For all of you looking to waste a little more cybertime (like
this list isn't bad enough?) or a diversion from slitting
your wrists, the Holiday issue of THRILLING DETECTIVE WEB
SITE is finally up, at http://www.thrillingdetective.com.
We've got a couple of new short stories for you, full of the
kind of private eye action you've come to expect (or at least
tolerate) from us, from some of the finest purveyors of the
new pulp around.
Robert Tinsley has a brand new Jack Brady tale, "FOR
FELINA..." that comes to you straight out of the West Texas
town of El Paso, and it's one that Marty Robbins fans (who?)
should get a big kick out of.
Meanwhile, David Cox finally returns to these pages from
across the Big Pond with another hard-nosed yarn about
farking short-term security expert Malloy in the aptly titled
"NO HEROICS."
We've also got new entries on such eyes as Alex Rourke, The
Black Mask Boys, Ace Crawford, Jason Wilder, Lincoln Perry,
and television's Carole Stanwyck & Sydney Kovack, and
Gabriel Bird & Mitch O'Hannon.
pseudo doctors) and spray-on hair, THAT'S NOT ALL! We've also
got Jim Winter's review of the winner of the SMP/PWA Best
First P.I. Novel Contest, Michael Koryta's TONIGHT I SAID
GOODBYE.
And this being the end of the year and all, we also have the
return of the ever-popular, ever controversial 2004 CHEAP
THRILL AWARDS, affectionately known in some quarters as the
"Thrillies," where readers to this site can vote for their
favorites over the past year in P.I. fiction.
That's right -- we actually give a damn about what you Rare
Birds think about the last year's crop of books, stories,
movies, TV shows, comic books and just about everything else
in the P.I. world. And unlike some places, we don't care who
wins. Hang that chad if you want, and damn the paper trail --
Hell, we don't even count the votes!
So vote early and vote often.
And of course what would our year-end issue be without our
ANNUAL CHRISTMAS GIFT GUIDE, or our regular list of
Christmas-themed P.I. stories, the cleverly titled DOWN THESE
MEAN STREETS WITH BOUGHS OF HOLLY.
ATTENTION ALL YOU WOULD-BE CHANDLERS AND REC ROOM
SPILLANES:
IT'S OFFICIAL!!! WE'RE GONNA PAY! Just in case you missed
this, THE THRILLING DETECTIVE WEB SITE will become a paying
market for short fiction. Now don't get too excited -- since
we don't charge any admission (unlike some of those other
high-priced spreads) we can't afford to pay anything but a
nominal amount, but it's the thought that counts, right?
RIGHT????
And it should count as a real "professional" sale, since we
actually are picky and edit our stories.
Our writers deserve at least some token of our appreciation
and we do have to keep up with the Joneses. So we will be
financing this through a combination of ad revenue, donations
from readers and from our own pockets, in the hope we'll be
rewarded later -- if not in this life, then in the
next.
--
Kevin Burton Smith
The Thrilling Detective Web Site Holiday Issue New stories and the 2004 Thrillies. http://www.thrillingdetective.com
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