by Crimespree Magazine | Jun 7, 2013 | Books, Reviews
Publisher: Quirk Publishing Pub date: 5/13/2013 Some guys are just wired differently than others. You know what I mean. Like your neighbor that’s out there in the middle of a blizzard, shoveling his driveway, even though he knows he’s just going to have to shovel it...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jun 5, 2013 | Awards, Books
The Lambda Literary Foundation presented the awards for the Lambda Literary Awards on Monday. The awards were presented in over 20 categories, but here are those in our own realm: Gay Mystery Lake on the Mountain, by Jeffrey Round (Dundurn) Other finalists: Bokassa’s...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jun 5, 2013 | Features, Five Things
Robert E. Howard’s “Conan” So I found the first book, a collection of Howard’s early short stories later edited by Sprague de Camp, on a shelf in my public library when I was in sixth grade. I’d seen parts of the edited version of the movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jun 3, 2013 | Books
WOUNDED PREY is a very personal novel for me, despite being a work of fiction. It was written during a 3-4 month period over twenty-five years ago, and I would challenge any other crime-thriller author to compare my over two decades of rejections from agents and...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jun 2, 2013 | Awards, Books
The Crime Writers Association has announced the first batch of short lists for the 2013 CWA Dagger Awards. Winners will be announced at the Gala Daggers award dinner. The dinner will also see the CWA Diamond Dagger awarded to Lee Child. The Diamond Dagger is voted...