• Virginia writer-blogger David Cranmer announced today that he’s starting a new e-zine: Beat to a Pulp. “Like some of the old pulps that featured a detective story on the heels of a western and a high seas adventure, I’d like to see Beat to a Pulp follow in those footsteps,” Cranmer explains, “running the gamut of storytelling, a smörgåsbord of short-story fiction at its best, though the emphasis will be on hard-boiled.” He says to expect a December 15 debut for the new pub. Together with Geoff Eighinger’s new Crooked, set to launch on January 1, it looks as if next year will bring us plenty of good new reading material.
• Tom Rob Smith’s World War II-era thriller, Child 44, has been shortlisted in the Best First Novel category for a Costa Award.
• Pulp Pusher’s Damien Seaman talks with Russel D. McLean about his debut novel, The Good Son. You can read their exchange here.
• Bruce Grossman gives Mickey Spillane lots of love in this week’s installment of “Bullets, Broads, Blackmail & Bombs.” Read it here.
• Karen Chisholm of AustCrime hosts the latest Carnival of the Criminal Minds compilation, which includes fingers crossed that Peter Temple’s The Broken Shore will win the Swedish Crime Writers Academy’s 2008 Martin Beck Award.
• And thanks to B.V. Lawson’s In Reference to Murder, I now know where in the world UK novelist Anne Perry is: she’s the artist in residence at the University of Central Arkansas, of all places.
Thursday, November 20, 2008
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I really appreciate the linkage. Thanks!
You're welcome, David. And please let us know when the new site is up.
Cheers,
Jeff
The release actually says that Anne Perry is the artist in residence at the University of Central Arkansas. Which is a very different place than the University of Arkansas, geographically and otherwise. Which -- a University of Arkansas alum -- makes it even more surprising for several reasons, including that the University of Arkansas has a very respected creative writing program.
Thank you pointing out that error, David. It's now been corrected.
Cheers,
Jeff
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