JOE CLIFFORD is acquisitions editor for Gutter Books, managing editor of The Flash Fiction Offensive, and producer of Lip Service West, a “gritty, real, raw” reading series in Oakland, CA. He is the author of several books, including Junkie Love and Lamentation, as well as editor of Trouble in the Heartland: Crime Stories Based on the Songs of Bruce Springsteen. His latest novel, December Boys, the second in the Lamentation series, is slated for release (Oceanview Publishing) June 2016. Joe’s writing can be found at http://www.joeclifford.com/.
Called a hard-boiled poet by NPR and the noir poet laureate in the Huffington Post, REED FARREL COLEMAN is the NY Times Bestselling author of Robert B. Parker’s Jesse Stone novels. He is a three-time recipient of the Shamus Award and a three-time Edgar Award nominee in three different categories. He has also won the Audie, Macavity, Barry, and Anthony awards. Brooklyn born and bred, Reed now resides on Long Island with his wife. http://reedcoleman.squarespace.com/
ALEC CIZAK is a writer from Indianapolis.
ANGEL LUIS COLÓN is the author of the novella, The Fury of Blacky Jaguar. His Derringer nominated fiction has appeared in multiple web and print journals and he’s written for sites like My Bookish Ways, The Life Sentence, and The LA Review of Books. He’s also an editor for Shotgun Honey, home of some of the best hard-boiled flash fiction on the web. https://angelluiscolon.com/.
HILARY DAVIDSON has won the Anthony Award, the Derringer Award, the Crimespree Award and two Ellery Queen Reader’s Choice Awards. Toronto-born and New York-based, Hilary uses her background as a travel journalist in her Lily Moore mystery series, setting stories in places such as Peru and Mexico. Her latest is the hardboiled Blood Always Tells, her first non-series novel. You can find out more at hilarydavidson.com.
PAUL J. GARTH has had flash fiction published at Shotgun Honey in addition to other place. He had a story included in Trouble in the Heartland edited by Joe Clifford. Perpetually in transit between Nebraska and Texas, he can be found online at @pauljgarth.
Twice nominated for the Edgar and Anthony awards, ALISON GAYLIN is the USA Today bestselling author of nine books, including the Shamus award-winning Brenna Spector suspense series. WHAT REMAINS OF ME, a standalone, is out now from William Morrow. http://www.alisongaylin.com/.
KENT GOWRAN lives and works in Chicago. His stories have appeared in Needle: A Magazine of Noir Fiction, Plots With Guns, Horror Garage, Beat to a Pulp, and other wild venues. In 2011, he created the crime fiction webzine Shotgun Honey. http://kentgowran.tumblr.com/
ROB HART is the author of New Yorked, City of Rose, and the upcoming South Village. His short stories have appeared in publications like Needle, Thuglit, Joyland, and Helix Literary Magazine. He’s received both a Derringer Award nomination and honorable mention in Best American Mystery Stories 2015. Non-fiction has been published at Salon, The Daily Beast, Nailed, and Birth.Movies.Death. You can find his website at https://robwhart.com/.
JEFFERY HESS is the author of the novel, Beachhead, and the editor of the award-winning anthologies Home of the Brave: Stories in Uniform and Home of the Brave: Somewhere in the Sand. He served six years aboard the Navy’s oldest and newest ships and has held writing positions at a daily newspaper, a Fortune 500 company, and a university-based research center. He holds an MFA in creative writing from Queens University of Charlotte and his writing has appeared widely in print and online. He lives in Florida, where he leads the DD-214 Writers’ Workshop for military veterans.
GRANT JERKINS is the award-winning author of five novels, including A Very Simple Crime, At the End of the Road, and The Ninth Step. His new novel, Abnormal Man (originally rejected as “pretty distasteful” by his longtime publisher), is now available. He lives with his wife and son in the Atlanta area.
JOE R. LANSDALE is the author of more than three dozen novels, including The Thicket, Edge Of Dark Water, The Bottoms and Cold In July which was adapted into a feature film. He writes the popular Hap & Leonard series, now a series on Sundance TV. He has received the British Fantasy Award, the American Mystery award, the Edgar, the Grinzane Cavour Prize for Literature, and eight Bram Stoker Awards. He lives with his family in Nacogdoches, Texas. http://www.joerlansdale.com/
S.W. LAUDEN’S debut novel, Bad Citizen Corporation (Greg Salem, Book 1), was published by Rare Bird Books in October 2015. Grizzly Season (Greg Salem, Book 2) will be published in September 2016. His standalone novella, Crosswise, was published by Down & Out Books in February 2016.
TIM O’MARA is the Barry-nominated (which means he didn’t win) author of the Raymond Donne mystery series—Sacrifice Fly, Crooked Numbers, Dead Red—featuring ex-cop turned Brooklyn public school teacher, Raymond Donne. His next in the Raymond series, Nasty Cutter, is scheduled to be published by Severn House this fall in England and this winter in the U.S. Tim is currently a NYC public school teacher, and lives with his wife and daughter in Manhattan’s Hell’s Kitchen. For more info, go to Tim’s website, www.timomara.net.
