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Nine Indies To Die For
Nine Indies To Die For In the opening chapter of my debut novel, a distraught customer hangs himself in an independent bookstore in Lower Downtown Denver. It takes very little effort to see that the […]
Month: June 2017
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Ten of the Best On-Screen Villains
Ten of the Best On-Screen Villains For me, one of the great joys in reading fiction is meeting new people. Even the crazy ones. Okay, especially the crazy ones. The challenge of casting literary villains in film […]
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Soho Press: Independent and Flourishing
Soho Press: Independent and Flourishing When many people picture an independent publisher, they envision a small startup hoping to be acquired by a bigger firm. That’s not the case with Soho Press—quite the opposite, in fact. […]
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My Top Ten Northern Irish Crime Novels
My Top Ten Northern Irish Crime Novels There has been an explosion in crime writing from Northern Ireland over the past decade or so. An element of this certainly has been as part of the […]
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Top ten mystery or crime novels set in the country
Top ten mystery or crime novels set in the country I would like to talk about my top ten novels set in the country or in small towns surrounded by the country because I love […]
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Pegasus Books Takes Flight
Pegasus Books Takes Flight “Publishing is a very mysterious business,” Thomas Wolfe famously said, and it’s no secret that those interested in the publishing field look in wonderment at the entire process. New publishers have […]
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Top Nine Books with “Girl” in the Title
The Girl in the title is a publishing phenomenon. Whether you think it’s a great way to give visibility to women in suspense or find that it’s patronizing and infantilizing, the fact is, for the […]
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Five Prescient Political Thrillers
Five Prescient Political Thrillers At 4 a.m. on a very cold morning in December 1973, I was in my car on Macarthur Boulevard in Washington sitting in a gas line. More precisely, I was the […]
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Top Ten On the Run Stories
Top Ten On the Run Stories The road tale is one of the oldest genres of stories there are, going at least as far back as The Odyssey. But there’s a subset that we might […]
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The Long Shadow of Raymond Chandler…
The Long Shadow of Raymond Chandler… Raymond Chandler changed my life. I was assigned to read The Long Goodbye for class, and although only five chapters were assigned, I devoured the whole book in one night. As […]