Noir Nation: International Journal of Crime

RICHARD GODWIN - APOSTLE RISING - MEAN STREETS

Over at MEAN STREETS, I have a few words to say about Richard Godwin's APOSTLE RISING

Guilty Pleasure

Over at CRIMESPREE MAGAZINE, they regularly have a gander at people's cinematic GUILTY PLEASURES. 

Wanna see mine?

SNAPSHOTS AT THE FLASH FICTION OFFENSIVE

I'm more than somewhat chuffed to be guest writer this week at The Flash Fiction Offensive.


The story is called SNAPSHOTS and you can find it here.

How I came To Write This Old House/ Ebookery

I'm currently over at Patti Abbott's PATTINASE talking about how I ended up writing THIS OLD HOUSE, which is  in Anne Frasier's  DEADLY TREATS anthology.


Meanwhile, over at JIM WINTER's EDGED IN BLUE, I talk EBOOKERY, including DRUNK ON THE MOON.

Noir Nation is OUT NOW!!!

The debut issue of NOIR NATION is out now. I'm chuffed to have a story in there-Who Killed Skippy?- but there's all sorts of juicy stuff!

You can buy it here!

Noir Nation: 

International Journal of Crime Fiction

Eddie Vega (Editor), Cortright McMeel (Editor),Alan Ward Thomas (Editor)

Noir Nation is an eBook journal of international crime fiction that includes graphic novels, essays, author interviews, and a community forum. The Journal advances works of the imagination that explore the darker geographies of human experience.

This inaugural issue mixes award-winning masters of hardboiled and literary crime fiction Paul D. Brazill, Bianca Bellova, Jean Charbonneau, Tristan Davies, Les Edgerton, Stephen Gibson, Timothy Patrick Gibson , JJ Toner, and Scott Wolven with newer and emerging writers Leah Chamberlain, R.F. Farrell, Kevin Hardcastle, Gerald Heys, Kevin Levites, and. Yewande Omotoso. 

It also includes commentary on the state of noir fiction by J. Madison Davis, Alan Ward Thomas, Melodie Campbell, Wendy Reynolds, Ann Littlewood, Ann Cleeves, Linton Robinson, Joe Trigoboff, and Christopher Cook and a Flamenco Noir graphic novel by Jon Danko (writer) and Danda (illustrator). 

Art and illustrations by Danda of the Czech Republic and Hamlet Zurita of Equador. 

The Mammoth Book of Best British Crime Volume 8 ed Maxim Jakubowski

Okay, I have a dog in this fight- I have a story here. But really and truly, there are some classic crime stories here. Favourites come from Colin Bateman, Roz Southey, Christopher Brookmyre, Sheila Quigley,Alllan Guthrie, Denise Mina, Declan Burke, Nick Quantrill, Nigel Bird, Gerard Brennan, Ray Banks, Zoe Sharp, Ian Rankin  and Adrian Magson. And there are loads more gem's here, too.


Here's the blurb:


This is the must-have annual anthology for every crime fiction fan. It includes the year's top new British short stories selected by leading crime critic Maxim Jakubowski. This great annual covers the full range of mystery fiction, from noir and hardboiled crime to ingenious puzzles and amateur sleuthing. It is packed with top names such as: Ian Rankin (including a new Rebus), Alexander McCall Smith, David Hewson, Christopher Brookmyre, Simon Kernick, A.L. Kennedy, Louise Walsh, Kate Atkinson, Colin Bateman, Stuart McBride and Andrew Taylor. The full list of contributors is as follows: Ian Rankin, Mick Herron, Denise Mina, Edward Marston, Marilyn Todd, Kate Atkinson, Stuart MacBride, David Hewson, Alexander McCall Smith, Nigel Bird, Robert Barnard, Lin Anderson, Allan Guthrie, A.L. Kennedy, Simon Kernick, Roz Southey, Andrew Taylor, Sheila Quigley, Phil Lovesey, Declan Burke, Keith McCarthy, Christopher Brookmyre, Gerard Brennan, Matthew J. Elliott, Colin Bateman, Ray Banks, Simon Brett, Adrian Magson, Jay Stringer, Amy Myers, Nick Quantrill, Stephen Booth, Paul Johnston, Zoe Sharp, Paul D. Brazill, Peter Lovesey, Louise Welsh, Liza Cody, Peter Turnbull and Nicholas Royle.

