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BRONX NOIR LAUNCH PARTY!
The newest volume in Akashic's ongoing project to show the dark side of every city, town, village, and neighborhood on earth, BRONX NOIR contains my story "The Big Five"—set at the Bronx Zoo—as well as works by such luminaries as S. J. Rozan (also the book's editor), Lawrence Block, Kevin Baker and many others. To celebrate, the great NYC mystery bookstore Partners and Crime, hosted a terrific launch party on July 24. The book's editor, S. J. Rozan, read from her great story "Hothouse," as did several other contributors, and a total of thirteen of the book's authors showed up, along with Akashic publisher Johnny Temple. We all had a great time, as can be seen in the photos below.
There'll be several other BRONX NOIR events as well.
Check back here for more details.
Bronx Noir contributors Kevin Baker, Sandra Kitt, Suzanne Chazin, and Joe Wallace swap stories of the mean streets.
Akashic Books' Johnny Temple, the mastermind of the "Noir" series, with Bronx Noir editor and contributor S.J. Rozan.
photo credit: Mary Reagan, nycphoto.interactivenyc.com
ON DECK
My recent GRAND OLD GAME: 365 Days of Baseball was so successful that Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (my publisher) has decided to greenlight a sequel. It will be called THE BIG SHOW, and it will follow the same 365-days format, with one big difference: This book will be all-color! Starting where GRAND OLD GAME left off (circa 1970), THE BIG SHOW will chart the history of baseball right up through the 2007 season. Reggie Jackson, Ozzie Smith, Keith Hernandez, Kirby Puckett, Don Mattingly—there'll all here, in wonderful photos taken from the archives of Major League Baseball.
THE BIG SHOW will be on bookstore shelves in time for the 2008 season.
CELEBRATION
An overflow crowd came out to the renowned Partners & Crime bookstore in Greenwich Village, NY, to celebrate the publication of HARDBOILED BROOKLYN. It was a terrific party, and an almost surreal experience for me. The room was filled with superb writers, ranging from Reed Farrel Coleman (the book's editor) to S.J. Rozan, Gabriel Cohen, Jason Starr, and Maggie Estep. I got the chance to read part of my story "Dead Man," and the response was thrilling. I could get to like this mystery-writing business.
An overflow crowd came out to the renowned Partners & Crime bookstore in Greenwich Village, NY, to celebrate the publication of HARDBOILED BROOKLYN. It was a terrific party, and an almost surreal experience for me. The room was filled with superb writers, ranging from Reed Farrel Coleman (the book's editor) to S.J. Rozan, Gabriel Cohen, Jason Starr, and Maggie Estep. I got the chance to read part of my story "Dead Man," and the response was thrilling. I could get to like this mystery-writing business.
The HARDBOILED BROOKLYN team at Partners & Crime, including editor Reed Coleman and fellow contributor Gabriel Cohen (flanking me), Bleak House Books publisher Ben LeRoy (third from right) and contributor SJ Rozan (second from right).