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ITW Award nominees++

Just read a great spy thriller by Kathleen Kent, Black Wolf. Look for my GR review.

Also, I'm excited to see the list of ITW thriller award nominees. Many new books to explore!

https://thrillerwriters.org/

Celebrate KFM Oscars

Celebrate the Oscar nominations for Lily Gladstone and Killers of the Flower Moon with an 87% discount on Kindle (worldwide) for related-setting novel STRIKE PRICE: Lynn Dayton Thriller #2. Just $0.99 for a few days. Get your copy. https://www.amazon.com/Strike-Price-D...

Celebrating KFM

Briefly free Kindle short story, A Time for Eating Wild Onions, available worldwide, to celebrate the many Oscar nominations for the Killers of the Flower Moon movie, particularly for Lily Gladstone as best actress. Wild Onions references the Osage wealth so well portrayed in KFM. It also gives backstory for the second Lynn Dayton thriller, Strike Price. https://www.amazon.com/Time-Eating-Wi...

wingsuits & love

Authors, like moviemakers, frequently have to cut interesting scenes. So it is here, in this short story: Robert & Therese Guillard: Choices. Taken from the context of 13 Days: The Pythagoras Conspiracy: Lynn Dayton Thriller #1--in this alternate universe, Robert G's glorious day of wingsuit flying darkens when he discovers his wife with her lover. Sort of an anti-Valentine's Day short story. Briefly free worldwide on Kindle.
https://www.amazon.com/Robert-Therese...

grandmothers

For anyone who has Kindle & who has/had a grandmother. Though details are different, I was reminded recently of the origins of this (briefly free) short story w/my own grandmother. https://www.amazon.com/Josh-Rosen-Bub...

Osage

northern OK history spotlighted in Strike Price, Lynn Dayton Thriller #2, by David Grann & Martin Scorsese (Killers of the Flower Moon) and now by Vanity Fair re the Drummonds https://lastarksbooks.com/books/strik...



https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/...

Fall newsletter

My twice-yearly newsletter is up. KFM notes and book recs. See it here:
https://lastarksbooks.com/2023/10/30/...

Great movie!

Just saw premiere of Killers of the Flower Moon. Great movie! Well worth the 3.5 hours!

KFM movie this week!

Read David Grann's Killers of the Flower Moon, get your tickets for Martin Scorsese's movie this week, and dive into other First American-themed books, like STRIKE PRICE.

language

Great vignette from Killers of the Flower Moon on the use of the Osage language in the film, similar to the use of the Cherokee language in the book STRIKE PRICE. And yes, not easy.
https://www.motionpictures.org/2023/1...