Happy to have Dan Bronson on this episode, with some tremendous Hollywood stories, insight on noir, and news of his new Jack Shannon mystery!
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'Tis.
Retail release of the third Sandy Banks thriller (A HARD FAVORIED DEATH) is Mar 15, but it's already available on the Code 4 Press Bookstore (and for less).
Same w/ audiobook, and the box set. Get all three, narrated by Daniel Dorse!
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Today! The retail release of THE SPLIT LIST, the 4th installment in the Bricks & Cam Jobs series, written with @ericbeetner.bsky.social Eric Beetner, the outstanding California crime novelist (who you should be reading!).
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Dig in, Listers!
About halfway through the kickstarter for this bitchin' anthology. Check out all the names! (even includes me!).
If you're a fan of A Grifter's Song, my story is essentially an origin story for Sam and Rachel, so there's that.
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The cognitive dissonance of being an indie author...
THE SPLIT LIST, a pair of novellas @eric.beetner@bsky.social and I wrote for our respective characters in this series, will be out on retail on Feb 15!
Of course, you can get it NOW at the Code 4 Press Bookstore for a dollar less... so why wouldn'tcha?
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The True Romance Kickstarter campaign is live!
This noir anthology has my short story "Ask Me Tomorrow" in it.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ali...
Available today: INTO THE DYING SUN by Frank Zafiro, the final episode of A Grifter’s Song, as Sam & Rachel make one last play to outrun the mob, their enemies, and the life.
Available today: STEALING PARADISE by Curtis Ippolito @curtis_sd , back in print as part of A Grifter’s Song, with Sam & Rachel turning a Coronado “vacation” into a beachside score.
Available today: SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT by Patrick H. Moore - Author @patrickhmoore1, back in print as part of A Grifter’s Song, with Sam & Rachel ghostwriting a dangerous war story in L.A.
Here's a cool antho coming from editors Troy Lambert and @vincentzandri.bsky.social ! Includes a story from me ("Ask Me Tomorrow"), a Sam and Rachel origin story. The kickstarter for TRUE ROMANCE kicks off on Feb 1!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ali...
Available today: SOMEWHERE OUTSIDE SALVATION by James D.F. Hannah @jamesdfhannah, back in print as part of A Grifter’s Song, with Sam & Rachel stranded at a West Virginia carnival grift.
Available today: OUTFOXED by Jeffery Hess @jefferyhesswriter, back in print as part of A Grifter’s Song, with Sam & Rachel in Florida juggling land deals, baseball, and bad timing.
Available today: GOOD FOR IT by T G Wolff @tg_wolff, back in print as part of A Grifter’s Song, with Sam & Rachel conning a luxury retirement community with a “news filter” scheme.
Available today: MADAM TOMAHAWK by @nickkolakowski Nick Kolakowski, back in print as part of A Grifter’s Song, with Sam & Rachel in D.C. circling escort-fueled political scandal.
Available today: DANGEROUS TO KNOW by Hilary Davidson @hilarydavidsonbooks , back in print as part of A Grifter’s Song, with Sam & Rachel inside a cliffside British Columbia mansion full of secrets.
Available today: THE LOW WHITE PLAIN by Paul J. Garth @pauljgarth , back in print as part of A Grifter’s Song, with Sam & Rachel snowed into a fake kidnapping on the Nebraska plains.
Available today: GHOST IMAGE by Kat Richardson, back in print as part of A Grifter’s Song, with Sam & Rachel posing as psychic scammers at a “haunted” mountain resort.
Available today: CONCRETE AND COCAINE by Vincent Zandri @vincentzandrinoirauthor, back in print as part of A Grifter’s Song, with Sam & Rachel working a bloody Albany concrete-and-coke front.
Available today: DUSTY AND BENT by Trey R. Barker, back in print as part of A Grifter’s Song, with Sam & Rachel in Denver facing old guilt, new danger, and a land scheme.
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Available today: DIAMOND DOGS by Gabriel Valjan @gabrielvaljan , back in print as part of A Grifter’s Song, with Sam & Rachel learning the high-end diamond game from an aging master grifter.
Available today: DRACULA WINE by David Housewright, back in print as part of A Grifter’s Song, with Sam & Rachel in Minneapolis amid billionaire tech feuds and stolen art.
You may have seen, @frankzafiro.bsky.social has relaunched his epic Grifter’s Song novella series. One episode dropping each day. Mine is the penultimate episode, so lands end of the month. Get ready for it and a few others with this convo @pauljgarth.bsky.social and I had about STEALING PARADISE.
Available today: THE ALPHA WHISPERER by Frank Zafiro, back in print as part of A Grifter’s Song, with Sam & Rachel targeting a Seattle “success coach” who knows powerful secrets.
Available today: RIDE LIKE HELL by S.A. Cosby @blacktopkid@bsky.social , back in print as part of A Grifter’s Song, with Sam & Rachel neck-deep in a Virginia horse-country revenge con.
Available today: OPEN UP YOUR HEART by Carmen Jaramillo, back in print as part of A Grifter’s Song, with Sam & Rachel teaming up with a faux socialite in crooked Chicago real estate.
Available today: ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIE by Michael Pool, back in print as part of A Grifter’s Song, with Sam & Rachel running a high-altitude cannabis con in Vail.
Available today: TRAVEL MONEY by Jonathan Brown, back in print as part of A Grifter’s Song, with Sam & Rachel running an L.A. bachelor-party front and a risky coastal real estate con.
Available today: THE DOWN AND OUT by Larry Maddox, back in print as part of A Grifter’s Song, dropping Sam & Rachel into Hollywood’s streets where fame, ruin, and old ghosts collide.