JOYCE CAROL OATES is the author of more than 70 books, including novels, short story collections, poetry volumes, plays, essays, and criticism, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys and Blonde. Among her many honors are the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction and the National Book Award. Oates is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University, and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.
TOM PITTS received his education firsthand on the streets of San Francisco. He remains there, writing, working, and trying to survive. His shorts have been published in the usual spots by the usual suspects. His publications include Hustle, Piggyback, and Knuckleball. Tom is also co-editor at Out of the Gutter. Find out more at www.TomPittsAuthor.com.
THOMAS PLUCK is the author of Blade of Dishonor, which Mystery People called “The Raiders of the Lost Ark of pulp paperbacks.” He has slung hash, worked the docks, and even cleaned the crappers of the Guggenheim (unfortunately, not as part of a clever heist). Hailing from Nutley, New Jersey, home to Martha Stewart and Richard Blake, he has so far evaded arrest. He shares his hideout with his sassy Louisiana wife and their two insane felines. You can find him online at www.thomaspluck.com and on twitter as @thomaspluck.
KEITH RAWSON is a little-known pulp writer whose short fiction, poetry, essays, reviews, and interviews have been widely published both online and in print. He is the author of the short story collection The Chaos We Know (SnubNose Press) and co-editor of the anthology Crime Factory: The First Shift. He lives in Southern Arizona with his wife and daughter.
RYAN SAYLES has over two dozen short stories in print, anthologies and online, including the Anthony-nominated collection Trouble in the Heartland: stories inspired by the music of Bruce Springsteen. He is the author of Subtle Art of Brutality, Warpath, Goldfinches and That Escalated Quickly! He is a founding member of Zelmer Pulp. He was in the military and is currently a police officer. He’s online at https://vitriolandbarbies.wordpress.com/.
KELLI STANLEY is the Macavity Award-winning creator of the Miranda Corbie series (City of Dragons, City of Secrets, City of Ghosts), literary noir novels set in 1940 San Francisco and featuring “one of crime’s most arresting heroines” (Library Journal). She is also a Bruce Alexander Award and Golden Nugget Award winner, and a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist. Kelli was named a literary heir of Dashiell Hammett by his granddaughter in a Publisher’s Weekly article, and critics have compared her work to her icon Raymond Chandler. She was awarded a Certificate of Merit from the City and County of San Francisco for her contributions to literature. City of Sharks is her next novel. https://kellistanley.com/
HOLLY WEST is the author of the Mistress of Fortune series, set in 17th century London and featuring Isabel Wilde, a mistress to King Charles II who secretly makes her living as a fortuneteller. Her debut, Mistress of Fortune, was nominated for the Left Coast Crime Rosebud Award for Best First Novel. Her short fiction has appeared in numerous ant
hologies, including The Big Book of Jack the Ripper, edited by Otto Penzler, coming in Fall 2016 from Vintage Books. She lives in Northern California with her husband, Mick, and dog, Stella. http://hollywest.com/
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THE DOWN & OUT BOOKS PUBLISHING FAMILY
LIBRARY OF TITLES
See DownAndOutBooks.com for a complete list
By J.L. Abramo
Catching Water in a Net
Clutching at Straws
Counting to Infinity
Gravesend
Chasing Charlie Chan
Circling the Runway
Brooklyn Justice
Coney Island Avenue
American History (*)
By Anonymous-9
Hard Bite
Bite Harder
By Jonathan Ashley
South of Cincinnati
The Cost of Doing Business
Out of Mercy
By E.A. Aymar and Sarah M. Chen, editors
The Night of the Flood
By Patrick Shaun Bagley
Bitter Water Blues
By Trey R. Barker
2,000 Miles to Open Road
Road Gig: A Novella
Exit Blood
Death is Not Forever
No Harder Prison
When the Lonesome Dog Barks
By Richard Barre
The Innocents
Bearing Secrets
Christmas Stories
The Ghosts of Morning
Blackheart Highway
