January 2010 Blog Posts (151)

Thank You to Everyone

I just wanted to say a great big thank you to everyone who voted for my various nominations in the recent Preditors & Editors Readers Poll. Many of you, both friends and some lovely people who I hadn't heard from before got in touch with me to say they had voted in support of my work, and I am so grateful to each and every of you. It will probably be early February before the votes have been counted, and anti-fraud and ballot stuffing software has been run by the organizers to weed out any… Continue

Added by Brian L Porter on January 19, 2010 at 3:13am — No Comments

The Eye of the Beholder (6)

A month had passed since Preston’s disappearance. Cary had checked with everyone he knew of who knew his friend to see if he’d come to them or at least contacted them. He hadn’t.

When Cary finally got up the nerve to call Preston’s parents they were shocked at his news, which he’d expected they would be. They were also angry that someone in authority hadn’t let them know the moment it had happened. He’d had to explain that Preston had apparently refused to give the hospital any… Continue

Added by Edith Glass on January 19, 2010 at 3:06am — No Comments

WHAT DID THE TALK SHOW HOST SAY?

He didn’t say not to give to Haiti, he said, “We already gave aid to Haiti,” calling it the U.S. Tax. THAT IS discouraging advice. What would we think of anyone that offered that opinion if an earthquake happened in America?

Look Haiti needs your 5 dollar donation. This isn’t about conservative, liberal, straight, gay, male, female, black or white. We are all children of the world, what it is about is saving humanity.

Here’s the math.

I’m not a… Continue

Added by Johnny Russell on January 18, 2010 at 6:00am — No Comments

The Eye of the Beholder (5)

Cary stormed out of the hospital. He had to before he knocked every damned doctor there on their collective asses. How the hell had they let Preston leave? From everything he’d been told the man was in no condition to even get out of bed and yet they’d let him sign himself out.

Reaching the car he slammed his fist against the hood again and again until Hugh wrapped his arms around him from behind to stop him. “Not good news I take it,” his lover said calmly, refusing to relinquish… Continue

Added by Edith Glass on January 18, 2010 at 3:22am — No Comments

BOOKS BY ANNE PATRICK

Every Skull Tells a Story - available now in print. Forensic Sketch Artist, Mackayla Kinsington, and FBI profiler, Galen Schroeder, team up to discover the identities of three bodies found at a U.S. senator's vacation home. When the killer realizes how good Mackayla is she becomes the next target. Purchase here at Target.com, Amazon, Barnes & Nobel, other online bookstores!

Journey to Redemption - available now in ebook. Detective Morgan Reynolds thought her… Continue

Added by Anne Patrick on January 17, 2010 at 6:15pm — No Comments

Fighter's Journal of Love (Whats it about)

Added by Arthur on January 17, 2010 at 10:18am — No Comments

An Armchair Hero Confronts Her Fears

I was invited to contribute a guest article to Barnes and Noble's Ransom Notes. You can read the result here: http://tiny.cc/D11Cl

Added by Sandra Ruttan on January 17, 2010 at 4:38am — 2 Comments

The Eye of the Beholder (4)

Next Cary called Hugh. Forestalling Hugh’s questions about how his trip was going, Cary asked if he knew anything about what had happened to Preston.

“Only what I saw on TV.” Hugh had met Preston a couple of times after the first meeting at the street fair. Once he’d seemed to get it through his head that Preston and Cary really were just friends and nothing more he’d found he enjoyed Preston’s company. He thought he was amusing and very sexy even though not in the least his… Continue

Added by Edith Glass on January 17, 2010 at 3:16am — No Comments

Eric Ambler's left wing spy thrillers

The English thriller writer Eric Ambler (1909-1998) is undergoing a revival – five of his classic novels from the 1930s have recently been republished by Penguin Classics. Ambler was called “our greatest thriller writer” by Graham Greene, who wasn’t bad at it himself, and Ambler is often cited as the precursor to writers such as John le Carre.

I’ve just read Ambler’s A Coffin for Demetrios (1939) and despite the obvious period touches (people communicating by ‘pneumatique’,… Continue

Added by Nick Gadd on January 16, 2010 at 6:28pm — No Comments

End of second week of Book Tour

And I am over here http://asthepagesturn.wordpress.com/2010/01/14/motivate-the-muse-by-cozy-mystery-author-kim-smith/ chatting about how to tweak your muse and get it motivated!

Come by and have some fun!

