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Top 20 Films of 2021 (and 9 Disappointments)
Heading warily into 2021, I wasn't a confident moviegoer. After all, 2020 had been a cinematic wipeout thanks to the global pandemic and its resulting quarantines. But as cinemas gradually re-opened, and I committed myself to attending as regularly (and as...
An Interview with Richard Lange
I still remember walking into Barnes & Noble one Tuesday in 2007 and finding a small, unassuming hardcover story collection called Dead Boys. I'd never heard of the author—some serious-looking cat named Richard Lange—but the dust jacket boasted enticing blurbs...
Review: “Another Kind of Eden” by James Lee Burke
The publication of a new James Lee Burke novel is always cause for celebration. I’ve been reading and collecting Burke for decades—an eye-opening proposition, as he recently marked the release of his fortieth book. Burke is perhaps best known for his series of Dave...
WriteStart Interviews Jason Bovberg
Hey all, here's an interview I did about LOSER BABY for the fledgling website WriteStart. You can see it in its original form at the WriteStart site. The writer of the interview poses similar questions to various writers, getting various takes on the same subjects,...
LOSER BABY available now!
Hey folks, well, after a long lead-up, my crime thriller Loser Baby is finally on shelves, both physical and virtual. You can order the paperback from any bookstore, including Barnes & Noble and Amazon, and you can download the ebook from Amazon or Smashwords. You...
Review: “The Turnout” by Megan Abbott
There’s a sultry, dreamlike quality to Megan Abbott’s more recent books, bringing to mind the gauzy images of, oh, Sofia Coppola’s The Virgin Suicides or Peter Weir’s Picnic at Hanging Rock. Watching Abbott’s extended interview in the Criterion Channel’s Adventures in...
Review: “Rovers” by Richard Lange
Let's get this out of the way, right here at the start: You're going to feel a strong Near Dark vibe in Richard Lange's excellent neo-western vampire novel Rovers. The book is awash in the same kind of gritty, sunbaked, sweaty supernatural grime that Kathryn Bigelow’s...
The Curse of the Head-Hoppers!
There’s a certain bestselling writer out there who’s a head-hopper. That’s right. He’s hopping heads like nobody’s business, and I see only a few readers calling him out on it. It’s one of the most infuriating and disorienting writing mistakes in fiction today, and...
Review: “Razorblade Tears” by S.A. Cosby
S.A. Cosby rocketed to crime-fiction stardom in 2020, despite the pandemic’s blistering effect on publishing, with his novel Blacktop Wasteland, a visceral heist novel that offers a twist on the crime-fiction convention of the down-and-out criminal embarking—against a...
Win a Signed Copy of Neil Gaiman’s AMERICAN GODS!
As we await the August publication of Loser Baby, I plan to host a number of giveaways on this site. I'll be tempting you not only with my own books but also with some treasures from my private library, from classic pulp novels to signed editions of modern literature....
Jason Bovberg is the author of Loser Baby, the Blood trilogy—Blood Red, Draw Blood, and Blood Dawn—and The Naked Dame. His forthcoming books include Tessa Goes Down, a border noir, and A Small Poisonous Act, a suburban crime novel. He is editor/publisher of Dark Highway Press, which published the controversial, erotic fairy tale Santa Steps Out and the weird western anthology Skull Full of Spurs. He lives in Fort Collins, Colorado, with his wife Barb, his daughters Harper and Sophie, and his canines Rocky and Rango.
‘Blood Red’ Book Trailer