OUT NOW!!! The Skintight Shroud by Wayne Dundee

The blurb: Rockford, Illinois has quite a thriving adult-film industry. Oh, the more ambitious productions—the full-length sound features that play what's left of the adult-theater circuit and vie for the various awards the X-rated community has created for itself—are still done primarily on the coasts. But the less pretentious fare, your basic quickies made directly for home rental and mail-order sales and the silent, 10- to 15-minute shorts that play in the peep booths—loops, they're called in the industry—are being churned out all across the country. Let's face it, even the Kama Sutra has a limited number of positions. So the name of the game becomes new faces and new bodies. 

Two of those new faces and new bodies constitute my latest case. Jason Hobbs was stabbed to death, his body found in a ditch alongside a back road in rural Boone County. The second victim, Valerie Pine, was strangled and her nude corpse discovered by her roommate in their southside apartment.

My job is to establish not so much who did kill Jason and Valerie but rather who did not. My clients? The people who made those films that featured those two young people—swarthy fellows whose last names end mostly in vowels.
I hardly have a crowd of alternate clients piled up back at my office. And it promises to be—at the very least—infinitely more interesting and challenging than the series of surveillance jobs and till-tapper nabbings I've been existing on for what seems like forever. When you've got a trace of bloodhound pulsing through your veins, it's hard to resist the scent of an exciting hunt, no matter how nasty the terrain it threatens to take you through. And that's the other side of the coin: the terrain in this particular case had the potential of getting very nasty indeed. Perhaps downright unsavory.

Any way you cut it, this definitely beats the shit out of watching through one-way glass for some wide-bottomed, hired-for-the-holidays store clerk to shortchange a customer and then try to stuff the difference down her dress.

So I'd soil my hands a little on some Syndicate bread—hell, we all do that much in hundreds of incidental ways every day. It's called laundering, folks. I don't have to feel good about it, but as long as I keep my investigation clean, I can live with it.

About Wayne Dundee.

I have been writing short stories and novels about my PI protagonist Joe Hannibal since 1982. Although I have gotten decent critical reception (including nominations for an Edgar, an Anthony, and six Shamus Awards) I have never enjoyed very good sales. Hopefully with the previously out-of-print Hannibal novels now being re-issued as eBooks (Kindle for now, Nook and so forth to follow) that trend can be bumped upward.

In the beginning, in the initial short stories, Hannibal was basically just another sock-and-shoot "Mike Hammer wannabe". As the series grew into novels, however, (and I say this meaning in no way to renouce my admiration for Spillane and his influences on me and my work) Hannibal evolved into something a bit more as far as far as the depth of his personal background/characterization and also that of the cases and people --- both good and bad --- he became involved with.

This was due largely to a combination of my own blue collar/small town upbringing and the small-city setting (Rockford, Illinois) that I chose for Hannibal to operate out of. Thug-infested inner city canyons were simply not a part of his world.

Nowadays, in the current and forthcoming Hannibal titles, he has relocated along with his creator to west central Nebraska for a whole new phase of his career. But wherever Joe is, readers will always find action, surly encounters, healthy doses of humor and sex, and hopefully a surprising plot twist or two.

THE SKINTIGHT SHROUD is set still  back in Hannibal's Rockford days. It remains one of my favorites.

If you wish to learn more about me and my work .you can check out my web site at www.waynedundee.com or my blog at http://fromdundeesdesk.blogspot.com 

BRIT GRIT- THE LAST WORD AT ASHEDIT.

Elaine Ash's smashing series looking at BRIT GRIT comes to an end today with THE LAST WORD from Ian Ayris, whos debut novel ABIDE WITH ME is  out soon.


If you haven't been over there you can check out Col Bury's best of the BRIT GRIT blogs.


There's also a BRIT GRIT translation guide from Nigel Bird.


Also, Allan Guthrie gives us his THUGGISH THIRTEEN BRIT GRIT authors.


I talk bollocks about the statre of the nation.


And Al Griffiths gives us a cracking piece of BRIT GRIT fiction called Two Fingers Of Noir

You can't go wrong there, can you?

OUT NOW! The Blood Mesa by James Reasoner

The Blood Mesa is book number five in the very beaut DEAD MAN series and James Reasoner really delivers the goods with this one. There's some great writing here and I really raced through this whip-crack of a story. Hotly recommended!

