Thursday, October 18, 2007

Ted Likes the Book. Why don't you?

Ted Fitzgerald, reviewer for Deadly Pleasures, tells me he likes The Concrete Maze. He liked that I was able "to make credible this story of ordinary citizens going up against professional criminals and that the story didn't end in a cinematic bloodbath".

Now, the book is hardboiled, so there is some blood. Just not a blood bath. That's important. I write action sequences well, so tossing in a bloodbath is a strategy I have sometimes relied on. Not necessarily a bad thing. The first Precinct Puerto Rico novel has a blood bath. Two, in fact. Still a good book. Those scenes fit that book. The Concrete Maze is a bit more nuanced.

Anyway, if you want to see for yourself, I've got a few copies I can give away here. Let me know and I'll send you one while supplies last.

3 Comments:

Blogger DrJeff said...

I'm savvy if you're giving away copies. I'm trying to get my feet wet as a comic book writer as well as a novelist in either the crime realm or the fantasy-crime realm (I'm thinking hard-boiled meets dragons and sorcery hasn't been done before) and I'm always looking for different voices to read.

Shoot me an e-mail over at Valion24@yahoo.com and I'll send you my address.

October 19, 2007 9:22 AM  
Blogger DrJeff said...

Oh, AND I also live in Connecticut.

October 19, 2007 9:23 AM  
Blogger Mystery Dawg said...

I want one.......

October 20, 2007 7:05 PM  

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