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I've been beavering away on a new noir novelette (a little alliteration is good for the soul) and I'm quite pleased with it. Should be finished in the next month or two... time permitting. Here's the general gist of the story.... Working title 'The Club' A wealthy couple join an exclusive club and are invited to participate in rather unusual activities at a party. Both man and wife and their

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Every now and then I run a book promotion to get a little notice out in the big bad world. My mainstream literary novel, Killing a Friend, will be available for free on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk in ebook format for the next several days, starting later today/early tomorrow. Here's the cover blurb. It's a mix of love and rage, set in exotic West Sweden... Killing a Friend is a novel about

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4.0 out of 5 stars A Cracker of a book, 29 Feb 2012By Mr. Stephen D. Wassell "sdwassell" (Norfolk, England) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)   This review is from: Death Call: The London Serial Killer Case (Carroll & Grant Mysteries) (Kindle Edition)I hate it when I read " I couldn't put this book down" because I always find myself let down. However, in this case If I had read that sentence

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I'm humbled and delighted. Death Call, written in the heady days of 1996 and published for the first time in paperback in 1997, has just climbed mysteriously high in the UK in eBook format. At the last count it was number 11 in Books > Crime, Thrillers & Mystery > British Detectives To quote our friend and crime novelist extraordinaire Declan Burke over on Crime Always Pays, here are the

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I just recently received a very gratifying review over on amazon.com for my novelette Candy Says Kill, which I've copied and pasted below, with another earlier review below it... 4.0 out of 5 stars Mick Says Cool: A Shot of Unruly Review, January 12, 2012By M. Halpin (Dublin Ireland) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)   Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?)This review is from: Candy Says Kill:

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Click here to avail of this promotional offer!

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I'm slowly but surely going through all the covers of my existing books and short stories trying apply a sense of order. I'm not a great one for order or processes, so it will most likely take some time to get them all done.... Howsoever, to wit, herewith and without further ado, I present the updated Ganglands cover. Hope y'all like it!

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I've finally gotten around to finishing my latest novelette/novella Sunset Strip, set in L.A. The story follows a man visiting L.A. on business as he picks up a beautiful Latina in a bar close to his hotel. The two hit it off after some initial foreplay and end up going to his room to get a little more 'comfortable'. What happens next is well.... unusual, to say the least. Taking cues from the

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http://www.lafterhall.com/filmnoir_001.html I've finally gotten around to making Killing a Friend available in print via our good friends at Amazon's Createspace. So if eBooks ain't your thang you can now buy a paperback version. And very nice it is too. You can find it here:  http://www.amazon.com/Killing-Friend-T-S-ORourke/dp/1456515829 As far as my Hollywood Noir short shot of Noir is

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I've knocked down the price on my mainstream literary novel Killing a Friend just to give it a wee nudge forward. I don't know why (maybe because I haven't used 'sex' or 'serial killer' in the any of the marketing blurb) but it hasn't really moved very well - despite getting a humdinger of a first review a few months back, where I was described as a 'Beautiful Literary Voice' (doesn't get much

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I've gotten off my proverbial fat ass and started to write a new shot of Noir, while my ongoing battle with my novel Flesh carries on... I'll be basing this one in the U.S. - Los Angeles to be precise - the home of Noir in my most humble of opinions... Given the locale and the history of Noir that the fine city of angles has given birth to, I'll be treading carefully on the hallowed grounds

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I've mentioned Out of the Gutter previously - and I couldn't help but mention them again. In their latest edition we find the US and the UK slugging it out for the world championship in pulp fiction. We see top-grade lowlife writers such as Tony Black slugging it out with the likes of E.E. Howard and Julie Morgan. If you like your fiction hard, heavy and a little on the moist side, Out of the

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I'm sitting here scratching my head in-between typing these words. I have no idea where time has flown, but it has been travelling at the speed of sound, or maybe, perhaps, silence. My promises to keep up the pace on my work-in-progress have been broken by an overload of work and what people call real life. I know. I have been doing some more research though, and feel a lot closer to that which

