Behind The Times - Writerly Stuff

Yeah, I know. I'm a slacker. Blame, I dunno, let's go with swine flu. Maybe California on fire again? Rickets? Something.

Anyway, as usual I'm a day late and a buck short, but here are some things I've been meaning to yammer on about for a while now.

Seth Harwood's novel, Jack Wakes Up came out. Go buy it. Or give it a listen.

Oh, and check out these reviews on the N.Y. Times and Boston Globe. Good stuff.

Then we have The Lineup: Poems on Crime 2, edited by Gerald So, Patrick Shawn Bagley, R. Narvaez, and Anthony Rainone, on sale now through Lulu.com and wherever fine indie bookstores get off their slacker asses and agree to carry it.

Incidentally, the aforementioned Mr. Harwood also runs Crimewav.com, where you can listen to some of the best crime fiction out there, including selected poems from The Lineup, starting tomorrow.

Let's see. What else? Oh, right.

Switchblade. New noir imprint from PM Press. Debut novels are a reprint of Gary Phillips' The Jook (Great book) and Summer Brenner's I-5 (which I can't wait to get my hands on).

I know there's more, but my brain is fucking cottage cheese these days. It's a wonder I remember to wear pants when I leave the house.

Oh, go pre-order Hogdoggin', out June 1st. Anthony Neil Smith's follow-up to last year's Yellow Medicine.

That it? Think that's it.

Dammit. Where are my pants?