by Crimespree Magazine | May 22, 2005 | Books, Features, Jon Thoughts
The kind of things they put on arcs and the flyers that go with them are curious. I totally understand that they are trying to sell books. To do this, they hope to achieve two main things with the advance reading copies: Get bookstores to order the books, and get...
by Crimespree Magazine | Apr 3, 2005 | Books
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...
by Crimespree Magazine | Apr 1, 2005 | Books, Features
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...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jan 8, 2005 | Books, Features
Just wanted to say good morning to Scott Phillips. Scott was the author of the Crimespree favorite book in 2004 poll. If you haven’t read it yet, what are you waiting for???? So Scott, have a nice day, and get writing!!!!