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No - I'm not talking about my curious fascination for home brew, alchemy or all things related to the mixing of chemical compounds to get desired effects... No. I'm talking about Ken Bruen's book, recently released in film format. Right - first things first. I LOVED the book. My kinda stuff exactly. Hurleys, psychos, alcos, narkos - well, you get the picture. The film then I hear you ask... was

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The Republican: An Irish Civil War Story has gone to number 5 in the bestsellers list under Irish History on Amazon.com. I've had some great reviews for this book and I'm very happy to see it climbing the charts. A lot of American buyers love this educational yet entertaining and easy read around a rather difficult subject matter. The story was originally prompted by a letter that my father

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Our buddy in all things criminal, literary and comical, Declan 'Crime Always Pays' Burke is in the throes of setting his latest work free. Declan is one of the crime genre's leading lights in the blogosphere (click on the link above for further proof) and his writing is terse, twisty, technically precise and turbulently talented. But enough alliteration for now... below please find the blurb of

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Something odd has happened. Anyone that has read this blog more than once might have noted my marked appreciation of the venerable Paul Auster. I think he rocks as a writer. So imagine my sheer astonishment and pure joy upon seeing my works of short fiction, Why I kill (The Confession of a Serial Killer) at number 94 in the top 100 best selling short stories, with Mr. Auster at 91 with his New

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Having spent yet another 'Midsommar' in Sweden (where it was perfected as a celebration of the pagan gods and the summer solstice) I have to wonder about the name. Midsommar (or midsummer, if you are an anglophile) seems to be, well, a little too 'early' for my liking. I'd prefer to see it in mid-July, when one has a slightly better chance of getting some sunshine and blue skies.... But hey - as

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For the summer months almost all of my work in eBook format is on special offer. In the U.S., UK and EU my crime novels and literary works now cost $0.99/£0.99/€0.99 Think of this as a cheap-trick marketing ploy designed to part you from your money, and you'll be right. But as I'm dropping the price of my novels by around $2 for a limited time it is designed to be a gentle kind of crime. In

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When I find something interesting I like to share - unless, of course it is a new beer.... So without any ado whatsoever... Leonardo Padura - a link to Carto's Library Blog where he disseminates a potential replacement for our dearly departed master Raymond Chandler. Whilst I'm on a Cuban binge (a glass of rum beside me) - I'd like to draw your attention to Pedro Juan Gutierrez - author of the

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After a heads up from a reader who spotted a couple of typos in my novel Killing a Friend (which was 'professionally' edited) I've had the novel re-proofed and so the eBook version is now as close to perfect as anything I could possibly produce could ever plausibly be.... The print on demand version will also be updated in the coming weeks. Sincere apologies to those of you that took the time

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Having admitted to my past as a tax collector, busker, journalist, motorcycle messenger and general wastrel, I have also decided to out myself as the author of another novel.... one that I have shied away from releasing until today... The Libertine, which will be available shortly in eBook format, is an exercise in picaresque wastrelism in extremo. A true opus peccatorum, you might say. The

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Here's another wee gem... Out of the Gutter Magazine Lots of good stuff and some quite enjoyable FREE Noir fiction.... Some short, some flash, some frenzied... Behold some reviews from the site to make you salivate... "Out of the Gutter is not just some punk zine ... This filth is well-executed, tightly edited and focused on story construction."—The UT Daily Texan"GUTTER is the bastard child

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I'm a little slow on the uptake, that's all... that's why I keep finding new stuff that isn't really all that new to everyone else, but it's new to me and you can never have too many links to good stuff, can you? I just discovered the International Noir Fiction blog and I thought you'd like it... It's chock-full of interesting reviews, views and other stuff all relevant to and pursuant of a

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Below you'll find the word for word review of my literary fiction novel, Killing a Friend. It doesn't get much better than this.... Thank you MJL in Florida! It's available in both print and eBook format. 5.0 out of 5 stars A beautiful literary voice, May 10, 2011 By MJL (Florida, USA) - See all my reviews Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?) This review is from: Killing a Friend (Kindle

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