tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137346552024-03-06T23:57:27.570-08:00Writers, Pulp NoirLarryFugetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10902953187415701791noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13734655.post-58831417742115048972009-11-14T15:11:00.000-08:002009-11-21T16:42:47.117-08:00Check out Cleveland's newest serial killer, Anthony <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">Sowell</span>. The pointy head killed them and then kept them close, in the walls, the basement, the crawl space, the backyard. If there's one thing Ohio has, it's plenty of <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">psychopaths. Can I get an amen? <a href="http://lfugett.com/ClevelandTorsoMurders.html">http://lfugett.com/ClevelandTorsoMurders.html</a> </span>LarryFugetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10902953187415701791noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13734655.post-61097057486302291772009-07-08T14:01:00.000-07:002009-07-08T14:06:59.303-07:00Have a manuscript lying around, a short story, noirish in theme? Run it by my web site. It just might be publishable. Check out Writers' forum at lfugett.comLarryFugetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10902953187415701791noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13734655.post-91760803358676190222009-05-29T08:40:00.000-07:002009-05-29T08:43:53.177-07:00Arrrg! Is anyone out there? Or are they all on the porn sites?LarryFugetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10902953187415701791noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13734655.post-29001730619028495542009-05-07T08:49:00.000-07:002009-05-23T08:39:25.726-07:00<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJD8SZJqg2moOwAPoi10f7dOMSb38Vjm8892aN63lBIt9zUNxpDh9odFw1IRXpbz7c3KWGNkURwykbKriSWv9GSdALLTg812J-jXhg0oPkrzkmY06W0vtiQZrwNlo0sxmA3MEM/s1600-h/9780981468563.jpg72.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333114967845589762" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 224px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJD8SZJqg2moOwAPoi10f7dOMSb38Vjm8892aN63lBIt9zUNxpDh9odFw1IRXpbz7c3KWGNkURwykbKriSWv9GSdALLTg812J-jXhg0oPkrzkmY06W0vtiQZrwNlo0sxmA3MEM/s320/9780981468563.jpg72.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;">I have a new book out on the market from Tainted Coffee Press, entitled Hollywood Iliad, a Tincture of Red. It's all about the aftermath of Senator Joseph McCarthy and the Commie Inquisition of the 1950s, Murder and Mayhem. If you're a Geezer, as I am, and you like the old Hollywood Movies, this book is for you. Check-out the video at the bottom of this blog. Better Yet, check out my website. Some of the last century's more bloodthirsty live there.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.lfugett.com/">http://www.lfugett.com/</a> Please post a link to my <span class="">website and I'll return the favor. </span>Thank you</span></div>LarryFugetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10902953187415701791noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13734655.post-72753094695554364772008-04-21T14:20:00.000-07:002008-04-21T14:25:03.937-07:00<span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;">I haven't abandoned this blog. It's very important for authors to realize what they're getting into when they sign on with Publish America. I'm leaving it up for a while longer, so please feel free to comment.</span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;">LW Fugett 4-21-08</span>LarryFugetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10902953187415701791noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13734655.post-71618851887208038622007-07-30T08:57:00.000-07:002010-07-09T22:16:03.598-07:00<div align="left"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL86EOqJ597HcUNxMQ5hUPZEY5svGA7VUsJBu99ixfyXkwjWclz4JYqlC3pbh-lCpSRHiAFg6Bs4FxOCUIHE2QZvsCEQ4P9jPzb-iqF2b2rovfyEhhvap5N_ebs12H1vWdQeA_/s1600-h/Image014a+copy.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; FLOAT: left; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5093020744836577938" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL86EOqJ597HcUNxMQ5hUPZEY5svGA7VUsJBu99ixfyXkwjWclz4JYqlC3pbh-lCpSRHiAFg6Bs4FxOCUIHE2QZvsCEQ4P9jPzb-iqF2b2rovfyEhhvap5N_ebs12H1vWdQeA_/s320/Image014a+copy.jpg" /></a><br /></div><div align="left"><br /></div><div align="left">7-10-2010 Take another look at Publish America: as predicted, they have lowered their prices on all books. A hardcopy can now be purchased for less than $15 bucks and a paperback for less than $9. <em>Kentucky Justice</em> is now competitive. Go for it!</div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"> </div><div align="left"> </div><div align="left"> The following was posted several years ago</div><div align="left"> </div><div align="left">So many of the authors on the public message boards at PA have been debating the issue of whether Publish America is a vanity press that I decided to give them the benefit of my publishing knowledge. I posted, knowing that I would be censored as soon as the administrators saw the post. They wasted no time. One person got to read it, and zapow it was gone. So here it is again.