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Edgar Nominee 2017, Anthony nominee 2017
Polis Books, 2015-nominated for the Anthony and Macavity Awards
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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
About Me
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
Contact me
pattinaseabbott@gmail.com
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SHOT IN DETROIT
Crimespree Magazine.Six Novels Set in Detroit
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
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
CONCRETE ANGEL-Reviews and Blog Tour
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
21 comments:
Favorite book about movies: Lots of 'em, but Goldman's Adventures in the Screen Trade would be at or near the top.
Books about books: A Gentle Madness by Nicholas Basbanes.
I have to admit, I like biographies :-) One I especially enjoyed was David McCollough's John Adams.
What Bill said about the Goldman. Great book. Other books about movies:
William Wellman, A Short Time for Insanity (memoir)
Kenneth Anger, Hollywood Babylon
Steven Bach, Final Cut (on Heaven's Gate)
Richard Schickel, Conversations With Scorsese
Don Miller, "B" Movies
Other lists to follow.
Jeff M.
I like true crime when the crime makes a larger point about the time and place. Two good recent examples are DEVIL IN THE GROVE, by Gilbert King, and THE SAVAGE CITY, by T.J. English.
Most nonfiction I read is either about rock music, science, or writing. I used to read a lot of history and loved it but I seldom have the time.
Books:
David Denby, Great Books
Sara Nelson, So Many Books, So Little Time; similarly
Nina Sankovitch, Tolstoy and the Purple Chair (she read a book a DAY for a year!)
Nick Hornby, Ten Years in the Tub
Helene Hanff, 84 Charing Cross Road
Also Leon Edel on Henry James and Michael Reynolds on Hemingway.
Jeff M.
Television:
Linda Ellerbee, "And So It Goes"
Alan Sepinwall, The Revolution was Televised
Another favorite area of mine is baseball:
Leo Durocher, Nice Guys Finish Last
Roger Angell, The Summer Game
William B. Mead, Even the Browns
G. H. Fleming, The Unforgettable Season (1908)
Roger Kahn, The Boys of Summer
Lawrence S. Ritter, The Glory of Their Times
Jim Brosnan, The Long Season
Harvey Araton, Driving Mr. Yogi: Yogi Berra, Ron Guidry & Baseball's Greatest Gift
Michael Lewis, Moneyball
Doris Kearns Goodwin, Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir
Al Stump, Ty Cobb: A Biography (of an appalling human being)
Jeff M.
My latest favorite book in this genre is Kenneth Turan's "Not to Be Missed: Fifty-Four Favorites From a Lifetime of Film." I'm slowly working my way through the 54 movies Turan recommends.
BOYS OF SUMMER is the greatest. Also some of the baseball books by players-Like BEHIND THE MASK.
Always enjoyed the Pauline Kael books.
My favorite film books include Pauline Kael's books, A Life of Barbara Stanwyck Steel-True, The Lost One (Peter Lorre), McGilligan's Hitchcock, Film Noir The Encyclopedia, Kenneth Anger's Hollywood Babylon, Basinger's The Star Machine, Robin Wood's Hitchcock's Films, David Thomson's The Big Screen. My favorite history book, Howard Zinn's People's History.
The only book I can think of within that category is I KILLED: TRUE STORIES OF THE ROAD FROM AMERICA'S TOP COMICS.
I have the Thomson book sitting on a shelf. The slighter the book, the more chance I will read it.
There's another one I liked about TV called Difficult Men. Looked at Soprano, Walt White, Don Draper, etc. Very good.
I think I read all the Kael books too.
Oh, a few football books:
Michael Lewis, The Blind Side
H. A. Bissinger, Friday Night Lights
Roy Blount, Jr., About Three Bricks Shy of a Load
Arthur J. Donovan, Fatso: Football When Men Were Really Men (pro football in the 1950s)
Jeff M.
I recently read (I think it was a book George had recommended) Jo Walton's What Makes This Book So Great?, about rereading her favorite science fiction books. I enjoyed her writing style even if I felt quite a lot of the books would not be my cup of tea.
Stephen Bach's book about the making of Heaven's Gate is hard to beat, but The Devil's Candy, about the equally difficult production of The Bonfire of the Vanities, runs a close second.
Books to Die For was my favourite non-fiction book in 2012. Like Jeff M. I could list a bunch of baseball and other sports books but I won't. I collect books on journalism and enjoy collections that could be described as long-form, narrative and creative nonfiction. Some recent ones in my collection are:
Renegades - Robert Ward
Silk Parachute - John McPhee
Into the Story - David Maranis
Heroes and Villains - David Hadju
The Silent Season of a Hero the Sports Writing of Gay Talese
I particularly enjoy it when the writers tell about the process undertaken to produce a piece.
A friend pushed The Revolution Was Televised on me. Enjoyable.
Deb, I was going to mention that Jo Walton book too, even though I will never read most of her choices. I cannot believe how fast she reads (and rereads). She makes George Kelley look slow!
Jeff M.
I've read a ton of books about George Armstrong Custer and one of the best is Son of the Morning Star.
Since someone mentioned baseball books:
WAIT TILL NEXT YEAR, A Memoir by Doris Kearns Goodwin
BALL FOUR by Jim Bouton
THE DREYFUS AFFAIR by Peter Lefcourt
Books about books and reading:
HOW READING CHANGED MY LIFE by Anna Quindlen
EX LIBRIS by Anne Fadiman
HOWARD'S END IS ON THE LANDING by Susan Hill
BOOK LUST by Nancy Pearl
MORE BOOK LUST by Nancy Pearl
BIRD BY BIRD by Annie Lamott
USED AND RARE by Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone
SLIGHTLY CHIPPED by Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone
...and a book on birds that I especially loved and recommend VERY highly as - with most books about specific things, it's really all about the life we live:
HOW TO BE A (BAD) BIRDWATCHER by Simon Barnes
have read a lot of these!
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