Mike,
I guess there's also Falling Angel as an example. One of
these days I'll write a sequel with Johnny Lane snuck out of
prison and forced by the government to do ultra-dangerous
hits, with things blowing up for everyone.
I guess the point I was trying to make with these so-called
other distributions is that none of these books are really
ever heard of and ever sell more than 200-300 copies. Major
reviewers only handle the big-name books, most of these small
publishers do 0 promotion. Bookstores don't carry them (I got
a little lucky with Fast Lane and a couple of mystery
bookstores were recommended it and read it and liked it, so
they pushed it as book club selections). But the question is
does a book really exist if that few people bother to read
it?
Anyway, with Serpent's Tail buying Small Crimes (which is a
far better book than Fast Lane), I'll at least get some
readers outside of Italy reading my books.
Best, Dave
--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, DJ-Anonyme@... wrote:
>
> Dave wrote:
>
> "I'm not sure that's really true. For books to sell
in any volume
they
> need (vast majority of time) to go through
traditional outlets.
Books
> that rely on mostly Internet sales are not going to
sell much if
any."
>
> Well, I didn't say the new avenues offered riches,
just that they
were
> out there.
>
> "Well, Fast Lane's not a PI book - it's fits really
under psychotic
> noir."
>
> Can't be both? Like Marc Behm's Eye of the Beholder?
I define PI
book
> as any book with a PI and as psychotic as he may be,
your "hero"
is a
> PI.
>
> "About other traditional PI writers - of course, Ken
Bruen's
marvelous
> Jack Taylor series."
>
> Oh yeah, forgot about those. Don't know why, I love
that series.
And
> Dan Simmon's Kurtz books. Andrew Klavan's Weiss and
Bishop books,
the
> first of which was kind of fun, even if a bit
cliched in places;
got the
> second on the pile. Mark Coggins's Immortal Game.
John Shannon's
> books. Guess there are still some PI writers out
there.
>
> "And off the top of my head there's Michael Kortya's
Lincoln Perry,
> Harry Hunsicker's Lee Hnery Oswald, Michael A.
Black's Ron Shade
series,
> Jim Winter's Keplar, Harry Shannon's Mick Callahan
(although not
> strictly a PI), and I'm sure there are dozens of
others..."
>
> Thanks, I'll have to check those out.
>
> Mark
>
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