It seems like everybody (and their gerbil) has a blog these days. Unfortunately, most people would probably be better off letting their gerbils do the talking -- an awful lot of people really don't have very much to say, but insist on saying it anyway. Here are a few exceptions:
Thrilling Detective Blog
The world needs another blog like it needs another hole in its ozone layer, but we're gonna do it anyway. WARNING: Selected blogs may contain opinions.
Confessions of an Idosyncratic Mind
The best crime fic blog of 'em all, The Divine Ms. Sarah Weinman covers the crime fic beat with a ferocity usually reserved for pirahnas and fresh meat. If it ain't here, you don't need to know it.
If You Want To Know About My Life...
Our fiction editor Gerald So, reveals himself as not just the handsomest man in crime fiction, but also a a man of catholic tastes: Star Wars, baseball, superheroes and... poetry.
The Saturday Boy
Ray Banks' got opinions, and he ain't afraid to use 'em. He's wrong about Springsteen, though.
Secret Dead Blog
Duane Swierczynski is the man behind The Wheelman and Secret Dead Men. Check into his brain hotel anytime -- there's always room for one more. Like Laura says "The hardest surname to spell since Pelecanos!"
Gormania
Ed's forgotten more than most people know about crime fiction.
Bill Crider's Blog
One of Gorman's friends, Bill's blog is a little more relaxed than Ed's, but the two complement (and compliment) each other. And Bill knows all the stuff Ed forgot.
The Short of It
An idea whose time has come, our own Bob Tinsley has jumped onto the blogwagon and into the deep water (how's that for a mixed metaphor?) with a blog devoted exclusively to short fiction. Even better, Bob promises not to pull his punches. Check it out!
Central Crime Zone
CrimeSpree editor Jon Jordan's blog.
Christopher G. Moore Blog
Our man in Bangkok, and the creator of private eye Vinnie Calvino.
CrimeSpot.net
The easiest was to describe Graham Powell's cyber-thingie is to compare it to a cross between Google News and an RSS newsreader. essentially, it draws headlines from a number of different sources and presents them on a single page, where users can click through for the complete article. it also gets its information from syndication files in formatted for Atom (Blogger) and RSS (everyone else). This means it will be mostly used for reading crime-fiction related blogs, as well as featuring a calendar of mystery-related events.
More to come... if they move me.
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