tag:www.thrillerwriters.org,2010:/admin//feed/bashman 2010-09-08T12:02:56Z Movable Type 4.23-en 20 1 20 tag:www.thrillerwriters.org,2010://2.3421 2010-08-31T18:55:00Z 2010-09-01T19:17:10Z Karen Dionne http://www.karendionne.net 36 terrific new thrillers from ITW members this month including a brand-new ITW short story anthology, and 5 novels from first-time authors!  Print the Big Thrill list and head on down to your favorite bookstore, or download your selections to your electronic... tag:www.thrillerwriters.org,2010://2.3416 2010-08-30T00:05:50Z 2010-08-30T00:17:01Z Dennis Tafoya http://www.dennistafoya.com Jonathan Maberry is making the transition from bestselling thriller writer to brand name. He's written a Stoker Award-winning Horror series (The Pine Deep Trilogy), the wildly-successful, genre-creating Joe Ledger thriller trilogy (Patient Zero, Dragon Factory and next year's King... tag:www.thrillerwriters.org,2010://2.3411 2010-08-29T22:58:26Z 2010-08-29T23:09:49Z Jonathan Maberry http://www.jonathanmaberry.com Stuart Woods started out as an advertising copywriter in the 1960s and sold his first major novel, Chiefs, in 1981.  It was a modest hardback hit and then exploded in paperback and was made into a six-hour television drama... tag:www.thrillerwriters.org,2010://2.3396 2010-08-29T16:16:55Z 2010-08-29T16:36:21Z Dennis Tafoya http://www.dennistafoya.com Janice Gable Bashman and Jonathan Maberry have unleashed a torrent of terror in their new nonfiction release, Wanted Undead or Alive: Vampire Hunters and Other Kick-Ass Enemies of Evil, from Citadel. The book is a far-ranging investigation into the... tag:www.thrillerwriters.org,2010://2.3369 2010-07-30T11:32:10Z 2010-08-31T23:53:07Z Karen Dionne http://www.karendionne.net  Here's what was featured in the August edition of The Big Thrill. Hot off the press:Click on a book title to read the feature story The Bishop by Steven James City of Dreadful Night by Peter Guttridge The Capital Game... tag:www.thrillerwriters.org,2010://2.3282 2010-06-29T21:15:00Z 2010-06-29T21:20:58Z Janice Gable Bashman When it comes to writing thrillers, Ronie Kendig shoots right for the heart. Nightshade, the first book in the Discarded Hero series, tackles combat-related Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), the toll it takes on the soldier, and the courage he... tag:www.thrillerwriters.org,2010://2.3255 2010-05-27T14:41:02Z 2010-05-27T14:52:29Z Janice Gable Bashman Leigh Russell hit the publishing world when she banged out the first draft of Cut Short in a mere six weeks. Soon after she snagged a three-book deal, received starred reviews, and broke book sales records in the UK,... tag:www.thrillerwriters.org,2010://2.3191 2010-04-30T13:14:58Z 2010-04-30T13:31:43Z Janice Gable Bashman Nine years. That's how long it took Leanna Renee Hieber to publish The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss Percy Parker, the first book in her Strangely Beautiful series. Although editors and agents loved the book, marketing departments did not... tag:www.thrillerwriters.org,2010://2.3152 2010-03-29T18:06:58Z 2010-03-29T18:24:01Z Janice Gable Bashman Many authors come to writing via other careers. For Jim Daher, the travel required for his career in health care management provided the perfect opportunity to read mysteries and thrillers by authors such as John Grisham, Robert Ludlum, Jonathan... tag:www.thrillerwriters.org,2010://2.3087 2010-02-27T02:03:55Z 2010-02-27T02:14:26Z Janice Gable Bashman It's not easy to get into the heads of killers, to relay their thoughts and feelings and deep, dark secrets in a way that makes them seems so real and so frightening. But J.T. Ellison does it, and she... tag:www.thrillerwriters.org,2010://2.3047 2010-01-18T01:05:54Z 2010-01-18T01:16:10Z Janice Gable Bashman With over 40 published novels and novellas, NY Times and USA Today bestselling author Karen Harper delivers again with her latest book, Down River.  RT Book Reviews states, "Harper spins a wickedly intricate plot, and it's simply impossible to... tag:www.thrillerwriters.org,2009://2.2945 2009-10-19T22:54:39Z 2009-10-22T20:09:30Z Janice Gable Bashman With a writing schedule as action-packed as her books, Jordan Summers crosses the genre lines--paranormal, contemporary, historical--to give her readers a variety of thrilling adventures.  Crimson, her most recent release, is the third book in the Dead World series.... tag:www.thrillerwriters.org,2009://2.2805 2009-07-29T10:06:51Z 2009-07-29T10:24:02Z Janice Gable Bashman Hank Phillippi Ryan talks with contributing editor Janice Gable Bashman about Prime Time, the first book in her Charlotte McNally mystery thriller series. Prime Time hit the shelves in July. The second and third books in the series (Face... tag:www.thrillerwriters.org,2009://2.2765 2009-06-28T10:02:20Z 2009-06-28T10:13:57Z Janice Gable Bashman Kathleen George chats with Big Thrill contributing editor Janice Gable Bashman about The Odds, George's fourth thriller that has focused on Pittsburgh homicide detectives.Entertainment Weekly states, "If anyone's writing better police thrillers than George, I don't know who is."Give us... tag:www.thrillerwriters.org,2009://2.2704 2009-05-21T18:08:11Z 2009-06-01T09:29:05Z Janice Gable Bashman Austin S. Camacho talks with contributing editor Janice Gable Bashman about Russian Roulette, the fifth book in the Hannibal Jones series. Libby Fischer Hellman, author of the Ellie Foreman suspense series, states, "Russian Roulette delivers a whipsaw of a plot... tag:www.thrillerwriters.org,2009://2.2679 2009-04-23T16:20:21Z 2009-04-24T17:39:38Z Janice Gable Bashman Matt Hilton's Dead Men's Dust is "a dose of pure rocket fuel. Starts fast, gets faster, and doesn't quit right through the slam bang finale. Dead Men's Dust is as enjoyable a thriller as you will read this year, and... tag:www.thrillerwriters.org,2009://2.2592 2009-02-21T14:50:51Z 2009-02-21T15:01:01Z Janice Gable Bashman Helter Skelter author Vincent Bugliosi calls M. William Phelps "one of America's finest true-crime writers," and Radio America states Phelps is "the nation's leading authority on the mind of the female murderer." Phelps is the author of 12 books and... tag:www.thrillerwriters.org,2009://2.2545 2009-01-19T13:22:14Z 2009-03-06T15:22:02Z Janice Gable Bashman Jailbait Zombie is the fourth book in Mario Acevedo's Feliz Gomez vampire detective series. Contributing Editor Janice Gable Bashman caught up with Mario to talk about the series and his writing process.Tell us about Jailbait Zombie and why we would... tag:www.thrillerwriters.org,2008://2.2519 2008-12-31T21:00:00Z 2009-01-19T11:56:48Z Janice Gable Bashman Contributing editor Janice Gable Bashman chats with Grant McKenzie about his debut thriller, Switch, which hit the shelves in Australia on December 4, 2008. Switch also will be available in the UK in July 2009, in Germany in August... tag:www.thrillerwriters.org,2008://2.2452 2008-10-31T20:00:00Z 2009-01-19T11:59:26Z Janice Gable Bashman The Y2K bug was a ticking time bomb that threatened to affect computer software and firmware and grind major industries to a halt. For Matthew Dunn, the Y2K bug had the opposite effect. In 1998, Dunn wrote an article about...