Showing posts with label Patricia Abbott. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Patricia Abbott. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 4, 2016

Unloaded: Crime Writers Writing Without Guns ed. Eric Beetner

From co-creating The Lineup to founding The Five-Two, my goal has been not to glorify, but to bear stark witness to crime.

Published last month by Down & Out Books, Unloaded is a collection of twenty-five gun-less crime stories with proceeds benefiting States United to Prevent Gun Violence. Among the contributors are Lineup and Five-Two alumni: Patricia Abbott, Reed Farrel Coleman, Kent Gowran, Thomas Pluck, and Keith Rawson.

And if you buy Unloaded from Houston's Murder By The Book, you'll also help the first bookshop to carry The Lineup recover from recent flooding.

Sunday, April 21, 2013

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

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.

Thursday, April 26, 2012

30 Days of The 5-2 - Day 26: Sea Minor

As you may know, The 5-2: Crime Poetry Weekly has its roots in The Lineup: Poems on Crime. Author, blogger, and poet Nigel Bird discusses Patricia Abbott's "Articulating Space" from The Lineup #3, which was released for Kindle and Nook April 1.

See the full 30 Days of The 5-2 schedule.

Friday, October 22, 2010

DISCOUNT NOIR On Sale Now

Just out from eBook publisher Untreed Reads is an anthology of forty-two stories of murder, mayhem, and more set around superstore chain Megamart. Includes work by Lineup contributors Patricia Abbott, Anne Frasier, Keith Rawson, Stephen D. Rogers, Sandra Seamans, and Gerald So.

If you thought standing in line at your local warehouse store was murder, then you haven't been to Megamart. These flash fiction tales of superstore madness and mayhem will make you think twice the next time you hear, "Clean up on Aisle 13."

This anthology contains works by: Patricia Abbott, Sophie Littlefield, Kieran Shea, Chad Eagleton, Ed Gorman, Cormac Brown, Fleur Bradley, Alan Griffiths, Laura Benedict, Garnett Elliot, Eric Beetner, Jack Bates, Bill Crider, Loren Eaton, John DuMond, John McFetridge, Toni McGee Causey, Jeff Vande Zande, James Reasoner, Kyle Minor, Randy Rohn, Todd Mason, Bryon Quertermous, Sandra Scoppettone, Stephen D. Rogers, Steve Weddle, Evan Lewis, Daniel B. O'Shea, Sandra Seamans, Albert Tucher, Donna Moore, John Weagly, Keith Rawson, Gerald So, Dave Zeltserman, Dorte Hummelshoj Jakobsen, Jay Stringer, Anne Frasier, Kathleen A. Ryan, Eric Peterson, Chris Grabenstein and J.T. Ellison.

$5.99 from The Untreed Reads Store.

Saturday, April 3, 2010

Caught on Camera: Patricia Abbott's Writing Group


Lineup 3 contributor Patricia Abbott sent in this photo of members of her writing group.

Lineup contributors and fans, if you have photos of yourselves reading any issue of The Lineup, wearing or using any item from The Lineup Gift Shop, e-mail them to g_so AT yahoo DOT com and they could be featured here on the blog.

Friday, March 19, 2010

From Owen Hill

Poet, bookseller, and author of the Clay Blackburn P.I. series:

Crime writers and poets have a deep understanding of what Lorien Niedecker called the condensery. They know how to burn through the fat and get to the heart (and guts) of things, cooking down until only the real, strong stuff remains. Writers who work in both genres are especially adept at this condensing process. We see the results in this issue of The Lineup—an almost painful clarity, and an uncanny understanding of darkness and light, "fragile fiber sailboats on a chintz black sea".*

*From "Articulating Space" by Patricia Abbott, p. 36 of The Lineup #3.

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Patricia Abbott

Patricia Abbott is the Derringer Award-winning author of more than 60 short stories and the poetry chapbook "Next to the Serengeti Ballroom." She lives and works in Detroit. Her newest story will appear in Damn Near Dead 2 from Busted Flush Press.