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 | Nov 17, 2022 | Journalism, Publishing, Reviews
I’m proud to say I’ve been reading Michael Connelly since the beginning. I still remember devouring the early review copies (Black Echo, Black Ice, Concrete Blonde) that we received at B. Dalton—and spreading word of mouth as loudly as I could. Even met...
by Jason Bovberg | Feb 3, 2022 | Journalism
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...
by Jason Bovberg | May 4, 2021 | Interviews, Journalism, Publishing
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...
by Jason Bovberg | Nov 28, 2020 | Journalism, Reviews
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...
by Jason Bovberg | Aug 22, 2016 | Interviews, Journalism
I first became aware of Brian Hodge in the early 1990s, when I was working at a B. Dalton Bookseller in Fort Collins, Colorado. The Dell Abyss line of horror novels, under the direction of Bantam editor Jeanne Cavelos, had just started blowing up the genre, infusing...