Here's the blurb:
Matt Cahill finds himself trapped atop a blood-red mesa in the desolate American Southwest when an archeological dig goes terribly, dangerously wrong, awakening an ancient evil with an insatiable hunger. Now Matt, armed only with his trusty ax, must somehow escape...rescue a handful of terrified innocents... and prevent a slaughter of epic proportions.

BONUS MATERIAL

* A sample chapter from KILL THEM ALL by Harry Shannon, Book #6 in the DEAD MAN saga

* An excerpt from UNDER OUTLAW FLAGS by James Reasoner.

Out Now! The Devil's Music Volume One: Raised In Hell by Julia Madeleine

The blurb: It’s the late 1930s in Memphis Tennessee and “The King Of The Delta Blues Singers” is reigning in the dingy juke joints. Sadie, the daughter of the Devil himself, has a signed contact with him that’s come due. She’s got a soul to collect. In a blues club on Beale Street, Sadie finds him on the stage and waits for him with a bottle of bourbon, ready to take him to hell. But what happens if he doesn’t want to go?


Raised In Hell is the first in a great new horror/ noir series from Julia Madeleine. 


Vivid action packed and as atmospheric as hell.

OUT NOW! JUST LIKE THAT BY LES EDGERTON

Les Edgerton’s buddy novel, JUST LIKE THAT, is based on an actual trip he took with an ex-prison cellmate under similar circumstances as protagonist Jake Mayes does in this narrative. The scenes in Pendleton are also based on true experiences he had while incarcerated. Approximately 85% of the novel is taken from real life.

Jake and his pal Bud’s journey begins six months after he is released on parole and is occasioned when his girlfriend Donna dumps him and aborts their child. After an aborted suicide attempt where the Norelco shaver cord he used to hang himself broke, on an impulse—the source of the title; everything in Jake’s life happens “just like that”—he calls up Bud, who lives by the same credo, and the two take off with no particular destination in mind. They’re just going “south”--somewhere where it’s warm. An hour before they leave, Jake on another impulse, holds up a convenience store to get some traveling money.

Ultimately, they end up in New Orleans and then Lake Charles, Louisiana and from there, back to Indiana.

Along the way are many “watercooler” moments, such as when an inmate sinks a meat cleaver into another inmate’s blue-clad stomach, a physical encounter with two rednecks in Kentucky where Bud shoots one of the men, the bullet bouncing harmlessly off the man’s thick skull, Jake’s ongoing romance with Donna, the funeral of Jake’s father which he attends with a whore, multiple burglaries, armed robberies, a brief affair with a black woman, and an adventure with a drunk Santa Claus. Near the end Jake takes another fall when he is caught burglarizing a bar back in Ft. Wayne, Indiana and gets shot in the leg and is returned to Pendleton where he kills the inmate he’d had a nasty encounter during his first stay in prison. In the process, Jake’s philosophy of life undergoes a sea change and he comes up with this:

Portions of JUST LIKE THAT have previously appeared as short stories in the literary magazines High Plains Literary Review, Murdaland, and Flatmancrooked. The story that appeared in High Plains was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and was selected for inclusion in Houghton-Mifflin’s “Best American Mystery Stories, 2001.”

As a note of possible interest, Cathy Johns, the P.R. Director and Assistant Warden of The Farm (the infamous Louisiana state prison at Angola) read this novel and told Edgerton that he'd captured the true spirit of the criminal mind better than anything she'd ever read.

OUT NOW! THE CHAOS WE KNOW BY KEITH RAWSON

The Chaos We Know is the debut story collection from Keith Rawson featuring a mix of previously published stories and brand new stories for this collection.

ADVANCED PRAISE FOR THE CHAOS WE KNOW
"These aren't stories (The Chaos We Know), these are slivers of a blasted world which Rawson gleefully embeds in your mind, and which won’t be dislodged by bourbon, ritual scarification, or even the police procedural -- thank God. And thank God, too, for Rawson, who has the kind of talent to leave you mutilated and breathless." -- Benjamin Whitmer, author of Pike

“The Chaos We Know is a pulp-fueled debut w/ dopers, cops, husbands and wives. boyfriends & girlfriends, psychos & sadists, sand-storming through the potholes & shithouses of Arizona, leaving barnacles of the self centered, the down trodden’ & the surviving. Keith Rawson is the new garbage-tongued satirist of filth, deviance & violence for the new underclass.” -- Frank Bill, author of Crimes in Southern Indiana and Donnybrook

