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Silently Penitent
I am on the B Train, reading the stark, black typeface of today’s headline: Religious Murders Escalate. The picture of the most recent victim stares up at me. A man this time, probably late thirties. Pale face, blank eyes. I drop the paper to my lap. I loosen my tie...
Judging a Book by Its Cover
Regardless of whether a book is published in physical or digital form, one thing is certain: It needs a great cover. I'm a book collector from way back, and I will say with no shame that I have purchased books based solely on their cover. There are unread books in my...
Review: The Twenty-Year Death
Well, here’s a hell of thing. Ariel S. Winter and Hard Case Crime have really cranked out something special in Winter’s The Twenty-Year Death, a spectacular endeavor that combines three separate novels—and three distinct voices—to tell a story that spans three...
Freak Night: A Poem
Ever since I saw Tod Browning's Freaks (1931), I've had a sort of nightmarish fascination with that kind of sick, sideshow horror. It doesn't help that my friend Kirk Whitham is obsessed with midgets. But it was that movie that cemented my own fascination. There's...
How DAME Entered the Ether
I'm new to the world of e-publishing. Truth be told, I tried only one avenue out there in the real publishing world: Hard Case Crime. I wrote The Naked Dame expressly for that fine paperback line of crime literature, and in my mind I never really thought about other...
A Taste for Speed
I have a thing for haikus. And burgers. And Subaru WRXs. I owned a WRX in the early part of this century and had a blast with it. Driving the Colorado backroads was spectacularly fun. I miss those days. Sigh. Anyway, I won a contest that was uniquely targeted to my...
Haiku Noir
Here's a fun piece I did a while back, while writing The Naked Dame. I used this series of connective or narrative haikus as warmup toward writing the clipped prose of that novel. You can consider this a prelude to the novel, or at least a mini-story that takes place...
Collision
Lightning splintered on the bleak horizon, beyond the sprawling, rain-soaked runways of Denver International Airport. Not a swell day to fly, thought Stephen Lindsay, perched on his barstool. He swiveled back nervously to face his double whiskey. Lucky I’m not flying....
Getting a Feel for Windows 8 on the Tablet and the Desktop
I just got back from the Microsoft TechEd 2012 show in Orlando, Fla., and although I was there mostly representing Windows IT Pro and its enterprise IT audience, personally I was most interested in the new Windows 8 operating system that will soon be making its way...
Giving Life: A Poem
Sometimes I like to explore the empowerment of children in situations where the odds are otherwise stacked against them. In this case, I went for the typical "abusive father" scenario and added a little vengeful magic to it. (This poem is at least partially inspired...
Bio
Jason Bovberg is the author of Tessa Goes Down, Loser Baby, the Blood trilogy—Blood Red, Draw Blood, and Blood Dawn—and The Naked Dame. His forthcoming books include A Small Poisonous Act, a suburban noir novel, and Little Miss Nobody, a mystery based on a true crime. He is editor/publisher of Dark Highway Press, which published the controversial, erotic fairy tale Santa Steps Out and the weird western anthology Skull Full of Spurs. He lives in Fort Collins, Colorado, with his wife Barb, his daughters Harper and Sophie, and his canines Rocky and Rango.
‘Blood Red’ Book Trailer