</div><div align="left"></div><div align="left">Hello out there, I say with cupped hand to ear. Haven’t you figured it out yet? Why do you suppose our books are so overpriced? (I’ll probably get blacklisted for this—but truth will out.) Publish America is most certainly a vanity press, but with a Madison Avenue twist: a dollar advance and a contract. A contract and a binding advance, huh? That signals non-vanity press, right? Ok, the dollar didn’t send you into orbit but the contract was an immediate ego massage.<br /><br /><br /><br />PA has invested in that very word, VANITY. It counts on you, your family, and your circle of friends buying the book at the exorbitant price. Any further sales is just gravy. When your book came out, do you remember how excited you were? Of course, you do. You were ecstatic. So, how many of you rushed to order 10, 20, 50, even 100 copies? Most of you, right? I don’t know what PA’s break even number is, but it’s not very high, because it costs them very little to produce a book.<br /><br /><br /><br />Push the ego aside and look at the situation objectively—then get on with promoting your book.<br /><br />1) PA has very little invested in your book, since you did all the work in writing it and, yes, even editing it. If it needed heavy editing, it wouldn’t have been accepted in the first place. (Bubba and his treatise on night crawler ‘ketchin’ is just too costly to unsnarfle. It’s a sale lost but a major embarrassment and bad pub avoided.) They may scan your book for typos and misspellings but there are no major artistic changes made. In many cases, you even designed the cover. (A book cover can be designed and laid out ready for print by a professional in a couple of hours or less, even I can do it.) For the entire book, we’re only talking about a few hours work for PA since everything is done digitally on the computer. Ok, the book is formatted and the cover is ready.<br /><br />2) The book goes to a print-on-demand digital press where any number can be printed on the cheap, from one to the max. (This is another economy factor. There does not have to be a thousand-book press-run with hopes that the book sells, perhaps be left with a printing bill and 998 pads of toilet paper.) One hundred pound cover stock is less than ten cents per, and sixty pound bond paper & ink is less than, or right at two cents per page. A 300-page book will cost less than $4.50 to produce in materials and ink. If you have your calculator out, a 300-page book has only 150 actual sheets of paper since the print is on both sides.<br /><br /><br /><br />My point: nobody has given you anything, big break or otherwise. You deserve to be in print. You wrote the book; you did the WORK, and I’ll say it again YOU did the WORK, no matter what PA is. Don’t spend one more moment debating being worthy. You’ve shown determination and spirit in getting this far—and I am amazed at the resourcefulness in promotion found here. So, go kick ass and fugitabout it.<br /><br /><br /><br />Direct all hate mail to yours truly, LW Fugett. I can handle it****<br /><br /><br />PS. (If you want a better alternative to Publish America for your next book, drop me a note and I'll show you the way. The means are right here on the net, and you can control everything, especially price.)</div><div align="left"></div><div align="left">Question: Hi there, Just read your spill om Publish America. What is your opinion on Outskirts Press? Tell me more about what I can find on the internet. Where did you get most of your work published and were you satisfied. Curious to know, (Name withheld as a courtesy to author.)</div><div align="left"></div><div align="left">Answer: Hi H-----, sorry for the delay. Outskirts Press is as good as any on the net if one wants to pay to be published. And there's absolutely nothing wrong with paying except the stigma, not of being ripped off by a publisher or anything so nefarious, but of having to pay to get one's work into print. Actually there's nothing wrong with Publish America but the contract and the outrageous retail price demanded. (I have a main line publisher who wants my book, Kentucky Justice, and it's locked up with PA for 7 years. I screwed up, big time.) A first time author trying to promote a 20-dollar book is probably going nowhere except to friends and relatives. Even if the book were to magically make it to the bookstores, no one is going to take a 20-dollar chance on an unknown and buy it. They may if it were half that price and it was a good book, properly promoted, but even then, it would be doubtful. The best option is Lulu publishing. It's free and you get the same promotion on Amazon, Barnes & Nobles, and others on the net. You will have to do all of the work, formatting, editing, book cover, etc., but those things are simple to do with their instructions. Best of all, you are in control--and you get to set the retail price, above cost, of course. There's no contract. You can have an audio made if you wish, an e-book, promote