Now Available: LOST CHILDREN: PROTECTORS

I'm pleased to have contributed an original poem, "Hushed", to a new anthology edited by Thomas Pluck, thirty-nine stories and two poems benefiting child protection lobby PROTECT, available in ebook and trade paperback.

Other Protectors contributors you may recognize from The 5-2 or The Lineup: Patricia Abbott, Nigel Bird, Ken Bruen, Keith Rawson, Steve Weddle.

John Kenyon asks, "How could Ken Bruen not be in The Lineup?"

A rhetorical question, of course. Ken embodies writing poetically about crime like no other. He had a poem in the inaugural Lineup, and his return in Issue 4 with "Funeral: Of The Wino" inspired Kenyon's post, the twenty-first stop on the So Dark For April blog tour.

TOWER by Ken Bruen and Reed Coleman wins Macavity Award for Best Novel

Announced this past week at Bouchercon in San Francisco, Tower, co-written by Lineup alums Ken Bruen and Reed Coleman and published by David Thompson's Busted Flush Press, won the Macavity Award for Best Novel presented by Mystery Readers International.

CrimeWAV 41: TOWER by Ken Bruen and Reed Farrel Coleman

This week, Seth Harwood's CrimeWAV welcomes Reed Farrel Coleman (Lineup 2 and 3 contributor, Issue 4 co-editor) reading an early excerpt of Tower, a novel written with Ken Bruen (Lineup 1 contributor) and published by friend of The Lineup Busted Flush Press.

Listen to CrimeWAV #41: Tower by Ken Bruen and Reed Farrel Coleman.

TOWER by Ken Bruen and Reed Farrel Coleman

David Thompson, assistant manager of Houston's Murder By The Book (the first bookstore to sell The Lineup) and proprietor of Busted Flush Press sends word of Tower, an upcoming collaborative novel by Lineup Issue 1 contributor Ken Bruen and Issue 2 contributor Reed Farrel Coleman.

Lining up for THE MAX

Lineup contributors Ken Bruen and Daniel Hatadi will converge on The Mysterious Bookshop tomorrow (September 4, 6:30 PM) as Ken and Jason Starr sign their latest collaboration for Hard Case Crime, The Max, and Alison Gaylin signs her new novel, Heartless.

Ken Bruen

Ken Bruen has been a finalist for the Edgar®, Barry, and Macavity Awards, and has twice won the Private Eye Writers of America's Shamus Award for Best Novel, in 2003 for The Guards and in 2007 for The Dramatist. He lives in Galway, Ireland.