Pardon the shameless self-promotion, but be sure to pick up
this week's ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY! Not only because it's a
special Bond issue (McKenna and I saw CASINO ROYALE last
night, and it's quite possibly the best Bond ever), but
because Houston's Murder By The Book (www.murderbooks.com)
was asked to provide its best-seller list for the week of
Oct. 29-Nov. 4, to run in place of the usual Publishers
Weekly list. Ken Bruen, Will Beall, and Don Winslow made the
hardback top ten, and Sean Doolittle & Hard Case Crime's
John Lange made the paperback list. The #1 paperback (here's
where the self-promotion comes in) was THE MAN WHO DIED
LAUGHING / THE MAN WHO LIVED BY NIGHT (trade paperback, $18),
the omnibus reprint of the first two books in David Handler's
Edgar Award-winning Stewart Hoag series. And #8 was DAMN NEAR
DEAD: AN ANTHOLOGY OF GEEZER NOIR
(edited by Duane Swierczynski, intro by James Crumley, trade
paperback original, $18), which features original stories by
John Harvey, Ken Bruen, Mark Billingham, Charles Ardai, Megan
Abbott, Laura Lippman, and many, many more. (Mystery
Bookstore (Los Angeles)'s Scott Montgomery even listed DAMN
NEAR DEAD among his Top Ten of 2006: "In a year of great
anthologies this one with theme of hard boiled seniors was
the best.")
Have a Happy Thanksgiving!!
David www.bustedflushpress.com www.damnneardead.com
www.murderbooks.com
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