http://www.listsofnote.com/2012/03/rules-for-detective-writers.html
Friday, September 7, 2012
"Rules for Detective Fiction"
A friend tipped us to this. It's worth reading. And fun.
http://www.listsofnote.com/2012/03/rules-for-detective-writers.html
http://www.listsofnote.com/2012/03/rules-for-detective-writers.html
Thursday, August 16, 2012
The Past and Future of Publishing
There's a worthwhile article over at Forbes.com on where we've been and where we're heading in publishing today.
One of the more interesting statements is this:
There is enormous pressure in the market to solve the 'drowning in bad writing' issue with indie publishing. It's hard to imagine that a solution won't emerge in the next 12-18 months."
We're waiting.
You can read the entire article here. And you should.
One of the more interesting statements is this:
There is enormous pressure in the market to solve the 'drowning in bad writing' issue with indie publishing. It's hard to imagine that a solution won't emerge in the next 12-18 months."
We're waiting.
You can read the entire article here. And you should.
Wednesday, August 8, 2012
A Different Kind of 'MONSTER'
WBUR on MONSTER: Zeltserman keeps the action moving relentlessly forward with minimal padding, either in terms of plot or prose. The action is tight and there’s no shade of purple in his style, but there’s plenty going on thematically.
Click here to read WBUR's thoughtful critique on MONSTER, as well as MONSTER's first chapter.
Thursday, August 2, 2012
MONSTER - A NOVEL OF FRANKENSTEIN
ON SALE TODAY
Victor Frankenstein. Marquis de Sade. Witch burnings. Vampyres. Devil worshipers. Depraved London sex clubs. Street gangs. Vengeance. Obsession. Damnation.
"imaginative and grotesque... This is juicy material for Franken-fans, and Zeltserman is just faithful enough to the original that his many fresh contributions feel entirely normal.Well, abnormal, to be accurate, but deliciously so".-- Daniel Kraus, Booklist (*Starred Review*)
"This reworking of Frankenstein is chilling and captivating! A tale of justice, true love, and ultimate forgiveness, this gruesome novel is perfect for fans of Stephen King and similar horror stories".-- Foreword Magazine (*Pick of the Week*)
"I flat out loved it... a graphic, brutal story with heart and soul" -- Crimespree Magazine
"A masterpiece of originality, beauty, ugliness, eloquence, wisdom and power". -- Ed Gorman
"When awards season rolls around, this one's going to be a major contender." -- Bill Crider
"Brilliant reimagining of Frankenstein: faithful enough to delight lovers of Mary Shelley's masterpiece, but wonderfully inventive as it takes the monster on a bloody quest for vengeance" -- Roger Smith
"Dave Zeltserman continues to expertly explore the depths of darkness with MONSTER" -- Paul Tremblay
"Brilliant reimagining of Frankenstein: faithful enough to delight lovers of Mary Shelley's masterpiece, but wonderfully inventive as it takes the monster on a bloody quest for vengeance" -- Roger Smith
"Dave Zeltserman continues to expertly explore the depths of darkness with MONSTER" -- Paul Tremblay
Buy today from Amazon
Buy today from Barnes & Noble
Monday, July 23, 2012
No Ordinary Book Club
As some of you know, I just got the e-rights back to my Ellie Foreman mystery series. (Yay! And thank you, Poisoned Pen Press)
To celebrate, I'm posting an article on SAY THE WORD that was originally published in 2005 by CrimeSpree Magazine. It was about my visit to a women's penitentiary in Racine, Wisconsin. To this day, I've never had such a moving experience. I was talking to them about my third Ellie Foreman mystery/thriller, An Image of Death.
Please click here to read the article.
