Community Bulletin Board

Spinetingler pulls together some links of what’s happening elsewhere around the community.

Check them out after the jump.

-Have you been reading the daily Mulholland Books columns? If not, you’ve missed some good ones. Don’t forget, there are new ones everyday with a lot more to come.

Guns to Shape the Future by Charlie Huston

Childhood Obsession Turned Bestselling Novel by Nelson DeMille

The Workplace, Wet or Dry by Joe R. Lansdale

Hey, Sinner Man, Where’d You Go? by Lawrence Block

Live Chat with Don Winslow

Batman Is My Mr. Miyagi by Brad Meltzer

Don Winslow, Interviewed by Shane Salerno

Making Sense of Nothing and Making Nothing of Sense: A Maundering on the Taxonomy of Writing and I Forget What Else by Nick Tosches

-Steve Mosby writes about dead women in his fiction.

I’ve been thinking about dead people recently. More specifically, dead women.

That’s not as weird or wrong as it sounds. I’m a crime writer, after all, so it’s natural for dead women to crop up. And these are fictional dead women, not real ones. The victims of murder – and worse – that cross my mind are pretty much always made-up, so it’s a harmless process: I think about this stuff; I write it down; and someone eventually reads it (cough cough). Nobody in the real world actually gets hurt.

But I’ve been thinking about the subject more than I normally do, for a few reasons. It started a couple of months back, during a conversation with another writer, who mentioned that my writing often contain ‘dead girlfriends’. Guilty as charged. As it happens, it’s even worse than that. I started out doing short stories, and even then I was well aware of my unfortunate tendency to include dead girlfriends. That was before I started writing my first book, so I should have known better, and yet The Third Person happened anyway.

-In addition to the forthcoming novel Devil Red there is also a Hap & Leonard novella from Subterranean.

-Adrian McKinty brings brief word of his new novel, Falling Glass.

-Winter’s Bone is coming out on DVD and Blu-Ray on October 26th.

-The Killer Inside Me is coming out on DVD and Blu-Ray on September 28th.

-The cast for All Signs of Death, the HBO pilot based on Charlie Huston’s Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death.

-Modern Noir and the Fluidity of Genre

-Allan Guthrie’s novella, Bye Bye Baby is available way ahead of its hard copy release as a digital download. Go get some.

-Tom Piccirilli’s new noirella, Short Ride to Nowhere, is now available exclusively as a digital download. Go get some.

Brian Lindenmuth

Brian is the non-fiction editor of Spinetingler magazine and one of the fiction editors of Snubnose Press. In addition to Spinetingler his work has appeared in Crimespree magazine and at BSC Review, Galleycat and the Mulholland Books website. He also heads the Spinetingler Award committee.

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