Showing posts with label Don Winslow. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Don Winslow. Show all posts

Saturday, August 21, 2010

New cover for Don Winslow's 2nd Neal Carey book!

I'm sorry, I've been bad about posting on the blog recently... I've been moving my office to my house, and let me tell you, about 300 boxes, down stairs (no elevator), heat index over 100... it wasn't fun. Okay, I know you're saying, "quit your whining, David." Well, at least that's what my wife says. But I'm back to catching up on things, hard at work on getting books to the printers for the fall & mapping out 2011.

Those of you who have been patiently (God bless you!) waiting for Donna Moore's Old Dogs, you'll be happy to know it ships from the printers in about 10 days... then it takes a little longer to filter through Consortium & on to bookstores & libraries... but rest assured, it's a-coming! (There will be an e-book edition, as well.) And I promise you, it'll be worth the wait... honestly, one of the funniest books I've ever read.

In the meantime, check out the cool new cover of the spring BFP reprint of Don Winslow's second Neal Carey novel, The Trail to Buddha's Mirror... I think this will be a series you'll want to collect in paperback (even if you already own them), simply because the covers will look so great together. Then again, I'm a little biased.

More to come... thanks for checking in!

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Free shipping, more praise!

From now on, any orders of $25 or more through Busted Flush Press's website get FREE SHIPPING! Please feel free to order often. :-)

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More praise for upcoming BFP releases:

A COOL BREEZE ON THE UNDERGROUND, by Don Winslow

“Don Winslow may be the finest crime writer currently working in America. His recent work—including but not limited to such titles as The Winter of Frankie Machine, The Dawn Patrol, and California Fire and Life—is brilliant on every level, displaying a depth, intelligence, and humanity few writers can hope to equal. Amazingly, his thrillers are also whip-fast, compulsively readable, and rich with language so glittery sharp I am left furious with envy. Instead of hating the man, I am his fan. A Cool Breeze on the Underground is the beginning of Winslow’s journey, and shows all the talent and promise of what is to follow. If you’ve not read the Neal Carey books before, send Busted Flush Press a note of thanks. You’re in for a treat.”—Robert Crais, best-selling author of The Sentry

“It’s one thing to see promise in a young writer, but A Cool Breeze on the Underground is just plain unfair. With his premier Neal Carey novel, Don Winslow announced to the world that neither he nor his characters were going to be run-of-the-mill. He continues to prove it with every book he writes.”—Reed Farrel Coleman, three-time Shamus Award-winning author of Innocent Monster

A Cool Breeze on the Underground is classic Winslow. All the characteristics are there: the style, the wit, and the building tension. Neal Carey is a wonderful character who drives the story to its stunning conclusion. A great read!”—Dave White, Shamus Award-nominated author of The Evil that Men Do

TOMATO RED, by Daniel Woodrell
(at the printers right now)

“Whenever I’m in need of inspiration, resuscitation—a big, heaping blast of air—I read the opening page of Tomato Red. By the end, I’m always grinning: that disbelieving, appreciative, joyful grin you get when you come upon the extraordinary. That writing! It’s hard to not move when you read Woodrell; his Ozark rhythms will get you toe-tapping, swaying in your seat. It’s impossible, in fact, to read Woodrell discreetly: you’ll find sentences, dialogue so funny or brutal or just plain brilliant, you need to share them with someone else. His characters are underdogs, heartbreakers, steal-your-wallet-and-kick-you-on the-way-out scoundrels, but you still want more time with them. With Woodrell, you always want more.”—Gillian Flynn, Edgar Award-nominated author of Sharp Objects and Dark Places

Monday, May 31, 2010

New praise for BFP books!

"Charlie Fox and Zoë Sharp have been staff favorites since First Drop was released in the U.S. a few years ago. However, her U.S. publisher started with the fourth book in the series, despite the title. Now, thanks to Busted Flush, U.S. readers have a chance to start at the beginning, with Killer Instinct. In her first outing, Charlie has not yet officially transitioned into her career as a bodyguard. Instead, she is a freelance self-defense instructor, and open to other odd jobs as well, especially those where she can employ her skills as a former British Army Special Forces soldier. A casual evening out with a friend leads to a part time job as security at a local nightclub, and enmeshes Charlie in a web of crime and deceit tied to the heinous murders of several local women. Elements of the rape and murders have uncomfortable resonance with Charlie’s past." -- Maryelizabeth Hart, Mysterious Galaxy (San Diego, CA)

Killer Instinct goes on sale this week!

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“What a resounding pleasure to read Don Winslow’s splendid first novel again. Even back in 1991 Don seemed to arrive fully formed—whip-smart, funny, brave and big-hearted, too. From a beginning like A Cool Breeze on the Underground it’s easy to see how Winslow became one of the premiere writers of crime fiction in our language. I look most forward to seeing all of the Neal Carey stories published by Busted Flush.”—T. Jefferson Parker, best-selling author of Iron River

A Cool Breeze on the Underground is an amazing first novel that set the course for a terrific career. Reading it now is like going back to pick up a diamond you didn’t see the first time.”
Thomas Perry, best-selling author of The Butcher’s Boy and Strip

A Cool Breeze on the Underground will be published in November.

