Have you seen the badassedness of the new
Plots With Guns? Fiction from
Schuyler Dickson, Richard Godwin, John McMahon, Graham Powell, Jason Stuart, Kent Westmoreland and
Fred Zackel, plus a tasty excerpt from
Greg Bardsley's fantastic novel
Cash Out which I hope the rest of you poor
not as cool as me souls can get your hands on soon. Oh, yeah,
Cameron Ashley and
Jimmy Callaway share credit on a story in there too. Attention whores. Sure, write a story in the same issue you get your pictures up as the artwork. Have you checked out the art for this issue? The theme is
'Getting Our Asses Kicked by the Giants of Crime Fiction,' and it features The Worm having his neck broke by
Lee Child and Mr. Fosters being smothered by
Christa Faust as well as
Reed Farrel Coleman garroting
Seth Harwood and yours truly taking a sock to the kisser from
George Pelecanos. Nice, huh? Was really hoping there'd be a shot of
Steve Weddle being kicked in the nuts by
Johnny Temple, but photo ops, who knows? If only there were a way of getting the two of them in the same room... Still, hats off to
Erik Lundy, Marty McCabe, Sean O'Kane and
Gonzalo Baeza on their editorial maiden voyage and congrats to
Anthony Neil Smith for kicking back and taking all the credit.
Speaking of online literary journals getting an injection of badass - I've had my eye on
Fried Chicken and Coffee for a bit now. Dunno when I could submit something, but I'd like to. (I will have a hardboiled sci-fi piece up at
Beat to a Pulp in a week or two, so there's that.) And I believe that none other than
Scott Wolven will be doing some fiction editing over at
The New Guard, so if you feel your oats enough to risk rejection by the very best, I'd check that out.
So, then. Friday night, Kinky Friedman is playing in St. Louis and it's a mere all the money I have in the world to go see him. Reaaalllly thinking about it, though. Jeez, the Kinkster this week and Steve Earle in a couple more? What's next, a Charlie Louvin and Benjamin Whitmer tour stop? I wouldn't complain.
Over
at Ransom Notes, I'm talking
Greg Rucka and
Matthew Southworth's
Stumptown and
Rob Guillory and
John Layman's
Chew - both of which I was exposed to through the noble and altruistic efforts of
Kieran Shea. Thanky sir.
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