Posts Tagged: Bill Crider

Jim Sanderson on Bill Crider

Written by

Bill Crider Author

In an interview with Bill Crider at his Alvin, Texas home, Brash Books co-publisher Lee Goldberg  jokingly said that he arrived in his press’s small plane, Bill Crider then discussed his two cross-genre mystery/westerns published with Brash as well as an unpublished novel and abandoned sequels. At the conclusion of the promotional piece, Crider says, “Now get that corporate jet off my driveway.” Such was the gentle, good-natured humor of Bill Crider, who passed from cancer at his home in Alvin on February 12, 2018. When Too Late to Die (Crider’s first Dan Rhodes Mystery) won the 1987 Anthony Award for Best First Novel. Crider was off and writing. Crider wrote the... more

Read More of Jim Sanderson on Bill Crider

Brash News & $2.99 Supersale

Written by

We're pleased to announce that we'll be republishing Geoffrey Miller's Edgar-award nominated THE BLACK GLOVE... which the Houston Post hailed as equally the best of Hammett and Chandler. Hardboiled detective lovers have been looking for this rare books for years... but now you'll be able to find it in ebook and paperback editions from Brash in May. And don't forget to enter our contest for a free Kindle Voyage loaded with ALL of our Brash Books. All you have to do is review any Brash crime novel on Amazon, your blog, Facebook or Google+ page and send us the link at brashbooks@gmail.com. Winners will be announced Dec. 15th. For a limited time, we're offering the first four of... more

Read More of Brash News & $2.99 Supersale

The Laborers of Work-for-Hire Crime Fiction Writing

Written by

There are scores of professional writers out there who sell huge numbers of crime novels, tie-ins and westerns, and yet are virtually unknown...because they toil as work-for-hire authors. One of those writers is Robert Vaughan, who has sold 40 million books, mostly westerns. He was interviewed about his under-the-radar career recently and he's pretty frank about his lack of celebrity. I have written well over 400 books. If I had written every one of those books under my own name, Robert Vaughan would be a name that is immediately recognized. I would have established something of value that my survivors could capitalize on after I die…In my life time, I have probably sold 40 million... more

Read More of The Laborers of Work-for-Hire Crime Fiction Writing

The Story Behind “Outrage at Blanco”

Written by

Bill Crider reveals the story behind his novels Outrage at Blanco and Texas Vigilante Outrage at Blanco has an interesting history.  What I set out to do was to write a western novel like the kind I admired so much by people like Harry Whittington, Donald Hamilton, Clifton Adams, Marvin H. Albert, and many others who wrote what were essentially crime novels with a western setting.  The books were fast-paced fiction, lean and tough. I loved reading them, and I wanted to write something similar. When I began the book, I didn’t know that Ellie Taine was the main character.  What I had in mind was something else entirely.  By the end of the first chapter, however, Ellie had... more

Read More of The Story Behind “Outrage at Blanco”

The Owl Packs a Punch

Written by

Justice Never Sleeps by author Bob Forward

The premise is right there on the cover: "Justice Never Sleeps." The Owl is a man who can't fall asleep. Sounds a bit like the the idea Lawrence Block used in his series about Evan Tanner, but the execution is entirely different in this series of thriller books. While Block's books are breezy and funny, The Owl is deadly serious but great fun. It's also very much in the style of pulp novels about The Spider and The Shadow. The Owl "wanders the streets stalking his prey, hangs out in all-night diners, and never stays in one place long enough to cast a shadow." What the Owl does is get revenge for the people who pay for it. Two years of their salary, whatever that might be, is what he... more

Read More of The Owl Packs a Punch