Look Inside on Amazon or anything you choose. By the way, the latter two are not permitted with PA. I am currently with Tainted Coffee Press, a new company, with which my company, Noir Publishing is an affiliate. Take a look at the price of Murder in the Bluegrass on AD. It’s the right price. I just got the book placed with a few bookstores, and it’s moving at 11-dollars per. If you decide to go with Lulu for your next book and need any help, give me a yell. I’ll help you with any stumbling blocks—even the cover. Thanks for the note and don’t be a stranger** LW Fugett</div><div align="left"></div><div align="left">Question/ Statement: If PublishAmerica is running such a good racket as you imply, where are all the me toos? I guess the vast majority of PODs must be uninformed or unconvinced because the PA model is almost never copied. The way to get rich with a POD is not by giving something for nothing! My contract doesn't bind me to anything except that they have the rights to a book nobody wants. They get nickels and dimes compared to the gold mine in pay up front publishing. Also not mentioned in your article is that some PA authors can sell movie rights without giving anything back. (Name withheld) </div><div align="left"></div><div align="left">Answer: Hi E-----. Thank you for the rebuttal. I would have expected as much from PA when I posted rather than to have been censored. However, the point to my article was not to expose PA as a “racket”, but to inform its authors of the misnomer they were marching to. The controversy at PA among the authors (because PA’s design was to intentionally promote an impression and set PA apart) was, is, and always will be whether the potential buyers of their books consider PA a vanity press, especially the book store owners who do not want to stock PA’s books, number one, because they are so over priced, and number two, because they are non-returnable (except for a select few that do sell). Let’s be realistic. Like any other vanity press out here, PA has some real dogs in print that are nothing more than drivel. Bookstores are in business to make money, not to stroke our egos. </div><div align="left"></div><div align="left">As far as the seven-year contract is concerned, consider it a seven-year annuity for PA. If only four books per year are sold per author at twenty dollars a book, (this is a conservative estimate with 20, 000 authors under contract, and PA states up front that they fully expect you to promote your book for the entire seven years) Pa will gross 11, 200,000 dollars. For those four books, what will the author receive? A few dollars and an ego massage. Of course, that may well be payment enough. </div><div align="left"></div><div align="left">A movie deal? Another come-on. It’s only mentioned to implant the notion of possibility. The odds are astronomical. </div><div align="left"></div><div align="left">FYI, there is a better alternative here on the net, and it’s free, but, sad to say, it’s also a vanity press.</div><div align="left">E-----, I’m only the messenger and I fully expect to be shot. Thank you.</div><div align="left">LW Fugett </div><div align="left"></div><div align="left">Question: Hi L Fugett: Please tell me what is the internet alternative to PublishAmerica? If you mean Lulu.Com its a total rip off. I dont understand why a publisher doesn't charge $ is a Vanity Press. (Name withheld) </div><div align="left"></div><div align="left">Answer: Hey, E-----,** Publish America is a vanity press simply because the powers in charge play to our vanity, our ego, the burning desire to be a published author, willing to sign away our book rights and huckster our brains out for only a remote or a non-existent chance at the brass ring, not because of monies being or not being exchanged from author to publisher. (The contract replaces the up-front money, guaranteeing payback and profit.) The hallmark of a main-line publisher is quality of writing and editing, of sales, of competitive pricing and promotion. Our books were not accepted because our work is stellar compared to “up-front” vanity presses. For the most part, they are not superior. Bookstores want quality and value—books they can move—and they picked up on the big lie immediately. </div><div align="left"></div><div align="left">PA’s publishing model is nothing short of brilliant, counting on our egos to make the suggestion that non-payment equals mainline publisher. (The contract is a part of this, and parcel to the lie.) “We don’t want your money, just your work.” The “payment” comes in on the backside, not the front. At least, the up-front presses are truthful about it, and one understands what’s coming about. The “touch” of sinister is the false dream promoted and the letdown when we hit the brick wall after we’ve bought our books and try to promote an overpriced, sometimes poorly written, under edited, vanity press production. Lulu is also a vanity press, but it is free and one does have some latitude with the price—and no binding contract.