Sunday, May 02, 2010

Needle

I've just finished reading the first issue of Needle, a new print magazine of crime fiction. Most of the writers in the issue were familiar to me, and will be to you if you read crime fiction in on-line zines, so I knew what to expect: straightforward stories of the dark side. No cozy stories, but no stories where the authors are going out of their way to shock the readers. I found one of the stories (Patti Abbott's) quite funny.

Needle's first issue isa solid outing, and I mentioned Hilary Davidson's story in an earlier post, but if you like hardboiled crime tales, you can't go wrong with any of them, though. I believe that one of them, Dave Zeltserman's, is a reprint, whereas the others are all originals.

You can't find the magazine on the newsstand, but you can buy it on Lulu. It's a classy production, from the cover to the interior illustrations to the contents. Check it out.

7 comments:

David Cranmer said...

Mine is waiting to be read. I'm looking forward to it.

Anonymous said...

Bill, I read your post and rushed to Lulu. Question is a subscription available?
Lulu wants $4 postage on top of the $7 magz price to order one issue. Looks like another case where the online vendor makes more $ on the shipping than the product.
Chuck Emerson

Unknown said...

Chuck, give this a try: Use coupon code FREESHIP at checkout and receive $3.99 towards your final shipping cost. This amount is the US mail cost for a single book order. Please note: there will be a shipping total listed on your order receipt. This coupon code will reduce your final order total by $3.99, which is the US mail cost for a single book. Destination must be a valid US mailing address.

pattinase (abbott) said...

Thanks, Bill! You made my day. Interesting article in the NYT magazine at how common and respectable self-published books were becoming.

Kevin R. Tipple said...

Can't afford to do it as am home on unpaid medical leave though I wish I could.

Steve Weddle said...

Thanks a bunch for the mention. Some great talent involved in that first issue. Heck, even more coming in issue number two this summer. Really glad you liked it.

Todd Mason said...

Amusingly, Lulu added a bogus level of Pennsylvania state tax to my order, but $7.49 is acceptable, for a little magazine these days (hell, the double-issues of the Dell/Penny/Crosstown magazines are $7 these days, aren't they? And a bargain as such things usually go...particularly when they have to pay those whomping big Crider checks...)(a very few obviously subsidized fiction magazines, such as THE NORMAL SCHOOL, run a bit cheaper with more expensive production, but not many...)(and POETRY, but they got a whomping big bequeathment from an heiress a few years back that's even more money than the Crider checks from Penny Press...or even three of them put together!).