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Black Dog Books

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Tom Roberts of Black Dog Books


HOW LONG HAS BLACK DOG BOOKS BEEN PUBLISHING ITS PULP LINE?

I began publishing in 1997. The first forty books were in the chapbook format, with a couple giveaway titles and memorial books added to that figure. In 2006, I launched the trade paperback line. I have 25 titles in print, plus 2 non-fiction titles, and have just sent 5 more titles to the printer. I expect to be releasing 8 to 10 new titles a year.
To date BDB has one hardcover available, Cornell Woolrich'...

Forgotten Books: The Birthday Murder by Lange Lewis

Forgotten Books: The Birthday Murder by Lange Lewis

Jane Lewis Brandt (Lange Lewis) was a Los Angeles writer who wrote
mysteries set in that most envied and reviled of cities. Which is to
say that she came by her take on the city first-hand and you can feel
this familiarity in the people she gathers as suspects in her
whodunits.

Barzun and Taylor include Birthday in their famous list of mystery
musts and with good reason. The style, so crisp and literate, is as
good in its way as anything by that oth...

New Books: Antiques Bizarre by Barbara Allan

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In the just released Antiques Bizarre – the fifth in our Trash 'n' Treasures series written as Barbara Allan – Al (he's not "Max" to me) and I tried to make the book heavier on the mystery (it is one after all!) without skimping on the characters or humor. In the past – for me at least – the mystery was almost an afterthought, driven solely by its pre-selected title. Talk about the tail wagging the dog....

While I think the plot of Antiques Bizarre turned out all right, the writing of it w...

Be sure and check out our recent interviews with David Ja...

Be sure and check out our recent interviews with David Jack Bell, Elmore Leonard (http://www.thewrap.com/article/elmore...), John Farris, Harry Shannon, Ray Garton, Christopher Fowler, Duane Swierczynski, Kevin O'Brien, Toni L.P. Kelner and Matthew Clemens.---------------

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Martin Edwards talks about his new novel The Serpent Pool


Books burn in the opening scene of my fourth and latest Lake District Mystery, The Serpent Pool. And the man who owns the books, a...

Pro-File: David Jack Bell

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David Jack Bell is the author of THE CONDEMNED and THE GIRL
IN THE WOODS. His short fiction has appeared in or is
forthcoming from Cemetery Dance, Western Humanities Review,
Shock Totem, and Backwards City Review. He is an Assistant
Professor of English at Western Kentucky University in
Bowling Green, Kentucky and can be reached through his
website at www.davidjackbell.com.



Pro-File: David Jack Bell

1. Tell us about your current novel (or project).

My latest release is THE GIRL IN THE WOODS from Deli...

New Elmore Leonard interview

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The Hollywood newspaper The Wrap runs an interview with Elmore Leonard in its column The Grill today:

Since he published his first novel, "The Bounty Hunters," back in 1953, novelist and screenwriter Elmore Leonard has established himself as a crime writer par excellence – and the go-to guy when Hollywood needs gritty realism and, well, Leonardesque dialogue. To paraphrase his own "Ten Rules of Writing" essay, "If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it."

The result? A long list of films with memo...

Pro-File: John Farris

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JOHN FARRIS is the 2002 Horror Writers' Association Lifetime Achievement Award winner and the author of numerous New York Times bestsellers including, The Fury, When Michael Calls, and Soon She Will Be Gone. He lives near Atlanta, Georgia.
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Ed here: The above are the bare facts. As Stephen King once remarked many writers (who are now in their sixties) began their careers inspired by John Farris. He sold his first crime novel when he was nineteen; published the enormous bestseller Harrison Hi...

The Marriage Ref

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Ed here: The Seinfeld show is the only TV series I've watched obsessively. There are episodes I imagine I've seen twenty times. Many scenes I can recite verbatim and break them down for camera. I've been known to ruin perfectly good meals by quoting Seinfeldian wisdom to the point that people flee the table. I was one of those who didn't like the finale episode because everything was out of character. There was no way the guilt-ridden George and Elaine would've made fun of a morbidly obese m...

Pro-File: Harry Shannon

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Harry Shannon has been an actor, an Emmy-nominated songwriter, a singer, a recording artist in Europe, a music publisher, a film studio executive and worked as a freelance Music Supervisor on films such as Basic Instinct and Universal Soldier. He is author of Night of the Beast and Night of the Werewolf in addition to Daemon (formerly Night of the Daemon). Harry also wrote the Mick Callahan suspense novels Memorial Day, (2005) Eye of the Burning Man, (2006) and One of the Wicked (2008), as we...

Forgotten Books: Trauma by Graham Masterton

Forgotten Books: Trauma by Graham Masterton

Graham Masterton has had one of those long, prolific careers that fall to writers of the first rank who have never had the break they deserve. He's certainly a finer writer and better storyteller than many of the people on the bestseller lists. He's always been more popular in Europe than the U.S. despite boxcar loads of great reviews he gets here.

If you doubt my words I suggest you pick up a paperback called TRAUMA, which was nominated for a Best P...