Bleak House has quite a few friends in the crime writing community. Two of those great people are Sean Chercover and Marcus Sakey. We’re thrilled that they were profiled in Sunday’s Chicago Tribune. If you have the time, you should read this article.
(1) Author Nathan Singer (In the Light of You, Chasing the Wolf, A Prayer for Dawn) and publisher Benjamin LeRoy just finished an article detailing the 32 Most Rock n’ Roll Songs in the History of Rock n’ Roll. You can read the full list on the Literary Fever website here.
For those of you interested in the method to the madness, you can listen to Nathan outlining the rigorous scientific process here.
(2) The podcast machine is fired up again. On Monday’s edition of The Future is Bleak, the search for guests goes in-house as Ben interviews Alison to discuss the history of Bleak House Books and her life as a glamorous editor. Listen here.
(3) We’ll be at Bouchercon. Be in touch if you want to hang out.
This weekend we met up with John Galligan on the west fork of the Kickapoo River in western Wisconsin (the setting of his 2005 novel The Blood Knot) to talk to him about the new book, the story of The Dog, and the joy of fishing. Some clips have already made their way to Youtube (like the one below). Others will be added shortly.
The Private Eye Writers of America (PWA) is proud to announce the nominees for the 27th annual Shamus Awards, given annually to recognize outstanding achievement in private eye fiction. The 2008 awards cover works first published in the U.S. in 2007. The awards will be presented at the PWA banquet in Baltimore, Maryland, during the Bouchercon World Mystery Convention.
Bleak House is happy to celebrate with two of our fine authors–Reed Farrel Coleman and Bill Bryan–on the occasion of their Shamus Award nominations. Reed received a Best Novel nod for Soul Patch. Bill’s debut novel Keep it Real is a finalist for Best First Novel.
John Galligan (the original Bleak House Books novelist) is getting some great reviews for the next installment in his Fly Fishing mystery series–The Clinch Knot. This week Publishers Weekly chimed in with a starred review.
“At the outset of Galligan’s stunning third Montana-set fly-fishing mystery (after 2005’s The Blood Knot), Ned “Dog” Oglivie, a self-described “traveling drunk” and “trout hound” who lives out of his asthmatic 1984 Cruise Master RV…”
We hope everybody is having a great summer playing the Frisbee and grilling out with loved ones or whatever it is you people do during these hot months. Here’s some picnic gossip.
(1) Anthony Neil Smith has successfully conquered 9 states and 23 book stores while pushing his Yellow Medicine on all of the sick people he met along the way.
(2) Nathan Singer picked up a great review from the Chicago Tribune for his new book In the Light of You. The review can be found here.
(3) Intern Narco Polo caught up with Cameron Rogers (author of The Music of Razors) for a special edition of The Future is Bleak podcast.
(4) Marshall Cook got a nice write up in the Wisconsin State Journal. If you’re so inclined you can find it here.
This week we will be introducing a new segment on THE FUTURE IS BLEAK podcast. Summer intern Narco Polo will be interviewing authors from outside the Bleakosphere. We’re excited to have her on board and think you’ll enjoy the interviews, too.
To get acquainted with our intrepid reporter, click here.
Here’s your chance to catch up on what’s happening at Bleak House Books, how Alison’s trip to Germany went, how Ben’s first James Taylor concert experience left him with new insights, and what Bleak House Books authors have been nominated for more awards.
You know, forever ago when we went to BEA, I came back and did the first part of a recap and then I got tired and figured that you were probably getting bored reading about the adventures that we had and though I often thought again of finishing off the recap, ultimately I rejected the idea and instead did some more podcasting.
I now realize that there was a bigger plan at work. Unbeknown to me, some brilliant guy named Paul Constant at Seattle’s The Stranger went ahead and recapped the whole enchilada for me and on top of that, he also addressed the matter of the future of the book.
If you have the time, you really should read it. You can do so here.
Nathan Singer’s new novel In the Light of You received a nice review in the Baltimore Sun (it also ran in Newsday).
“…In the Light of You” keeps the brutally dark feel of his earlier work but finds a working balance of tone and narrative so that its points about the dangers of blind hatred and following orders come through more tangibly. Singer makes horrifyingly clear how easy it would be for a teenage boy like 16-year-old Mikal Fanon, with a middle-class background turned awry, to find comfort in the welcoming arms of a neo-Nazi skinhead group…”
John Galligan (the original Bleak House Books novelist) is getting some great reviews for the next installment in his Fly Fishing mystery series–The Clinch Knot. This week Publishers Weekly chimed in with a starred review.
Nathan Singer’s new novel In the Light of You received a nice review in the Baltimore Sun (it also ran in Newsday).
