Author Archive

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    Michael Koryta – video interview
    You can’t help but be a little jealous when it comes to the career of Michael Koryta. Over the last six years, Koryta has published six successful, compulsively readable novels, including the popular Lincoln Perry P.I. series and the near perfect standalone thriller, Envy the Night. But what makes his career all the more enviable is that Koryta is only 27 years old. Yeah,...
    by Keith Rawson at July 1st, 2010 at 09:07 am
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    Ace Atkins – video interview
    In my opinion the toughest sub-genre of crime fiction to write is the historical crime novel. Only a handful of writers have seemed to master it: Craig McDonald, Meagan Abbott, James Ellroy. However, you can count Ace Atkins among the few who’ve turned the form on its head. With his four historical noirs—White Shadow, Wicked City, Devil’s Garden, and, most recently,...
    by Keith Rawson at April 27th, 2010 at 08:04 am
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    Crimefactory Crime Zine – Issue 2 Available!
    So while almost everyone was sleeping last night, the second issue of Crimefactory dropped onto the interwebs.  We’re really proud of this one.  Liam really stepped it up a notch with the graphics to match the amazing contributions of this issue’s writers, and we’ve got all the usual new fiction, reviews, and features plus our first serialized story...
    by Keith Rawson at March 27th, 2010 at 09:03 am
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    Craig McDonald – video interview – part 2
    I will let my introduction to the first half of our interview speak for me.  Craig McDonald is an idol and an author whom I greatly respect, and I was thrilled to be able to sit down and talk with him.  In part two of my interview with McDonald, which I conducted at the Poisoned Pen bookstore in Scottsdale, AZ, on February 27th—we cover his third novel, Print the...
    by Keith Rawson at March 12th, 2010 at 11:03 am
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    Craig McDonald – video interview – part 1
    I don’t think I’ve been more intimidated by an interview subject as I was by Craig McDonald. Here was a man who had interviewed nearly every crime writer of consequence in the past decade: Ellroy.  Crumley.  Woodrell.  Sallis.  Bruen.  Leonard. And the questions he asked weren’t just your simple, “Where do you get your ideas?” pap that most interviewers...
    by Keith Rawson at March 9th, 2010 at 01:03 pm
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    Dennis Tafoya – video interview
    They’ve gotta be putting something in the water in Philly.  Seriously, over the last sixty years (and if you listen to certain cantankerous scholars, much longer than that), the city of brotherly love has produced some of the finest crime and genre writers in the United States. But in particular, the last decade has produced such stellar voices as Jonathan Maberry,...
    by Keith Rawson at February 23rd, 2010 at 11:02 am
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    T. Jefferson Parker – Interview
    When you sit talking with T. Jefferson Parker, the feeling you get from him is almost like that of an older brother or a favorite uncle. He’s plain spoken and friendly; the type of guy you wouldn’t mind spending an afternoon with splitting a six-pack while tuning up the engine of your ’79 Mustang under a clear California sky. He’s an every man, but an every man...
    by Keith Rawson at February 16th, 2010 at 08:02 am
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    Charlie Huston Interview – part 2 video
    I could start the second introduction to my interview with Charlie Huston by providing more quotes from authors and news agencies who’ve heaped praise on Huston’s impressive body of work; instead I’ll simply congratulate him on his recent Edgar award nomination for his extraordinary novel, The Mystic Art for Erasing All Signs of Death. With Part 2 of my interview,...
    by Keith Rawson at January 26th, 2010 at 10:01 am
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    Charlie Huston Interview – part 1 video
    Writing my introduction to my interview with Charlie Huston is an easy one, because all I really need to is quote the massive amount of praise that’s been heaped upon the Southern Californian novelist over the last six years: “Bloody Amazing. Charlie Huston reminds me of all my favorite writers—Peter Dexter, Robert Stone, Crumley. Surprising, funny, compassionate,...
    by Keith Rawson at January 19th, 2010 at 01:01 pm
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    Joseph Wambaugh – video interview
    There isn’t much I can say about Joseph Wambaugh that hasn’t been said before. His laurels speak for themselves: Cop, novelist, film and television producer, journalist, Mystery Writers of America Grand Master, and one of the acknowledged fathers of the modern police procedural. Without question, Wambaugh could easily rest on these laurels. He could sit back and wistfully...
    by Keith Rawson at December 10th, 2009 at 09:12 am
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    Stuart Neville – Video Interview
    Stuart Neville is a true rarity in publishing: A first-time novelist who delivered a near flawless book with his stunning debut, the Ghosts of Belfast. On October 19th, I was fortunate enough to sit down with Neville at the Poisoned Pen Bookstore in Scottsdale, AZ, before his appearance with Peter Lovsey and James Benn, to discuss the Ghosts of Belfast and future projects.
    by Keith Rawson at November 13th, 2009 at 02:11 pm
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    World’s Worst Interview with Victor Gischler
    In case you haven’t noticed, over the past few weeks BSC Review has been republishing Victor Gischler’s World’s Worst Interview series, which he conducted on his old blog at the end of 2004 through the middle of 2005. Needless to say, I’ve been getting more than a few belly laughs out of the series, and after reading Gischler’s interview with George Pelecanos,...
    by Keith Rawson at November 12th, 2009 at 08:11 am
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    Short Thoughts on Short Fiction Vol. 17: Playing favorites
    Greetings, dingle berries! I’m back and feeling motivated as Hell this week to tear the assholes out of some online hacks, so get ready for a little bloodshed! Get ready for some serious mayhem and a body count to match the carnage of Jonestown! . . . .No, not really, folks. Honestly, the past few weeks of online short fiction have been impressive ones, and I’ve...
    by Keith Rawson at November 3rd, 2009 at 02:11 pm
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    Short Thoughts on Short Fiction Vol. 16: New Kids on the Publishing Block
    So I’ve taken a week off from old Short Thoughts (and writing in general—sometimes you just need it, folks) to recharge the old batteries and concentrate on a couple of other projects that I’ve become involved in, but now I’m back and raring to write some reviews—almost. Yeah, I’m still feeling a little lazy, so instead of writing reviews for new stories,...
    by Keith Rawson at October 30th, 2009 at 07:10 am
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    Michael Connelly interview
    There are few novelists who have achieved the level of success that Michael Connelly has. In the last twenty years, Connelly’s 22 books have been translated into over 30 languages, while he has been awarded virtually every honor the mystery/crime community has to offer and has created a character who may very well rival the endurance of the creations of Raymond Chandler...
    by Keith Rawson at October 21st, 2009 at 03:10 pm
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