INFAMOUS TOUR UPDATE
In two weeks, INFAMOUS hits stores across the United States and Canada. I always look forward to spring and meeting some great people and having a few beers to celebrate. See you out there. Thursday, April 15th: Huntsville, Alabama Alabama Library Association Convention (Awarding of Wicked City as Book of the Year/fiction) Thursday, April 15th: […]
INFAMOUS LINE UP/VERNE MILLER
This is part one in a continuing blog series on the criminals you’ll meet in INFAMOUS. Check back later this week to learn more on Alvin Karpis. — Ace Verne Miller—Sheriff, Moonshiner, Hit-man. How did the career of a small-town sheriff from South Dakota promote the creation of the modern FBI? Well, for one thing, […]
An Honest Shill
Several years ago, I was asked to appear in a series of Bacardi ads to be featured in The New Yorker. To be honest, I don’t drink flavored Bacardi and don’t read The New Yorker. But this being my third novel, I was glad to be included and appreciative. I guess I wasn’t a very […]
Megan Abbott interviews Ace on DEVIL’S GARDEN
Megan Abbott is the Edgar®-winning author of the crime novels Queenpin, The Song is You and Die a Little. Her new novel, Bury Me Deep, which is loosely based on the Winnie Ruth Judd “Trunk Murderess” scandal of the 1930s, comes out in July 2009. She lives in Queens, New York. One might call it […]
EARLY RAVE REVIEWS FOR INFAMOUS!
The book isn’t even out until April 15th, but critics already love it. Booklist says: It’s Atkins’ prodigious research that makes this novel a compelling road trip through Depression-eraAmerica. He vividly portrays the Dust Bowl, foreclosures, the grinding poverty, gnawing hunger, desperation and the rage at bankers (most of which resonate in today’s America); and […]
DARK END OF THE STREET — SPECIAL EDITION THIS FALL
Last December, BFP reprinted Ace Atkins‘s first Nick Travers novel, Crossroad Blues (978-1-935415-03-9; $15), with a new foreword by music journalist Greil Marcus (Mystery Train) & a never-before-published Travers story, “Last Fair Deal Gone Down” (which went on to be nominated for the Edgar!). Now, in October 2010, BFP is proud to release a new […]
INFAMOUS TOUR 2010 ANNOUNCED
Spring will be here soon and that means that annual road trip to promote my latest novel. INFAMOUS hits stores across the country on April 15th. More dates could be added later. Stay tuned. Thursday, April 15th: Huntsville, Alabama Alabama Library Association Convention (Awarding of Wicked City as Book of the Year/fiction) Thursday, April 15th: […]
Top 10 books every Floridian should read
White Shadow included in recent Top 10 list by St. Petersburg Times book editor, Colette Bancroft What books should every Floridian read? You know the classics set in the state, and you might even have read them: Marjory Stoneman Douglas’ The Everglades: River of Grass, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’ The Yearling, Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes […]
Saints in Super Bowl? Nick Travers nominated for Edgar?
Some strange mojo down in New Orleans these days. Who would have ever thought we’d see the New Orleans Saints playing to become world champs? And who ever thought we’d ever hear from our old friend, former New Orleans Saints defensive end Nick Travers, again? But in the same week the Saints beat the Vikings […]
NOTORIOUS showing January 9th on TCM
Just a note to those who appreciate classic cinema: The fantastic NOTORIOUS starring Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman and directed by Hitchcock plays tonight on Turner Classic Movies at 8 p.m. I’ve seen it a dozen times but never miss an opportunity. The war-time thriller is one of the most stylish films ever shot, it’s […]