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 | Dec 20, 2023 | Journalism, Publishing, Reviews
Sometimes an author bursts onto the scene, and you’re hooked immediately. My first Duane Swierczynski book was The Wheelman, which I discovered on the New Fiction shelves at the Tattered Cover in Denver. On the back cover, I read several enthusiastic blurbs from...
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 | 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...
