Podcast appearances and mentions of Paul D Marks

Paul D. Marks is the Shamus and Macavity Award-winning author of White Heat and Broken Windows, mystery-thrillers that take place in 1990s Los Angeles and touch upon social issues of that time which are still in the news today. Publishers Weekly calls White Heat a “taut crime yarn” and says of Broken Windows that “Fans of downbeat PI fiction will be satisfied…with Shamus Award winner Marks's solid sequel to 2012's White Heat.” Paul's short story, Windward, won the Macavity Award and has been selected for the anthology Best American Mystery Stories of 2018 Edited by Louise Penny and Otto Penzler. Matt Coyle is the best-selling author of the Rick Cahill crime novels. His first book, YESTERDAY'S ECHO, won the Anthony Award for Best First Novel, The San Diego Book Award for Best Mystery, the IBPA Ben Franklin Silver Award for Best New Voice in Fiction, and was a Macavity finalist for Best First Novel. The second, NIGHT TREMORS, was a finalist for the Anthony, Shamus, and Lefty Awards. The third Rick Cahill crime novel, DARK FISSURES, was a finalist for the Macavity and Lefty Awards. BLOOD TRUTH, is a finalist for the Shamus Award, a Silver Award winner for the Foreword Indies Book of the Year Award for Thrillers and was a finalist for the Lefty Award for Best Mystery. His short story, The #2 Pencil is a Macavity Award nominee and a Derringer Award Finalist. WRONG LIGHT, the 5th Rick Cahill crime novel comes out in December, 2018. Matt lives in San Diego with his Yellow Lab, Angus. Host: Matt Coyle is the Anthony, Shamus, and Lefty Award-winning author of the Rick Cahill crime series. This podcast is solely owned by the Authors on the Air Global Radio Network. @copyrighted

World War II-era Los Angeles: In Paul D. Marks’s The Blues Don’t Care, Bobby Saxon, a young white pianist with a secret, wants to join Booker “Boom Boom” Taylor’s band in spite of—or perhaps because—it being all African-American group. But first, because as a caucasian Bobby can go where black men cannot, “Boom Boom” wants... Read more »

In which Paul talks about his books WHITE HEAT, BROKEN WINDOWS, and the forthcoming, THE BLUES DON'T CARE.

Richard Sirgiovanni: Music and cartoons were always forefront for Richard Sirgiovanni. At a very early age Richard saw The Beatles on Ed Sullivan. The impact was life altering. Richard, was already an avid reader of comics, but now at seven years old began playing drums and drawing. These parallel roads created a self-taught drummer/cartoonist who whilst listening to rock n roll music copied everything he saw from newspaper comic strips to Marvel/DC comic books.Richard's interest in popular music and drawing continued as he was accepted to the prestigious School of Visual Arts in Manhattan where he studied cartooning and storytelling under Harvey Kurtzman (co-founder of Mad Magazine) and Will Eisner, (creator of The Spirit comics). Simultaneously, Richard played drums in an original rock band in New York City. The band was voted one of the top original acts by The Soho News. He crossed paths on the club scene with Madonna, Jon Bon Jovi, Twisted Sister, Cyndi Lauper and The Stray Cats.Richard continued freelancing in art and music as a cartoonist becoming an award winning Creative Director in the advertising field. Having this deep passion for storytelling and music he thought to create an original idea combing rock n roll and cartoons…. Something magical and fun for kids with a positive message. The Grimps were born.An original animated rock n' roll series for kids presenting original music. It's time for The Grimps.http://thegrimps.comPaul D. Marks:Paul D. Marks is the author of the Shamus Award-winning mystery-thriller White Heat, which Publishers Weekly calls a "taut crime yarn," and its sequel Broken Windows. Betty Webb of Mystery Scene Magazine says, "Broken Windows is extraordinary." Though set in the 1990s, both novels deal with issues that are hot and relevant today: racism and immigration, respectively, in the context of mystery-thrillers. His short stories appear in Ellery Queen and Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazines, among others, and have won or been nominated for many awards, including the Anthony, Derringer and Macavity.http://pauldmarks.comComplete Radio Promotional Package: The Douglas Coleman Show is now offering a complete radio promotional package for music artists. Your track will air 28 times a week for 1 month. Your track will air over all of our online and terrestrial platforms as well as permanently archive on Spreaker, Itunes and many other sites. With this package, you will also get a 15min interview on our show to promote your latest, single, EP, LP or upcoming gig. Similar packages like this can run hundreds of dollars and often are subscription based. Our package is a one-time fee of just 49.99. Let's work together to get your music heard. https://douglascolemanmusic.com/crpp for complete details. Sponsorship:If you're interested in being a sponsor on The Douglas Coleman Show, please check out our packages on Patreon or contact us directly. https://www.patreon.com/douglascolemanshowdouglascolemanshow@gmail.comOR if you'd prefer to make a one-time donation, please check out our GoFundMe. https://www.gofundme.com/the-dcs-needs-your-help

