Your Guide To What's Happening This Week at WildBlue Press April 26, 2015 THIS WEEK'S CONTENT WildBlue Press signs new author John Robinson NO STONE UNTURNED release this week Featured Blog Posts by Caitlin Rother and Steve Jackson Ron Franscell speaks to a writing project that hit close to home Author Spotlight: Steve Jackson about NO STONE UNTURNED release Bradley Nickell on Darkness Radio KENTUCKY BLOODBATH … [Read more...]
Ron Franscell: Should crime writers profit from somebody else’s tragedy?
Every crime writer has heard this little heckling voice, usually from the cheap seats, but sometimes from inside his own head. It isn’t always loud, but it’s often piercing. My 2008 true crime, The Darkest Night, recently enjoyed a revival on bestseller lists when its long-awaited digital edition was released a couple weeks ago. It's an intimate story of a monstrous crime against two of my childhood friends in the small town where we grew up … [Read more...]
Ron Franscell: Is true crime’s death exaggerated?
A few years ago, author Joe McGinniss, whose Fatal Vision is among a handful of acknowledged classics in true crime, pronounced the genre deader than Marley: “The last three books I’ve written have been about soccer, which nobody in America cares about; horse racing, which nobody in America cares about; and true crime, a genre that expired sometime last century . . .” If the genre is dead, it died fairly young. It hasn’t even been 50 years … [Read more...]
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