Barbadoes Hall Communications, the parent company of my Back
Alley Books fiction imprint, is starting work on a nonfiction
title we hope to release sometime in 2007, and I am issuing a
call for submissions.
The book has two working titles. It will either be
entitled THE STUFF THAT DREAMS ARE MADE OF, or YOU'LL TAKE IT
AND YOU'LL LIKE IT, with the subtitle 'Musings on the Private
Detective in American Hardboiled/Noir Literature'
I will be writing one of the entries for this book,
outlining my view of some of the history behind the private
eye novel. I am looking for varied voices and differing
opinions. Specifically, I am looking for essays between 4000
and 8000 words in length, dealing with any INFORMED aspect of
private eye and noir fiction, with the focus on the private
detective. I would like to obtain a mix of authors - both
published private eye novelists and short-story writers, and
well-informed aficionados.
For instance, I would love to get a submission
featuring a dialogue between Jim Doherty and Kerry Schooley,
taking their usual stances on hardboiled versus noir.
I would like to see historical perspectives,
sociological perspectives, overviews of foreign PI works,
essays on the evolution of the PI from the Black Mask days to
the 21st century, the impact of technology on the PI novel -
basically anything that helps to illuminate the role of the
private detective in both literature and culture.
I will be editing this book, and selecting articles to
be included. There will be compensation for selected essays -
real money, not just tee shirts and the like. I will be
buying essays outright. The compensation won't be huge - only
one or two cents a word, so don't quit your day job - but
will represent a professional pub credit. In addition, this
book will be submitted for the usual award programs,
including the Edgar Awards. Each essayist selected will
receive copies of the book, and there will be opportunities
to promote the book at the various conferences. This book,
like all Barbadoes Hall Communications titles, will be
submitted to the professional literary review journals.
I will be posting a notice regarding this call for
submissions shortly at the Barbadoes Hall Communications
website. In the interim, if you have something polished and
ready to go, you may send it to me at
BarHallCom@aol.com . Please include your name, how to
contact you, any professional writing credits or award
nominations, and a brief note explaining how you think your
submission will enhance this project.
In my estimation, Rara-Avis includes some of the
best-informed lay experts on the hardboiled and noir movement
in the world, and I would love to see any and all submissions
you would like to send along.
Many thanks!- R
Richard Helms Three-Time Shamus Award Nominee CORDITE
WINE (0-9710159-6-1), the second Eamon Gold PI novel, from
Back Alley Books! website: http://richardhelms.net
"Cordite Wine is tough, funny, exciting, and very good!"
-Robert B. Parker
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