New Arrivals

I always enjoy promoting new anthologies and 'zines in hopes they will reach a much-deserved wider audience. Here are three new kids worth checking out:

Beat to a Pulp: Hardboiled 3 is now available via Createspace, Amazon, and Barnes & Noble (with Kobo, and iBooks to follow soon). I was honored to be included in the second installment of the BTAP anthologies, and this latest edition is packed with some of the best short crime fiction around. Or, as co-editor David Cranmer adds, "nine of today's hard-hitting, top writers stalk the depraved streets where no good deed goes unpunished, vengeance is the norm, and lady luck is a cold-hearted bitch that just left you for dead in a back alley." Authors featured this go'round include Patti Abbott, Fred Blosser, Hilary Davidson, Chris F. Holm, Sophie Littlefield, Andrew Nette, Keith Rawson, Kieran Shea, and Josh Stallings.

The debut issue of the ezine All Due Respect is hot off the digital presses, with reviews, a profile of Chris F. Holm, a look at Hard Case Crime, and original stories, which editors Chris Rhatigan and Mike Monson describe as "a brutal story from Thuglit editor Todd Robinson; the deeply disturbing “Amanda Will Be Fine” by Renee Asher Pickup; a revenge tale by the King of Brit Grit, Paul D. Brazill; the strangely satisfying combination of yoga and organized crime from Travis Richardson; a still-beating heart ripped straight out of the Amazon River basin by Mike Miner; and Walter Conley kicks a couple of clueless Connecticut thugs to the curb."

Silver Birch Press is releasing an anthology of noir poetry made by redacting passages from existing noir and hardboiled novels by Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Ross MacDonald, and others. Contributing editors Gerald So and Catfish McDaris helped collect and write the poems for the Noir Erasure Poetry Anthology.