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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

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Praise for WHITE HEAT

"White Heat" is a riveting read of mystery, much recommended.
— Midwest Book Review

"[White Heat] really caught early 90s LA, in all its sordid glory. And had me turning me pages late into the night. I think WH is up there with the best of the LA novels, but has an air authenticity that many lack. Look forward to reading Broken Windows."
— Woody Haut, journalist, author of Neon Noir (Contemporary American Crime Fiction), Pulp Culture (Hardboiled Fiction & the Cold War), Heartbreak and Vine (The Fate of Hardboiled Writers in Hollywood)

"Expect the unexpected...in an action-walloping award-winner of harrowing twists and turns..."
— Gordon Hauptfleisch - Seattle Post Intelligencer and BlogCritics.org

Here's a hell of a hard and sweaty noir from a California writer... In this new story, I feel James M. Cain would be proud! Marks told me the story came to him as he was cruising old Route 66 wondering what the end of the line might be like. Now you'll find out.

–Gary Lovisi, Editor Hardboiled Magazine

Rick and Gloria. A match made in hell. Little did he know, as he cruised across the country on his motorcycle on old Route 66 that his journey would land him in the cold heart of Hollywood and the even colder heart of Gloria. And little did he know, as they watched "Double Indemnity," that, as in the movie, the scent of honeysuckle would also be the scent of murder…and his downfall.

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Upcoming Events for "Continental Tilt"/"Murder in La La Land":

LA TIMES FESTIVAL OF BOOKS -- USC -- SAT., APRIL 30TH, 2011 -- SIGNING 2-4PM @ SISTERS IN CRIME BOOTH

LA Times Festival of Books - UCLA - April 24th & 25th (exact time and date to be determined)

Sisters in Crime reading - South Pasadena Library - May 2nd, 2pm

Book Launch Party - The Mystery Bookstore, 1036-C Broxton Ave., Westwood - May 22nd, 5pm-7:30pm

Cerritos Library reading - July 7th, 7pm-9pm

Blanchard Community Library reading, Santa Paula - around July 27th (exact date and time to be determined)

Published Fiction

Endless Vacation — Honorable Mention Winner in the international Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition and the Glimmer Train Very Short Fiction Award

Poison Heart — Deadly Ink 2010 Short Story Collection

Open All Night — Crimestalker Casebook

Continental Tilt — Murder in La-La Land anthology

Almost, Almost Famous — Mysterical E (due in Summer 2010 edition — www.MystericalE.com)

Terminal Island — Weber: The Contemporary West
(Fall 2009 issue)

Stephen Colbert's Americone Nightmare — Mysterical-E
(Spring 2009 issue)

Free Fall — Hardboiled Magazine

Superstition — The Storyteller

Three Strikes and Yer Out — Crimestalker Casebook

Born Under a Bad Sign — Hardluck Stories' anthology
Noir Blues

51-50 — Hardluck Stories' anthology Psycho Noir

Don't Sleep on it Marlowe — Crimestalker Casebook

A Sherlockian Poetry Pourri — Crimestalker Casebook

911 – Fiction on the Run Anthology

Angel's Flight — Murder by Thirteen Anthology

Cubic Zirconia of Kubla Khan, The — Futures

Good Old Days, The — Murder Across the Map Anthology

Graceland — Crimestalker Casebook

L.A. Late @ Night — Murder on Sunset Boulevard Anthology

Netiquette — Futures

Out of Time — Dime Anthology I

Round Up the Unusual Suspects — Crimestalker Casebook

Ruby Slippers, The — Penny-A-Liner

Santa Claus Blues —Futures

Sleepy Lagoon Nocturne — LAndmarked for Murder Anthology

Trio of Sherlock Holmes poems — Crimestalker Casebook

Trouble with Hitch, The — Crimestalker Casebook

Unfinished Business — Futures

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Wednesday, January 16, 2013

"WHITE HEAT" CHOSEN AS ONE OF THE BEST FICTION BOOKS OF 2012