Ross Thomas Award

Blame Chuck Dickens. He started the whole “great first line” thing, with “it was the best of times.” Now we all have to have to keep up. Happily, nobody does better first lines than mystery and thriller writers. “Shortly after the death...

!!!!!!!KING OF THE KILL!!!!!!

From the wizards of words over at Bleak House– For anybody interested, we’re running a short story contest at www.bleakhousebooks.com. The contest is ongoing. The winner stays for a month. After a month, we’ll pick two challengers (out of those...

Warriors…..

Warriors……. Come out to plaaaaAAAAaaaayyyyyyy Waaarriooooors……. Cooooome out to plaaaaAAAAAAAAaaaaayyyyyyy! >cue bottles clinking together< Sol Yurick wrote the book in 1965, based loosely on The Lost Patrol. In 1978 Walter Hill took it to the screen as Director...