A new review of The Dishonored Dead appeared over the weekend, this one courtesy of Buy Zombie. In the lengthy review, the reviewer says the book is “a definite page turner with lots of action, tension and suspense” and that “the characters are well developed, the action is tight and the storyline is smooth.” But [...]
Yesterday Robin Vidimos reviewed the Hint Fiction anthology for The Denver Post and said many nice things, including: “Hint Fiction” is not a collection of memoirs, but a collection of short stories meant to challenge and enlighten. These works feel like a beginning with a number of possible conclusions, it is left to the reader [...]
Well it was bound to happen. I knew the streak of pretty positive reviews wouldn’t last forever. Emily St. John Mandel over at The Millions gives the anthology a mixed but very thought-provoking take. (I wanted to include some kind of image with this post, like The Millions’ logo, but when I looked for an [...]
The Hint Fiction event at McNally Jackson last Wednesday night was a blast. I almost didn’t make it in time, though. Let me explain. My wife and I arrived in New York the night before. We stayed at The New Yorker Hotel, which, thankfully, was bedbug free. The view, however, was not ideal. The next [...]
Just a reminder that I will be presenting the Hint Fiction anthology tomorrow night at McNally Jackson along with contributors Jenn Alandy, Randall Brown, Frank Byrns, Tara Deal, Bruce Harris, Donora Hillard, Jason Rice, Samuel Rippey, Jess Row, and Kathleen A. Ryan. It starts at 7 pm, and I promise this: if more than 100 [...]
Thanks to yesterday’s New Yorker review, word of the anthology has started to really spread in the Webosphere. Hint Fiction got a mention over at Boing Boing and even NPR (where they, of course, spelled my name wrong). And late last night there was another review from WOW! Women on Writing. So now it’s time for [...]
What’s a nice way to start the day? Waking up to see that your anthology has been reviewed (and reviewed positively) by The New Yorker. Here’s the first paragraph from The Book Bench: A couple of handy book rules normally hold true. Avoid gimmick books—holiday anthologies, blog-to-print money grabs, any deep dive into a flaky food [...]
A new review of the anthology has recently been posted over at Three Guys One Book. It’s a pretty positive review, for the most. The exception being this little bit: I found the title headings pointless and distracting. A case of over-contextualizing. After a while, I just started to ignore them. I focused on the [...]
Three of the four authors of the new gory horror novel Draculas — Blake Crouch, Joe Konrath (Jack Kilborn), and F. Paul Wilson — are all contributors to the Hint Fiction anthology, so I thought it would be more than fitting to let you know their new e-book has officially been released today. If you’re [...]
As the official release date for the anthology is only a few weeks away, the reviews are starting to stream in. Well, actually there has only been one review so far which came out last week and which I mentioned on Twitter and Facebook but sort of forgot to mention here. Anyway, the book has gotten [...]
