Add CrimeSpot to your site with CrimeSpotExpress Recent Posts: Double Trouble Mug Shots #6; A Respone to William Ahearn Send Thoughts and Prayers Congrats all round; Mug Shots #5 New! Improved? Donald Hamilton, 1916-2006 In Which I Talk About Sex In Which I Have Issues Richard S. Prather Dies A Worthy Cause; Mug Shots #4 Complete Archives: 01/01/2006 - 02/01/2006 02/01/2006 - 03/01/2006 03/01/2006 - 04/01/2006 04/01/2006 - 05/01/2006 05/01/2006 - 06/01/2006 06/01/2006 - 07/01/2006 07/01/2006 - 08/01/2006 08/01/2006 - 09/01/2006 09/01/2006 - 10/01/2006 10/01/2006 - 11/01/2006 11/01/2006 - 12/01/2006 12/01/2006 - 01/01/2007 02/01/2007 - 03/01/2007 03/01/2007 - 04/01/2007 04/01/2007 - 05/01/2007 06/01/2007 - 07/01/2007 07/01/2007 - 08/01/2007 Late Breaking News Tuesday, August 08, 2006   This just in: right after I put up yesterday's post with links to a bunch of online crime mags, I find out that the new issue of SHOTS is up. As usual there's a ton of interviews and features, plus a few short stories: "Dollars And Sense", by Daniel "Hot Toddy" Hatadi "Catch Me Waiting", by Regina "Is she related to John?" Harvey "Early Closing", by David "Joke Goes Here" Harrison "The Tent Of Babel", by Steven "D. Rogers" Torres "Holistic Healing", by Robert "Tower Of" Pesa Just go read the stories, they're a lot better than my jokes. posted by Graham Powell at 10:11 AM     Good News, Bad News Monday, August 07, 2006   Instead of ending with a downer, I'll lead with it. The recent ConMisterio convention down in Austin, where I had some much fun, is no more. Apparently it was a big hit with the attendees, not so much at the box office. After two money-losing years the organizers decided to pack it in. Now for the good news - hot fresh fiction! First off, Bryon Quertermous' DEMOLITION is back with a very nice summer issue. Included is a new Viktor Petrenko story by Steven Torres, "Viktor Petrenko: Bring Them To Their Knees". Can't explain why, but for some reason I dig ol' Viktor. Paul Guyot wins the Richard Stark Memorial Best First Line award for "The Law and The Order" (although Jim Winter may want a few words with him), the ubiquitous Stephen D. Rogers has a new story "Omniscience", and thrilling editor (is there such a thing?) Gerald So puts in an appearance with "The Observer". Full contents: "Twisted Sister", by Jeff Shelby "The Law and The Order", by Paul Guyot "Pay The Cost", by Justin Porter "The Saint Of Gunners", by Todd Robinson (aka Big Daddy Thug) "Viktor Petrenko: Bring Them To Their Knees", by Steven Torres "The Observer", by Gerald So "Breaking In The New Guy", by Stephen Blackmoore "Omniscience", by Stephen D. Rogers Next up is Thuglit Issue 8, in which the aforementioned Big Daddy Thug passes the reins to guest editor Lady Detroit. Like the cover promises, it's "Fucked-up Crime Fiction", by a crop of writers mostly unknown to me. With one exception: Hugh Lessig, who did such excellent work a few years ago in the pages of Plots With Guns, HandHeldCrime, and The Thrilling Detective. Complete contents: "One Tenth Of One Tenth Of A Second", by Bryan W. Alaspa "Light-Skinned Niggas Can't Fight", by Marcus J. Guillory "Pat's Pit", by Alejandro Pena "Eight Guns Over A Dead Girl", by Patty Templeton "The All-Night Dentist", by Vincent Kovar "Reading The Footnotes", by John Stickney "The Neighbors", by Bill Fitzhugh "Slug Fest", by Richard B. Lynch "Portrait Of A Man", by A.B. Gorrell "The Practice Of Business Takes Practice", by A.T. Mango "Eyes Of The Prophets", by Hugh Lessig "There's No Business Like Drug Business", by Rodolphe Cuzon Between those two zines, that's a full book's worth of stories, and not for $19.95 either. Get it for free before they come to their senses! Speaking of not-free things, any bandwagon-jumpers who are running late might want to head over to Murdaland, they new hardboiled print 'zine. They've posted the contents of their first issue, due out in a month or so, and it includes the likes of Daniel Woodrell, Gary Phillips, Ken Bruen, and "The Professor", Anthony Neil Smith. Lastly, like many artists, Mickey Spillane may finally be getting his due only after he's dead. The latest evindece: international news magazine The Economist featured The Mick's obituary in last week's issue. Godspeed, Mickey. posted by Graham Powell at 9:57 AM