Sunday, April 18, 2010

Don Winslow & Oliver Stone

Crime writer Don Winslow (The Dawn Patrol; The Power of the Dog) is collaborating with director/producer/screenwriter Oliver Stone on a film adaptation of Winslow's upcoming drug thriller, Savages (Simon & Schuster; July). Read more about it here. (And I highly recommend Savages... it's the perfect mix of two of Winslow's best works: The drug-war relevance of The Power of the Dog with the in-your-face, mile-a-minute pacing of The Death and Life of Bobby Z.)

Busted Flush Press will be reprinting Winslow's early crime novels, featuring private eye Neal Carey, beginning with A Cool Breeze on the Underground this fall. Could there be some movie news in the works for the Carey series? We'll see...

Saturday, February 13, 2010

Cover for reprint of Don Winslow's first novel!

Beginning this fall, Busted Flush Press will reprint Don Winslow's first novels, the five books that comprise the Neal Carey P.I. series. These acclaimed, off-beat novels have been out-of-print for over 15 years and have been highly sought after by fans of Winslow's more recent work, like The Dawn Patrol (my favorite of his), The Power of the Dog, The Winter of Frankie Machine, The Death and Life of Bobby Z, and California Fire and Life.

A Cool Breeze on the Underground (Neal Carey #1)
Trade paperback, $15 (Canada $18)
November 2010 / 978-1-935415-21-3

Neal Carey is not your usual private eye. A graduate student at Columbia University, he grew up on the streets of New York, usually on the wrong side of the law. Then he met Joe Graham, a one-armed P.I. who introduced him to the Bank, an exclusive New England institution with a sideline in keeping its wealthy clients happy and out of trouble. They pay Neal's college tuition, and Neal gets an education that can't be found in any textbook -- from learning how to trail a suspect to mastering the proper way to search a room.

Now its payback time. The Bank wants Neal to put his skills to work in finding Allie Chase, the rebellious teenage daughter of a prominent senator. The problem: Allie has gone underground in London, and to get her back, Neal has to follow her into the punk scene, a violent netherworld where drugs run rampant and rage is the name of the game. Up against punk junkies, antique book thieves, and murderous betrayal, Neal has his work cut out for him to save Allie -- and get back above ground for good.

"Don Winslow's Neal Carey series is hands down one of my favorite series, and it should be a 'must read' for every mystery fan." -- Jon Jordan, Crimespree Magazine

And look for Winslow's new thriller, Savages, due out from Simon & Schuster this summer! Young, independent Laguna Beach-based marijuana kingpins are blackmailed into working for the Baja Cartel after one of their threesome is kidnapped.

Saturday, January 23, 2010

BFP's 2010 schedule!

Here are the books coming out from Busted Flush Press in 2010. Enjoy!

February
Just Enough Light to Kill (by A. E. Maxwell)
Paperback, $14, 978-1-935415-02-2

March
Misleading Ladies (by Cynthia Smith)
Paperback, $13, 978-1-935415-04-6

May
Killer Instinct (by Zoë Sharp)
With a new foreword by Lee Child.
Paperback original (first U.S. publication), $15, 978-1-935415-13-8

June
Old Dogs (by Donna Moore)
Paperback original (first U.S. publication), $15, 978-1-935415-24-4

July
Riot Act (by Zoë Sharp)
Paperback original (first U.S. publication), $15, 978-1-935415-15-2

September
Soul Patch (by Reed Farrel Coleman)
With a new foreword by Craig Johnson.
Paperback, $15, 978-1-935415-09-1

Hard Knocks (by Zoë Sharp)
Paperback original (first U.S. publication), $15, 978-1-935415-10-7

Tomato Red (by Daniel Woodrell)
With a new foreword by Megan Abbott.
Paperback, $15, 978-1-935415-06-0

October
Dark End of the Street (by Ace Atkins)
Paperback, $15, 978-1-935415-17-6

Empty Ever After (by Reed Farrel Coleman)
With a new foreword by S. J. Rozan.
Paperback, $15, 978-1-935415-19-0

November
Damn Near Dead 2: Live Noir or Die Trying (edited by Bill Crider)
With an introduction by Charlaine Harris.
Paperback original, $18, 978-1-935415-40-4

A Cool Breeze on the Underground (by Don Winslow)
Paperback, $15, 978-1-935415-21-3

And coming in early 2011:
Silver and Guilt (by Cynthia Smith)
Road Kill (by Zoë Sharp)
The Death of Sweet Mister (by Daniel Woodrell; with a new foreword by Dennis Lehane)
Bloody Kin (by Margaret Maron)

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Pre-holiday BFP news!

This has been a busy week for Busted Flush Press, and we have much to share...

Reed Farrel Coleman

NPR's Maureen Corrigan
discusses her favorite books of 2009 today on Fresh Air, including "a terrific new mystery series... a wise independent bookseller recommended that I read"... that would be Reed Farrel Coleman's Moe Prager series. Read the story & hear the podcast here.

