This past
week has been crazy and I have a lot of catching up to do. I’ll start by saying
how delighted I am that the wonderful people at Snubnose Press will be
publishing my novella NEVADA THUNDER. It’s
a fast, hard-boiled ride full of dive bars and bad decisions. Here’s the blurb:
The sun isn’t the only thing that
beats on you in the Nevada desert. Johnny Gregson learned that the hard way. He
used to be a fighter, sooner or later people will realize that he still is.
His only knock down came from Carlo Martinez,
but it didn’t happen in the ring. Martinez is no boxer. He’s the Las Vegas
front man for a Mexican drug cartel. When Gregson refused to throw a fight,
Martinez paid him back with a trumped up drug charge. Call it a technical K.O.
Gregson did the time and came out a little
older and maybe a little wiser. He didn’t want revenge, but that wasn’t going
to stop his surrogate sister, Kara from trying to get it for him. Her naive
attempt at blackmail has landed them both in a world of trouble. Part of the
problem is that Kara doesn’t have anything on Martinez; the other part is
Martinez believes she does.
If
everything goes to plan NEVADA THUNDER should hit the shelves by the end of the
year. It goes without saying that I’m pretty stoked about the whole thing and
honored to be joining the Snubnose family.
I owe a lot
of people a lot of things (money mostly), but I also owe a big thank you to my
Zelmer Pulp brothers, Chuck Regan, Brian Panowich, Isaac Kirkman and Ryan
Sayles for reading the early drafts of NT. They helped me make it a much
better book.
Talking of
ZP it’s been a landmark week for Ryan Sayles too, his wife, Donna gave birth to
a happy and healthy baby boy on Thursday. Congratulations guys and welcome to
the world Gus!
Brian
Panowich also had some good news this week, but that has to remain under wraps for now.
All I can say is well done, man. It’s no less than you deserve.
Some other
happenings:
The Godfather
of Brit Grit, Paul D. Brazill has my favorite British writer, Gareth Spark over
at his Out Of The Gutter column this week. You can check it out here: BRIT GRIT ALLEY
Tucson writer
and all round good guy, Chris DeWildt was interviewed on Bud Smith’s radio show
the other night. He talks about writing, noir and reads a couple of stories
from his excellent new collection, DEAD ANIMALS. Here’s the link: THE UNKNOWN SHOW
Tom Pitts, author
of the fast-paced thrill fest, PIGGYBACK is also hitting the airwaves this week
on Nikki Palomino’s Monday night show, DAZED. Tune in from 10pm EST on the 9th:
DIGITAL RADIO 103
Finally, no blog post
is ever complete without mentioning Joe Clifford. His band, The Wandering Jews
have just released a new album, ALL THE PRETTY THINGS. If you dig the rock storytelling
of Springsteen and the driving melodies of
Gaslight Anthem then you really need to hear this. You can download it right now from
iTunes: ALL THE PRETTY THINGS
