Here are some reviews on Amazon from Doc's first published book:

http://www.amazon.com/Murderland-Par...6225700&sr=1-1

Brilliant- thanks for that. I will definitely be tracking down the Murderland books next x

Amazon doesn't really do promotion for small presses. There isn't much money in it for them. I should probably bring up some of the reviews of these books. Thank you for the suggestion. I really have no clue what to do about the Amazon blog. The no promotions thing is really just the tip of the iceberg. The prejudice we have to deal with goes way beyond that. I held a copy of my book in my hand, a book that was on shelves at a Borders about three miles away and had a Barnes and Noble employee tell me it did not exist. I had a friend who was told by a Borders district manager to "stay away from vanity presses" when he tried to get his book, published by Eraserhead, a press whose books have gotten blurbs from people ranging from Warren Ellis to Lloyd Kaufman, on the shelves. Everything we do we have do for ourselves and in spite of the ignorance and myopia of booksellers.

Thanks, Lee!

Does your book have an ISBN number? That would probably make it exist for the corporate book chains.

Linwood Barclay "No time for goodbye"

Yes, but I showed her the ISBN, but she wasn't willing to look it up in the system.

1977 and 1980, by David Peace - The novels continuing Peace's excellent North of England noir series. The plots are very similar, but it seems to me that Peace is making a point about the recurrence of patterns in the world. Dark, ugly, scary stuff here - recommended to anyone who likes hard-edged noir.

Talking with Serial Killers, by Christopher Berry-Dee - A sloppy, disappointing book. Mixes serial killers with other kinds of killers, changes quotes to British idiom (what other quotes have been changed then?), and makes a ton of copyediting mistakes, including crucial errors of fact. Some interesting quotes, but not a great book.

Sam

I'm in the middle of A Choir of Ill Children by Tom Piccirilli. An awesomely weird Southern Gothic that's well worth looking into. I'd also like to put in a recommendation for Gina Ranalli's House of Fallen Trees. Like a contemporary and more macabre treatment of Shirley Jackson.

"The Outsider" by H.P. Lovecraft, another creepy gem from the Penguin trove THE CALL OF CTHULHU AND OTHER WEIRD STORIES edited by S.T. Joshi. If IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE can be viewed as the true pilot for THE TWILIGHT ZONE, then "The Outsider" would feel right at home in the premiere issue of TALES FROM THE CRYPT, it has that certain slant of bite. Now I'm breezing through FRANK R. PAUL: THE FATHER OF SCIENCE FICTION ART. Beautiful, stunning, mind-blowing.