Monday, July 9, 2012
Free this week from Top Suspense
Free Kindle ebooks this week from Top Suspense
Double Header by Lee Goldberg will be free from Monday - Tuesday
One Angry Julius & Other Stories by Dave Zeltserman will be free from Tuesday to Thursday
Also free all the time:
Behold The Child by Harry Shannon
The Day Miriam Hirsch Disappeared (Elle Foreman Series Prequel) by Libby Hellmann
Double Header by Lee Goldberg will be free from Monday - Tuesday
One Angry Julius & Other Stories by Dave Zeltserman will be free from Tuesday to Thursday
Also free all the time:
Behold The Child by Harry Shannon
The Day Miriam Hirsch Disappeared (Elle Foreman Series Prequel) by Libby Hellmann
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Now you can read (or re-read) the award-winning suspense series featuring Ellie Foreman, a single mother and video producer in the Chicago suburbs. Meet Ellie’s father Jake, her daughter Rachel, her boyfriend David, Fouad, Susan, and others. Think “Desperate Housewives” meets “24.” With the emphasis on "24." Heavy on suspense and quite dark, none of the four novels are cozy.
All are now available on Amazon and other e-tailers, and AN EYE FOR MURDER will go free on Amazon soon. So start here instead. It's my favorite of the Ellie books (but don't tell the others.)
Saturday, June 23, 2012
Bad Reviewers and Bad Reviews
"In truth," writes Adam Gopnik in the BBC News Magazine, "there are only two subjects that we authors, in my experience, actually talk about in private with any real zing from the heart.
"One is the size of our - or their - advances. The other, what to do about your - OK, our - bad reviews."
After examining the usual responses available to an author - the icy silence of the moral high ground, the self-damaging and ineffective letter of riposte - Gopnik offers an ingenious and satisfying solution.
Read about it on the BBC's website, here.
"One is the size of our - or their - advances. The other, what to do about your - OK, our - bad reviews."
After examining the usual responses available to an author - the icy silence of the moral high ground, the self-damaging and ineffective letter of riposte - Gopnik offers an ingenious and satisfying solution.
Read about it on the BBC's website, here.
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
The Ellie Foreman Mysteries
by Libby Hellmann
Hi, all. Some great news here. As of last week, all the Ellie Foreman mysteries are now on AUDIO at Audible.com. For those of you who aren't familiar with the series, Ellie is a video producer and single mother in Chicago, who stumbles onto crimes and conspiracies that need to be solved. And she does. Although Ellie is an amateur sleuth, the books are not cozies. They are full of suspense and fairly dark. There are 4 books in the series:
You can find EYE here.
GUILT is here.
IMAGE is here.
And SHOT can be found here.
While you're at it, don't forget the PREQUEL to the series -- THE DAY MIRIAM HIRSCH DISAPPEARED. An award-winning short story, it's set in 1938 in Chicago's Lawndale neighborhood, and it was recorded by the fine people at Sniplits.com. You can find it right here.
Enjoy the listens -- they're perfect for those hot summer days. FYI, as for the ebooks, I just got the rights back from Poisoned Pen Press and am re-converting them even as we speak. They should be back up in a few weeks.
Thanks.
Hi, all. Some great news here. As of last week, all the Ellie Foreman mysteries are now on AUDIO at Audible.com. For those of you who aren't familiar with the series, Ellie is a video producer and single mother in Chicago, who stumbles onto crimes and conspiracies that need to be solved. And she does. Although Ellie is an amateur sleuth, the books are not cozies. They are full of suspense and fairly dark. There are 4 books in the series:
You can find EYE here.
GUILT is here.
IMAGE is here.
And SHOT can be found here.
While you're at it, don't forget the PREQUEL to the series -- THE DAY MIRIAM HIRSCH DISAPPEARED. An award-winning short story, it's set in 1938 in Chicago's Lawndale neighborhood, and it was recorded by the fine people at Sniplits.com. You can find it right here.
Enjoy the listens -- they're perfect for those hot summer days. FYI, as for the ebooks, I just got the rights back from Poisoned Pen Press and am re-converting them even as we speak. They should be back up in a few weeks.
Thanks.
Cast in Dark Waters
This was written and published two years before Johnny Depp's Pirates of The Carribean in a Collector's Limited edition. Now it's on Cross Press - Kindle, Nook, Smashwords, etc - FOR ONLY $2.99.
