Fellow Rara-Avians,
This month I've mostly lurked (juggling three jobs and trying
to finish another draft of the novel for an editor who
insisted that it whould be another 5000-10,000 words longs),
but I didn't want the month to end without adding my thanks
to Ms. Hendricks for her engeretic and thought-provoking
posts. You were an excellent guest.
Also, congratulations to Jack on his Shamus nomination. I'll
be pulling for you in Chi-Town, buddy!
Congrats also to Charles for one of Hard Case's books,
Dominic Stansberry's THE CONFESSION, winning the Edgar, and
commiserations on his own book, LITTLE GIRL LOST, losing. Is
there, however, a Shamus nomination in Charles's future? Has
anyone seen the complete list of nominations?
I'm a big John Creasey fan, at least when he's in his his
"J.J. Marric" incarnation. One of the odd things about
Creasey is that, though the quality of his books could vary
widely, it stayed consistent within a particular pseudonym
(and he had enough pseudonyms to be his own chapter of both
the MWA and the CWA [which he founded, by the way; the CWA
"First Novel" award is called the "John Creasey Dagger"]).
Hence, while, say, "Anthony Morton" or "Gordon Ashe" were
just run-of-the-mill "Saint/Bulldog Drummond" stuff, he was
always good to very good as "John Creasey" and excellent as
"Marric."
I'll have more to say on Woolrich's NIGHT & FEAR
later.
JIM DOHERTY
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