Richard Sirgiovanni: Music and cartoons were always forefront for Richard Sirgiovanni. At a very early age Richard saw The Beatles on Ed Sullivan. The impact was life altering. Richard, was already an avid reader of comics, but now at seven years old began playing drums and drawing. These parallel roads created a self-taught drummer/cartoonist who whilst listening to rock n roll music copied everything he saw from newspaper comic strips to Marvel/DC comic books.Richard's interest in popular music and drawing continued as he was accepted to the prestigious School of Visual Arts in Manhattan where he studied cartooning and storytelling under Harvey Kurtzman (co-founder of Mad Magazine) and Will Eisner, (creator of The Spirit comics). Simultaneously, Richard played drums in an original rock band in New York City. The band was voted one of the top original acts by The Soho News. He crossed paths on the club scene with Madonna, Jon Bon Jovi, Twisted Sister, Cyndi Lauper and The Stray Cats.Richard continued freelancing in art and music as a cartoonist becoming an award winning Creative Director in the advertising field. Having this deep passion for storytelling and music he thought to create an original idea combing rock n roll and cartoons…. Something magical and fun for kids with a positive message. The Grimps were born.An original animated rock n' roll series for kids presenting original music. It's time for The Grimps.http://thegrimps.comPaul D. Marks:Paul D. Marks is the author of the Shamus Award-winning mystery-thriller White Heat, which Publishers Weekly calls a "taut crime yarn," and its sequel Broken Windows. Betty Webb of Mystery Scene Magazine says, "Broken Windows is extraordinary." Though set in the 1990s, both novels deal with issues that are hot and relevant today: racism and immigration, respectively, in the context of mystery-thrillers. His short stories appear in Ellery Queen and Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazines, among others, and have won or been nominated for many awards, including the Anthony, Derringer and Macavity.http://pauldmarks.comComplete Radio Promotional Package: The Douglas Coleman Show is now offering a complete radio promotional package for music artists. Your track will air 28 times a week for 1 month. Your track will air over all of our online and terrestrial platforms as well as permanently archive on Spreaker, Itunes and many other sites. With this package, you will also get a 15min interview on our show to promote your latest, single, EP, LP or upcoming gig. Similar packages like this can run hundreds of dollars and often are subscription based. Our package is a one-time fee of just 49.99. Let's work together to get your music heard. https://douglascolemanmusic.com/crpp for complete details. Sponsorship:If you're interested in being a sponsor on The Douglas Coleman Show, please check out our packages on Patreon or contact us directly. https://www.patreon.com/douglascolemanshowdouglascolemanshow@gmail.comOR if you'd prefer to make a one-time donation, please check out our GoFundMe. https://www.gofundme.com/the-dcs-needs-your-help

Paul D. Marks is t the Shamus and Macavity Award-winning author of White Heat and Broken Windows, mystery-thrillers that take place in 1990s Los Angeles and touch upon social issues of that time which are still in the news today. Publishers Weekly calls White Heat a “taut crime yarn” and says of Broken Windows that “Fans of downbeat PI fiction will be satisfied…with Shamus Award winner Marks’s solid sequel to 2012’s White Heat.” Paul's short story, Windward, won the Macavity Award and has been selected for the anthology Best American Mystery Stories of 2018 Edited by Louise Penny and Otto Penzler. Matt Coyle is the best-selling author of the Rick Cahill crime novels. His first book, YESTERDAY'S ECHO, won the Anthony Award for Best First Novel, The San Diego Book Award for Best Mystery, the IBPA Ben Franklin Silver Award for Best New Voice in Fiction, and was a Macavity finalist for Best First Novel. The second, NIGHT TREMORS, was a finalist for the Anthony, Shamus, and Lefty Awards. The third Rick Cahill crime novel, DARK FISSURES, was a finalist for the Macavity and Lefty Awards. BLOOD TRUTH, is a finalist for the Shamus Award, a Silver Award winner for the Foreword Indies Book of the Year Award for Thrillers and was a finalist for the Lefty Award for Best Mystery. His short story, The #2 Pencil is a Macavity Award nominee and a Derringer Award Finalist. WRONG LIGHT, the 5th Rick Cahill crime novel comes out in December, 2018. Matt lives in San Diego with his Yellow Lab, Angus. 

