The results: Best Cover winner - Matt Kindt for Noir at the Bar (Lawrence Block deserves a piece of this honor too - as well as congratulations on his own win for Best Novel: Legend with A Drop of the Hard Stuff). Hey, Kindt's brand new comic Mind Mgmt, hits stands later this month. Pick it up.
Best Short Story on the Web winner - David James Keaton for Either Way it Ends With a Shovel from Crime Factory, plus nominees Matthew C. Funk and Hilary Davidson
Best Novel: Legend - nominee Les Edgerton for The Bitch
Best Novel: Rising Star winner - Anthony Neil Smith for All the Young Warriors, plus John Rector for Already Gone
Thanks again.
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Speaking of fucked up - man, when Dave Keaton recommends you take a moment to read a story that'll do that, you can trust his judgement. On his say so, I checked out John Everson's story Mouth from the Cheryl Mullenax edited anthology The Death Panel, and... heh, yeah, fucked up. So far, I've also read stories in that book from Keaton, Fred Venturini and Tom Piccirilli - based on those selections, it's a kick-ass horror/crime collection.
Saw the trailer for the new John Hillcoat movie Lawless with Shia the beef and Tom Hardy, and I gotta say it looks like nothing so much as Young Guns in prohibition. But that shouldn't be a slight. I hold a real special place in my heart for, hell, for both Young Guns pics, and I don't care who knows it. Lawless doesn't look to have anywhere near the weight of Hillcoat's previous films, but then those were written by a coupla blokes you may've heard of before: Nick Cave (The Proposition) and Cormac McCarthy (The Road), and wait... what's this? Cave wrote the screenplay for this one too (based on Matt Bondurant's novel The Wettest County in the World)? Oh holy fuck, I'm in. Alright, I mean, you should never judge a film by its trailer anyhow, right? Hell, look at that cast - Gary Oldman, Guy Pearce, Jessica Chastain and Mia Wasikowska. At the very least this one'll be a shit ton better than Richard Linklater's own Young Guns rob banks picture The Newton Boys, right?
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Yeah, I'm definitely looking forward to The Wettest County in the World. Nick Cave's writing really is something special. Of course, I knew that long ago when I first listened to his album Murder Ballads. He's just applying that talent to the screen these days and I love it.
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