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Brash News: All Kinds of Praise

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We have a bunch of hot new releases, scores of great reviews, and a lot of breaking news this month... so here we go. ALL KINDS OF PRAISE Our discovery and publication this month of Ralph Dennis' lost manuscript ALL KINDS OF UGLY is big news in the publishing industry, making headlines in this week's issue of Publishers Weekly, who reported that "the story behind the discovery of the manuscript by Brash copublisher Lee Goldberg could have been lifted from the pages of a detective novel...." You can read all about it here. The critics at Publishers Weekly also loved ALL KINDS OF UGLY, saying in their review that Ralph's "strong prose and well-paced storytelling place him alongside... more

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FIREBALL – Long Lost, Unpublished Jimmy Sangster Novel Found

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BIG NEWS! We've found a long-lost, never-before-published Jimmy Sangster novel! It's called Fireball...and here is the incredible story behind the major, literary discovery.   Jimmy Sangster, who died in 2011, was an acclaimed screenwriter (Curse of Frankenstein, Deadlier Than the Male, The Legacy,etc), director (Lust for a Vampire, Banacek, etc), TV writer (Wonder Woman, Cannon, Movin’ On, BJ and The Bear, The Magician, Kolchak: The Night Stalker, etc) and novelist (Touchfeather, Touchfeather Too, The Spy Killer and Foreign Exchange).   He was also the author of three James Reed crime novels... more

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BLACKBALL is Back!

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Here's Robert Randisi's full, 1987 review of Jimmy Sangster's hardboiled classic BLACKBALL, which Brash Books has just re-released in new ebook & trade paperback editions. Randisi is the founder of the Private Eye Writers of America.   Jimmy Sangster first made a name for himself in film and television. He wrote horror films for Hammer in England and then did a lot of episodic television in the United States, including scripts for S.W.A.T., Ironside, The Six Million Dollar Man, McCloud and Wonder Woman. His first novel, Private I (aka The Spy Killer), was published in 1967, and both it and its sequel, Foreign Exchange, were produced for TV with Robert Horton in the role of... more

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You Can’t Keep a Hardman Down

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We're excited to announce that we've acquired the rights to all of Ralph Dennis's work -- his published and unpublished novels. Brash Books will be re-releasing his 12 Hardman novels, starting with the first four in December, and the rest through 2019. The Hardman books include a terrific introduction by Joe R. Lansdale. The first two titles in the series, Atlantla Deathwatch  and The Charleston Knife is Back in Town are already available for preorder in paperback and ebook on Amazon, iBook, Barnes & Noble and Kobo. We'll also be re-releasing in 2019 a substantially revised version Ralph's WWII thriller MacTaggart's War, which we've retitled The War Heist. It was his... more

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Max Allan Collins: A Cancellation and a Nomination

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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. What’s most disappointing to me is that my script for season two will not be produced, and I was really happy with it. We had thought some other network might pick the show up, but that now seems unlikely. I am happy to have had a quality show that gave my Quarry books a higher profile. My hitman has now generated an award-winning short film, a festival-winning feature, and now a first-rate series, and my writing was a part of... more

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Max Allan Collins to the Max

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Max Allan Collins, the insanely prolific author of the November Brash release Road to Perdition: The New, Expanded Novel,  has so much going on in his brilliant literary, film and television careers, that it boggles the mind.  On the TV front alone, his Quarry novels are becoming a Cinemax series in September and Wild Dog, a comic book character he co-created, will be appearing in CW's Arrow. Here's a recent interview he did with author Ed Gorman about his writing career... Tell us about your current novel.  There are a couple of things that will become available soon. One is the complete version of the ROAD TO PERDITION novel. It was written in 2002 to accompany the release of... more

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