Crime Factory issue 10 is out and other updates
A quick heads up that issue ten of Crime Factory is now live on the site and definitely worth checking out. The Crime Factory team have amassed a pretty amazing line-up of talent for this issue. Dave...
View ArticleLaunch of Crime Factory’s Hard Labour anthology and other crime writing news
There’s a hell of a lot going on crime writing wise for me at the moment. In addition to the launch of my debut novel, Ghost Money, I have several pieces of short fiction coming out. Things are also...
View ArticleUnveiling the cover of Crime Factory’s Hard Labour anthology
Here it is people, the cover of Crime Factory’s all-Australian anthology, Hard Labour, edited by Cameron Ashley, Liam Jose and myself. It’s by the same artist who did the cover art work for the...
View ArticleLEE, an anthology of fiction inspired by Lee Marvin
I am a HUGE Lee Marvin fan. Survivor of the carnage of World War Two, drinker, larger than life character, enduring icon of masculine cinema, the star of some of my favourite films, including The Big...
View ArticleOrders open for LEE, a fiction anthology inspired by Lee Marvin
A heads up that you can now order LEE, Crime Factory’s anthology inspired by iconic American actor Lee Marvin, from our the site. There’s been a bit of buzz around the traps about LEE and at the risk...
View ArticleLEE, an anthology inspired by Lee Marvin, now available as e-book
Just a quick heads up to let you all know that Crime Factory Publication’s latest publication, LEE, an anthology of short fiction inspired by iconic US actor Lee Marvin is now available as an e-book...
View ArticleCrime Factory issue 13 is out
A heads up that issue 13 of Crime Factory is out (with cover design by the one and only Eric Beetner, who also did the cover for my novel, Ghost Money) In this issue I talk to Dwayne Epstein, author...
View ArticleThe death of a bookshop: a tribute to Melbourne’s Kill City Books
I love poking around in second-hand bookshops. The more disorganised and dishevelled, the better. I can’t remember the last time I found one with a curtained off section where they stashed the adult...
View ArticleCrime Factory issue 14 is live, submissions open for Pink Factory
Issue 14 of Crime Factory Publications’ award-winning noir journal, Crime Factory, is live. Nerd of Noir, Peter Dragovich, talks Andrew Dominik’s Killing Them Softly and The Assassination of Jesse...
View ArticleCrime Factory issue 15 is live
Issue 15 of the award winning magazine Crime Factory is hot off the digital press and ready for you to feast your eyeballs on. As usual, the magazine is full of great content, including my interview...
View ArticleCrime Factory Publications launches new novella, Freight
A quick heads up that Crime Factory Publications, Melbourne’s only dedicated crime fiction publisher, will launch its latest ‘Single Shot’ novella, Freight, by Ed Kurtz, at Loop Bar, 23 Meyers Place,...
View ArticleToshiro Mifune, Lee Marvin & Hell In the Pacific
If he was still alive, Legendary Japanese actor Toshiro Mifune would have been 95 years old this week. He was born on April 1, 1920. I was idly looking on the Internet for images of the imposing...
View ArticleShilling some new publications
Every now and again one has to do a post that is essentially just one big shill. Well, this is one of those posts. I have been meaning to update you for a while now about current and upcoming...
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