October 2010 Blog Posts (168)

Ballad of a Pen Pusher

New and very nasty short fiction from me at A Twist of Noir:

http://a-twist-of-noir.blogspot.com/2010/10/twist-of-noir-589-uv-ray.html

Added by u.v.ray on October 2, 2010 at 6:46am — No Comments

To cyber-socialize or not to cyber-socialize? That is the question.

My New Year's resolution for '09 was to finally, seriously and extensively take a look at all the social sites I kept hearing about. My Space. Face Book. Crime Space. Twitter. Blogs. No more letting the info slide by, no more shaking my head and saying, “Who's got time for all this bulls__t?” I would do an investigation, just like my sleuth Christy Bristol. I would finally find out what all the fuss was… Continue

Added by Sunny Frazier on October 2, 2010 at 5:30am — 1 Comment

Detective, Negotiator, Forensic Artist and .... Published Author?

Robin Burcell, novelist and just-retired police officer, joins Hook'em and Book'em in a two-part interview: The article today focuses on Robin's 27-year-career in law enforcement. A second interview… Continue

Added by Mark Young on October 2, 2010 at 4:17am — No Comments

An excerpt for critique

I am excerpting my current work in progress at my other blog home. The first draft is done and I'm in the editing stage now. Would love some feedback. The first installment is here. http://bit.ly/d8u1l2

Added by Jarrett Rush on October 2, 2010 at 3:51am — No Comments

15 reasons to read The Caretaker of Lorne Field

With Halloween approaching, here are 15 reasons why you should be reading The Caretaker of Lorne Field with the whole family:

1) delicious horror-ish novel--Newsday

2) Superb mix of humor and horror--Publishers Weekly, starred review…

Continue

Added by Dave Zeltserman on October 2, 2010 at 1:00am — 2 Comments

Graphic Novel Friday Batman International

This story of The Batman goes overseas to three different countries in Batman International. The other interest and neat aspect of the graphic novel is that it has three different authors and three different

artists giving each story its own feel and flavor. The three countries he gets

to patrol: The Scottish Isle, Spain, and in a flashback, somewhere in The East

as he was in his youth training. I like the way they put the three together…

Continue

Added by Giovanni Gelati on October 1, 2010 at 11:13pm — No Comments

Meet Me Tomorrow in MD

Tomorrow Borders in Silver Spring hosts me for a book signing. In their "All Things Local" section at the front of the store you can learn all sorts of interesting things about the history of Silver Spring. This store likes to have a lot of events, including regular story times every Saturday at 10:30AM, and visits from musicians and…

Continue

Added by Austin S. Camacho on October 1, 2010 at 10:09pm — No Comments

The Clockwork Man William Jablonsky

I think I got more than I bargained for here in The Clockwork Man. I usually enjoy novels that have things blow up, wise cracking detectives, international tales of intrigue, secret agents saving the world

from the next newest megalomaniac. Here I get to read about a guy made of clock

parts and he brings upon me some serious introspective questions, making me

examine things I don’t wish to think about or knew I needed to ponder. Go

figure. This is…

Continue

Added by Giovanni Gelati on October 1, 2010 at 8:38am — No Comments