooks

Mississippi writers comment on the growth of ebooks in digital article by Joe Lee…

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Added by Darden North, MD on August 3, 2010 at 2:26pm — No Comments

Flash Fiction Challenge

Dan O'Shea ia hosting Crash and Burn - The Steve Weddle Memorial Airport Flash Fiction Challenge over at his blog Going Ballistic. Links to all entries can be found there. It's a good group.

My entry, "Shoeless Joe" is on my blog.

Added by Dana King on December 16, 2009 at 6:30am — No Comments

MEN OF MYSTERY COMING TO ACME AUTHORS LINK NEXT WEEK

Acme Authors Link is happy to host two popular Men of Mystery next week at http://acmeauthorslink.blogspot.com

On Wednesday, August 13 - Marcus Sakey

Friday, August 15 - Joe Konrath

Stop on by and see what these great authors have to say. Then come back again to read what our regular great bloggers are saying every day!

Morgan Mandel…

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Added by Morgan Mandel on August 7, 2008 at 1:27pm — No Comments