…Outside the Law is released! Pulp Fiction Cover of the Day Today’s Links ‘Six Four’ avoids every crime-fiction cliche. The reward is a gripping novel: Hideo Yokoyama’s complex, ingenious and engrossing new novel, “Six Four,” has no serial killers, no femmes fatales, no locked-room murders, no torture, no sexually repressed villains, not even much in the …
Pulp Fiction Cover of the Day Today’s Links Book reviews: Thrillers and crime fiction: Mejia’s first foray into crime is a good one. Hattie Hoffman is a precocious, whip-smart 17 year old. She wants “a life bigger than Pine Valley” – the small rural Minnesotan town she’s grown up in. Live By Night: Ben Affleck pulp fiction …
Pulp Fiction Cover of the Day Today’s Links Gripping yarns: Our pick of the best new crime fiction: JAKE Kerridge clues up on new crime fiction. The True Mystery of Popular Crime Fiction: With adaptations of crime fiction barely ever off the stage and screen, and the most famous writers of the genre enjoying constant …
Pulp Fiction Cover of the Day Writing vs. Editing There’s an old saying that it’s easier to edit than it is to write, but I’m not sure I’m all in on that. Especially when you’re writing long form fiction. A question that comes up often when I’m in a discussion about writing is “Do you …
Pulp Fiction Cover of the Day Today’s links Star of Spanish crime fiction returns years after creator’s death: Like any good private eye, Pepe Carvalho refuses to let a little death get in the way of his inquiries. In the Valley of the Weed review: Michael Wilding’s satire of neoliberalism: Michael Wilding, a landmark in Australian literature …
Pulp Fiction Cover of the Day Today’s links Ingrid Thoft delivers action-packed plot in ‘Duplicity’: The private detective novel continues to explore contemporary hot-button issues, as Ingrid Thoft illustrates in her latest exciting novel about Boston investigator Fina Ludlow. 10 Irish crime fiction novels you didn’t know you needed in your life: Irish crime fiction has exploded …
Pulp Fiction Cover of the Day Today’s links 5 Must-Haves for a Great Detective in Fiction: The Detective in its formal sense is a fairly recent construct – the first professional police service wasn’t established until 1829 with Robert Peel’s Metropolitan Police Act in London – but crime has been a part of human behavior …
I use a variety of methods to stay mentally and physically focused while I’m trying to write a novel, and this is important to me because I don’t spend all day writing. I may go days without being able to sit down with the characters, and I need to be able to jump right back …
After 3 ½ years in the making, it’s hard to believe I’m now three weeks away from the launch of my latest novel, Outside the Law (coming 1 February from Brash Books). Writing this novel has been by far my most interesting and, I think, productive writing session yet. But it was not without its …
Check out the latest Brash Books promo for Outside the Law, which will give you a little insight into who Sheriff Colt Harper really is. View it here. Pulp Fiction Cover of the Day Today’s links: Murder mystery on …
Phillip Thompson 