(Wild Bill will be available for Amazon Kindle On August 29; other formats to follow. )
Not to sound arrogant or conceited, but Wild Bill shares qualities with the greatest American fiction, writers such as Hemingway, Faulkner, and Twain. Words. Sentences, Paragraphs. Chapters. Grammar, for Chrissake.
And characters. Lots of them. Here’s the lowdown on a few.
Willard “Wild Bill” Hickox. Born…
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My first e-book, Wild Bill, will be available for Kindle on Amazon.com, Monday, August 28. I’ll spare you all the flackery a corporate minion would inflict upon you about what a glorious work of unsurpassed genius it is and let you make up your own mind, based on the description that will appear in Amazon:
Will Hickox is a decorated FBI veteran with a legendary ability to cultivate informants, much closer to retirement than to the days when he earned the nickname “Wild…
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I’m having a good time taking the summer off from writing, though I can feel the itch starting to grow behind my right ear. Reading goes on year-round. Here are my favorite reads for July.
Shadow of the Dahlia, Jack Bludis. Bludis is another one of those writers I’ve been aware of for a while. When an interview in Allan Guthrie’s Criminal-E blog activated the Kindle Impulse Purchase section of my brain, I downloaded…
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My friendship with Declan Burke predates this blog. I met him via an interview after I had reviewed his novelThe Big O, the appeal of which has not diminished with the passage of three years. He is a splendid person, a good friend and confederate, and has bucked me up more times than I care to remember as having needed to be bucked up.
His new book, Absolute Zero Cool, was officially released on July 7, though the big party will…
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My unfortunate winter reading slump has ended, and I have some catch-up recommendations over on my blog, One Bite at a Time. The books recommended include authors Scott Phillips, Evan Wright, Declan Hughes, Leighton Gage, Timothy Hallinan, John McNally, and Charles Portis.
Stop over and leave a comment. Disagreement encouraged.
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I’ve been a devotee of Timothy Hallinan’s work since I was asked to review A Nail Through the Heart, the first of his Poke Rafferty series. The Rafferty books started strong and got better, capped (so far) by last year’s The Queen of Patpong. Knowing how much effort Hallinan puts into the Rafferty books, and the emotional fatigue that must have been induced in writing Queen, it was no surprise when he opted for something lighter for his next project.
Junior…
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Something many of us can relate to, from The Onion.
http://www.theonion.com/articles/toasterinstruction-booklet-author-enraged-that-edi,225/
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Some thoughts on success in writing, at least for me. Feel free to drop on by One Bite at a Time and leave a comment.
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I started a new project this week and have a readable draft of the first chapter. Any comments or suggestions are appreciated. (I promise not to post the whole thing like it was a friggin serial; I’m just curious to see if people would want to read more after reading this.)…
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A new short story, “Hitter,” has been posted at A
Twist of Noir. Stop on over and check out the other good stuff there.…
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My summer hiatus has extended into all realms of writing, including passing along recommendations. Not that what appears in this blog will make or break a book, but making even one person
aware of a good book is worth the time, since the publishers sure as hell aren’t
going to do it.…
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I’ve been fortunate to write over a hundred reviews for New Mystery Reader over the past five years. During that time, I have been ever luckier to deal almost exclusively with NMR’s patient and long-suffering editor, Stephanie Padilla.Stephanie has made sure books got to me and interviews were set up, so I rarely had to deal with the major publishers’ publicists. For that I am eternally…
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