“Keith Rawson wields his spare prose like a wrecking ball, laying bare a world of whores, petty criminals, crooked cops and meth heads. These short, sharp portraits of users &losers are deranged snapshots from deep in the underbelly of contemporary America. No tired noir tropes here, this is tough, unsentimental & savagely funny dark fiction that charts its own course” --Roger Smith, author of Wake Up Dead and Dust Devils

"Keith Rawson's last name gives you a hint. It's going to be raw, and it's going to get to you. Like stepping on a shard of glass, but in a good way. Rawson's stories always bowl me over with aggressive style and deep psychological fright" --Anthony Neil Smith, author of Yellow Medicine and Choke On Your Lies
"Reading Keith Rawson’s short stories is like strolling through a minefield: you know you’re in for trouble, and there’s no going back. Powerful, twisted, fierce and profane, this is take-no-prisoners fiction." -Hilary Davidson, author of the Damage Done

OUT NOW! D*CKED!

THE D*CKED MANIFESTO The parameters of the dare were simple. No rules, no quarter. Make him a hero. Make him a perp. Make him a throwaway reference. Whatever fired the writer's imagination...all amalgamated into an anthology unequaled and inspired by the most vexing juggernaut of  modern American politics — Dick Cheney. Tearing out of wilderness comes D*CKED, a satirical Deathmobile – dark, sleek, and muscled-out. Get ready to laugh and run for cover. You’re about to get D*CKED.

Contributors

PATRICIA ABBOTT
Patricia Abbott is the author of more than 75 stories in literary and crime fiction outlets. Recent stories appeared in Damn Near Dead, 2, Beat to a Pulp: Round One, Crimefactory, and Needle. She is the co-editor with Steve Weddle of Discount Noir. She lives and works in Detroit.

CAMERON ASHLEY
Cameron Ashley is the co-editor of Crimefactory (crimefactoryzine.com). He lives, writes and drinks in Brunswick, Melbourne.

JEDIDIAH AYRES
Jedidiah Ayres’s short fiction has appeared in Thuglit, Plots With Guns and Out of the Gutter magazine, as well as the anthologies Sex, Thugs, and Rock & Roll and Surreal South ’09. He is the screenwriter of Mosquito Kingdom and keeps the blog Hardboiled Wonderland.

GREG BARDSLEYGreg Bardsley’s fiction has appeared in the anthologies By Hook or Crook: The Best Crime and Mystery Stories of the Year, Sex, Thugs and Rock & Roll and Uncage Me. Other stories have appeared in numerous journals and magazines, including Plots with Guns, Storyglossia, 3:AM Magazine, Out of the Gutter, Crimefactory and Pulp Pusher. His debut novel, Cash Out, will be published by Harper Perennial in 2012. Visit him atgregbardsley.wordpress.com

ERIC BEETNER
Eric Beetner is the co-author (with JB Kohl) of the novels One Too Many Blows To The Head and Borrowed Trouble. His award-winning short fiction has appeared in the anthologies Discount Noir, Murder in the Wind, as well as Needle magazine, Crimefactory, A Twist of Noir, Thuglit, Pulp Pusher and many more online fiction outlets. For more information and links to stories, visit ericbeetner.blogspot.com

TONY BLACK
Tony Black is Irvine Welsh’s favourite British crime writer. He is the author of the Gus Dury novels: Paying for It, Gutted, Loss and Long Time Dead. His new crime series featuring DI Rob Brennan begins in 2011 with Truth Lies Bleeding. He lives in Edinburgh. Visit him attonyblack.net

KEN BRUEN
Ken Bruen was a finalist for the Edgar, Barry, and Macavity Awards, and the Private Eye Writers of America presented him with the Shamus Award for the Best Novel of 2003 for The Guards, the book that introduced Jack Taylor. Among his many award-winning novels, London Boulevard is now being filmed, starring Colin Farrel and Keira Knightley, with Oscar winner William Monahan (screenwriter of The Departed) to write and direct.

JIMMY CALLAWAY
Jimmy Callaway lives and works in San Diego, California. You can find more of his writing atattentionchildren.blogspot.com

RACHEL CANON
Rachel Canon is the author of the political thriller, The Anniversary [Random House]. Her short stories include the winning entry in a contest that called for finishing a story started by Harlan Ellison, and her first published fiction was a mystery serial that appeared weekly in her elementary school newspaper. She lives and writes in Los Angeles.

