Hello all,
I am one of the newcomers to the list. My name is Susan Evans
Shaw and I am a reader of noir and hard-boiled but not a
writer of either form. My thing is non-fiction with a
particular interest in matters historical. I trust that won't
get me thrown off the list before I start.
Where's the joy in trashing Dorothy Sayers and cosies? They
may not be to everyone's taste, but they have a right to
existence. How many of you hardboilers cut your writerly
teeth on Agatha Christie? As for Sayers, her style is
definitely dated, but they are well-written and researched
and more digestable than modern efforts by Martha Grimes and
Elizabeth George. What does Russell James have to say about
Sayers and cosies?
Yours argumentively,
Susan
----- Original Message -----
From: Charlie Williams
To: rara-avis
Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2004 4:57 AM
Subject: RARA-AVIS: Re: Introduction
E.Borgers wrote:
>>As for Charlie Williams' question about
UK
magazines, I personally was reading the
quarterly
Crime Time<<
I forgot about that one (and I subscribe to it
too -
duh). Yeah, it's thinned out a fair bit of late.
I
think one reason for that is that they no longer
do
short fiction or extracts. Still good features
and
interviews though, including (in the current
issue) a
great trashing of Dorothy L Sayers and cosies
in
general by Russell James.
Other than that, Jim D mentions Bullets. I don't
know
much about that one and I might check it out.
(PS:
yes, I am a writer seeking markets, though right
now
I'm more concerned about writing my third novel
for
Serpent's Tail than short stories. I haven't
written a
short in three years, but I mean to have a crack
when
this novel is done.) It's still got to be said
that
there is a very poor short crime fiction scene at
the
moment. I got some horror stories published a
few
years ago and there seemed to be no end of
markets for
them. (Mostly at the small end of small
press.)
Actually, I think I read in an interview with
James
Lee Burke that he has trouble placing his
short
fiction too. That's ok then!
PS: Hi to new rara recruits, and Jim Winter
in
particular who I know from Sarah's blog.
Charlie Williams.
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