Wednesday, January 16, 2013
"WHITE HEAT" CHOSEN AS ONE OF THE BEST FICTION BOOKS OF 2012
Rosa St. Claire at Examiner.com just named my novel White Heat one of the best fiction books of 2012, along with Megan Abbott's Dare Me, Blind Night by Michael W. Sherer, Merry Christmas, Alex Cross by James Patterson, The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling and a handful of others. I'm honored to be included with these great writers. http://www.examiner.com/review/best-fiction-books-of-2012-and-new-titles-for-2013
Wednesday, January 2, 2013
51-50 -- NEW NOIR SHORT STORY AVAILABLE NOW
Available on Amazon now: 51-50 -- click the title
Cleaver is a cop who just can't take it anymore. He knows he's going to step over the line, it's just a question of when. It's the smirk that blows him away in this stripped down psycho noir short story.
Cleaver is a cop who just can't take it anymore. He knows he's going to step over the line, it's just a question of when. It's the smirk that blows him away in this stripped down psycho noir short story.
An excerpt:
It was the smirk that
blew me away. A half grin in the eyes and mouth, mocking, laughing. Maybe at me
- maybe at the badge. They were leaning against a grimy cinder block wall under
a sooty sky. Thumbs hooked into pockets of baggy lowrider pants, fingers, long
and lean, twisting into coded signals. Eyes hollow. Eyes I don't even want to
meet in the darkest dream. Hollow men. Hollow boys. Nothing behind those eyes.
Nothing. They don't care. Don't give a damn.
It was that smirk
that blew them away.
~~~
Cops aren't supposed
to have feelings. We do a good job of hiding them. Burying them. But we're just
like everybody else. We hide them in bravado or work. We hide them in a bottle
or in "inexplicable" rages. But they're there, like the molten lava
in a volcano just waiting to burst through to the surface.
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Reviews of "51-50":
"Hat's off Mr. Marks - noir is your playground and you do it better than any other current writer."
Reviews of "51-50":
"Hat's off Mr. Marks - noir is your playground and you do it better than any other current writer."
--Kat Yares, Amazon VineTM-Voice
Reviewer
"Writer Paul D.
Marks can get inside a character's head and walk around better than anybody.
His latest short story, 51-50, does just that…"
--G.B. Pool, author
of "The Johnny Casino Casebook 1 - Past Imperfect"
Available on Amazon now: 51-50 -- click the title
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