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Headstone by Ken Bruen
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
This was my introduction to noir poet Ken Bruen, and I will be diving into his prolific writings immediately. The latest in the…
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Like the Tangerine Dream soundtrack to my favorite crime film, Michael Mann’s gleaming gritty THIEF, the latest neo-noir crime tale DRIVE has an amazingly lush score that immerses you in its dead-end…
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Benoit Lelievre runs a great blog called Dead End Follies, where he reviews crime fiction, books in general, movies music and other media. He’s a fine writer himself as well. He asked me a few weeks…
Chuck Wendig the Pen Monkey has issued a three sentence story challenge on his blog. He offers up excellent writing advice free of charge. It is also collected and expanded for a Kindle-pittance,…
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You mess with a bull, you get the horns. You mess with a horse, you get knocked the eff out.
Two good friends lured and cajoled me into going to Bouchercon this year. Sabrina Ogden of My Friends Call Me Kate, and Josh Stallings, author of the Mo McGuire series. I met a lot of great…
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Unsure who the kid with the afro is….
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44 entries. Wow. A huge response.
The Stories for the Flash Fiction Friday Lost Children Challenge
Includes stories by Fiona Johnson (who came up with the topic), Paul D. Brazill, Chad…
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Find out in my story “Black-Eyed Susan” at Powder Burn Flash, Aldo Calcagno’s hard-hitting crime fiction site.
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I’m advertising this one here. I am a monthly contributor to Ron Earl’s Flash Fiction Friday, and this month I roped my friend Fiona Johnson, aka @McDroll, to be a guest contributor. And did she come…