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.

Peter Linari reads "The Balance Lost" by Steve Weddle

The Lineup's third episode of CrimeWAV airs today.

Here's a behind-the-scenes video of actor Peter Linari reading "The Balance Lost" by Steve Weddle, recorded by Keith Snyder. Our thanks to Peter, Keith, and CrimeWAV host Seth Harwood:

Chris F. Holm interviews Lineup 4 Contributor Steve Weddle

Writer and scientist Chris F. Holm interviews Lineup #4 contributor Steve Weddle for the seventh stop on the So Dark For April blog tour.

Lineup Interview at Do Some Damage

Today on the crime fiction group blog Do Some Damage, Lineup 4 contributor Steve Weddle interviews me leading up to the April 1 release of The Lineup #4.

One of Steve's questions, "Is poetry harder to write than short fiction?", prompted me to write two brief instructional blog entries for those who primarily write prose. I'll repost them here tomorrow and Wednesday.

Sound Check

This morning I sent Seth Harwood the files for CrimeWAV's third episode of poems from The Lineup, including "The Balance Lost" by Steve Weddle, recorded by Keith Snyder and read by actor Peter Linari (pictured). The episode's exact airdate is to be determined, but meanwhile, you can hear our previous two CrimeWAV appearances.

A video of Mr. Linari reading "The Balance Lost" is coming soon as well. Thanks again to Keith, Peter, and Steve Weddle.

Steve Weddle

Steve Weddle holds an MFA in creative writing from Louisiana State University and works for a newspaper group in Virginia, where he lives with his family. In 2009, Weddle and six crime fiction writers created DoSomeDamage.com. In 2010, Weddle and John Hornor Jacobs created Needle: A Magazine of Noir. His website is steveweddle.com.

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.

From Steve Weddle

Former English professor, columnist, and current Do Some Damage blogger:

Gerald So and company have put together the next installment in THE LINEUP, a collection of crime poems. This go-round features Patricia Abbott, Reed Farrel Coleman, Anne Frasier and many others wrapping verse around a steel pipe. From police ride-alongs to damp basements, this one has you covered. Oh, and it’ll give you even more reasons to stay out of airport bathrooms. Or airports, at least.