HILARY DAVIDSON
Hilary Davidson’s first novel, The Damage Done [Forge, 2010], has been called a “razor sharp mystery debut” by Publishers Weekly, “Hitchcock writing for the hip Manhattan set” by Ken Bruen, and “a rich, haunting debut” by Megan Abbott. Her second novel, The Next One to Fall, will be published by Forge early in 2012. Hilary won the 2010 Spinetingler Award for Best Short Story for “Insatiable,” and her short fiction has appeared in anthologies including Beat to a Pulp: Round One and Thuglit Presents: Blood, Guts, & Whiskey. Before turning to crime, she was a travel writer and the author of 18 nonfiction books. hilarydavidson.com

JASON DUKE
Jason Duke is a Sergeant in the U.S. Army who served 15 months in Iraq between 2007 and 2009. His short stories have appeared in Plots with Guns, Thuglit, Spinetingler Magazine, Crimewav.com, Crimefactory, Darkest Before the Dawn and A Twist of Noir, among others.

BILL FITZHUGH
Bill Fitzhugh has been described as “of average height” and “not particularly fast in the hundred meters, though quick enough to escape capture that one time.” According to the New York Times, “He is the author of enough books to keep you busy for a while.” Confounding critics and readers alike, his series of stand-alone novels explores the dark underbelly of the world of testicle transplants, the international kitty porn industry, and pie-eating contests. His novel, I Think I Need My Stomach Pumped, features a new protagonist: Angus McNaughty, a loner and an alley cat, who travels only with a toothbrush and furball medicine. Fitzhugh lives in Los Angeles with very little hope of a decent future.

MATTHEW C. FUNK
Matthew C. Funk is a social media consultant, professional marketing copywriter and writing mentor. He is the editor of the Genre section of the critically acclaimed zine, FictionDaily, and a writer for FangirlTastic and Spinetingler Magazine. M. C. Funk’s work features at numerous sites online, indexed at his Web site, and in print with Needle Magazine, Howl, 6S and Crimefactory. He is represented by Stacia J. N. Decker of the Donald Maass Literary Agency.

HARRY HUNSICKER
Harry Hunsicker is the author of the Lee Henry Oswald mystery novels, Crosshairs, The Next Time You Die, and the Shamus Award Nominee, Still River. Hunsicker is an active member of the International Thriller Writers, the Mystery Writers of America, and the Private Eye Writers of America. In 2008 he served as the Executive Vice President of the Mystery Writers of America.

NANCY LEE PHILCOX
Nancy Lee Philcox lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and works as a graphic designer. She sings for The Shitfits (coming to a dive bar near you), enjoys motion graphics, animation, metal sculture, illustration, and painting. Nancy is the principal at Luminous Sky and Level Eleven™ where she hocks her design talent. You can see more of her diverse creations atlevel-eleven.com

SCOTT PHILLIPS
Scott Phillips is the author of The Ice Harvest, The Walkway, Cottonwood and Rut as well as The Adjustment, forthcoming from Counterpoint Press in 2011 and Nocturne le Vendredi, from les Éditions la Branche in 2011. He also is the author of the story collection, Rum, Sodomy and False Eyelashes. John Cusack and Billy Bob Thornton starred in the 2005 feature film of The Ice Harvest, which was adapted by Richard Russo and Robert Benton and directed by Harold Ramis. Phillips lives in St. Louis, Missouri.

KEITH RAWSON
Keith Rawson is a little-known pulp writer living in the alkaline desert wastelands of southern Arizona with his wife and very energetic three-year-old daughter. His stories have appeared in Plots with Guns, Pulp Pusher, CrimeWav.com, Bad Things, Powder Burn Flash, A Twist of Noir, Beat to a Pulp and many others. He is a frequent contributor to BSCreview and a staff writer at Spinetingler magazine. He also co-edits and publishes Crimefactory magazine.

MARK RICHARDSON
Mark Richardson works as a marketing writer in Silicon Valley. His short fiction has or will soon appear in Crimefactory, Switchback, Nth Position, and Thirst for Fire.

AL RISKE
Al Riske is the author of the novel Sabrina’s Window and the story collection Precarious. His stories have also appeared in Hobart, Switchback, Pindeldyboz, Word Riot, Blue Mesa Review, 34th Parallel, and the Beloit Fiction Journal. He has worked as a newspaper reporter, magazine editor, copywriter and ghostwriter. Born and raised in the Pacific Northwest, he now lives in California with his wife, Joanne, and their dog, Bodie.

