FIRST WINNER OF 'WRITE LIKE KEN BRUEN' CONTEST
The first person to send in the correct chapter of TORN APART--the one written in the darkly poetic style of uber-crime writer Ken Bruen--has been announced. Find out who it is on the "Win a Prize" page by going to the Home Page and clicking on ... well, the "Win a Prize" button at the bottom. It'll be on Facebook, in my crime writers' blog at www.7criminalminds.com, and most anywhere else I can convince someone to post it!
SHANE ON THE RADIO
Thanks to the talents of the great book interviewer Jeff Ayers of Seattle, you can hear me talk about myself, my work, writing, and more in the thick Chicago accent everyone claims I have but I still insist is accent-less. You be the judge! Just click:
http://www.authormagazine.org/interviews/interview_page_gericke.htm
E-BOOK FANS, REJOICE!
You can now buy all three of my novels as e-books. Here's the links to online sellers. As additional formats become available for each book, I will add those links. Happy downloading, and enjoy your digital reads:
TORN APART Sony Reader: Click here
CUT TO THE BONE Kindle: Click here
BLOWN AWAY Kindle: Click here
TORN APART VIDEO LAUNCHES WORLDWIDE
BLOWN AWAY TOUR BEGINS!
Like a great winged beast lifting from the thunderclouds--well, like an author flinging his lazy butt off the Barcalounger, anyway--the book tour for my new thriller TORN APART has begun. Those who've read TORN, love it, and critics are praising it to the hilt. Thank goodness for that--I can use the sales! Cool things are happening as part of the rollout: videos, e-postcards, interviews, bookstore signings, more. Check it out . . .
E-POSTCARD: My publisher, Kensington, sent these spectacular e-postcards to the thousands of people on its mailing list. Now you have it, too. Check it out by clicking:
http://www.kensingtonbooks.com/supportdata/tornapart_epostcard.gif
RT BOOK REVIEWS: Because I am a past winner of its novel-of-the-year award, RT Book Reviews kindly asked me to talk about TORN APART, and then make a series of videos for its plethora of readers worldwide. How could I say no? For the story, click on:
http://www.rtbookreviews.com/rt-daily-blog/shane-gericke-and-clash-emilys
For the video series, which covers the book, my writing work, and the ThrillerFest literary convention I chaired recently in New York City, click here:
http://www.rtbookreviews.com/rt-daily-blog/video-interview-shane-gericke
(Links to the other three videos are directly below the main video. Click and watch!)
AND THAT'S IT: Stay tuned for more Shanestuff coming soon . . .
BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE! (Yeah, I stole that from the ginsu knife ads on late-night TV.) I've also appeared on some big-time blogs and websites, thanks to the generosity of hosts who wanted their readers to see what TORN APART is all about. Among them:
Kaye Barley's Meanderings and Musings: Kaye is a fireball of delight: a voracious reader, avid blogger, and unflagging supporter of authors. To read my musings about TORN APART--and, more important, to find out why Wonder Woman lost her cleavage--click:
http://meanderingsandmuses.blogspot.com/
(Scroll about halfway down; Kaye writes a lot of fresh material every day!)
Jean Henry Mead's Mysterious Writers: Jean snags some of the greatest authors in the world for her blog, including the magnificent Jeffery Deaver. So why would she trifle with the likes of me? Because she likes my work, too. I was so flattered. Check it out at:
http://mysteriouspeople.blogspot.com/
SHOTS magazine: Book critic Ali Karim of SHOTS mystery and crime magazine in the United Kingdom kindly included my essay on world-renown crime writer John Sandford, creator of the "Prey" series starring Minnesota cop Lucas Davenport. I wrote this for the spankin' new International Thriller Writers anthology publication Thrillers: 100 Must-Reads. Click on the website, then scroll to the bottom of the page to click the PDF file and read the essay.
http://www.shotsmag.co.uk/features/2010/100thrillers/100thrillers.html
THAT'S ALL, FOLKS: And that really IS it for now. I'll post again when additional interesting things pop up. Thanks for reading, and I hope to see you at a signing. Buy one for Mom, too. It will make her happy. Didn't she sacrifice her life so you could read?