Happy Pub Day to Bobby Mathews
New book and a few links
A quick note to let you know that Negative Tilt from Bobby Mathews and Shotgun Honey is out today.
“This gripping, wide-ranging collection encompasses backwoods vengeance, Parisian tricksters, a mirror that reflects the crimes of the past, and so much more. Bobby Mathews’ versatility is matched only by the humanity he invests in even his most broken, desperate characters.” —Scott Von Doviak, Edgar Award-nominated author of Lowdown Road and Charlesgate Confidential
I chatted with the author about his book and more over at DoSomeDamage last week. You can read that interview here.
Speaking of interviews, I had a lovely visit with Carol Ann Tack for the Merrick Library podcast. I highly recommend subscribing to the podcast for some of the most engaging and informative author interviews you’ll ever hear. You can listen here.
And, finally, I just found out that the March 22 Southern Fried Crime panel at the Virginia Festival of the Book featuring me and Aggie Blum Thompson (& moderated by Meredith Cole) will be livestreamed here.
Here is a wild story that I don’t remember reading about when this broke:
For over a decade, a Chinese woman known as “Zhemao” created a massive, fantastical, and largely fictional alternate history of late Medieval Russia on Chinese Wikipedia, writing millions of words about entirely made-up political figures, massive (and fake) silver mines, and pivotal battles that never actually happened. She even went so far as to concoct details about things like currency and eating utensils. READ MORE
Bible Verse of the Week: And the LORD regretted that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart. (Genesis 6:6)