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Angry Robot Books
Mass Market Paperback and Ebook
February 28, 2012 (US)
March 1, 2012 (Worldwide)
ISBN 978-0857662187
“Jim Thompson meets John Milton in this thrilling supernatural riff on the old collections racket.”
-Edgar Award-winning author Charles Ardai
Sam Thornton collects souls.
The souls of the damned, to be precise.
Once taken himself, he’s now doomed to ferry souls to hell for all eternity, in service of a debt he can never repay. But when he's dispatched to retrieve the soul of a girl he believes is innocent of the horrific crime for which she’s been damned, Sam does something no Collector has ever done before: he refuses.
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EIGHT TALES OF CRIME, HORROR, & SUSPENSE
Poisonville Press
Now available!
“When you’re twenty-seven deep in line at his ninth signing, you’ll still remember these stories. They’re that good.”
-Steve Weddle, editor of Needle Magazine
These eight tales run the gamut from small-town horror to old-school, whiskey-slugging noir, with a touch of coming-of-age adventure thrown in for good measure. We're talking over a hundred print pages of pure pulp perfection that'll cost you less than the paper it ain't printed on.
Includes the Spinetingler-Award-winning "Seven Days of Rain," Derringer-Award finalist "The Big Score," and "The World Behind," which originally appeared in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine.
Also included are "A Better Life," "The Well," "A Simple Kindness," "Eight Pounds," and "The Toll Collectors."
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NEEDLE MAGAZINE
SUMMER 2010 ISSUE
Action-packed with some of the hottest names in crime fiction including Frank Bill, Stephen Blackmoore, and Ray Banks, this issue also features my novella “The Hitter.”
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PULP INK
This ebook anthology features a host of talented crime fic scribes, each riffing on a track from the iconic Pulp Fiction soundtrack. Includes works from Allan Guthrie, Patricia Abbott, and Matthew C. Funk, as well as my short story, “A Night at the Royale.”
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CRIME FACTORY: THE FIRST SHIFT
From New Pulp Press and the twisted minds behind Crime Factory Magazine comes this killer collection of crime fic’s best and brightest. Featuring stories from the likes of Ken Bruen, Kieran Shea, and Steve Weddle, as well as my contribution “Green.”
THE BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY STORIES 2011
This best-of anthology, edited by Otto Penzler and Harlan Coben, is described as “excellent” in PW’s starred review, and “first-rate” by Kirkus. It features work from Lawrence Block, S.J. Rozan, and Max Allan Collins, as well as my novella “The Hitter.”
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A RIP THROUGH TIME
Four authors. Five stories. One thrilling serial, collected here for the first time.
Featuring my short story “A Rip Through Time: The Dame, the Doctor, and the Device,” this ebook collects Rip’s whole epic saga, as envisioned by editor David Cranmer.
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APPEARANCES
10/04/12-10/07/12 Bouchercon 2012; Cleveland, OH (details to follow)
11/10/12 Murder and Mayhem in Muskego; Muskego, WI
NEWS
12/15/11 My Christmas tale “The Final Bough” is up at Angry Robot’s site!
11/27/11 A RIP THROUGH TIME now available as an ebook collection!
11/08/11 I’m interviewed at Crime Fiction Lover as part of New Talent November!
10/23/11 “The Putdown” to appear in issue #1 of Grift Magazine!
10/05/11 Angry Robot unveils covers for DEAD HARVEST and THE WRONG GOODBYE!
10/04/11 THE BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY STORIES 2011, featuring “The Hitter,” now available!
09/20/11 CRIME FACTORY: THE FIRST SHIFT, featuring “Green,” now available!
09/11/11 8 POUNDS named a Top 8 Crime Collection by Crime Fiction Lover!
08/15/11 PULP INK, featuring “A Night at the Royale,” now available!
06/21/11 Jennifer MacRostie gives 8 POUNDS some love over at KindleObsessed!
06/15/11 8 POUNDS garners a rave from Spinetingler!
06/11/11 “The Man in the Alligator Shoes” is live at Beat to a Pulp!
05/20/11 DEAD HARVEST and THE WRONG GOODBYE to be published by Angry Robot!