{"id":1349,"date":"2014-09-09T09:50:41","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T04:06:58","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-03-30T12:49:07","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T19:49:07","slug":"sisters-in-crime-discuss-noir-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/2014\/09\/09\/sisters-in-crime-discuss-noir-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Sisters in Crime discuss Noir Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dark Deeds…Harboiled Anti-heroes…and REVENGE! – A panel discussion of Noir Fiction with Sisters in Crime. Featuring…<\/span><\/p>\n

CRAIG FAUSTUS BUCK (Moderator) is an L.A.-based journalist, nonfiction book author, TV writer-producer, screenwriter, short-story writer and novelist.  Among his six nonfiction books, two were #1 NYT bestsellers.  He wrote the Oscar-nominated short film Overnight Sensation<\/em>.  He was one of the writers on the seminal miniseries V: The Final Battle<\/em>.  His first noir mystery novel, Go Down Hard<\/em>, which his agent is currently shopping, was First Runner Up for Killer Nashville’s Claymore Award.  His  indie feature, Smuggling for Gandhi<\/em>, is in preproduction.  Stark Raving Group published his novella, Psycho Logic<\/a><\/em> in May, and the novella’s prequel, his short story “Dead End,” is a current Anthony Award nominee. <\/span><\/p>\n

KIM COOPER is the creator of 1947 project, the crime-a-day blog that spawned Esotouric’s popular bus tours, including The Real Black Dahlia and Pasadena Confidential. With husband Richard Schave, Kim curates the cultural and forensic science salons of LAVA – The Los Angeles Visionaries Association. Kim’s books include Fall in Love For Life<\/em>, Bubblegum Music is the Naked Truth<\/em>, Lost in the Grooves<\/em> and an oral history of the band Neutral Milk Hotel. Her debut novel, the fact-based The Kept Girl<\/a><\/em> (“Commendable” \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Kirkus) stars the young Raymond Chandler and the real-life Philip Marlowe sleuthing a murderous cult of angel worshippers. <\/span><\/p>\n

CHRISTOPHER J. LYNCH has written for numerous local and national publications. He also is the author<\/a> of the One Eyed Jack series about a professional blackmailer. The debut novel<\/a> in the series was a 2013 Shamus Award finalist. He is currently writing an authorized biography<\/a> of the iconic child actor Ken Osmond, (Eddie Haskell from Leave it to Beaver<\/em>). Christopher enjoys mountain climbing and once trained and led eleven blind hikers to the summit of 10,000 ft. Mount Baldy, the third highest point in Southern California. A documentary film<\/a> is being made of the adventure.  <\/span><\/p>\n

GARY PHILLIPS: Gary Phillips draws on his experiences ranging from teaching incarcerated youth, director of a political action committee to delivering dog cages in writing his tales of chicanery and malfeasance. His latest are the ebook novella The Essex Man: 10 Seconds to Death<\/a><\/em>, a homage to \u00e2\u20ac\u02dc70s era paperback vigilantes; being co-editor and contributor to Black Pulp<\/a><\/em>, an anthology of retro, revisionist pulp goodness; and has co-written episodes of Midnight Mover<\/em>, a noirish webseries about a PTSD suffering Afghan war vet turned bodyguard-chauffer for an escort service of aging porn stars \u00e2\u20ac\u201c what could go wrong?<\/span><\/p>\n

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Dark Deeds…Harboiled Anti-heroes…and REVENGE! – A panel discussion of Noir Fiction with Sisters in Crime. Featuring… CRAIG FAUSTUS BUCK (Moderator) is an L.A.-based journalist, nonfiction book author, TV writer-producer, screenwriter, short-story writer and novelist.  Among his six nonfiction books, two were #1 NYT bestsellers.  He wrote the Oscar-nominated short film Overnight Sensation.  He was one of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[55,8,13,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}