Ride a Red Dragon
I'm pleased to announce my short story, "Ride a Red Dragon" is available on Amazon Kindle for a mere 99 cents! Here's the set up:
When speakeasy and gambling hall owner Scooter Hawkins puts a call
into private eye Vic Lane to investigate an extortion attempt, Lane
barely has time to hear the assignment before two men with Thompson sub-machine guns burst through the door to ratchet up the stakes with a
stream of lead.
Lane’s investigation leads to a rival gambling
house known as the Red Dragon, and soon he is caught up in a ruthless
struggle with its beautiful proprietress, Wan Jung.
Set in 1920s
San Francisco with flappers, speakeasies and roadsters, “Ride a Red Dragon” is a two-fisted tale of deceit and
revenge reminiscent of Dashiell Hammett’s Continental Op stories.
Pick it up
here.
Patricia Cornwell's RED MIST
#1
New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell's new novel,
Red Mist, goes on sale this Tuesday, December 6th.
What's that go to do with me? The book is set in and around Savannah, Georgia and when her publisher, Putnum, went looking for a atmospheric photograph from the area to use for the book's end papers, they found my shot of a
foggy morning at Colonial Park Cemetery.
They printed it in silver on both end papers and I think it looks tremendous:
(Notice the image is reversed to keep the tree clear of the dust jacket flap.) Patricia is also featuring it on her
website:
I don't think the Putnum folks realized that I am also a crime fiction writer, but of course the fact that I, too, write crime makes me all the more proud to have the photo on Patricia's book.
Coming to a Bookstore/eReader Near You!
I can now say with confidence that
Prom Night and Other Man-Made Disasters, my collection of humorous first-person essays, will be available in spring 2012. Keep an eye peeled for it!
Dollar Store-like Pricing on eBooks in the August Riordan Series!
Get them while they are hot!
Candy from Strangers Podcast Complete!
The free podcast for my third novel,
Candy from Strangers, is complete! Download individual episodes or subscribe to the feed on Apple's iTunes
here.
THE IMMORTAL GAME in Chinese!
Here's the cover and the promotional give-away (a USB drive in the shape of a chess king) for my first novel THE IMMORTAL GAME.
To Gertrude
Check out my post on Gertrude Stein and a bit of "found prose" from her grave in Paris
here on SFGate.com.
True Fiction
Susan Harkema, research director at the Kentucky Spinal Cord Injury Research Center in Louisville, recently published an article in
Lancet regarding her work to help spinal cord injury victims regain mobility by using electrical stimulation to the spine. Read about it in the
New York Times here and TechCrunch
here.
The real life technology is very similar to that developed by the fictional start-up company NeuroStimix in my novel
Vulture Capital. Read about the book
here or listen to the free podcast
here.
When speakeasy and gambling hall owner Scooter Hawkins puts a call
into private eye Vic Lane to investigate an extortion attempt, Lane
barely has time to hear the assignment before two men with Thompson sub-machine guns burst through the door to ratchet up the stakes with a
stream of lead.
