J. Duke

Welcome back to the CrimeWAV! This is episode 4 (the final installment) of our man Jason Duke’s novella Phoenix Nightlife.

Click here to download/listen.

Holla! If you want to drop a note to Jason, go ahead and contact him here or here on Facebook. He’d love to hear from you.

Promo this week is for David Heyes and The Returning: An Alien Abduction Podcast. You can find his episodes and updates here.

This week I talk books about Stieg Larsson’s “Millenium” Series and David Simon’s Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets. Both are highly worth picking up for your summer reading.

Up next: Tom Franklin and an excerpt from his new novel Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter.

Duke y dukes! My boy Jason is back on the streets and the airwaves with this week's third installment in the Phoenix Nightlife saga! You ready?

Click here to download/listen to Phoenix Nightlife Pt. 3

That's what's up! You want the Cliff's Notes? Ask Jason yourself.

We got a promo this week for the Noircon conference this November 4-7 in Philly. I'll be there and it's going to be a GREAT time! Can you come out and hang? Hope so. Lots of other CrimeWAV writers will be on hand.

Check out more info here and tell 'em CrimeWAV sent you to get a special discount on the events. 

(If you still can't afford it, just come on out and meet me at the hotel! I'm there for sure!)

Yer boy, SH -- Coming next week, a promo for my man David Heyes!

Not gone hit you with no Golden Girls, Silver Spoons or Growing Pains. Just straight up crime fiction up in here. This week we feature Part TWO of Jason Duke's Phoenix Nightlife!

Click here to listen to Part Two of Phoenix Nightlife!

You want to know more about Jason? Check out his contributor page here!

You want to order yourself some Young Junius Special Edition? The signed, extra-art, super-fly hardcover fancy-paper edition of the book? Then get you some!

As a special feature this week, check out this link for some serious knowledge about the Intratec 9 Semi-Automatic Pistol. --That's right: the Tec 9!

Also, this week's promo is for my man John Mierau and his awesome new podcast Enemy Lines. Give him a look and if you want more of a promo than you even got in the episode, listen to this! --It's even got yer boy in it reading some lines!

Congrats to Twist!Here at CrimeWAV, we're thrilled to report that Twist Phelan's story, "A Stab in the Heart" (CrimeWAV - 51) won the Thriller Award for Best Short Story of the Year 2009 from the International Thriller Writers Association. 

Wonderful news, Twist! Tear 'em up!

Click here to download or listen to Part 1 of Phoenix Nightlife

This is the first time for a lot of things here on the CrimeWAV. First time we've ever had a story that comes with its own video trailer, first book-length work we've ever done, and our first story from author Jason Duke. (I have a feeling it won't be our last.)

We'll be getting into other books and longer projects this fall, so be on the lookout for more great long-form content.

This week, we give you Part One of Jason's novella, Phoenix Nightlife, which will total 4 parts--to come out on Wednesdays for the next month. It's about the best way we can think of to rock out some hot summer nights. You agree? I thought you would.

Feel free to check Jason's contributor page here to find out more about what makes him tick and how you can let him know you think this story busts it wide out! You can also contact him here.

Don't forget that you only have until the end of July to order your Special Edition copy of Young Junius. Once July runs out, these puppies will be gone from your lives for good! Opportunities like this don't knock but more than once. So get on that. When you do, use the code "FAMILY" to get $5 off. (Who sent 'cha?)

We're back. Check my Facebook page if you want to know more about what I'm doing and see a few pics from Africa.

Time for "Every Dog" by MY BOY Rich Katz (aka Rafael--look for his name in Young Junius this fall). Rich has been a long time Palms Daddy, CrimeWAV fan and has recently started working his tail off on good crime short stories!

Listen to Every Dog here. (Click to listen.)

Rich took my online Crime Fiction class at Stanford last winter and did some awesome work! Check his last story, Ep 37's The Oath for hard proof. If you'd like to take a crime fiction class with me and live in the Bay Area, come out for Crafting Successful Crime Fiction from 6/24 to the end of July in Palo Alto! Promises to be a lot of fun!

Rich Katz lives in Scottsdale, AZ. He's worked as a deliveryman, salesman, rock drummer, speech and language clinician, researcher, college lecturer and administrator. "Every Dog" was previously published in "A Twist of Noir." Read here.