</div><div align="left"></div><div align="left">Since the author is doing all of the promotion anyway, one would be better off going to a digital press that specializes in the printing end and having his/her book printed and then consigning the book to bookstores. It’s an option, but a lot of work. (Bookstores will do this most readily if the procedure is handled right and the marketing is acceptable, e.g. graphics display box.) At least the retail price would be more competitive. Of course, one can do this with Lulu or Publish America, (buy the book and consign it.) but the retail price would be prohibitive, especially with PA’s books. Who knows, after PA gets its digital press up to speed and their annuities in overdrive, perhaps they’ll lower the price of their books and give us a better shot. </div><div align="left"></div><div align="left">LW Fugett </div>LarryFugetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10902953187415701791noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13734655.post-67550012169164717912007-04-12T17:27:00.000-07:002007-04-12T17:34:00.503-07:00I haven't posted in a month, but Imus(t). The man has been an idiot all his life and the network just got a clue. How freaking lame is that!!!!LarryFugetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10902953187415701791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13734655.post-63787209466526428032007-03-08T17:57:00.000-08:002007-03-08T18:00:20.541-08:00Mustard Gas<br /><br />Ye shan't taste it<br />Nor shall ye pass it<br />Get a snout-full<br />Ye a dead piece of asset.<br /><br />Author unknownLarryFugetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10902953187415701791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13734655.post-37320084220878575792007-03-04T20:35:00.000-08:002008-11-12T22:05:17.875-08:00<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSXtiGQRia1NwpnG0iOm_krgoX50E16_KhnzlsOdIWVWsOTaBQfDO9DhkHQyUSLIKdGo_Jbc8a12mGJtzFa2aOBf9eg4S0gAcz7LURVaSjJIRBMPh-aJzMPgqyWNXg4KXRceGs/s1600-h/Murder,+KY+outline&girlxxxxxblueabcdefgh.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5038295261281034066" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSXtiGQRia1NwpnG0iOm_krgoX50E16_KhnzlsOdIWVWsOTaBQfDO9DhkHQyUSLIKdGo_Jbc8a12mGJtzFa2aOBf9eg4S0gAcz7LURVaSjJIRBMPh-aJzMPgqyWNXg4KXRceGs/s320/Murder,+KY+outline%26girlxxxxxblueabcdefgh.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Murder in the Bluegrass may be purchased at <a href="http://www.lfugett.com">http://www.lfugett.com</a> for $7.95 including shipping and tax. (Retails for $11.00.)<a href="http://www.lfugett.com"></a>LarryFugetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10902953187415701791noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13734655.post-17987411149115612622007-03-01T09:48:00.000-08:002007-03-01T09:51:55.854-08:00If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and has feathers, it just might be Hortense the hooker.<br /><br />Author unknown.LarryFugetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10902953187415701791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13734655.post-26437512423079986132007-01-30T18:08:00.000-08:002008-11-12T22:05:18.041-08:00<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE8zhwbSeDEN7_DjVjZF_-uMeQHSwPkRT7fTMeo0kWIzUfYO4XmCOery7HzCvAj9TZYAmNqkH0VC4BiBrtUi7d41hbtcmwq20BDeIXGZOvEA_MVrlzPPLb5XW2pZDhzScA_U-w/s1600-h/Jan_30_002.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE8zhwbSeDEN7_DjVjZF_-uMeQHSwPkRT7fTMeo0kWIzUfYO4XmCOery7HzCvAj9TZYAmNqkH0VC4BiBrtUi7d41hbtcmwq20BDeIXGZOvEA_MVrlzPPLb5XW2pZDhzScA_U-w/s320/Jan_30_002.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5026011702886599842" /></a><br />My new book will be for sale on Publish America in two weeks.LarryFugetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10902953187415701791noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13734655.post-34732625097382328282006-11-22T10:25:00.000-08:002006-11-29T08:23:55.712-08:00<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/4863/1676/1600/larry_book_cover2.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/4863/1676/320/larry_book_cover2.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><strong>Unpublished writers: Noir Publishing, a brand new company, is now accepting short stories to be included in our March issue of Pulp Noir at <a href="http://lfugett.com">lfugett.com</a></strong><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong>Chop, chop! Your resume starts here!</strong><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong>PS. I just saw the movie Black Dahlia, based on the book by James Ellroy. The sets and cinematography will time-machine you back to Los Angeles, 1947.</strong>LarryFugetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10902953187415701791noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13734655.post-749378182595166222006-11-21T07:25:00.000-08:002006-11-21T07:27:49.803-08:00<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4863/1676/1600/62322/butcherhollerofficialsmall.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4863/1676/320/26638/butcherhollerofficialsmall.