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Chuck Wendig

Fresh Meat: Gods and Monsters: Mythbreaker by Stephen Blackmoore

By Neliza Drew

December 1, 2014

Gods and Monsters: Mythbreaker by Stephen Blackmoore is a standalone thriller where a new set of gods square off against the old regime, with mankind left in the middle (available December 2, 2014). Mythbreaker by Stephen Blackmoore is the second book in the Gods and Monsters series (the first, Unclean Spirits was by Chuck Wendig),…

Now Win This!: Thanksgiving Sweeeeeepstakes

By Crime HQ

November 26, 2013

We're giving thanks for the opportunity to do a Sweeeeeepstakes of six great e-books! Click here to enter for a chance to win! This is NOT a Comments Sweepstakes. You must click the link above to enter. NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. A PURCHASE DOES NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCE OF WINNING. Sweepstakes open to legal residents of 50…

The Malfeasance Occasional (The M.O.): Girl Trouble Issue

The Malfeasance Occasional’s Girl Trouble Is Nigh!

By Crime HQ

September 6, 2013

14 short crime stories on a theme are collected in the inaugural “Girl Trouble” e-issue of Criminal Element's Malfeasance Occasional (available September 24th, 2013). Tender-hearted, tough-minded (and occasionally foul-mouthed) girls take center stage in suspenseful tales that are also touching, haunting, and darkly funny. From modern cities and the middle of nowhere—even a place that…

Murder to Mil-Spec

Crime for a Cause: Crime Fiction Anthologies for Charity

By Laura K. Curtis

August 30, 2012

For several years, Wolfmont Press produced an annual holiday crime fiction anthology that benefited Toys for Tots.  2009 marked the last of these, with the 2010 charity anthology—called Murder to Mil-Spec—benefiting Homes for Our Troops, instead. These were fabulous anthologies, and if you can find a copy you should grab one; they were limited in…

Blackbirds by Chuck Wendig

Blackbirds: New Excerpt

By Chuck Wendig

April 13, 2012

An excerpt from Blackbirds, a paranormal thriller, by Chuck Wendig (available April 24, 2012). Miriam Black knows when you will die. Still in her early twenties, she’s foreseen hundreds of car crashes, heart attacks, strokes, suicides, and slow deaths by cancer. But when Miriam hitches a ride with truck driver Louis Darling and shakes his…

Doc Savage, Man of Bronze

Pulp’s Golden Age Action Heroes Reborn

By Stephen Blackmoore

March 28, 2012

Vintage pulp fiction has never really gone away. Vintage crime made a comeback in the 80’s and 90’s with reprints through Black Lizard, faded a bit then reappeared through publishers like Mulholland Books, who have announced reprints of Jim Thompson’s novels, and Hard Case Crime, who not only have done reprints of classic crime novels,…

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