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Read the First Chapter of TESSA GOES DOWN Today!
My new crime novel Tessa Goes Down will be debuting August 2, but I wanted to provide a sneak preview of the first chapter while production is in process. When you have a few minutes, give it a read and let me know what you think! Very soon, the preorder link will be...

Review: “Child Zero” by Chris Holm
Chris Holm's debut on the mystery scene back in 2012 was auspicious—at least to this crime-fiction lover. The first book of Holm's "Collector" series, Dead Harvest, came out in a beautifully designed paperback from Angry Robot. An homage to classic pulp fiction (in...

Review: “Everything Everywhere All at Once” Is a Stunning, Frenetic Masterpiece
Will there ever be a film more precisely attuned to the mood of 2022, post-pandemic, post-Trump-debacle, mid-social-media-addicted ADHD? Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert's Everything Everywhere All at Once is an adrenaline blast directly to the heart and cerebrum...

Talking Multi-Perspective Narration with Shepherd.com
For the Shepherd.com website, I recently chose my five favorite novels that explore a single event from multiple perspectives. I've been intrigued by multi-perspective storytelling for a long time, particularly in film. In this article, I talk about how the film...

Ranking the Meats on My Central Texas BBQ Tour
I just returned from a solo trip to Austin, Texas. There's something I love about the area, despite Texas being the home of people like Ted Cruz. One of the things I dig about Austin and its environs is that it's an unlikely film mecca, from The Texas Chainsaw...

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...
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