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"Cormac Brown" is my pen name. I'm an up-and-slumming writer in the city of Saint Francis and I'm following in the footsteps of Hammett...minus the TB and working for the Pinkerton Agency. A couple of stories that I've stiched and stapled together, can be found here.

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Sunday, August 21, 2011

How pulp covers got their start



Here's an article featuring a book on how pulp covers began, from I09. We're talking ships that fly, John Carter illustrations and a camel with a machine gun mounted to its back.

Speaking of pulp covers, B-Sol, where are you?
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Saturday, August 6, 2011

Bomblog interviews Scott Wolven


Scott Wolven talks about writing, writing a letter to the late great Jim Thompson, Treme and other things at Bombsite.
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The Premiere Issue of Needle Magazine

The Premiere Issue of Needle Magazine
Among the fine stories in this issue, please check out my story "Santa Barbara And The Killing Is Easy"

You can find Cormac Brown here, as well at as these other fine venues

  • "Tit-For-Tat" @ Astonishing Adventures Magazine
  • "The Tsar's Treasure" @ The Final Issue of Astonishing Adventures Magazine
  • "Strawberry Quick" @ A Twist of Noir
  • "Le Chat Noir" @ Astonishing Adventures Magazine
  • "His Hands" @ The Premiere Issue of Dark Valentine Magazine
  • "Introductions Are In Order" @ Dark Valentine Magazine's Oct. Flash Fiction Frenzy
  • "All The Better To" @ Astonishing Adventures Magazine
  • "When Clementine Sings" @ Stormfists.com
  • "A Red Lipstick" @ Astonishing Adventures Magazine
  • "The Post Nuptial" @ Powder Burn Flash
  • "They Come From Above" @ Beat To A Pulp
  • "My Old Haunts" @ Thrillers, Killers And Chillers
  • "Bitch" @ Powderburnflash.com
  • "The Price Of Perfection" @ Astonishing Adventures Magazine
  • "Going To See A Whale About A Man" @ A Twist of Noir
  • "Retribution" @ The Premier Issue of Crooked Magazine
  • "In Vino Veritas, In Tequila Mors" @ Clarity Of Night
  • "Recalculating" @ Flash Fire 500
  • "Hot Ice And Cold Blood" @ Powder Burn Flash
  • "A Sheep In Wolf's Clothing" @ Crooked Magazine
  • "Poker Face" @ Powder Burn Flash
  • "Vibrant" @ Powderburnflash.com
  • "Eggplant Parmigiana" @ Powder Burn Flash
  • "Swerved" @ Powderburnflash.com
  • "L-i-n-g-o" @ Powderburnflash.com
  • "Aria" @ Powder Burn Flash
  • "So Deaf" @ Powder Burn Flash
  • "Peanut Oil" @ Powder Burn Flash
  • "24fps" @ Six Sentences
  • "Cool Hand Rosie And Her Sisters" @ Six Sentences
  • "If Twelve Were Nine" @ Powder Burn Flash

A-hem!

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"Cormac Brown" is my pen name. I'm an up-and-slumming writer in the city of Saint Francis, and I'm following in the footsteps of Hammett...minus the TB and working for the Pinkerton Agency. I've had stories posted on Flashing In the Gutters, Powder Burn Flash, Six Sentences, Astonishing Adventures Magazine, Crooked Magazine, Beat To A Pulp, Needle Magazine, and Dark Valentine Magazine.
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Crime blogs, book reviewers, publishers, and flash fiction sites

  • The New Powderburnflash.com has fine crime fiction
  • The finest print crime magazine, Needle Magazine!
  • Dark Valentine Magazine, home to fine fiction
  • The Original Powder Burn Flash site
  • From Joe Bubs and Chicago Now comes Arresting Tales
  • Thrillers, Killers 'n' Chillers, the name says it all
  • Pulp Metal Magazine. As pulpy and hardcore as magazines can get, plus articles by Paul D. Brazill
  • Crimefactory Magazine grinds out hardcore pulp
  • Darkest Before The Dawn? Like Power Burn Flash, but for stories of 2,500 words or more
  • Eastern Standard Crime, home of fine crime online and book reviews
  • A Twist Of Noir publishes unprinted and reprinted noir
  • A new crime E-zine with all new stories and a spin-off of Eastern Standard Crime
  • Flash Fire 500, have you heard? Stories told in less than 500 words
  • Author Sarah Weinman reviews and interviews all things crime-related
  • Hard Case Crime has wonderful Post-Pulp Era and Modern Pulp books
  • Sandra Seamans has a wealth of flash fiction sites and E-zine links for virtually every genre, and she's a good writer as well
  • The straight dope on all the crime ezines, from the editors and Sandra Ruttan
  • Author Eddie Muller delves into all things Noir and even runs a film festival for it.
  • The Rap Sheet covers crime authors, books and blogs
  • Bookgasm reviews crime, pulp, sci-fi, thrillers, comics, and the occasional western
  • Tribe has book reviews, movies review and excellent blog
  • Author Bill Crider has a pop culture blog that covers pulp and crime books, too.
  • Hard Boiled Chapters gives you hard boiled fiction in a serial form
  • Akashic Books, publishers of San Francisco Noir and the other Noir Series
  • Can A Complete Story Be Told In Six Sentences?

The Wonderful Blogs That I Read And That Are Nice Enough To Link This Blog

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    8 months ago
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    5 weeks ago
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    5 months ago
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    1 year ago
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    Vacation - It's all set. My first vacation of 2012 will be.... Lawrence, Kansas in two weeks. Now I know what you're thinking. Why Lawrence? Well, I have a good re...
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    2 years ago
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    Informal Exercise #2 - Ah, here we go again. Another visual prompt- If you're going to take this challenge up, we would prefer that you write a story, but a poem is semi-acc...
    10 months ago
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    indescribable unparalleled magic - NYFF geek? That could be me. And I love their trailer: Just like AJM, it gives me chills.
    3 years ago
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    1 year ago
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    6 months ago
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    1 day ago
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    2 years ago
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  • MINDJACKER: A Crime Thriller
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    9 hours ago
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    Reading Choices - Since discovering Richard Parks' blog, I've become a regular reader. He writes about short stories and the problems that plague the writers who love and wo...
    1 day ago
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    1 day ago
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    Holy Bat-Shitz-Crazy-Man.... it that a snake in your pocket... or.... - *ARE YOU JUST HAPPY TO SEE ME.* Wow... a funny thing happened.... see, I was just sitting around, minding my own business, which, if you gotta know, doesn't...
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My Influences

  • *The* list of almost the entire Dashiell Hammett library
  • The Continental Op Page. It's a damn shame that the Thin Man and Sam Spade are more famous
  • Raymond Chandler is the master of prose
  • Elmore Leonard is the greatest crime author this side of Hammett
  • Walter Mosley is the 21st Century Chandler, if you will
  • Michael Connelly, the Lord of the Police Procedural
  • The Goddess of Neo-Noir, Megan Abbott
  • The Incomparable Laura Lippman
  • Robert Crais, the creator of Elvis Cole
  • Duane Swierczynski, a screenwriter trapped inside a crime author's body
  • Pearce Hansen is an outstanding crime fiction writer that brings both the pain and the vérité

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