For those who are already fans of Moe, there is imminent good news on the horizon. Busted Flush Press is on the verge of acquiring the reprint rights for the 4th & 5th books in the series: the Edgar, Macavity nominated and Shamus Award-winning Soul Patch and the Shamus Award-winning Empty Ever After. If all things go as planned, both books will be out just in time for the release of Moe #6, Innocent Monster, due out in October 2010. Please stay tuned for more updates.

Margaret Maron

Check out the news on BFP acquiring Edgar/Agatha/Anthony/Macavity Award winner Margaret Maron's 1985 stand-alone Southern crime novel, Bloody Kin, reported on the blog last week.

Don Winslow

Busted Flush Press will be reprinting Don Winslow's incredibly hard-to-find, Edgar Award-nominated crime series featuring private investigator Neal Carey. Winslow has recently attained bestsellerdom & critical acclaim for his later novels, including The Power of the Dog, The Death and Life of Bobby Z, California Fire and Life, The Winter of Frankie Machine, and one of my favorite books of 2008, The Dawn Patrol. But for years fans have been looking for his early, wonderful Carey novels... and now they'll be available again, beginning fall 2010, when the first, A Cool Breeze on the Underground, is published. To follow: The Trail to Buddha's Mirror, Way Down on the High Lonely, A Long Walk up the Water Slide, and While Drowning in the Desert.

I asked Don what he thinks about seeing these books back in print for the first time in over a decade...

"I'm absolutely delighted that the Neal Carey series is coming back into print. I don't think I've made a public appearance in ten years when I wasn't asked about these books. A Cool Breeze on the Underground holds a special place for me -- it was my first book, and I wrote it literally all over the world -- in tents in Africa, Buddhist monasteries in China, college rooms in Oxford. I think it was rejected by the first fourteen publishers who saw it -- including the publisher I'm with now, Simon & Schuster. Then it was nominated for an Edgar. Anyway, it's great to see these books coming back into print, and I'm really excited to be working with good friends at Busted Flush. The last time I saw David, we shared a candlelit (by necessity) dinner -- burgers with bags of chips -- al fresco in just-post-hurricane Houston, and it's my favorite meal ever on a book tour. This is going to be genuine fun."

Daniel Woodrell

Busted Flush Press will reprint Daniel Woodrell's stand-alone novels, Tomato Red and The Death of Sweet Mister, with new forewords for each. Edgar Award-winning crime writer Megan Abbott (Bury Me Deep) will pen the foreword to Tomato Red (to be published in fall 2010), and best-selling novelist Dennis Lehane (The Given Day) will provide the foreword to The Death of Sweet Mister (to be published in spring 2011). I'll be posting another blog entry later this week about Woodrell, "an amazing genius" (Ken Bruen), but it's safe to say he's one of today's finest novelists (of any genre) that most people just don't know about... yet. Check back later this week to see what some of his peers think of his work (including Megan Abbott, Joe R. Lansdale, Allan Guthrie, Reed Farrel Coleman, and more). In the meantime, rush out and buy his novel, Winter's Bone (Back Bay Books), which was my wife's favorite novel of 2006 (and which will be in next month's Sundance Film Festival Dramatic Competition). More to come...

Later this week on the BFP blog: Daniel Woodrell; the conclusion to Ace Atkin's Christmas-set short story, "Last Fair Deal Gone Down"; and more!

Happy holidays from Busted Flush Press!

Monday, December 21, 2009

Catch Reed Farrel Coleman on XM/Sirius!

Reed Farrel Coleman, the 2009 Shamus Award-winning author of Empty Ever After, will be interviewed on XM/Sirius Book Radio's "Cover to Cover Live!", tomorrow, Tuesday, December 22, 3-4 p.m. EST. He will be interviewed about Tower (co-written with Ken Bruen) and his Moe Prager novels. Catch it on XM 163 & Sirius 117.

Reed will also be featured on NPR's Fresh Air this week, as part of Maureen Corrigan's year-end round-up of favorite mysteries. We'd thought it was to be today, but it looks like it'll run later in the week. As soon as we know, it'll be posted here.

To coincide with Reed's NPR appearance, Busted Flush Press has some great news to announce about new acquisitions. Well...... we'll hold off until the NPR piece runs, but we can say it involves Daniel Woodrell (Winter's Bone) and Don Winslow (The Dawn Patrol)... please check back later in the week. (We're such teases!)

In other BFP news...

Donna Moore (Go to Helena Handbasket...) appears to be excited about her galleys of Old Dogs. But it looks as though she's attacking her parents with a copy! Chuffed, indeed. Visit her blog here... you could win an Old Dogs galley!

Thriller writer Zoë Sharp (Third Strike) is interviewed on MrEdit's blog. Her first introduction to crime fiction? Leslie Charteris's The Misfortune of Mr. Teal.

L.A.'s The Mystery Bookstore picks their favorite mysteries of 2009... and Ken Bruen & Reed Farrel Coleman's Tower makes Linda's & Pam's lists! Big thanks to Linda & Pam (& Bobby, too)!