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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
17 comments:
Don't watch Madmen, but I sure remember "John & Marsha" and many other great Freberg recordings.
Which thing didn't you get, Patti?
Never watched Madmen. So I'm lost here.
I've only watched a few episodes of Mad Men. It seems interesting but I'm not quite sure what all the hype is about.
I had no idea who John or Marsha was or why they kept repeating it. I don' think I ever listened to comedy albums with the exception of Bob Newhart and Bill Cosby.
Stan Freeberg was a genius.
I love his History of the United States Part I, probably my favorite comedy album of all time. In college I just about had it memorized.
Patti - no Shelly Berman?
For some reason the comics of that era escaped me. Berman I've heard of by this guy--not at all.
Patti - I have to admit, I'm not a Madmen watcher, but I like John and Marsha; I even remember the first time I heard it.
I don't like John & Marsha, but it was intended to be a parody of radio soap operas. Freberg is appropriate for Madmen because at the time the show is set, in the early 60s, he was a giant in the advertising field. He's considered one of the first to effectively use humor in ads.
Aha. The information grows. So he was in advertising not only a comedian.
Yes, he'd moved from being one of the most admired radio comedy writer/performers to being a very successful ad guy as well, doing similarly mildly (and sometimes not so mildly) satirical/absurdist things. He also sold a lot of records. THE STAN FREBERG SHOW was a summer replacement for THE JACK BENNY SHOW on CBS Radio in...'56, I think it was.
Yeah, I really didn't know where you were going with that question.
Elaborated series of sketchs, the J&M, that were picked up by others...I think I first encountered the trope on THE ELECTRIC COMPANY ca. '72, if not on some primetime comedy show beforehand.
I always wondered why they canceled THE ELECTRIC COMPANY.
I was a pre-schooler when this piece debuted I think.
THE ELECTRIC COMPANY, much like ZOOM some years before (and ZOOM is already gone again), has been revived in radically different form by PBS. Good question as to why the CTW, now Sesame Workshop, shut it down...perhaps the cast was too expensive (it didn't turn over nearly as quickly as SS's) and the spinoff/subsidiary toy potential was slight. I think TEC was gone even before the Speak and Spell was introduced.
My kids liked both around five or so. A dearth of quality shows for kids then. And even more so, movies.
Yup, though there were a few other decent series for children which were contemporaneous...ABC's MAKE A WISH, the syndicated BIG BLUE MARBLE, CBS's CHILDREN'S FILM FESTIVAL hosted by Kukla, Fran and Ollie...but those were all weekly. Weekdaily, CAPTAIN KANGAROO on CBS and the syndicated ROMPER ROOM were about the only sops to educational programming the commercial stations were making to very young children in the early '70s. MARSHALL EFRON'S PAINLESS SUNDAY SCHOOL was mildly amusing for even the young atheist I was. But I dug the short-form drama of RIPPLES and INSIDE OUT at least as much (PBS offers meant to spark classroom discussion).
In one episode of INSIDE OUT, one of the preteens blows off school and goes to see a showing of THE HOUSE THAT DRIPPED BLOOD, one of the badly-executed anthology films Amicus made from the Robert Bloch scripts they commissioned (among those, I like only TORTURE GARDEN, though on the Horror List, a number of folks like ASYLUM metter than I do or Bloch did).
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