Detroit students installing book benches where long waits for a bus are commonplace. DDOT (the city's bus service) tried to pull the plug but apparently relented.
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MYSTERY PEOPLE (Book People) Scott Montgomery Review
Bill Crider: Being a Late Bloomer
George Kelley: Patti Abbott's Bookshelves
J. Kingston Pierce: "Mommie Direst" (a reference to the character in Concrete Angel)
Ron Earl Phillips: Patti Abbott and Rob Hart: A Conversation
Ed Gorman: Pro-File
Women of Mystery: Setting
Elizabeth Spann Craig: Working My Way Toward the Novel
Charlie Stella's post and review
Joe Barone (review)
Criminal Element (Edward Grainger) (review)
Sergio Angelini (post)
Randy Johnson (review)
Todd Mason interview)
R & R with B.V. Lawson
Seana Graham (review)
Bill Crider (review)
Five Favorite Novels about Mothers and Daughters.(CRIMESPREE MAGAZINE)
Scott Parker (DO SOME DAMAGE)
Megan Abbott interview on THE LIFE SENTENCE
Debbie Diesen's MICHIGANDER MONDAY. (interview)
Marshall Zeringue's Page 69 test
Interview with Prashant Trikannad
My Book, The Movie
Writers Read
Evan Lewis' Blog-(Davy Crockett's Almanac) review
Martin Edwards-guest blog
Behind the Book, CRIMESPREE MAGAZINE, Writing Dark
Interview with Scott Montgomery, MYSTERY PEOPLE at BOOK PEOPLE in Austin
Tip The Wink (Rick Robinson) review
TracyK review (Bitter Tea and Mystery)
Bernadette (Reactions to Reading)
Pulp Hack Confessions
I SEE LIGHTNING FALL review
Kevin Tipple review
Barry Ergang review
Dead End Follies review
THE BLUE HOUSE review
Mathew Paust
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Patricia Abbott is the author of more than 125 stories that have appeared online, in print journals and in various anthologies. She is the author of two print novels CONCRETE ANGEL (2015) and SHOT IN DETROIT (2016)(Polis Books). CONCRETE ANGEL was nominated for an Anthony and Macavity Award in 2016. SHOT IN DETROIT was nominated for an Edgar Award and an Anthony Award in 2017. A collection of her stories I BRING SORROW AND OTHER STORIES OF TRANSGRESSION will appear in 2018.
She also authored two ebooks, MONKEY JUSTICE and HOME INVASION and co-edited DISCOUNT NOIR. She won a Derringer award for her story "My Hero." She lives outside Detroit.
She also authored two ebooks, MONKEY JUSTICE and HOME INVASION and co-edited DISCOUNT NOIR. She won a Derringer award for her story "My Hero." She lives outside Detroit.
Patricia (Patti) Abbott
SHOT IN DETROIT
Edgar Nominee 2017, Anthony nominee 2017
CONCRETE ANGEL
Polis Books, 2015-nominated for the Anthony and Macavity Awards
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Bolo Books, essay
Graham Wynd, essay on whether I write genre
Katomic Energy, essay
Matt Paust, review
Bill Crider's Pop Culture Review, review
Prashant Trikannad, interview
Paul Brazil, essay on photography
Joe Barone, review
TracyK, review
Seana Graham review
Reactions to Reading review
Mystery People, Scott Montgomery review
The Rap Sheet, Bringing the Dead to Life
Kirkus Review, Summer Crime Fiction
Portand Book Review, Essay
OBAT-Dana King-interview
Litreactor-review
Do Some Damage-Scott Parker-review
Temporary Knuckline-Charlie Stella essay and review
Razored Zen-Essay on difficult women
Bill Crider's Pop Culture. Essay on writing the second novel
Bolo Books, essay
Graham Wynd, essay on whether I write genre
Katomic Energy, essay
Matt Paust, review
Bill Crider's Pop Culture Review, review
Prashant Trikannad, interview
Paul Brazil, essay on photography
Joe Barone, review
TracyK, review
Seana Graham review
Reactions to Reading review
Mystery People, Scott Montgomery review
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http://www.mysteryscenemag.com/26-reviews/books/5202-concrete-angel
Kirkus Reviews
Dana King: Twenty Questions
Gerald So: Concrete Angel chat
MYSTERY PEOPLE (Book People) Scott Montgomery Review
Bill Crider: Being a Late Bloomer
George Kelley: Patti Abbott's Bookshelves
J. Kingston Pierce: "Mommie Direst" (a reference to the character in Concrete Angel)
Ron Earl Phillips: Patti Abbott and Rob Hart: A Conversation
Ed Gorman: Pro-File
Women of Mystery: Setting
Elizabeth Spann Craig: Working My Way Toward the Novel
Charlie Stella's post and review
Joe Barone (review)
Criminal Element (Edward Grainger) (review)
Sergio Angelini (post)
Randy Johnson (review)
Todd Mason interview)
R & R with B.V. Lawson
Seana Graham (review)
Bill Crider (review)
Five Favorite Novels about Mothers and Daughters.(CRIMESPREE MAGAZINE)
Scott Parker (DO SOME DAMAGE)
Megan Abbott interview on THE LIFE SENTENCE
Debbie Diesen's MICHIGANDER MONDAY. (interview)
Marshall Zeringue's Page 69 test
Interview with Prashant Trikannad
My Book, The Movie
Writers Read
Evan Lewis' Blog-(Davy Crockett's Almanac) review
Martin Edwards-guest blog
Behind the Book, CRIMESPREE MAGAZINE, Writing Dark
Interview with Scott Montgomery, MYSTERY PEOPLE at BOOK PEOPLE in Austin
Tip The Wink (Rick Robinson) review
TracyK review (Bitter Tea and Mystery)
Bernadette (Reactions to Reading)
Pulp Hack Confessions
I SEE LIGHTNING FALL review
Kevin Tipple review
Barry Ergang review
Dead End Follies review
THE BLUE HOUSE review
Mathew Paust
12 comments:
Patti - I. love. those! What a great idea and I'm so glad they're still there.
Patti, this is a novel idea. Do the book benches also have books?
Yes, I think if you look closely you will see the books across the bottom between the two seats.
DDOT should be ashmed of themselves. I love this idea.
Jeff M.
I bet they just see it as trouble waiting to happen. They can't maintain their buses and probably think they would be expected to monitor the benches.
This is nice, but I think the bankruptcy of Detroit will open a Pandora's Box of Bad Consequences.
Nice to see folks who aren't giving up.
Patti, I missed the books. I can see them now. Who is responsible for them?
DDOT is /was probably someone would get a splinter and sue them (not that they could get much...).
I imagine the students who build them. I could give them plenty if I knew where to go.
Patti: Let's get serious here. Detroit's in big trouble. Hope Wayne State is okay. Maybe you can hook up with people like Mitch Albom and Doug Allyn to maintain pride in the city. Something needs to be done in what used to be 4th most prosperous city in the U.S. Yours truly, Toe.
WSU gets no money from the city. However the legislature feels it owes nothing much to Detroit or the idea of educating Detroit youth so they are starving the school. Unlike U of M and MSU they have few rich alumna to go to.
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