by Jason Bovberg | Jun 21, 2021 | Publishing, Reviews
S.A. Cosby rocketed to crime-fiction stardom in 2020, despite the pandemic’s blistering effect on publishing, with his novel Blacktop Wasteland, a visceral heist novel that offers a twist on the crime-fiction convention of the down-and-out criminal embarking—against a...
by Jason Bovberg | May 3, 2021 | Books, Loser Baby, Reviews
Head on over to Best Thriller Books to check out the first professional review of Loser Baby! I think Steve Netter has provided an insightful take on the novel, mentioning the multiple perspectives and the way the book deals with both the lowest and the highest...
by Jason Bovberg | Apr 28, 2021 | Publishing, Reviews
I’ve been a Joe R. Lansdale fan since … well, not quite the beginning of his career, but pretty close. I remember picking up his groundbreaking weird western Dead in the West at a Fangoria Weekend of Horrors around 1986, and that wasn’t long after he burst onto the...
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 | Oct 21, 2020 | Publishing, Reviews
Canadian author Andrew Pyper burst onto the crime-fiction scene with his horrific whodunnit Lost Girls, about two teenaged girls killed in northern Ontario—and the supernatural history of the town in which they’re murdered. It was one of those debuts that makes you...
by Jason Bovberg | Jul 15, 2020 | Publishing, Reviews
Are you a fan of Spike Jonz’s Being John Malkovich? How about his film Adaptation? If so, you’re familiar with the screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, the out-of-leftfield writer who seems to live inside his own head. His writing is always a trippy wander through a...