The Stuph File Program Featuring Paul D. Marks, author of Broken Windows; Sandi Harding, General Manager of the last Blockbuster Video outlet in the United States; & Peter Franklin, the Gabby Cabby Download Mystery thriller author, Paul D. Marks on his latest entitled Broken Windows, which takes place in the 1990’s California and deals with racism and immigration. Sandy Harding is the General Manager of the last remaining Blockbuster Video store in the United States, in Bend, Oregon. Peter Franklin the Gabby Cabby, shares a slice of the Big Apple from his yellow mobile conveyance lounge. This week’s opening slate is presented by Kris Leblanc, the afternoon drive producer at Jewel 106.7 in Montreal.

Teddie Matson had a golden life, until her path had the misfortune of crossing mine. I sat staring out the window of my office, k.d. lang playing in the background. It was a while till the sun would set, that golden hour when everything takes on a gilded glow. Golden hour is the time when the light hits just right in the early morning or late afternoon. The time when movie cinematographers most like to shoot. The light is tawny and warm. Gentle. It makes the stars shine brighter. Golden hour is the time when Teddie Matson was killed. -- Paul D. Marks, White Heat I had so much fun talking to author Paul D. Marks about his novels, his short stories, and his encounters with the LAPD. Paul's noir sensibility and love of Los Angeles come out in everything he does, but nowhere more than in "Ghosts of Bunker Hill," his short story which was nominated this year for the Macavity Award and which you can read right here. Paul has his own website, where you can keep tabs on his current and future projects. He also blogs at Criminal Minds and SleuthSayers. Social media buffs can find him on Facebook and Twitter. Paul gives a shout-out to classic authors, including Raymond Chandler, David Goodis, Ross MacDonald and John Fante, as well as masters of the short story genre, Fitzgerald, Hemingway and Cheever. As a fan of classic noir myself, I have to say I see the connection between Raymond Chandler and Paul's work. The mean streets of L.A. may have gotten more congested, but there's still a dark side to sunny California, and Paul explores it in much of his work.  Transcript is below. Enjoy the interview! -- Laura ****************************************************************************************** Transcript of Interview with Paul D. Marks Laura Brennan: My guest today is the author of the Shamus Award-winning mystery/thriller, White Heat. But Paul D. Marks is perhaps best known for his short stories. He was voted #1 in the 2016 Ellery Queen Reader’s Award Poll, and his work, which tends towards Noir, has been widely published, recognized with multiple awards, and anthologized. His story, Ghosts of Bunker Hill, from the November 2016 Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, is currently nominated for a Macavity Award. Paul, thank you for joining me.  Paul D. Marks: Well, thank you for having me, Laura. I'm glad to be here. LB: In the reviews of one of your novels, one of the reviewers said that, essentially, you are the master of all things noir and Los Angeles. So, you do, you really seem to love Los Angeles. PDM: I do like Los Angeles, probably partly because I was born here and grew up here. My mother and family -- her side of the family goes back a long ways. And when I was a kid, it was still a little bit of Raymond Chandler's LA. He was still around, although I wasn't conscious of him. He was around and Los Angeles, as I remember it as a child, was kind of how he described it in his books, especially the later books like The Long Goodbye. I think just growing up here, by osmosis you get the ambience and the feel of the place and that comes out in my writing. LB: Is he what drew you into noir? PDM: Probably what drew me into noir is movies. As you probably know, he wrote a couple of really great noir movies like Double Indemnity and The Blue Dahlia. So I'd watch the movies and you see "The Big Sleep, based on a novel by Raymond Chandler," or "Dark Passage, based on a novel by David Goodis." And my mom had this double volume of mystery books, I can't remember the name of it. And if I recall, the first story or first novel in this collection was The Big Sleep. So one day, I guess I was intrigued by this sinister-looking collection of stuff and I had seen the movie The Big Sleep, and I went and I read the novel in that collection and I was hooked. After that, I read everything I could by Raymond Chandler and he's still my favorite. I love David Goodis, too.

This month we’re delighted to present a reading by author Paul D. Marks of the most recent winner of the EQMM Readers Award, his tale “Ghosts of Bunker Hill,” published in the December 2016 EQMM. A native of Los Angeles, Paul Marks evokes that city’s history hauntingly in this story, the first in a series featuring private eye Howard Hamm. www.pauldmarks.com

Screenwriter and novelist Paul D. Marks is also the author of more than thirty published short stories. His EQMM debut was the story "Howling at the Moon" (EQMM November 2014), a tale that went on to garner nominations for both the Macavity and Anthony awards for best short story. This recording of the California author reading his celebrated story was made at the Bouchercon World Mystery Convention in Raleigh, North Carolina in 2015. www.pauldmarks.com

Shamus Award-winning author Paul D. Marks joins us in this episode of CrimeFiction.FM to discuss his latest, a noir thriller titled VORTEX. Show Notes Paul shares his definition of noir in fiction. Paul has worked in the film business and offers the movie Double Indemnity as an excellent example of a classic noir film. We discuss the storyline […] The post Vortex, by Paul D. Marks appeared first on CrimeFiction.FM.