Missing You

Harlan Coben's latest novel, Missing You, is out today in the U.S. I was fortunate to receive an early copy. Unfortunately, I've been swamped with work and have only had a chance to read about half of the book so far, but it's just what you would expect from a Coben novel: witty, sardonic, fun, but with a mystery wrapped up in a riddle in a ... well, you know. It's a blast, and I can't wait to finish it. The thing I love most about Coben's books is the complexity of the plots. Missing You is no different. Just when you think you might have it figured out, Coben throws you a curveball. Pick it up today.

Nic Pizzolatto On Art

I don’t think art is about expression. I don’t think that’s its primary motive. The primary motivation is communion with your fellow human beings. So it’s very frustrating to make something and nobody notices it. If you put on a play and nobody comes to it, did you really put on a play? But you just keep going. You remind yourself that people have been doing this as long as there have been people. And your frustrations and disappointments are nothing new. And you go back to the wheel.

Read the rest of the interview with Nic Pizzolatto over at The Daily Beast (it's actually an older interview, but I just stumbled across it now). And pick up Pizzolatto's novel Galveston which is right now just $2.99 on Kindle.

Tomorrow is the season finale of True Detective. I'm psyched. Are you?

Bloody Signorina

My friend Joseph D'Agnese got some very cool news the other day. His story "Bloody Signorina," which originally appeared in the September 2013 issue of Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, has been nominated for a Derringer Award. And so, for a limited time, Joe is making the story available as a free ebook, which you can download at Smashwords. Check it out!

Tim Lebbon Gets Digital

Tim Lebbon is a great writer and a good friend, and for a while now I've been trying to talk him into releasing some of his work digitally. If you're not aware, Tim is extremely prolific in terms of short stories and novellas, and ebooks seem to be an ideal medium for the novella. So finally, after much nagging on my part (okay, maybe that's an exaggeration), Tim has begun to release many of his critically-acclaimed novellas under his own publishing imprint Dreaming in Fire Press. The first release is his knock out novella White, which is one of the best novellas you'll ever read. Forget the fact that it won the British Fantasy Award. Forget the fact it's been optioned for a movie. Forget the fact it's appeared in several "best of" anthologies. Just buy the damned thing already. Trust me, you'll be happy you did. Tim plans to drop a new ebook every week for the next several weeks, so keep an eye out for more releases coming soon.

FEARnet On Midnight Symphony

FEARnet has a nice review of Midnight Symphony. Here's some of what they have to say:

Overall, this collection is a love song for the unsung hero known as the horror novella. Novellas are not quite a novel, but much longer than a short story. Some novellas can run up to almost 150 pages. This huge eBook book has TEN of them. The stories are short enough for you to finish curled up under a blanket on the couch on a chilly fall or winter night by the fire. Satisfying enough to fill your desire to read for hours, but not waste an entire weekend doing nothing but read... unless you want to do that by reading a bunch of these back-to-back.

Don't miss this amazing collection of top-shelf horror fiction. At 99 cents, you can't go wrong.

Still only 99 cents on Kindle, Nook, and Ganxy.