Alex Segura's Blog, page 12
January 11, 2018
BLACKOUT on LitHub
BLACKOUT is among LitHub’s Most Anticipated Crime, Mystery, and Thriller Titles of 2018!
Segura’s Pete Fernandez series is an homage to the great hardboiled tradition and takes the genre’s investigative mandate seriously, always shining light on some hidden pocket of society. In the latest installment, Fernandez goes back to Miami and gets promptly ensnared by two of the state’s enduring passions: religion (this time a cult) and conspicuous, power-hungry wealth.
November 14, 2017
Miami Book Fair Schedule
Alex will be making several appearances at the Miami Book Fair!
Thursday, 11/16 – 7pm
The Porch
NOIR AT THE BAR MIAMI
Noir at the Bar It’s Double Indemnity meets Deliverance! First, Alex Segura, author of the acclaimed Pete Fernandez Miami Mystery series, hosts readings by some of the best mystery and crime writers around—Lynne Barrett, Joe Clifford, Vicki Hendricks and Mike Creeden —while Wilson Sayre and the Slayers perform bluegrass and old-timey murder ballads, from the Carter Family to the Wailin’ Jennys. You’ll be stompin’ your feet — and watching your back!
Sunday, 11/19 – 11am
MAGIC Screening Room (Building 8, 1st floor)
COMICS: HORROR, NOIR, IMMORTALITY
Terror, death, and rebirth find new life with three authors who all buck genre conventions in their work to explore and explode these terrifying, yet weirdly empowering themes. Start your morning with a little noir alongside Victor LaValle (Destroyer), Jason Shiga (Demon), Conor McCreery (Kill Shakespeare series) and Eric Grissom (Gregory Suicide). Moderated by Alex Segura.
Sunday, 11/19 – 3pm
Room 8302 (Building 8, 3rd floor)
FLORIDA MYSTERIES AND THRILLERS
Alex Segura‘s latest book in the Pete Fernandez Miami Mystery Series is Dangerous Ends, which pushes Pete Fernandez into a battle with a deadlier, more complex threat, as he tries to shake off the demons haunting Miami’s own, sordid past. Lightwood is Steph Post’s story of a man caught in a complicated web of thievery, brutality and betrayal. Simone Kelly‘s suspenseful and sexy debut novel, Like a Fly on the Wall, presents a psychic and a budding private eye joined together to unearth family secrets?
Alex on Retconned
Why is Archie and the gang from Riverdale everywhere you look these days? We get to the bottom of that mystery – and discuss a few more – in the latest episode of RetConned.
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November 1, 2017
Cover Reveal!
We at Crimespree Magazine are thrilled to present the cover reveal for Alex Segura’s next Pete Fernandez mystery, BLACKOUT. Readers have watched as Pete has battled with addiction and attempted to reinvent himself in his new life as a private investigator. But with BLACKOUT, he may be facing his greatest challenge yet.
July 21, 2017
Sons of Spade on SHALLOW GRAVE
I used to love those special times characters like Superman and Spider-Man teamed up. Two great heroes from two creators, together. Showing their differences and what they had in common.
July 17, 2017
Adam Hill Writes: Interview
As you can probably tell I work in Publishing. So once or so a week I get Publisher’s Weekly newsletter to my inbox to stay up on the game. One article that caught my eye was about Alex Segura, a crime novelist who works at Archie Comics for his day gig. The head line got me into the article and I stayed in until I decided to order the first book Silent City. I ended up reading the third book in the series, Dangerous Ends as well but am saving the second book for some rainy day. There’s so much to read man! The main character Pete Fernandez is an affable ex-newspaper man, ex alcoholic in living in Miami. Pete feels real by the time you’ve read a book. He feels like someone you know by a second. This is a testament to Alex’s skill in bringing his character to life. He Frankensteined it with words. Below is an interview I did with Alex via e-mail.
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July 10, 2017
Writer’s Digest: A Writers Conference Survival Guide
You’re going to a writers conference. You’ve booked your travel and are excited and ready to meet fellow aspiring writers, fawn over your established writing heroes and maybe accomplish that Big Next Step in your writing career, whether it be finding an agent, publisher or key connection. Easy, right? You just show up? Not quite.
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June 21, 2017
Elizabeth A. White on DANGEROUS ENDS
Segura uses the idea of struggle—good cops vs. bad, Fernandez vs. himself, pro-Castro Cuban Americans vs. anti-Castro factions—to explore the concept of how the choices people make have consequences that impact not only their own lives, for both better and worse, but can have a ripple effect that lasts for generations. It’s a nice maturation, both of the series and of Segura’s talent as an author.
June 16, 2017
Stephen King And I: How the Master of Horror Made Me A Better Father
At LitHub, Alex talks about Stephen King and parenting.
I sat up with a jolt. I couldn���t sleep. It was in early August of last year. I could hear the rain pelting our tiny motel room. My wife and I were staying somewhere in Massachusetts; we���d stopped on our way back to New York after our first vacation with our then-six-month-old son. Put mildly, the experience had been strikingly different from previous, pre-baby trips.
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