Burning Moon
Echo Bay
Lost
By Gray Basnight
Flight of the Fox
By Jon Bassoff
Corrosion
The Disassembled Man
The Incurables
The Blade This Time
By Eric Beetner
Rumrunners
Leadfoot
The Devil Doesn’t Want Me
The Devil Comes To Call
The Devil at Your Door
By Eric Beetner (editor)
Unloaded Volume 1
Unloaded Volume 2
By Martin Bodenham
Shakedown
The Geneva Connection
Once a Killer
By Gordon Brown
Falling
Falling Too
By Rob Brunet
Stinking Rich
By Milton T. Burton
Texas Noir
By Dana Cameron, editor
Murder at the Beach: Bouchercon Anthology 2014
By Eric Campbell, editor
Down, Out and Dead
By Stacey Cochran
Eddie & Sunny (TP only)
By Mark Coggins
No Hard Feelings
By Angel Luis Colón
No Happy Endings
Meat City on Fire (and Other Assorted Debacles)
Pull & Pray
By Jen Conley
Cannibals and Other Stories
By Shawn Corridan and Gary Waid
Gitmo
By Matt Coyle, Mary Marks and Patricia Smiley, editors
LAst Resort
By Tom Crowley
Viper’s Tail
Murder in the Slaughterhouse
By Frank De Blase
Pine Box for a Pin-Up
Busted Valentines and Other Dark Delights
A Cougar’s Kiss
By Les Edgerton
The Genuine, Imitation, Plastic Kidnapping
Lagniappe
Just Like That
Monday’s Meal
By Nora Gaskin Esthimer, editor
Carolina Crimes: 21 Tales of Need, Greed and Dirty Deeds
By Max Everhart
Go Go Gato
Split to Splinters (*)
By A.C. Frieden
Tranquility Denied
The Serpent’s Game
The Pyongyang Option (*)
By Danny Gardner
A Negro and an Ofay
By Jack Getze
Big Numbers
Big Money
Big Mojo
Big Shoes
The Black Kachina
By Greg F. Gifune
Dangerous Boys
Saying Uncle
By Keith Gilman
Bad Habits
By Richard Godwin
Wrong Crowd
Buffalo and Sour Mash
Crystal on Electric Acetate
We Take What Fathers We Can
By William Hastings, editor
Stray Dogs: Writing from the Other America
By J.J. Hensley
Bolt Action Remedy
By Greg Herren, editor
Blood on the Bayou: Bouchercon Anthology 2016
By Jeffery Hess
Beachhead
Cold War Canoe Club
Tushhog
By Matt Hilton
No Going Back
Rules of Honor
The Lawless Kind
The Devil’s Anvil
No Safe Place
By Naomi Hirahara, Kate Thornton and Jeri Westerson, editors
LAdies’ Night
By Terry Holland
An Ice Cold Paradise
Chicago Shiver
By Darrel James, Linda O. Johnston and Tammy Kaehler, editors
Last Exit to Murder
By David Housewright and Renée Valois
The Devil and the Diva
By David Housewright
Finders Keepers
Full House
By Beau Johnson
A Better Kind of Hate
By Jon Jordan
Interrogations
By Jon and Ruth Jordan, editors
Murder and Mayhem in Muskego
Cooking with Crimespree
By David James Keaton (editor)
Dirty Boulevard (*)
By Lawrence Kelter
Back to Brooklyn
My Cousin Vinny
By Lawrence Kelter (editor)
The Black Car Business Volume 1
The Black Car Business Volume 2 (*)
By Lawrence Kelter and Frank Zafiro
The Last Collar
By Jerry Kennealy
Screen Test
Polo’s Long Shot
Dirty Who?
By Dana King
Worst Enemies
Grind Joint
Bad Samaritan
By Ross Klavan, Tim O’Mara and Charles Salzberg
Triple Shot
Three Strikes (*)
By JB Kohl and Eric Beetner
Over Their Heads
By Nick Kolakowski
Boise Longpig Hunting Club (*)
By Ed Kurtz
Nothing You Can Do
By S.W. Lauden
Crosswise
Crossed Bones
By Dan and Kate Malmon, editors
Killing Malmon
By Paul D. Marks
White Heat
Broken Windows (*)
By Andrew McAleer and Paul D. Marks, editors
Coast to Coast
Coast to Coast 2
By Terrence McCauley
The Devil Dogs of Belleau Wood
The Bank Heist, editor (*)
By John McFetridge, editor
Passport to Murder: Bouchercon Anthology 2017
By Daniel M. Mendoza, editor
Stray Dogs: Interviews with Working-Class Writers
By Marietta Miles
May
By Bill Moody
Czechmate: The Spy Who Played Jazz
The Man in Red Square
Solo Hand
The Death of a Tenor Man
The Sound of the Trumpet
Bird Lives!
Mood Swings (TP only)
By Warren Moore
Broken Glass Waltzes
By Andrew Nette
Gunshine State
By Gerald M. O’Connor
The Origins of Benjamin Hackett
By Rick Ollerman
Blood Work (*)
By Chantelle Aimée Osman
Mystery! The Origins Game Fair 2018 Anthology
By Marcus Pelegrimas
Blind Eye
By Gary Phillips
The Perpetrators
Scoundrels: Tales of Greed, Murder and Financial Crimes (editor)
Treacherous: Grifters, Ruffians and Killers
3 the Hard Way
By Gary Phillips, Tony Chavira, Manoel Magalhães and Bryan Lee
Beat L.A. (Graphic Novel)
By Tom Pitts
Hustle
American Static
By Thomas Pluck
Bad Boy Boogie
Life During Wartime