Dave, I was very excited (and, frankly, a bit surprised,
since crime fiction isn't their typical material) to see that
CD Publications is scheduled to do an anthology of many of
these stories. Congratulations -- and I hope the wait will be
a short one.
Ron C.
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rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com] On
> Behalf Of Dave Zeltserman
> Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 12:29 PM
> To:
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> Subject: RARA-AVIS: Hardluck's archives
>
> As Ron pointed out the archives for Hardluck will be
maintained until
> October, and anyone looking through it will find
originally published
> noir and hardboiled short fiction from a pretty
remarkable group of
> writers, including Ed Gorman (Ed's "Beauty" is one
of my favorite
> modern stories, period), Jeremiah Healy, Ken Bruen,
Bill Crider,
> Bentley Little, James Reasoner, Adrian McKinty,
Steve Hockensmith,
> Norman Partridge, Jon Breen, Manuel Ramos and Robert
Walker, as well
> as some extraordinarily talented newer writers that
people here may
> not have heard of, but include Iain Rowan (whose
story "One Step
> Closer" is brilliant), Harry Shannon, Garnett
Elliott, Craig McDonald,
> Mike MacLean, T. L. Wolf, William Boyle and Pearce
Hansen. And as I
> probably say more times than Al likes to hear,
Hardluck also has in
> its archives Allan Guthrie's first published work.
The thing with
> Hardluck was there was never any compromise, we only
picked stories if
> we felt strongly about them--and didn't care how
many stories we had
> for an issue--as long as we didn't pick too many and
overtax our
> illustrator), so there's no filler in the archives.
If you like dark
> short crime fiction that tends towards more strongly
plotted than
> what's being typically published, you should check
out the current
> issue and the archives while they're still
around.
>
> --Dave
>
> http://www.hardluckstories.com/Archives.htm
>
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