by Jason Bovberg | Feb 5, 2020 | Publishing, Reviews
Peter Swanson’s breakthrough novel was 2015’s The Kind Worth Killing, a twisty, cat-and-mouse crime novel that ended up as one of my favorites of that year. After, I sought out his debut novel The Girl with a Clock for a Heart, another very interesting psychological...
by Jason Bovberg | Dec 28, 2019 | Publishing, Reviews
John Hornor Jacobs boasts a fun back story: He burst onto the horror scene at 40 years old with a book called Southern Gods, which began as a rough draft written during NanoWriMo and ended up on the nomination ballot for the horror genre’s esteemed Stoker award for...
by Jason Bovberg | Oct 31, 2019 | Publishing, Reviews
Scott Phillips burst onto the crime scene with his superb, pitch-black thriller The Ice Harvest, which was made into pretty good film starring John Cusack and Billy Bob Thornton—but the original novel has an evil-grin dark humor that’ll knock you flat. Published in...
by Jason Bovberg | Oct 1, 2019 | Publishing, Reviews
The secret’s been out for years now, but in case you didn’t know it—and in case you’ve never seen a photo of him—Joe Hill is the son of Stephen King. He came admirably to prominence outside the shadow of his father with the excellent collection of short stories, 20th...
by Jason Bovberg | Aug 18, 2019 | Publishing, Reviews
You might remember Liz Phair as an iconic, foul-mouthed feminist rocker from the early 1990s. She burst onto the music scene in ’93 with her Exile in Guyville album, and has kept up an intriguing though inconsistent career with such works as Whip-Smart and...
by Jason Bovberg | Sep 12, 2013 | Publishing
Got any plans for Friday the 13th? Well, now you do. Permuted Press—which will be publishing my apocalyptic horror novel Blood Red early next year—is having a huge 3-day sale on three-quarters of its entire in-print catalog. That’s about 75 titles. Here’s...
