Sunday, July 25, 2021

NEW: IFB INTERFLEET BROADCAST INTERVIEWS CRAIG McDONALD

IFB Interfleet Broadcasting recently interviewed Craig about his upcoming novel, Write From Wrong, that will debut at August 2021's PulpFest. 

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Topics in addition to the Hector Lassiter series include pulp crime fiction, Black Mask Magazine, Walter B. Gibson and the 90th anniversary of The Shadow in print.

Also talk about the craft of writing and editing, along with several other interesting side trips.

Interview starts at about the 27-minute mark.

NEW: WRITE FROM WRONG, DEBUTS IN AUGUST AT PULPFEST

Across nearly a dozen internationally-acclaimed and award-nominated novels, the Hector Lassiter series has served its readers a seductive secret history of 20th century crime, politics and the arts, garnished with a twist of noir.

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Hector—wanderer, lover and a fiction author frequently described by literary critics as “living what he writes and writing what he lives”—has served as witness and even catalyst to some of his turbulent age’s darkest historic and artistic moments.

In this last, life-spanning book, Craig McDonald further informs and fits the capstone on the Lassiter saga with a fusion of classic hardboiled pulp-style storytelling and a subtle literary undertow.

Noted acquaintances and “characters” from the previous novels also take their final bows, including Ernest Hemingway, Orson Welles, Lester Dent, Walter B. Gibson and Dashiell Hammett for a last, historical romp through the 20th Century and beyond, spanning romantic Ragtime America to our increasingly treacherous digital age.

Write From Wrong presents a poignant and provocative portrait of the author always striving to lay down “one true sentence.”

 

This is the last installment of McDonald’s Edgar/Anthony-awards nominated series, but also stands as an entry point for new readers to experience a crime series BookPage declared “wildly inventive” and The Chicago Tribune the “most unusual, and readable crime fiction to come along in years.”


Craig will be appearing at 2021’s PulpFest where he’ll be selling and signing books from Aug. 19-22, including his newest, Write From Wrong, which will debut at the festival. He will also have a special presentation at 1:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 20 at the event. Also look for his article in PulpFest’s annual collectible souvenir magazine on the 90th anniversary of The Shadow character in pulp and radio’s influence on the character.
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THE HECTOR LASSITER SERIES
AS PUBLISHED BY BETIMES BOOKS:



ONE TRUE SENTENCE: Paperback/eBook

FOREVER'S JUST PRETEND: Paperback/eBook

TOROS & TORSOS: Paperback/eBook

THE GREAT PRETENDER: Paperback/eBook
ROLL THE CREDITS: Paperback/eBook
THE RUNNING KIND: Paperback/eBook

HEAD GAMES: Paperback/eBook


PRINT THE LEGEND: Paperback/eBook/audio

DEATH IN THE FACE: Paperback/eBook

THREE CHORDS & THE TRUTH: Paperback/eBook