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 | Nov 1, 2022 | Publishing, Reviews
Kevin Wilson came to prominence with his 2011 novel The Family Fang, the celebrated story of a family of performance artists—their early comic misadventures contrasted with their emotional struggles later in life. The book was adapted to film in 2015, starring Jason...
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 | Jul 21, 2022 | Publishing, Reviews
There’s a simmering subgenre of mystery fiction that you might call dark crime or horror noir, a shadowy, disturbing niche occupied—on occasion—by such writers as Joe R. Lansdale and Cormac McCarthy. It’s very much concerned with contemplating the darkest...
by Jason Bovberg | Jun 8, 2022 | Books, Loser Baby, Publishing, Tessa Goes Down
I published a well-reviewed crime novel last year—August 2021—that didn’t make much of an impact on the reading public. I type this with great disappointment and regret because I believe Loser Baby is easily the most effective, intricate book I’ve written....
