RE: RARA-AVIS: Akashic Noirs

From: Ron Clinton (clinton65@comcast.net)
Date: 05 Mar 2009

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    Hey, Brian, I'm looking forward to the mass signing at Seattle Mystery Bookshop on May 23rd. See you then.

    Ron C.

    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com [mailto:rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com] On
    > Behalf Of Brian Thornton
    > Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 11:45 AM
    > To: rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
    > Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Akashic Noirs
    >
    > Full disclosure: I have a story forthcoming in Akashic's May publication
    > SEATTLE NOIR. It's entitled "Paper Son," is historical (1889 Seattle,
    > Chinatown, to be exact), and has at least as dark an ending as my last
    piece
    > in AHMM ("Suicide Blonde").
    >
    > That aside, I think that it pretty much depends on the individual editors
    > contracted to work on each of these individual collections: some (as seems
    > to have been the case with TORONTO NOIR) actively sought contributions
    from
    > writers outside of both the genre and the sub-genre. With others it seems
    > to be pretty much a mix.
    >
    > Your Mileage May Vary-
    >
    > Brian
    >
    > On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 9:23 PM, David Wright <dwright333@yahoo.com> wrote:
    >
    > > I wonder if members want to do some general opining on the overall
    > > qualities, quality or not of the Akashic noir series. Anyone read a
    whole
    > > lot of them? I've enjoyed some, but I'd love to hear what folks on this
    list
    > > observe about the overall series. How're they doing, do you think?
    > >
    > > David Wright
    > > http://shelftalk.spl.org "Que Scay-Je?"
    > >
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    > >
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