by Jason Bovberg | Feb 6, 2024 | Interviews, Journalism, Publishing
Duane Swierczinski has quietly, humbly put together a hell of a career in modern crime fiction. Despite (or thanks to) a tongue-twister surname that always requires concentration to spell out, he’s navigated his way through multiple genres and fiction/nonfiction...
by Jason Bovberg | Sep 5, 2023 | Interviews, Journalism, Publishing
When did you read your first Lou Berney book? Maybe you’ve been there from the beginning, when he kickstarted his career with a New Yorker short-work sale followed by the release of his strong collection of stories, The Road to Bobby Joe. Or perhaps you started...
by Jason Bovberg | May 2, 2023 | Interviews, Journalism, Publishing
I remember when I first spotted Frank Bill’s debut story collection Crimes in Southern Indiana on the New Release table at my favorite local bookstore—that stark cover art, that sepia photo of the burned-out car, that scrawled title treatment. On the back, that...
by Jason Bovberg | Dec 7, 2022 | Interviews, Journalism, Publishing
If you’re like most readers, you first encountered the fiction of Jordan Harper in his gritty, affecting debut novel, She Rides Shotgun. It’s one of those crime novels you might call a slow grower—finding modest initial success and then gradually...
by Jason Bovberg | Jul 25, 2022 | Interviews, Publishing, Tessa Goes Down
Hey all, here’s part of an interview I did about Tessa Goes Down for the UK website Crime Fiction Lover. You can see the entire interview in its original form at CrimeFictionLover. The writer of the interview, Garrick Webster, posed some incisive questions about the...
by Jason Bovberg | Feb 11, 2022 | Interviews
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...
