November 26, 2024

The Avatar Murders received a starred review from IndieReader. “Jim Rowson’s THE AVATAR MURDERS is a winning combination of classic noir and hard sci-fi. Augmented reality is already appearing in everyday life, so its use here is surprisingly grounding; none of the uses in THE AVATAR MURDERS seem far out of reach. A society built on…

October 1, 2024

Take a minute – literally just one minute – and listen to the beginning of one of these podcast conversations about recent books. Each is about ten minutes long but just listen to the first minute of one of them to get the idea. I’ll wait. Veilpiercer by Bruce Berls (Amazon) The Avatar Murders by Jim Rowson (Amazon) Wild…

July 17, 2024

“I pulled the blinds down in my office so Detective Strizzi and I could watch the surveillance footage of the CEOs being murdered onstage. I was drinking these days more often than being a private investigator, but Emily knew the right way to bait a hook for me. She told me the execs had been…

July 10, 2024

Read to the end for a glimpse inside the book promotion business! I know we’ve spent a lot of time flogging our books recently, but (1) Jim and I have been working hard and the books are good enough and they’re smart enough and doggone it, people like them; (2) getting people’s attention requires repetition;…