Monthly Archives: March 2012

The Haul (no legs)

Several readers have asked about my haul from the paperback show. Here you go: (Sorry, no legs in this photo.) I wound up with a mix of beater reading copies and nicer stuff, several of which were gifts. Since the… Read More

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You talkin’ to me?

Check out this article in the Wall Street Journal about vintage Hardboiled novels. I’ll wait… Plenty of excellent suggestions for your reading list, but I have issues with the author’s claim that “…the genre used to be a lot more… Read More

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Hardboiled Bootcamp

Want me to whip your sorry-ass fiction into fighting shape? Now’s your chance. This month I’ll be teaching my first class for LitReactor – Tough Dames: How to Write Believable Hardboiled Heroines. AKA Round One of Mistress Christa’s Two-Fisted Finishing… Read More

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