Last up, you'll find a promo for Shawn Lewis and his new free podcast novel The Wolf of Man. Check it out!! If YOU'D like to find out more about how to podcast your work, consider taking this online webinar I'll be giving on 6/24: Podcast Your Fiction LIVE! (Through Writer's Digest.)

Back Cover by Bob OstromThis special content is sponsored by Tyrus Books and the fall release of YOUNG JUNIUS. Click here to listen.

In this episode: an introduction to the YOUNG JUNIUS story as Junius and Elf arrive at The Towers. PLUS: a review of the book from Jennifer Hudock and my yapping. Enjoy!

Six foot tall, fourteen-year-old Young Junius sets out to find his brother’s killer in a cluster of Boston’s low-income housing towers—prime drug-dealing territory. After committing a shooting to protect his friend, Junius finds himself with fifty dollars and instructions to run. Shocked by the violence he’s created and determined to see its consequences, he stays put.

This special edition is only available now for preorder on my site. Its features inlcude: a special, embossed dust jacket, awesome artwork by my boys Jerry Scullion and Bob Ostrom. Inside, there will be a b&w insert with photos of some of the book's locations. A cloth binding, a metallic spine stamp, and more fun features will round out this gorgeous edition. You can order right here, NOW!! Go on, criminal, GET SOME!

Click here to download this week's episode: JP White reading from his nautical crime novel Every Boat Turns South.

We're more than happy to have JP on the show this week to read an exciting chapter from this novel. You can buy the book now on Amazon.com and at B&N.com. Go pick one up. You won't be sorry!

In the last 35 years, J.P. White has published essays, articles, fiction, reviews, interviews and poetry in over a hundred publications including The Nation, The New Republic, The Los Angeles Times Magazine, The Gettysburg Review, American Poetry Review, and Poetry (Chicago).  He is the author of five books of poems and a novel, Every Boat Turns South. You can find out more about him at JPWhite.net.

This week we also have a promo for Jennifer Hudock's new story collection Dark Journeys which is available on both Amazon and Smashwords!

We're also one week out from the YOUNG JUNIUS Special Edition pre-orders over at sethharwood.com. More info here! Spread the word!

It gives me great pleasure to partner once again with Gerald So and the gang from The Lineup. This dynamite collection of poets, editors and readers has joined us once before back on episode 36 (see here) and now return for Issue 3 of their annual publication.

You can listen to this year's selection of poems right here. (Right-click to download.)

You'll hear work by James Sallis, Wallace Stroby, David S. Pointer, David Hernandez, James M. McGowan, Henry Chang, Jackie Sheeler, Carrie McGath, and Sarah Cortez.

In addition to these poems, The Lineup 3 includes verse by Patricia Abbott, Reed Farrel Coleman, James W. Hall, and others -- thirty poems in all, by nineteen poets.

Lineup 3 is available in print on Lulu.com here as well as at these fine independent mystery bookstores: Murder By the Book (Houston, TX); Once Upon a Crime (Minneapolis, MN); The Mysterious Bookshop (New York, NY).

I hope you'll pick one up; at $7 you can't go wrong! You can also get issues 1 and 2 for even less here at Amazon. Rock on, don't front, and bust into this week's poems like you'd tear into your favorite bag of potato chips! Thanks to Gerald, Richie, Sarah, and Anthony for partnering with us once again.

This week Debbi Mack joins us on the CrimeWAV to read her Derringer-nominated story "The Right to Remain Silent."

Listen/download the story here.

This piece was first published in The Back Alley Webzine. You can read it here.

Debbi Mack has worked as an attorney, a news wire reporter and a reference librarian, but now devotes her life to freelance and fiction writing. She has contributed short stories to the Chesapeake Crimes anthology published in 2004 and the Chesapeake Crimes 4 anthology to be released by Wildside Press in March 2010.

Her first novel is Identity Crisis, a hardboiled mystery in which female lawyer/sleuth Sam McRae investigates a complex case of murder and identity theft. You can read the first chapter here. In addition to her site, debbimack.com, I also really like her blog My Life on the Mid-List.