Links

Blogs and websites I visit every goddamn day when I should be writing:


The Killer Year site, run by a crew of crime and thriller authors whose first novels came out in 2007, is no longer active, but can still be read at:

http://www.killeryear.com/

Crimespot, your one-stop shopping spot for the criminal, the writerly and the bloggerific:

http://www.crimespot.net/

Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind is the blog of Sarah Weinman, doyenne of all things mysterieux and criminelle:

http://www.sarahweinman.com/

Crime Fiction Dossier is the blog of book reviewer David J.Montgomery:

http://www.crimefictionblog.com/

The International Thriller Writers is an organization of, well, international thriller writers. I'm a member.

http://www.thrillerwriters.org/index.php

When I was in high school we used to sneak into the local drive-in, but never one like this:

http://www.joerlansdale.com/

Joe Lansdale is a terrific crime and horror writer. If you haven't already read him, start now.

Cool Crime Writers

Brett Battles, author of The Cleaner: www.brettbattles.com

Robert Gregory Browne, Kiss Her Goodbye, : www.robertgregorybrown.com

Rob also blogs at Murderati, quickly becoming a home away from home for former Killer Year writers: www.murderati.typepad.com

Bill Cameron, Lost Dog: www.billcameronmysteries.com

Toni McGee Causey, Bobby Faye's Very, Very, Very, Very Bad Day: www.tonimcgeecausey.com
Toni blogs at Murderati too: www.murderati.typepad.com

Sean Chercover, Bad Blood, Big City: www.chercover.com
Sean blogs over at the Chicago crimewriter blog The Outfit:
www.theoutfitcollective.blogspot.com

JT Ellison, All the Pretty Girls: www.jtellison.com
The mighty JT also blogs regularly at Murderati: www.murderati.typepad.com

Patry Francis, Liar's Diary
www.patryfrancis.com

And don't miss Patry's wonderful blog, Simply Wait: www.simplywait.blogspot.com

Ed Mitchell, thriller writer: http://www.booksbymitchell.com/

Derek Nikitas"s Edgar Award-nominated Pyres: www.dereknikitas.com

Read Derek's brand new blog: www.dereknikitas.blogspot.com

Gregg Olsen, A Wicked Snow: www.greggolsen.com

Greg is one half of a powerful true crime blogsite: www.crimerant.com

Jason Pinter, author of, so far, The Mark and The Guilty: www.jasonpinter.com

One of the founding foursome of Killer Year, Jason's own much visited blog, Man in Black, can be found at: www.jasonpinter.blogspot.com

Marcus Sakey, The Blade Itself, The City's Edge: www.marcussakey.com

The bold Marcus also blogs at the Outfit: www.theoutfitcollective.blogspot.com

Dave White lives in New Jersey, teaches, roots for Rutgers, and is schooling PI novelists in how it should be done. His books so far: When One Man Dies and The Evil Men Do.

He blogs at Dave White's Writer's Block: http://jacksondonne.blogspot.com/

(More links to come as I search desparately for new forms of writing avoidance behavior.)