Welcome to the **FIXED** June edition of CrimeWAV. I’m very happy to feature my friend, and label mate from Thomas & Mercer, Johnny Shaw on this month’s show.

Click here to download or listen to the right and edited version of “Luck” by Johnny Shaw.

Johnny Shaw was born and raised in the Desert Southwest on the Calexico/Mexicali border, the setting for his novels, DOVE SEASON and BIG MARIA. He is also the creator and editor of the online fiction quarterly BLOOD & TACOS, a loving homage to the men’s adventure paperbacks of the 1970′s & 1980′s.  And for you audio aficionados, check out the Blood & Tacos Podcast.

His short stories have appeared in Blood & Tacos, Plots With Guns, Thuglit, and in a number of anthologies. The story "Luck" first appeared in Thuglit #1, edited by Todd Robinson, another awesome writer and friend of the show. Be sure to check out Todd’s book, The Hard Bounce, when you’re looking for something awesome!

Johnny lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife, Spinetingler Award-nominated artist Roxanne Patruznick.

You can find him online at www.johnnyshawauthor.com or follow him on Twitter @BloodAndTacos

Johnny, Tyler Dilts, Eric Beetner, Gary Phillips, Paul Bishop and myself will be talking crime and hardboiled noir at the California Crime Writers Conference later this month in Pasadena. Come on out if you’re close by.

I’m also happy to present a promo on this week’s show for Mark Berry and his podcast Pushing Leaves Towards the Sun. Find it and listen now on Podiobooks.com.

Thanks for listening. I’ll be back next month with a story from Court Merrigan. 

This is IT: your own host Seth Harwood's newest novel IN BROAD DAYLIGHT, which you've heard right here on the WAV, will be available on Kindle and in paperback starting May 7th!

Easiest way to get your copy is right here at Amazon.com in either Paperback (YES!) or for Kindle (You know it!) or... for a few extra bones, you can get an inscribed paperback copy via Borderlands Books [Gotta Have It!] by following the instructions HERE.

Check it, check it! Here's the full description of the book:

FBI agent Jess Harding treks back to Anchorage to hunt down a sadistic killer who's reemerged from a five-year hiatus--a killer who has already slipped her grasp once before. The endless days of an Alaskan summer can't thwart the fiend's plans as he slashes his way through the rural community, where everyone knows your name and always distrusts the outside. With the help of Oscar Linstrom, an old colleague who wants to be more than friends, Jess attempts to immerse herself in the area's culture, leading her to a strange rural village inhabited by Russian Old Believers hell-bent on protecting their way of life. Even the locals are outsiders to the Old Believers, and Jess needs a safehaven in the glare of daylight because a blood-stained message left at the scene of the most recent murder says Jess is no longer the hunter--but the hunted.

RoachkillerClick here to download or listen to Richie Narvaez reading "Ibarra Goes Down."

And by down, I mean DOWN! Thanks to Richie for this month's story of smut. If you enjoyed it, tell your friends about it. You can Like the CrimeWAV and Seth Harwood here on Facebook and hit up Richie's website to keep up with him.

Richie's book ROACHKILLER & Other Stories is available here on Amazon Kindle, Nook and Schmasswords. 

My new releases this month from Thomas & Mercer are YOUNG JUNIUS and THIS IS LIFE -- both coming Feb 19. Depending on how you look at it, your faves are now out for you to read, share with your friends and review online, OR they're back from a new publisher to jump all over the Amazon charts. Either way, they'll be here soon! Snap 'em up!

If you'd like to enter on Goodreads to win a copy of THIS IS LIFE, follow this link. Good luck! Last time: Richie's website is here: rnarvaez.com

Yes, we ARE BACK!! As Rakim says, "it's been a long time." And it has. Apologies about that fade-ish-ness. But here things are again: me (Your friendly neighborhood Future Urban Crime Kingpin), a story (in this case Hoosier Daddy by Jed Ayres), and You. The three of us together at long last. So grab your ear buds, pop 'em in that iPhone which now likely streams our stuff without any troublesome downloading and... click on the following link:

Jedidiah Ayres reads "Hoosier Daddy." -- Click here to listen or download.

Jedidiah Ayres is the author of the collection A F*ckload of Shorts and Fierce Bitches (due in early 2013). He is also co-editor of the anthologies Noir at the Bar volumes 1 & 2 and D*CKED: Dark Fiction Inspired By Dick Cheney. Find him at his blog Hardboiled Wonderland. 

How 'bout all that? See his cover art below, visit his blog and tell him he's the balls, and here we are again... rolling and criminal! Stay tuned for more stories, news and upcoming releases from yours truly and other authors in our midst.

for you who miss the Barroness.

I can't say enough how thrilled I am to be featured on this podcast with Pinckney Benedict. As someone who has been reading his work in prize story anthologies for a while, it's great to share the stage.

Click here to download or listen to the complete episode.

This episode comes courtest of the fine folks at Booked. The Booked Podcast is a regular weekly installment of fine fiction coming to your ears from live events, along with reviews and interviews. The staff there is Livius Nedin, Robb Olson and Mlaz Corbier. They're as good a bunch of guys as you could ask for.

Thanks to them for recording and distributing this event!

First Pinckney reads from Pig Helmet and the Wall of Life and then after a short delay, I read from Young Junius. Hope you enjoy!