Crime Factory: The First Shift, published by New Pulp Press and edited by Keith Rawson, Jimmy Calaway, and Cameron Ashley
Featuring "The Ravine," a Roy Alison story from Steve Weddle
Author Steve Weddle does with character development in “The Ravine” in 7 pages what a great many authors can’t do in an entire book. Simply brilliant writing.
"Ravine" by Steve Weddle. Dealing with how a character changes or fails to change is very difficult. I often find that characters who change too much aren't believable -- in my opinion, people don't tend to change much, so in fiction it comes off as forced. But in this story, Weddle makes a smart move -- he tests a change his character has already gone through. The result is a tight and engrossing piece with a phenomenal last line.
-- Chris Rhatigan, Death By Killing
Nominated for Spinetingler's 2011 Dave Thompson Award for Community Leader
Chris F. Holm's “The Hitter” from Needle’s second issue has been selected for the upcoming BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY STORIES and nominated for an Anthony Award.
Ray Banks's fantastic novel WOLF TICKETS, is serialized in three issues -- Winter 2010, Spring 2011, Fall 2011.
From Barnes and Noble's mystery blog:
This quarterly print magazine came out of nowhere in '10 and they seem to mean business. They’ve published three issues so far and created a virtual black hole of morality with stories from Nathan Singer, Sophie Littlefield and Anthony Neil Smith. You’ll also find your future favorite novelists in there, (Hilary Davidson, Stephen Blackmoore, Eric Beetner and Frank Bill all have books coming very soon). And in true pulp form, they are publishing an original serial novel - you’ve got to read Wolf Tickets by Ray Banks.
Nominated for the 2011 Spinetingler Award for Best Anthology
"Hard to go wrong here." Mystery Scene Magazine, Winter 2011
From the introduction by Jason Pinter:
"Whether you’ve already been exposed to the wiles of the Do Some Damage crew, or you’re looking for a story with so much nitroglycerin that you won’t just miss your subway stop, but blow the station right off the map, check out this anthology. But when you realize your hands and feet are bound, you can’t get up from the seat, and strangers and peering at your slack-jawed reaction in jealousy, don’t say I didn’t warn you."
DISCOUNT NOIR has been nominated for Outstanding Anthology in the 2011 Preditors and Editors Readers Poll.
"A dandy collection." -- Mystery Scene Magazine
This anthology contains works by: Patricia Abbott, Sophie Littlefield, Kieran Shea, Chad Eagleton, Ed Gorman, Cormac Brown, Fleur Bradley, Alan Griffiths, Laura Benedict, Garnett Elliot, Eric Beetner, Jack Bates, Bill Crider, Loren Eaton, John DuMond, John McFetridge, Toni McGeeCausey, Jeff Vande Zande, James Reasoner, Kyle Minor, Randy Rohn, Todd Mason, Byron Quertermous, Sandra Scoppettone, Stephen D. Rogers, Steve Weddle, Evan Lewis, Daniel B. O'Shea, Sandra Seamans, Albert Tucher, Donna Moore, John Weagly, Keith Rawson, Gerald So, Dave Zeltserman, Dorte Hummelshoj Jakobsen, Jay Stringer, Anne Frasier, Kathleen A. Ryan, Eric Peterson, Chris Grabenstein and J.T. Ellison.
D*CKED: Dark Fiction Inspired by Dick Cheney
Featuring "Smoke Fades Away," a Roy Alison story from Steve Weddle
"Old hands and new voices give a no-holds-barred effort and don’t let up until the job is done. The stories will hit you hard, knock you down, make you laugh, make you think. From provocative to hilarious to dark to devious, D*CKED delivers a hell of a ride.”
Sophie Littlefield, author of A Bad Day For Pretty and A Bad Day For Scandal
Nominated for the 2012 Spinetingler Award for Best Cover
Nominated for the 2012 Spinetingler Award for Best Anthology
"Steve Weddle’s A Day in the Life is a brand new piece, from Luca Veste's charity e-book Off The Record, and it really stood out among the carnage and general bastardry of the collection. It’s a beautifully balanced story about loss, set in that strange, jet-laggish period when you know the death is coming but can’t do anything. Powerful, sparely written genius." -- Eva Dolan
OFF THE RECORD: Thirty-eight short stories based on classic song titles. With all proceeds going to two Children's Literacy Charities. In the UK, National Literacy Trust. (http://www.literacytrust.org.uk/) In the US, Children's Literacy Initiative. (http://www.cliontheweb.org/)
