The Goodbye Kiss is AT THE BIJOU

CLICK on the post header for a double bill at Harbinger*33 Captain Absolutely*Kate's new blog AT THE BIJOU. Fellow Harbinger*33 shipmate HARRY B> SANDERFORD has a smashing commercial break and I've got a little torch song called The Goodbye Kiss.

The Journal- Frank Duffy & Steve Jensen

The Journal is the website of British writers Frank Duffy- who now lives in Warsaw - and Steve Jensen.Frank Duffy’s short fiction piece, False Pilgrim, is now featured in the Screaming Dream Press magazine Estronomicon and Steve Jensen’s short story The Treachery of Images is now available to read at the Gloom Cupboard: The website contains examples of their dark fiction as well as links to publications and bio's etc. Check it out a leave a comment. This is dark BRIT GRIT!CLICK on the post header for the link.

DONKEY at not from here, are you?

Michael J Solender has been kind enough to let me be guest writer at his essential blog: not from here, are you? CLICK on the post header for a little story called Donkey.

New Story in Less Than Three ebook Anthology.

M in Less Than Three ebook. Those clever people at FULL OF CROW have been producing smashing ebooks recently. One of them is the LESS THAN THREE ANTHOLOGY which features pieces of absurdest fiction under three paragraphs in length. It's edited by Jeffrey S. Callico and Lynn Alexander and cover art is by Justynne Tyme. Contributors include: Michael J. Solender, Doug Mathewson and ME. I have a little story called simply M.CLICK on the post header to download the ebook for FREE!

New Kid On the Blog ! Anne Billson's MULTIGLOM

ANNE BILLSON is a novelist, film critic and photographer who has lived in London, Tokyo and Croydon, and now lives in Paris. Her books include SUCKERS (an upwardly mobile vampire novel), STIFF LIPS (a Notting Hill ghost story) and THE EX (a supernatural detective story), as well as several works of non-fiction, including SPOILERS, a selection from her 25 years of film criticism. She reviews films for the TV pages of the Sunday Telegraph and writes a film column for the Guardian. I've been a fan of Anne Billson's writing for years since I discovered her film reviews in the defunct SUNDAY CORRESPONDENT. I did a Friday's Forgotten Books about Suckers a while back. And now she's got a blog! Click on the post header for a link to MULTIGLOM. Lots of good stuff there including her Twitter novel THE PSYCHO MURDERS, a teaser chapter from The Ex and a great piece about John Carpenter's THE THING. And, of course, if you like what you see...follow follow!

Friday's Forgotten Books: Confessions Of A Black Dog by Jason Michel

Confessions of a Black Dog By Jason Michel Close your eyes ... Welcome to Sam's world. A world where dreams melt into reality from the rain soaked streets of London to the ex-pat community of Bangkok. A world where ghosts from the past, evangelical cults, dog-headed psychopomps and drunken artists meet in a surreal noir story of escapism, lost souls and revenge. When is the end of the world? Where do Australians go when they die? And what is the Black Dog? This blurb gives a fair indication of what you will encounter if you listen to the CONFESSIONS OF A BLACK DOG by JASON MICHEL which was published in 2008. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle once described London as being a ‘great cesspool into which the flotsam and jetsam of life are inevitably drawn’ and the same might reasonably be said of the world of TEFL teaching. A Teacher Of English as a Foreign Language can usually be described as either flotsam – perhaps a fresh faced young thing taking a break from University - or jetsam - the middle aged man with the inevitable drinking problem and enough skeletons in his closet to keep a paleontologist happy for months. Many TEFL teachers have become writers –and vice versa- JK Rowling, James Joyce and Jason Michel. Jason – a self-confessed purveyor of pulp fictions and penny dreadfulls -is now resident in France but has tripped, tumbled and stumbled around the world getting into scrapes and encountering the weird and the frightening. This has clearly been the grist of Confessions Of A Black Dog. Take a gander at this example: ‘Sitting down on a bench next to Sam, he surveyed his gathered comrades. There was also a smattering of old friends, acquaintances and hangers on scattered in and around the outside of the pub. A skinny man with glasses leant forward and offered his hand as a greeting. He had a big grin on his face and Chelsea tattoos on his arm. His name was Freddie. B grinned back and pulled Freddie in for a hug. It had been a while. B had worked together with Freddie and Wolfgang at Rough Trade in the warehouse. He hadn’t seen Freddie for a long time as he was now a resident of Portugal. Sam and Freddie had lived together in the Spanish enclave of Melilla off the north coast of Morocco a couple of years earlier. It was through Freddie that B had met Sam. Samuel, the rolling stone.’ And on rolls that stone … COABD is freewheeling and sprawling. Sometimes, the words tumbled out like a gang of drunks staggering out of a pub at closing time. Like a good drinking session it loses it way at limes but it always gets back on track and takes you to some smokey, pokey dives. How good does THAT sound?. And, of course, it’s very funny. CLICK on the post header for a link to LULU where you can buy Confessions Of A Black Dog and Jason Michel’s short story collection THE WRONG MIND.

One Too Many Blows To The Head by JB Kohl & Eric Beetner.

OUT TODAY! One Too Many Blows To The Head marks the debut collaboration of authors JB Kohl and Eric Beetner. This taut and gritty Noir takes place amid the seedy world of fixed fights and mob influence. Uniquely, it features two first-person narratives as we follow the intertwining story of the hunter and the hunted. From the jacket: Kansas City, 1939. In a world of fixed fights and mob influence Ray Ward and his brother Rex are two of the only clean fighters in town. With Ray in the corner and Rex in the ring they are headed for the big time. Until that fateful night. Now Ray has a score to settle using a lifetime of lessons in how to fight back. Dean Fokoli is a detective with a new partner, an alcoholic wife and a guilty conscience. At least the boxer on the radio who just got beat to a pulp won’t end up in his homicide file. But when the dregs of the crooked fight world start turning up dead, Fokoli is on the hunt for the killer. The chase will take him to the underbelly of the Kansas City night and hopefully keep him one step ahead of his past. One Too Many Blows To The Head is a razor-edged story of revenge, redemption and what happens when you confront the ghosts of the past. It has garnered praise from Edgar Award winning author Megan Abbott: “One Too Many Blows to the Head feels like a long-lost pulp you find in a favorite bookstore" If you CLICK on the post header you'll get a link to Eric Beetner's blog with information of where to buy the book. Watch The trailer below.

NICK QUANTRILL at A TWIST OF NOIR

CLICK on the post header for the link to Nick Quantrill's TICKET TO RIDE over at A TWIST OF NOIR. Nick's website HULL CRIME SCENE is here: http://www.hullcrimefiction.co.uk/

Warsaw Ghosts at Shoots & Vines Quarterly Four