Hi All-- Uh, the 14th is on a Saturday, which makes Friday a
13th.
Metta, Ivan
Racerick75@aol.com wrote:
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> After almost two months of preparation, The Back
Alley webzine is ready to go live! The Back Alley is a new
quarterly online publication dedicated to the preservation
and promotion of the hardboiled and noir literary
genres.
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> For our initial issue, scheduled to go live on
Friday, July 14, 2007, we have a sterling lineup of authors.
Some are old favorites among short story aficionados, and
others may be new to you.
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> In the first issue we will present a story by Edgar
Award Winner G. Miki Hayden, entitled The Right Thing To
Do.
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> We'll also have a story by Derringer Award Winner
Stephen D. Rogers (Services Rendered).
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> Shamus and Anthony Awards nominee Jack Bludis
provided Available Light, a private eye tale about a divorce
peeper with a real problem.
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> John Lau, a Los Angeles screenwriter who penned a
television movie featuring Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer,
will provide a gritty street noir entitled Restless
2Nite.
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> Finally, we'll present Paper Walls/Glass Houses, the
very first story published under Eric Shane's byline. Shane
is the pseudonym for a three-time Shamus Award
nominee.
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> Our classic hardboiled story will be The False
Burton Combs, generally acknowledged as the very first
hardboiled private eye tale, first published in 1921 in Black
Mask. Written by Carroll John Daly, this story is chock full
of period vernacular and knuckles-and-know-how
action.
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> We plan, in future issues, to include
critical/biographic/historical analysis as a regular feature,
and we strongly encourage submissions.
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> Please drop by the site on Friday, July 14, 2007,
when The Back Alley webzine debuts, at
www.backalleywebzine.com !
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> We'll keep a candle in the window for
you!
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> Richard Helms,Editor
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> Barbadoes Hall Communications
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> a thrilling little publisher
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> The Back Alley Webzine
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