Waiting for Their Big Breaks

Brian Lindenmuth has an ongoing project well worth following at BookSpot Central. “A couple of years ago,” he explains, “Jeff Vandermeer ran a series of blog posts called Conversations with the Bookless. The Conversations with the Bookless series was designed to showcase those writers who are up and coming, who don’t yet have a collection or a novel out, who are making their names known writing short stories. With Jeff’s blessing I will be continuing the series here at BSC over the next couple of weeks, but with a focus mostly on mystery/crime fiction.” Lindenmuth has talked so far with Frank Bill, Anonymous 9, Jordan Harper, Sandra Seaman, Keith Rawson, and Jedidiah Ayres. Who knows? These might indeed be the crime-fiction stars of tomorrow.

And let’s not forget Kyle Minor. With four of his brief yarns newly nominated in StorySouth’s Million Writers Award competition, he’s become a much-talked-about property. The aforementioned Jedidiah Ayres could hardly have hoped for better timing, as he has just posted a new interview with Minor in Hard-boiled Wonderland.