Over
at Ransom Notes last week I posted on
Daniel O'Malley's debut,
The Rook, which reminded me of
Charles Stross's
The Atrocity Archives big time, but I enjoyed both enough to have them peacefully co-exist, but today
at Ransom Notes I'm enjoying the slightly less speculative history of a mob hit man in the latest from
RJ Ellory,
A Quiet Vendetta and another New Orleans post/Katrina missing persons bit
Storm Damage by
Ed Kovacs. I just picked up
Cathi Unsworth's
Bad Penny Blues,
Dan Chaon's
Stay Awake,
Joe R. Lansdale's
Edge of Dark Water and
Sean Doolittle's
Lake Country - so it's been a kick-ass week for bookery in St. Louis. Really looking forward to more January sweetness from
Ryan David Jahn's
The Dispatcher and
George Pelecanos's
What it Was which you can take a gander at in the new issue of
Playboy with some kick-ass artwork (or you can sample both online
right here by 'liking' the page on Facebook.)
Have you checked out the five minute sequence from
Steven Soderbergh's latest
Haywire? You can access it, like I did, through them handsome fellas over at
The Criminal Complex. Now, I'm pretty pumped for it. Looks badass. That
Gina Carano has the physicality for it (we'll see about the acting, hard to tell how that'll go over just from this clip - better, I suspect than
Sasha Grey in
The Girlfriend Experience - and hey, it's
already the single best
Channing Tatum performance
ever), and she's supported by a deep bench, so yeah, count me in.

Soooo, you've cleared your calendars for Tuesday, February 28's N@B with
Gordon Highland (
Major Inversions) and
Caleb J. Ross, (
Stranger Will) right? Well, it just got sweeter.
Mark W. Tiedemann, the author of speculative and horror fiction (
Diva, Remains) is joining the lineup and he won't raise the bar, he'll drop it on your head. Now you need to go ahead and clear the Tuesday before as well, because February 21st, N@B will host
Benjamin Whitmer whose
Satan is Real: The Ballad of Louvin Brothers is catching some mighty fine reviews and attention, and whose
Pike pretty much blotted out the sun around here in 2010, and somebody I'm pretty confident you're gonna get to know soon,
Sonia Coney will shock and offend you (me anyhow) for no extra fee. Yeah, February is chock-full of ooey-gooiness which more than likely will be found to contain human DNA. More names to drop for those events soon.
In N@B charter news, it seems
them L.A. boys have rounded up another sweet-ass event with
Robert Ward, Aaron Phillip Clark, AJ Hayes and
Stephen Blackmoore for January 22. Man, wish I could be there. They're racking up a great track record betwixt Blackmoore,
Aldo Calcagno and
Eric Beetner (whose
Dig Two Graves sounds like some uber-righteous hardboiled nasty right up my very own alley), and I'd love to visit one of their throwdowns, so we'll see, maybe I can swing a trip to Los Angeles some time this year...
Paul Von Stoetzel is moving forward with his short film adaptation of my short story
Viscosity and I've now seen a script, so it feels like it's gonna happen soon. Anybody who's read
Viscosity knows that the piece is nothing but dialogue and unattributed at that, and I don't know if that makes things easier or harder from a directorial standpoint, but it does mean that there's serious leaning on the actors. So, looking forward to this one and interested to hear the actors' performances.
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Oh fuck yeah!
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