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...
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...
