Although I'm not new to the publishing world, I am very much new to the suspense/thriller genre. Just after I finished writing The Seven Year Itch: A J.J. McCall Novel and started getting feedback from the Beta readers, I realized I might have some major revisions. While the readers said they "love, love, love" the story and couldn't wait for the next installment (and one of the Beta readers didn't know me), an agent had a less than pleasing reaction. He said that it was well written but it…
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Added by S.D. Skye on July 18, 2012 at 11:19pm —
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Although I'm not new to the publishing world, I am very much new to the suspense/thriller genre. Just after I finished writing The Seven Year Itch: A J.J. McCall Novel and started getting feedback from the Beta readers, I realized I might have some major revisions. While the readers said they "love, love, love" the story and couldn't wait for the next installment (and one of the Beta readers didn't know me), an agent had a less than pleasing reaction. He said that it was well written but it…
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Added by S.D. Skye on July 18, 2012 at 11:19pm —
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Bryan Gruley is another new to me author. The Skeleton Boxis the third book in Gruley's Starvation Lake series.
Starvation Lake is a quiet, small town in Michigan where nothing dangerous really ever happens, but a recent series of break-ins…
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Added by Luanne Ollivier on July 18, 2012 at 2:13am —
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Book Title: THE WRECKAGE
Author: Michael Robotham
ISBN: 9781847442215
Location: Baghdad, London
Series: Vincent Ruiz
Publisher: Little Brown
Year of Publication: 2011
Billions of dollars are missing from Iraqi banks, and journalist Luca Terracini will risk everything to discover where it is. His Iraqi-American background has made it easier for him to infiltrate the darkest corners of the war, but death of his beloved Nicola in a suicide bombing…
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Added by Karen from AustCrime on July 17, 2012 at 5:23pm —
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A very nice interview about my first private eye novel at http://criminal-e.blogspot.com/…
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Added by O'Neil De Noux on July 17, 2012 at 12:16pm —
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Book Title: SLASH AND BURN
Author: Colin Cotterill
ISBN: 9780857381972
Location: Laos
Series: Siri Paiboun
Publisher: Quercus
Year of Publication: 2011
Dr. Siri was 72 years old in 1974 when he was forced out of retirement and grudgingly became Laos's national coroner. Now he might finally be allowed to retire (again). Although he loves his two morgue assistants, he's never loved the job, and he wants to spend some time with his wife before his…
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Added by Karen from AustCrime on July 16, 2012 at 11:20pm —
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Book Title: DEVIL-DEVIL
Author: Graeme Kent
ISBN: 9781569478738
Location: Solomon Islands
Series: Ben Kella
Publisher: Soho
Year of Publication: 2011
It's not easy being Ben Kella. As a sergeant in the Solomon Islands Police Force, as well as an aofia, a hereditary spiritual peacekeeper of the Lau people, he is viewed with distrust by both the indigenous islanders and the British colonial authorities. In the past few days he has been cursed by a magic…
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Added by Karen from AustCrime on July 16, 2012 at 9:52pm —
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As a voracious reader, I've read a lot of romantic suspense and thriller novels. One thing I've noticed is that there seems to be a formula. Stories usually began with a dead body and the rest of the book took the reader on a journey to find out how the body got that way. And it's a formula that works and has worked for years with good reason. But when plotting my upcoming J.J. McCall series, I had to figure out something different because I discovered an aversion that would make the usual…
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Added by S.D. Skye on July 16, 2012 at 9:30pm —
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Almost a quarter of a century we are ‘bombarded’ with reports about threats of serious (transnational organised) crime (for profit) and in particular the related criminal revenues. Drug barons are supposed to corrupt and disrupt the financial system by their trillions of dirty money. To stem this tide of criminal infiltration the US administration has persuaded first in 1989 the G-7 countries to establish a costly anti-laundering regime monitored but actually headed by the FATF.…
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Added by P.C. van Duyne on July 16, 2012 at 7:58am —
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Let me start with an admission: I'm a workaholic.
Anyone who knows me knows that much about me.
If you're not a workaholic, then you don't know what down time can be like for us. My paycheck says that I'm a community college professor, and my hours during the school year are pretty regimented. That's not a bad thing. I always know where I'm supposed to be and what I'm supposed to be doing on a minute by minute basis, and I can fit in my passions -- writing and now…
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Added by John Michael Brantingham on July 16, 2012 at 5:09am —
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It seems every time I click on a discussion online from authors, all I see is moaning and groaning that all this media socializing we're encouraged to do doesn't produce sales. Authors point out that we
seem to be “preaching to the choir.” Where are the readers we need to target?
My question to the whiners is “What's your solution?” Doesn't anyone realize what a huge leap we've taken in the marketing department? When many of us started,…
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Added by Sunny Frazier on July 15, 2012 at 5:59pm —
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It seems every time I click on a discussion online from authors, all I see is moaning and groaning that all this media socializing we're encouraged to do doesn't produce sales. Authors point out that we
seem to be “preaching to the choir.” Where are the readers we need to target?
My question to the whiners is “What's your solution?” Doesn't anyone realize what a huge leap we've taken in the marketing department? When many of us started,…
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Added by Sunny Frazier on July 15, 2012 at 5:59pm —
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Added by Tom Vater on July 15, 2012 at 5:12pm —
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New issue of Kings River Life is up and filled with mystery fun including a great mystery short story by Dennis Palumbo http://kingsriverlife.com/07/14/the-last-laugh-another-smart-guys-mystery-short-story/
A big summer mystery review/giveaway of 4 Penguin mysteries that came out early this summer-"All Sales Final" by Laura Disilverio, "Brownies and Broomsticks" by Bailey Cates,…
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Added by Lorie Ham on July 15, 2012 at 4:29am —
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Here's what's up.
A site called Groupees.com is taking e-books from myself, Vincent Zandri, Fiona Johnson, Dana King, Laura Roberts and Black Heart Magazine…
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Added by Benjamin Sobieck on July 15, 2012 at 4:00am —
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July started out with some real fireworks! I found on July 1st, that Dark Mind, my latest Emily Stone Thriller, has received two award…
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Added by Jennifer Chase on July 14, 2012 at 3:01am —
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Many of us had mothers who warned us against the “bad boy”? Perhaps you even had a father who stood on the front porch waiting for your date of questionable repute to arrive while conveniently cleaning his pistol at the same time. Despite the wise advice to walk away from trouble and our own conscious knowledge that we are making a bad choice, a good number…
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Added by Jennifer Chase on July 14, 2012 at 2:59am —
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“You like money. You’ve got a great big dollar sign there where most women have a heart.”
-Johnny Clay (Sterling Hayden), The Killing (1956)
Added by John DuMond on July 13, 2012 at 10:22pm —
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Ben Coes began his career in the public sector, working at the White House under President Ronald Reagan and President George H.W. Bush, serving as a White House-appointed speechwriter to the U.S. Secretary of Energy at the height of the Gulf War. He later became a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. A graduate of Columbia…
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Added by Ehsan Ehsani on July 13, 2012 at 3:40am —
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On this date in 1979, acting Bonanno crime family boss Carmine “The Cigar” Galante was murdered at a restaurant in Brooklyn. Galante, whose tenure as boss caused friction with the other New York crime families, had engineered the assassination of several Gambino family members in order to take over their narcotics trafficking business.
By the middle of 1979, the bosses of the other…
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Added by John DuMond on July 13, 2012 at 1:48am —
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