MARCUS SAKEY
Marcus Sakey is the award-winning author of The Two Deaths of Daniel Hayes, The Amateurs and other critically acclaimed books. He lives in Chicago.

KIERAN SHEA
Entrepreneur and veteran of the blue-chip advertising shakedown, Kieran Shea has published short fiction in Ellery Queen, Plots with Guns, Thuglit, Pulp Pusher and Dogmatika.

OWEN SMITH
Owen Smith’s illustration clients include Sports Illustrated, Time, Rolling Stone, and The New Yorker, for which he has created 15 cover illustrations. He has recently completed work on a new children’s book for Simon and Schuster. Owen’s influences come from the WPA artists of the 1930s, Diego Rivera, and the lurid covers of pulp magazines and dime-store paperbacks of the 1930s and 1940s. His paintings have been featured in exhibitions in New York, Rome, and Milan, as well as solo shows in Los Angeles. In 1998, a set of mosaic murals Owen designed was permanently installed in a New York subway station at 36th Street in Brooklyn. Currently Owen teaches illustration at California College of the Arts and is designing permanent art for a historic San Francisco hospital, including murals, mosaic, and relief sculpture. Owen lives in Alameda California with his wife and two sons.

STEVE WEDDLE
In addition to being a writer, Steve Weddle is the editor of Needle: A Magazine of Noir and a founding member of DoSomeDamage.com. His website is steveweddle.com. He lives with his family in Virginia.

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BLINK INK NOIR - OUT NOW!

For two dollars you can now buy the BLINK INK NOIR special issue.


Or for five dollars, you can subscribe to BLINK INK!


BLINK INK NOIR is  a collection of 50 word noir tales and photographs and has contributions from Richard Thomas, Julie Morrigan, K.A.Laity, Doc O' Donnell, Kristin Fouquet, Nick Boldock, Steve Miscandlon and more, including my piece 'A Fresh Start.'

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Guest Blog: B R Stateham - Insatiable has arrived! I'm howling at the Moon as we speak!

It's out soon !  My offering to Paul D. Brazill's Drunk On The Moon series.

I'm pumped!  I'm a nervous wreck!!  I've chewed so much of my fingernails worrying about this writing assignment I'm down to bone.  Just the idea of Paul inviting me to get involved in this project was a humbling experience.  But then I had to write something.  I had to take his private investigator-closet werewolf character and run with it.

I mean . . . come on, Lady Gaga!  You're up at the plate and you'd damn well better be swinging for the fence line!

So I started writing.  Hadn't a clue how it was going to end up.  Knew I had to put the werewolf motif in there somewhere.  Wanted to write a 'Fer sure, Dude!' genuine whodunit.  And then I got an idea.  One I thought had some legs to it.  What if . . . what if I wrote about the character just two days before the full moon came out and made him all hairy and with a bad attitude . . . what if I described how it felt knowing the 'change' was coming?

I mean, think about it.

Those who are a werewolf must know--must feel--a slow process within himself of the physical changes that are about to explode within him when the first moon beam hits him.  So what would change?  His sense of smell?  His vision?  His hearing? 

His sense of  . . . . taste?

Add to the this the request from an old friend to help him solve a murder.  A murder so horrible, so brutal, it had to be caused by, yeah that's right, a werewolf!  So our P.I. friend is approaching his 'change' and at the same time trying to solve a vicious crime.  How does he stop himself from leaping onto his friend, when the time comes, and making his old buddy an evening snack?  How does he find and remove from the city a werewolf who happens to be much older, and far stronger, than he is--and not create a panic among all the potential meal tickets walking around?

Ah . . . you'll have to buy it to find out the answers, me boyos.

Notice how each of the covers in the series remains essentially the same.  I like that.  It gives off a feeling of continuity that bespeaks the main concept Paul had in mind for the series,   It's like the old serial Saturday afternoon movies kids used to go to before the advent of television.  You

were fed installments ever weekend--and left the theater  wondeing how the hero was going to get out of the newest predicament

which ended the reel.  

So Paul's re-inventing an old ploy that I think will work and work very well!

How far does this series go?  Dunno. I do know they've got writers lined up for a few more installments.  Each installment is slated to come out about every three weeks.

Personally I hope this thing takes off and goes on for a very long time.  I would love to write another offering.  If asked.  But first, children, my offering needs to find an audience.  You should find it on Amazon in the next few days.

It'll cost you about a buck for each of the selections.  Buy'em all and enjoy the lot.

Br Stateham's blog is here.