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>LarryFugetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10902953187415701791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13734655.post-1155100823553223462006-08-08T21:57:00.000-07:002006-11-16T10:01:29.019-08:00<strong><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;">Hey, y'all, would you please get up 'offen' Mel Gibson's ass? It's a free country if one can exclude that simple minded BS called political correctness. Who among us has not gotten Sh--t faced at one time or another and said things we didn't mean? Jessie Jackson with "Hymie town?" And Jessie wasn't even drunk, and I'm sure what he said was simply BS among friends.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;">Lord, hand me down a biscuit!!!</span></strong>LarryFugetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10902953187415701791noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13734655.post-1147994586356536462006-05-18T16:17:00.000-07:002006-11-16T10:01:28.781-08:00<span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;">Hey. I just thought a post was in order after six months.So what's going on out there besides the war and taxes?</span>LarryFugetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10902953187415701791noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13734655.post-1131454453201294012005-11-08T04:53:00.000-08:002006-11-16T10:01:28.532-08:00<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5372/1219/1600/wynonnajuddmug1.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5372/1219/320/wynonnajuddmug1.jpg" border="0" /></a>LarryFugetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10902953187415701791noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13734655.post-1131209001745600532005-11-05T08:40:00.000-08:002006-11-16T10:01:28.405-08:00<strong>Nice to see France getting the soufflé squeezed out of it!</strong>LarryFugetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10902953187415701791noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13734655.post-1130691466607316612005-10-30T08:50:00.000-08:002006-11-16T10:01:28.200-08:00<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5372/1219/1600/sinatramug.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5372/1219/320/sinatramug.jpg" border="0" /></a> Who am I?<br /><br /><br /><br /><em>Words to scribble on the outhouse wall.</em><br /><br />We have enough youth; how about a fountain of smart?<br /><br />Artificial intelligence usually beats real stupidity.<br /><br />Learn from your parent's mistakes...use birth control!<br /><br />The gene pool could use a little chlorine.LarryFugetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10902953187415701791noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13734655.post-1128446779433139892005-10-04T10:21:00.000-07:002006-11-16T10:01:28.081-08:00Any Existentialists surfing around? Give us your take on the philosophy.<br /><br /><br />Sartre was the only self-declared existentialist among the major thinkers. For him the central idea of all existential thought is that existence precedes essence. For Sartre there is no God and therefore no fixed human nature that forces one to act. Man is totally free and entirely responsible for what he makes of himself. It is this freedom and responsibility that is the source of man's dread.LarryFugetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10902953187415701791noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13734655.post-1123357871413048382005-08-06T12:49:00.000-07:002006-11-16T10:01:27.465-08:00<strong>SEVERED, John Gilmore’s account of the Black Dahlia Murder is the most plausible of the four books that I have now read, not that any of them actually came up with irrefutable evidence.<br /><br />Gilmore’s culprit is a despicable character who had a rap sheet five pages long, entailing everything from drunkenness to theft to sodomy. The culprit was a 6 foot 4 inch cross dresser who looked more like the bride of Frankenstein than one of the boy/girls out on the Sunset Strip.<br /><br />The big pause to Gilmore’s flow is the fact that this individual died in a hotel fire before LA detectives could put a loop on him. But, of course, “chit” like that sometimes happens.<br /><br />A very intriguing fact about this individual is that he was born in Canton, Ohio, and he was in Cleveland, Ohio during some of the infamous Torso Murders. Could he have served an apprenticeship, learned the ways of the butcher knife? A butcher by the same name was on Eliot Ness’ cuddle list.<br /><br />SEVERED is a good read. I give it four stars for Gilmore’s work and three stars for a plausible suspect.</strong>LarryFugetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10902953187415701791noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13734655.post-1123198914912518282005-08-04T15:42:00.000-07:002006-11-16T10:01:27.322-08:00<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5372/1219/1600/birth%20certificate.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5372/1219/320/birth%20certificate.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5372/1219/1600/Jack%20the%20knife.