Posts Tagged ‘Frank Bill’

Reader survey: best books of 2011

Best books - readers

So let me be up front from the start – the reason for this survey was to pick up some reading ideas. Not that I lack for things to read; far from it. But I want to make sure I’m seeing the things that others deem to be the best. In future years, perhaps I’ll [...]

Best books of 2011

best books

Let me start by saying that this is a very subjective list. In the interest of full disclosure, in addition to all of the short fiction I read online and in journals and magazines (and as Grift submissions), I read about 85 books this year. That means there were tens of thousands that I didn’t [...]

Book review: Crime Factory: The First Shift

You could call it lazy, but I choose to call it savoring. When I came back from this year’s Bouchercon with a bag full of books, I sorted them into piles: To Be Read Right Now, To Be Read Soon, To Be Read Sometime. Crime Factory: The First Shift (New Pulp Press, 269 p., $14.95) was [...]