>> I'm writing this from memory so pardon me if I
get something
>> wrong. Anyway, Mario, besides the Nebel review I
just
>> mentioned in another post, has also done a great
review of
>> David Zeltserman's IN HIS SHADOW on Kevin's
thrillingdetective
>> site.
I'd like to thank Mario for reading and reviewing In His
Shadow. I also want to share a mostly unsolicited blurb that
I recently received from Jeff Gelb, coeditor of Warner Books
Flesh and Blood anthologies:
"In His Shadow is a wild ride on the darkest noir side of the
street. Zeltserman has updated Jim Thompson themes of
character and situation to forge a private eye novel where
everything that can go wrong, does...with highly
entertaining, if very grim results."
The yahoo group AllAboutMurder has a series where they post
the first three chapters of a book - one chapter per week.
They'd like to start posting the first three chapters of In
His Shadow starting next week and I told them okay. My goal
all along with this book is to move it to a traditional
publisher. If anyone has any ideas whether posting the first
three chapters on the web could interfere with that, could
you please contact me offline?
Thanks, Dave Zeltserman
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Mario's review was educational in another way for me. I never
knew that neo-noir started with Willeford's WOMAN CHASER.
I've got it on the shelf, but haven't read it. Pretty
impressive for such a skinny little book to start a new
genre.
WARNING: SLIGHT SPOILER FOR SOLOMON'S VINEYARD FOLLOWS
I had to laugh when I read the review, though. It's really
hard to read the genre without dredging up other writers, and
Mario recalls Chandler, Goodis (I think), and Jim Thompson
when he's doing the review. I had to laugh because I had just
finished Latimer's SOLOMON'S VINEYARD, and I found myself
saying, "Hmm... violent sex. Hey! James Cain. Whoa! Violent
sex after murder! More Cain! And wait a minute, the detective
is playing the crooked cop against the criminals... RED
HARVEST!" Hahaha. Gotta love it.
miker
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