Bullets Don’t Come Cheap, You Know

B.J. Bourg’s Webzine, Mouth Full of Bullets, celebrates its first anniversary by launching itself into print (at $6 per copy), rather than being offered exclusively online. More limited contents are now available via MFOB’s Web site, including short stories by Kaye George (“Flash Mob”) and Charles Schaeffer (“Losers, Weepers”), flash fiction from Gerald So (“Stunts”), new installments in a couple of serials by S.F. Johnston (“Fish” and “Mr. Sparks”), and Bourg’s interview with Amanda Stevens, author of The Dollmaker.

To piggyback on something Patti Abbott (who also has a story in the new MFOB) says in her blog today, Bourg is to be commended for taking a chance on a print publication, at a time when so many other new ones take flight and then fold almost before anybody knows they exist. However, we can’t help but miss the easy--and, of course, free--availability of Mouth Full of Bullets online, in the same way as we’re going to miss reading Tony Burton’s Crime and Suspense for no cost online. (C&S’ new contents will be available only by paid subscription, beginning with the November/December issue).

READ MORE: “Mouth Full of Bullets Now a Print Magazine,” by B.J. Bourg (Crime Zine Report).