Added by Kim Smith on January 16, 2010 at 3:53am — No Comments

The Eye of the Beholder (3)

Cary flopped back on the hotel room bed, sighing in relief. It wasn’t that he hated business trips. He just… OK, he hated them. He missed his city, his apartment and his friends. Especially Hugh. They’d met a month ago at a street fair Preston had dragged him to and had hit it off immediately. It had taken only three dates until they’d fallen into bed. Cary was contemplating the idea of their moving in together, he was that smitten, but common sense said it was way too soon to broach the… Continue

Added by Edith Glass on January 16, 2010 at 2:48am — No Comments

Writer declares he's pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli

The best thing about switching from journalism to fiction writing is that people show you more respect.

As a journalist covering a highly contentious issue like the Israel-Palestinian conflict, I was often subject to rather nasty verbal attacks during public speaking engagements. For a partisan of either side, I seemed a fine target for their generalized contempt—they thought journalists were all against them and here was a live reporter on whom they could vent their… Continue

Added by Matt Rees on January 15, 2010 at 5:22pm — No Comments

Another Quarry?

We are excited to note that 2010 will be a big one for fans of Max Allan Collins. While looking at the Hard Case Crime website tonight, I spotted the cover shot of yet another new Quarry novel, this one entitled Quarry's Ex. This is terrific news and the only bad thing is that we must wait until October before the book drops. What the heck are we going to read until then? Oh, right, Collins has the new Mike Hammer book coming out, among other things. We should be okay.

But we must… Continue

Added by Brian Drake on January 15, 2010 at 2:25pm — 1 Comment

WHO WAS THE WORLD’S GREATEST T.V. DETECTIVE?

I ordered the second season of Columbo episodes on DVD. Included was a rundown of the greatest sleuth shows on television. Believe it or not Magnum P.I. was listed numero uno followed by Columbo. Other shows like, Murder She Wrote, The Rockford Files, Remington Steele, and the old Sherlock Holmes episodes starring Basil Rathbone were in the top ten. Who was your favorite and why?

Added by Johnny Russell on January 15, 2010 at 1:39pm — 2 Comments

THE GANGSTA'S COMMANDMETS

I'm Sorry, but I've been bogged down with my various projects. But you can read the first three parts on my myspace blog www.myspace.com/doncappa I can honestly say, that I have been highly distinguished and favored. Because I was blessed with the gift of not only writing, but writing with the true essence of what literature was original created. Leaving the reader with an alluring yet inscrutable feeling deep within, alluring the reader desiring… Continue

Added by BustaCap on January 15, 2010 at 11:14am — 1 Comment

The Eye of the Beholder (2)

Preston dropped Cary off at his place, wishing him a safe trip before pulling back into the minimal late night traffic to head to his own apartment. From the drop in temperature since he’d left the apartment earlier in the day he suspected that it was going to be snowing by morning. He hoped it would be light, he really hated driving in a storm and he had things he had to do, like get a new set of pictures that he could mail to some of the modeling agencies he knew of on the east and west… Continue

Added by Edith Glass on January 15, 2010 at 3:07am — No Comments

Last Day Votes Urgently Needed

Today is the last day of polling in the Preditors & Editors annual Awards, and having led the Authors Category almost from start to finish, this morning I slipped into 2nd place. Just a few votes could make all the difference between 1st and 2nd so please can I ask any members who feel inclined to support me and who may not have voted previously, to vote for my nomination at… Continue

Added by Brian L Porter on January 14, 2010 at 9:06pm — 1 Comment

Guardian: Top 10 Arab-world novels

The Guardian asked me to contribute to their regular feature in which authors pick their top 10 novels on a particular subject. Read my top 10 novels set in the Arab world here. Most of the writers I picked are Arab, though there are a couple of Westerners and Tariq Ali is a Pakistani. This, by the way, is what I wrote in introducing the list:

"The… Continue

Added by Matt Rees on January 14, 2010 at 5:17pm — No Comments

The Eye of the Beholder (1)

((A short mystery in 35 parts...Please be aware it is m/m))

“And then the shit hit the fan,” he said, stretching his long legs out, resting his feet on the seat across the booth from him.

Cary looked down at them and shook his head. “Manners Pres, manners. This is a high-class joint.”

Preston looked around and snorted. “Yeah I can tell by the peeling linoleum on the floor next to the counter and the greasy scum on the walls by the kitchen. Real high-class.… Continue

Added by Edith Glass on January 14, 2010 at 12:00pm — No Comments

Fran Lewis reviews Crossroads at Bookpleasures.com

Fran Lewis provided a new review of CROSSROADS.

"...read this Five Stars novel from an author that I feel is equal to Daniel Silva, Steve Berry, Baldacci and other writers of exciting thrillers."

Fran Lewis: Reviewer, January 7, 2010

To see the full review, please follow this link:…

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Added by STEVEN NEDELTON on January 14, 2010 at 4:22am — No Comments