Eric Beetner Has Been Flying Under Your Crime-Fiction Radar … but Not Anymore
I became aware of Eric Beetner while visiting my usual southern California haunts a few years back—specifically, Book Carnival, a wonderful bookshop in Orange that I used to visit in my college years for signings with authors like Dan Simmons and Robert McCammon and...
LOSER BABY’s First Professional Review!
Head on over to Best Thriller Books to check out the first professional review of Loser Baby! I think Steve Netter has provided an insightful take on the novel, mentioning the multiple perspectives and the way the book deals with both the lowest and the highest...
Review: “Moon Lake” by Joe R. Lansdale
I’ve been a Joe R. Lansdale fan since … well, not quite the beginning of his career, but pretty close. I remember picking up his groundbreaking weird western Dead in the West at a Fangoria Weekend of Horrors around 1986, and that wasn’t long after he burst onto the...
WIN a Signed Copy of THE NAKED DAME!
As we await the summer 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 first editions of modern...
A Flurry of Crime Fiction During a Pandemic
So what have you been up to for the past year? It feels as if there's something that's been happening that has kinda gotten in the way of the normal flow of our lives. It's on the tip of my tongue. Huh. Anyway, I've taken the year-long opportunity to finish writing...
LOSER BABY Cover Art Reveal
Just a quick post to share the final cover art for Loser Baby. The art is by Michael Morris, inspired by several pieces I found online. Michael and I quickly established a friendly relationship after I discovered him online at a site that located him in Colorado. I...
Review: “The Loop” by Jeremy Robert Johnson
Jeremy Robert Johnson is part of the Chuck Palahniuk school of shock fiction. He’s been around for years, producing an almost underground brand of intriguing off-the-wall tales categorized as “bizarro.” The thrust of the dark genre is that nothing is off-limits, so...
Review: “The Residence” by Andrew Pyper
Canadian author Andrew Pyper burst onto the crime-fiction scene with his horrific whodunnit Lost Girls, about two teenaged girls killed in northern Ontario—and the supernatural history of the town in which they’re murdered. It was one of those debuts that makes you...
Review: “Antkind” by Charlie Kaufman
Are you a fan of Spike Jonz’s Being John Malkovich? How about his film Adaptation? If so, you’re familiar with the screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, the out-of-leftfield writer who seems to live inside his own head. His writing is always a trippy wander through a...
Review: “Devolution” by Max Brooks
Did you know that Mel Brooks’ son is responsible for some of the most foundational zombie books of the 21st century? Max Brooks’ The Zombie Survival Guide debuted in 2003 and ascended the charts until it attained international bestseller status, becoming a fixture on...
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.
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