Friday, October 30, 2009

The cover for my war book

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Here's the cover for my newest book, Tankki palaa! It's a collection of Finnish war-time stories about, well, war, namely the Secon...
Thursday, October 29, 2009

James Ellroy: Blood's a Rover

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As often happens nowadays, I'm busy, so I won't be writing long about James Ellroy's Blood's a Rover (out in Finnish as Lev...
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Comic anthology NOIR

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Quickly before Ellroy: Dark Horse's new crime story anthology, called simply Noir , which looks very interesting. Here's a story fro...

Swedish cover for Jay Williams's novelization

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Okay, this is getting pretty ephemeral - and I haven't read the book in question -, but I want to get this out of the way before I move ...
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Monday, October 26, 2009

Crying my eyes out: Chaplin's The Kid

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You know the scene in The Kid where they come to take Jackie Coogan away from Chaplin? With Coogan throwing his arms out and yelling: ...

Review of Jarkko Sipilä's Against the Wall

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Someone called Toby commented on my months old post on Finnish writer Jarkko Sipilä's Helsinki Homicide: Against the Wall , the English ...
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Friday, October 23, 2009

The Finnish Ice Harvest

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Here's the Finnish cover for Scott Phillips's The Ice Harvest, done, again, by the great Ossi Hiekkala.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Hard Ticket to Hawaii

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You know the type of film that turns out just great when you watch it with a bunch of folks and everyone's little drunk - even though th...
Sunday, October 18, 2009

Mike Shayne back in print

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From Hard Case Crime.

New on-line fictionmag

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Lightspeed magazine.
Friday, October 16, 2009

Review of Conrad Hirst

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Ossi Hiekkala, the great illustrator of Arktinen Banaani's paperback series, found this very positive blog review of Kevin Wignall's...
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Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Two Leonards

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I read recently two books by father and son, Elmore and Peter Leonard. Elmore is a self-deserved classic and Peter is a new-comer, albeit he...
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Wednesday, October 07, 2009

My war book

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I'm not sure how much I've been talking here about my project about Finnish war-time stories about, well, the war. The focus is on s...
Tuesday, October 06, 2009

Dan Brown, per Damien Broderick

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Texan-Australian science fiction writer Damien Broderick wrote this funny piece on Dan Brown on the Fictionmags e-mail list and I asked his ...
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Floyd Smith's Action Girls

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Remember? Well, it wasn't that long ago. Last Summer I wrote a Forgotten Book entry about an obscure sex paperback called Action Girls ,...
Sunday, October 04, 2009

Round-Up: Megan Abbott, Ken Bruen, The Hurt Locker

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Okay, seems like I'm not very much into blogging these days. Been busy, will be busy, will hopefully take a break, a day or two.. one of...
Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Zombie book out

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Readers of this blog may remember that I had a zombie anthology coming. It's now out and soon available from the bookstores, and also st...
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Monday, September 21, 2009

The Outfit, JT Lindroos's new publishing house

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Over a week ago I said I'd noticed that JT Lindroos, the man behind PointBlank, had come up with a new publishing venture, The Outfit . ...
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Friday, September 18, 2009

My first collection of poems: Bodice Ripper Apart

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This book has been long time in coming. I started saving spam e-mail some four or five years ago, in order to gather enough of them to make...
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Wednesday, September 16, 2009

James Sallis's Kylmä kyyti (aka Drive) out in Finnish!

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James Sallis's Kylmä kyyti (Drive) is the latest book in the paperback series I edit for the Finnish publisher, Arktinen Banaani. The b...
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