It’s an honor to have Shamus Award-winning author Paul D. Marks (White Heat) on the site today. Paul’s latest, The Blues Don’t Care, first in the Bobby Saxon series, is out now from Down & Out Books. Today, Paul shares his thoughts about balancing reader entertainment against historical accuracy, particularly when that history involves “things that are offensive and disturbing.”
I’m pleased to welcome Reece Hirsch back to the site today. Hirsch’s latest thriller, Dark Tomorrow, second in the Agent Lisa Tanchik series (Black Nowhere), is out now from Thomas & Mercer. Today, Hirsch shares what it’s like to write a novel about a realistic society-crippling scenario, a massive cyber attack on the United States, only to have another one, the COVID-19 pandemic, happen as your book is published.
Paul Levine’s latest Jake Lassiter legal thriller, Cheater’s Game, a story that incorporates the recent college admissions scandal, is out now (Herald Square). Today, Paul has been kind enough to stop by the site and share an excerpt from the book.
It was a pleasure to work with Helen Donovan on Yet to Know, a novel The US Review of Books says “asks intriguing questions throughout. For example… How does one recover from…dysfunction, and how does one learn to love when they are unloved by a parent? The ending is sweet and powerful and makes the book worth reading.”
“The stupid things you do for love…”
Wear Your Home Like a Scar is a master class in how to write both short stories and noir. Not a word wasted, no subject too dark to tackle, and absolute unflinching acceptance of the fact that all too often there is no such thing as happily ever after. There isn’t a misfire in the bunch, but there were a few standouts for me.
L.J. Sellers’s latest novel, The Black Pill, a story that brings her series characters Detective Wade Jackson and FBI Agent Jamie Dallas together, is out now. Today, L.J. shares how a frightening and heartbreaking series of events she experienced in Costa Rica inspired her to use her fiction to explore how troubled people become who they are, and to ponder what they might have become had their early lives traveled down a different path.