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5372/1219/320/Jack%20the%20knife.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><strong></strong> Does anyone out there in Blogersville have any information on one deceased male known as Jack Anderson Wilson, born in Canton, Ohio 8-5-1920. He was AKA Grover Loving Jr. along with about 12 other aliases. The latter part of his life was spent in Los Angeles Ca.LarryFugetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10902953187415701791noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13734655.post-1123046804234113542005-08-02T22:26:00.000-07:002006-11-16T10:01:27.199-08:00<strong></strong>Hello! Larry W. here again, your Pulp Noir book reviewer. I'm going to review the following books in the coming weeks written about the Black Dahlia murder that occured in Los Angeles in 1947, Elizabeth Short's ghoulish bisection.<br /><br />The first group of books were purportedly written as True Crime exposés, claiming to name the killer. We shall see who is truly full of Penn and Teller's Bullshit and who has the plausible solution--if any. <br /><br />The second group contains Novels with the Black Dahlia murder as the basis on which each book's story turns.<br /><br />(1) Severed: The True Story Of The Black Dahlia Murder by John Gilmore. <br />(2) Childhood Shadows: The Hidden Story of the Black Dahlia Murder by Mary Pacios.<br />(3) Daddy Was the Black Dahlia Killer by Janice Knowlton with Michael Newton.<br />(4) Black Dahlia Avenger, The True Story by Steve Hodel.<br /><br />(1) Black Dahlia by James Ellroy.<br />(2) Angel In Black by Max Allan Collins.<br /><br />If you have a suggestion for additions to group two, let me hear it*<br /><br />The rating system will be simple, one to four stars with a summary as to why the book is worth the price, or why the book should remain in the warehouse.LarryFugetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10902953187415701791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13734655.post-1123040496684057432005-08-02T20:40:00.000-07:002006-11-16T10:01:26.841-08:00<strong>Daddy Was The Black Dahlia Killer by Janice Knowlton.<br />The basis for this book is Ms. Knowlton's repressed memories of having seen her Father kill Elizabeth Short, among others. According to her recovered memories, her father's libido was gargantuan. He raped it if it moved and killed it if it wouldn't, male and female.<br /><br />She readily admits to major emotional problems after her Dr. performed an unneeded hysterectomy, which she purports to be the catalyst for recovering her lost memory years after her father's death. I know nothing of her medical history nor of the veracity of her claims about memory loss. I do know, however, that she presents no facts to substantiate her claim that George Knowlton killed the Black Dahlia.<br /><br />I would suggest that her repressed memories are more commonly called Imagination<br />The book gets one star for that Imagination and two stars for Michael Newton's writing ability.</strong>LarryFugetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10902953187415701791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13734655.post-1122996609845830982005-08-02T08:29:00.000-07:002006-11-16T10:01:26.727-08:00<strong>Childhood Shadows: The Hidden Story of the Black Dahlia Murder.<br />Mary Pacios, the author, was a childhood friend of Elizabeth Short, though Mary was many years younger. Throughout the book, one gets the feeling that Mary idolized Elizabeth, much as a younger sibling would idolize an older brother or sister who was held in high esteem for an admirable characteristic or other. In this case it was Elizabeth’s grace and beauty and, of course, her kindness toward Mary.<br /><br />Mary repays that kindness with loving remembrances of Elizabeth.<br /><br />However, Mary does not have a clue as to who killed her childhood friend. She points toward a well-known movie actor/director with the flimsiest of circumstance as nexus.<br /><br />Mary gets two stars for a well-written book, and one star for having the audacity to imply that this great actor/director was possibly the killer. After all, this implication did sell her book. I bought it.****</strong>LarryFugetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10902953187415701791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13734655.post-1121303101176443952005-07-13T18:04:00.000-07:002006-11-16T10:01:26.016-08:00<strong> Five Stars</strong><br /><br />Fear & Loathing in the Blue-Grass State!, July 13, 2005<br />Reviewer: Zygote in my Coffee.com - See all my reviews <br />"Butcher Holler" is a high-octane, neo-noir mystery that keeps the reader guessing until the very end. The novel is filled to the brim with a cast of unforgettable characters, ranging form a perverted, God-fearing sociopatch to a gun toting Vietnam vet and everything in between. Fugett's debut novel will undoubtedly establish him as the Mickey Spillane of Appalachia! I highly recommend picking this book up!LarryFugetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10902953187415701791noreply@blogger.com1