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.

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.

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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."
--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