The Winners Are...

Dan Vanderkooi and Steve Oerkfitz are the two winners of The Hunter Giveaway. Thanks to everyone who entered.

Lawrence Block Discusses Donald Westlake at the Mysterious Bookshop

Interview with Darwyn Cooke

Wednesday Paperback Cover

Violent men, cheap women and murder in a jungle of evil. Who can resist?

Vertical Covers and and Interview

J. Kingston Pierce over at Killer Covers has a great interview with Charles Ardai. Where does he find the time every week for KC? Seriously.

Giving Away Darwyn Cooke's The Hunter Part Deux

In our last episode, our hero, announced he was giving away two copies of Darwyn Cooke's adaptation of The Hunter. As part of the contest, he asked would-be entrants to answer a trivia question. Upon reflection, the question may have been too difficult (or blog readers too lazy), because exactly no one sent in an entry. I've done giveaways before, and always had entrants. So, lesson learned, we're going to try this again. I still have two copies of this graphic novel to give away, and I'm still going to ask a trivia question, but I'm going to make it much, much easier.

To enter for a chance to win The Hunter, send an email to IndieCrime-at-gmail-dotcom with Contest in the subject line. Include your address and the answer to this question:


Who is the man Parker comes to New York to kill in The Hunter?

Can I make it any easier than that? Yeah, probably, but I'm not going to. Next Sunday, I'm either announcing the winners or I'm just going to give the goddamn things to homeless people.

The Burnt Orange Heresy: Neil LaBute Edition

This news is certainly intriguing. LaBute's In the Company of Men, is a very good and very ugly film, and it gives me hope that he will be faithful to Willeford's unique vision. Of course, if he screws it up, I will never forgive him.

Wednesday Paperback Cover

Great, I'm immortal for sure.

Honest Scrap

Adventures in Nerdliness, a blog I'd never heard of before, has tagged me with the Honest Scrap Award or something. It's one of those things that comes with strings attached.

First, I've got to link back to the awarder (done).

Then I've got to pass it on to ten other bloggers. Here you go: J. Kingston Pierce at The Rap Sheet
Anthony Neil Smith at his goddamn blog
Curt Purcell at the Groovy Age of Horror
James Reasoner at Rough Edges
Victor Gischler at his Blogpocalypse

(Yeah. That's only five. Wanna fight? I do. So bring it on.)


Now, for what I assume is the interesting part. I tell you ten honest things about myself.
1. I own a television and DVD player that don't work. They haven't worked for over a year. I'm in no hurry to replace them.

2. I have Bud Light with lime in my refrigerator (talk about embarrassing.)
3. I drive a Geo Prizm with 160,000 miles on it.
4. I never went to the prom.
5. If I had it to do over again, I'd still skip the prom.
6. I recently had to tell the person I love most in the world that I can't see them anymore. (How's that for personal and honest you vultures?)
7. I don't actually own a copy of The Maltese Falcon. I used to. Don't know what happened to it.
8. I bought a new bookshelf last weekend. There are still books piled on the floor.
9. I love old adventure games, like Space Quest and Day of the Tentacle.
10. I still want to be Sam Spade.

Two Chances to Win Darwyn Cooke's Hunter Adapatation

I just dropped in my local book/comic shop, The Book Nook on N. Druid Hills Road, in Atlanta (or Decatur, depending on who you ask), and I was very pleased to see a robust Richard Stark display up front. Not only, did they have Darwyn Cooke's The Hunter graphic novel, they were in the process of stocking the U. of Chicago reprints as well. One of the guys who worked there told me the graphic novel was going into a second printing, which bodes well for Cooke's adaptation of The Man with the Getaway Face, seeing the light of day. I should have taken some pictures of the display, but my Google Phone camera is shit. I may go back and do that tomorrow, just to show you that I was right about the coming Stark resurgence. Anyway, I bought two of the last copies of Cooke's adpatation, and I'm giving them away this time next week because I'm feeling generous.

To enter, all you have to do is answer this question: In The Handle, who are the final members of the team that carry out the island robbery. Email the correct answer to IndieCrime-at-gmail-dot-com by next Friday. Those who get it correct are entered for a chance to win one of the two copies. I use a random number generator to pick actual winners.