New Western Webzine!

The new zine is Fires on the Plain and the story is “The Serpent Box” by Jake Hinkson. Please stop by and support this new site run by Cullen Gallagher.

*Cash Laramie will be at Fires on the Plain next Friday with a sample of BULLETS FOR A BALLOT.

White Cat Publications Is Now Live

Here is the link. Hat tip: Charles Gramlich.

Dark Valentine Closes

The End Has Come.

All Due Respect #7

The Ballad of Jimmie Jazz by Tony Deans.

Yellow Mama

Christmas issue of Yellow Mama is live.

Open Roads and Freebirds and Other Links

Alec Cizak on the latest offering at All Due Respect:

For issue number three of ALL DUE RESPECT, JJ Kinni puts together a road story that fuses the wandering prose of Jack Kerouac with some nice elements of all-American debauchery we would expect to find in a Jim Thompson or James Ellroy novel. The result is "Open Roads and Freebirds," a story that moves from post-World War II alienation to the dawn of the free love movement in San Francisco.

Other links in my cyber travels: An interview with Sara Paretsky where Chandler is brought up in an unfavorable light | The Novelist Wars | Car crashes into Stephen King's Gate | and That Nameless Stranger, Half a Century Later.

The Great Whydini

The submission guidelines at All Due Respect read:

We are interested in crime fiction. That means fiction about crime. Not solving crime. Not bemoaning crime. Fiction about people who are criminals and maybe a little bit about why they are criminals, so long as you don't go Dr. Phil on it.

Well, I've had a tale collecting dust that met the criteria. ADR editor Alec Cizak mentioned that this story of mine, "The Great Whydini," reminded him of the old EC Comics. I've been immersed in EC of late and took it as a great compliment. This pithy story involving a marriage gone wrong, shackles, and a lack of oxygen is pretty straightforward but I believe it turned out well. I'm appreciative Alec chose it as his second story at All Due Respect and please drop by and leave a comment for or against. Ladies and Gentleman, the man being lowered to his possible death, "The Great Whydini."

Evan Lewis reviews Whydini here.

Eastern Standard Crime Presents... Crooked

Geoff Eighinger's CROOKED has landed. The first issue features stories from Sandra Seamans, Albert Tucher, and Sandra Ruttan among others, and also includes an interview with Charles Adai. Wishing Geoff and Crooked the best for great success in '09.