Here's a review by Mel Odom:
"This jim-dandy little novella is just begging for a sequel, and I don’t want to be kept waiting. Cast in Dark Waters seems like it just came out of nowhere, but it has a history as a limited release hardcover book from Cemetery Dance. I missed it then, but I’m glad I caught up with it now.
This is old-school pulp writing, folks, and it reads like something that would have come from the typewriter of Robert E. Howard or one of his contemporaries. The story is set in the Caribbean in the 16th century and feels like a pirate movie from the heyday of when Hollywood did them big and did them right. I love the current Pirates of the Caribbean stuff that’s going on now, but I still remember watching Errol Flynn in The Sea Hawk and being blown away.
The opening of the story is immediately intriguing, but it’s the female sea captain, Crimson, that steps onto center stage and owns the show. She comes in swinging, too, in a wild bar brawl that is a sheer pleasure to read and made me feel all of ten years old again discovering the pulp stories that shaped me into the man I am now. Growing up in southeastern Oklahoma meant there was a lot of cowboys architecture in my male role models, but thanks to the reading material I had at hand there was a lot of pirates, private eyes, and science fiction as well.
The relationship Crimson has with her father (although no one dares suggest to either of them that they’re related) is at once absorbing. Tangled relationships are great fiction fodder, and the one between Crimson and Welsh is a great one. But Gorman and Piccirilli don’t stop there. Crimson’s husband, Tyree, has gone missing on the island of Benbow, which is believed to be the home to nightmares and bloodsuckers. In this first story, we think we know what the truth is, but we don’t receive the final answer. And in that, the authors have us snared. I hope to see a sequel soon.
The seafaring action and the fights on the island are very well done. I felt like I was staying in step with Lady Crimson when she set sail and when she set foot on the island. The mythology of the things she’s hunting is very well laid out and I enjoyed the “almost knowing” everything that was involved. After all 16th century pirates don’t know everything we know these days.
The atmosphere is very well done and the Caribbean landscape and the lifestyle of a pirate are marked on every page. The authors did some good research and blend it seamlessly into their pirate-horror-adventure concoction.
Here's a review by Mel Odom:
"This jim-dandy little novella is just begging for a sequel, and I don’t want to be kept waiting. Cast in Dark Waters seems like it just came out of nowhere, but it has a history as a limited release hardcover book from Cemetery Dance. I missed it then, but I’m glad I caught up with it now.This is old-school pulp writing, folks, and it reads like something that would have come from the typewriter of Robert E. Howard or one of his contemporaries. The story is set in the Caribbean in the 16th century and feels like a pirate movie from the heyday of when Hollywood did them big and did them right. I love the current Pirates of the Caribbean stuff that’s going on now, but I still remember watching Errol Flynn in The Sea Hawk and being blown away.
The opening of the story is immediately intriguing, but it’s the female sea captain, Crimson, that steps onto center stage and owns the show. She comes in swinging, too, in a wild bar brawl that is a sheer pleasure to read and made me feel all of ten years old again discovering the pulp stories that shaped me into the man I am now. Growing up in southeastern Oklahoma meant there was a lot of cowboys architecture in my male role models, but thanks to the reading material I had at hand there was a lot of pirates, private eyes, and science fiction as well.
The relationship Crimson has with her father (although no one dares suggest to either of them that they’re related) is at once absorbing. Tangled relationships are great fiction fodder, and the one between Crimson and Welsh is a great one. But Gorman and Piccirilli don’t stop there. Crimson’s husband, Tyree, has gone missing on the island of Benbow, which is believed to be the home to nightmares and bloodsuckers. In this first story, we think we know what the truth is, but we don’t receive the final answer. And in that, the authors have us snared. I hope to see a sequel soon.
The seafaring action and the fights on the island are very well done. I felt like I was staying in step with Lady Crimson when she set sail and when she set foot on the island. The mythology of the things she’s hunting is very well laid out and I enjoyed the “almost knowing” everything that was involved. After all 16th century pirates don’t know everything we know these days.
The atmosphere is very well done and the Caribbean landscape and the lifestyle of a pirate are marked on every page. The authors did some good research and blend it seamlessly into their pirate-horror-adventure concoction.
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