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Featured Author
Leo W. Banks
Leo W. Banks graduated from Boston College and earned a masters degree from the University of Arizona, where he later taught writing. He has written four books of Old West history for Arizona Highways publishing and co-wrote a book about the Grand Canyon. Today, Banks writes a column for True West magazine. Double Wide is his first novel.
Latest Additions
The Preacher - Audiobook Edition By Ted Thackrey
The audiobook edition of Ted Thackrey's Edgar-nominated thriller. Read by Shawn Compton.
Touchfeather - Coming in 2018 By Jimmy Sangster
The wild, swinging '60s espionage thriller is back! Katy Touchfeather is an airline stewardess who's actually a deadly British spy, tracking a scientist suspected of selling secrets to the Russians.
Double Wide - Coming in November By Leo W. Banks
Disgraced former baseball phenom Prospero Stark turns detective when someone leaves his former catcher's severed hand on the doorstep of his Airstream trailer.
Texas Vigilante - Audiobook By Bill Crider
The audiobook edition of Bill Crider's novel, read by John Burlinson
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From The Blog
Leo Banks: The Story Behind DOUBLE WIDE
Brash Books will publish my first novel, Double Wide, on Nov 1. I wrote the first version of it in the 1980s. What are we looking at here, more than three decades? Sounds about right…
Max Allan Collins: Support Your Local Bookseller…And Amazon, Too.
When I see a book in Barnes & Noble, or any bookstore, I didn’t know existed, that is where I buy it. I don’t look it up on Amazon to see how much cheaper it is. And when I do buy a book (or any media-type item) from Amazon, I buy it from them, not a secondary seller – I want the author and the publisher to benefit, so that more books can happen.
Max Allan Collins: A Cancellation and a Nomination
HBO/Cinemax has officially cancelled the Quarry series, but this comes as no surprise. A shake-up at the network, as well as a conflict between the star (who is committed to another series pilot) and the director of all eight episodes, spelled it out long ago.
Andy Straka: On Cancer, Vulnerability and Action Heroes
the best heroes display genuine humanity and vulnerability. Moreover, the best protagonists don’t shy away from their vulnerability but embrace it. They understand their vulnerability isn’t their weakness–it is the source of their strength.
Max Allan Collins: The Grandmaster Speaketh
(In my Edgar speech) I did manage to talk about the three key mentors of my early professional career – two of whom were MWA Grand Masters themselves, Donald E. Westlake and Mickey Spillane. I mentioned that Don had given his blessing when Bait Money sold, and generated sequels, even though they were outrageously imitative of his work. And I shared some writing advice Mickey gave me – “Take your wallet out of your back pocket before you sit down to write.” To which I said to Mickey, “Mick, I’m pretty sure your wallet is fatter than mine.”
Patrick E. McLean: The Lure of the Heist
Faulkner said that all great stories are about the same thing, “The human heart in conflict with itself.” Crime novels (and especially heist stories) have this baked in. At the most basic level, stealing or not stealing something is a conflict between fear and greed. And even if you get away with it, the conflict can easily become a person at war with their own conscience.
Max Allan Collins: Traveling the Long, Winding road to PURGATORY
With the “Road to Perdition” movie in production, and having written the novelization (even if it was published in a truncated form…until just lately), I thought writing prose sequels, as opposed to graphic novel ones, made the most sense.
Max Allan Collins: The Long Road to the ROAD TO PERDITION
Perhaps you’ve read the graphic novel and don’t see the point in revisiting this story, particularly if you’ve seen the movie. Or maybe you read the previously published version and figure that, even though it’s 30,000 words shorter, you’ve already experienced this story in prose. The new Road to Perdition novel (and it’s “new” despite having been written in 2001) is not just 30,000 words longer – it’s a different novel entirely. To explain, I have to revisit the painful experience of writing it…
