This weekend Charles Ardai leaked word about two forthcoming Hard Case Crime titles. First up, in July 2008: No House Limit, a novel by pulp maser Steve Fisher, who hasn't seen the light of print (correct me if I'm wrong) since Black Lizard reprinted I Wake Up Screaming back in the early 1990s. Count me in.But I'm especially excited about the second title:
Later in '08, we'll be publishing a brand new book called GUN WORK by the fine horror novelist and screenwriter David J. Schow -- who, entirely coincidentally (I didn't know this till after we bought the book), was once married to Christa Faust. (All together now: "It's a small world, after all...") Schow's years in Hollywood show through in GUN WORK -- it's one of the most action-packed novels we've had the pleasure of publishing, and man oh man can the guy write a great gunfight! But it's not "just" a shoot-'em-up -- this is an intense story with a lead character in a perilous predicament, and the emotional tension runs high from beginning to end. I'd be shocked if this one didn't end up on film some day -- but you'll be able to read it here first...I've been a Schow-head since the late 1980s (color me Splatterpunk), and strangely enough, just went through a Schow jag this summer, re-reading his story collections Seeing Red and Lost Angels, as well as Crypt Orchids, now available in a nice trade paperback edition from Babbage Press. (All highly recommended.) I even just nabbed a copy of Schow's second novel The Shaft, which was only published in the UK. Can't wait to see what he's cooked up for Hard Case...
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