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Serial killers, private eyes, cops, and bodies inhabit this guide to crime fiction in the electronic age, where reading habits are undergoing change with the growing use of e-books and e-readers.
The focus is on e-books and the independent authors, known as indies, who write them, and the aim is to introduce indie crime fiction to discerning e-book readers.
This guide considers murder and mystery, from the cozy to the noir, and how it has developed over the years, stretching from The Newgate Calendars, through the dime novels and penny dreadfuls, covering the golden age authors typified by Agatha Christie, the hard-boiled era of Hammett and Chandler, and on to the modern crime and thriller novels.
As well as sections on e-books and e-readers, the indie author and publisher, and publishing options, there are sections on many subgenres of crime fiction including mystery, cosy, romantic suspense, historical, paranormal/supernatural, psychological, humour, medical, legal, political, hard-boiled, female sleuths, police procedural, noir/dark, tartan noir, and serial killers.
Chris Longmuir is an award-winning novelist. Her crime novels have won the Pitlochry Award, and the Dundee International Book Prize.
Download PDF Crime Fiction and the Indie Contribution Chris Longmuir 9781499325249 Books
"Chris Longmuir has expanded a series of contributions she made to the Edinburgh ebook Festival in 2013 to create a wide-ranging survey of the crime/mystery genre in which you’ll find many excellent writers of whom you may not have heard before. She set out to look at the various genres and sub-genres and, although having necessarily to be selective, still managed to add 61 indie novels to those she’d already read (not to mention her own, award-winning examples). Here, she introduces us to many new names and shares her personal opinions of them all as well as offering us her informed insights into the present state of independent and ebook publishing, all in a conversational style that makes for very easy reading. If you’re looking for a guide around the complexities of crime fiction, this has to be on your shelf."
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- This welcome venture by Chris Longmuir, who writes excellent crime fiction herself, should be regarded as a standard work and a much needed vade mecum into the world of indie crime. Well researched, detailed, thoughtful, yet lively and readable, this book represents Longmuir's reading of over 60 crime ebooks, some of which she has selected as good enough to feature in detail, giving valuable recommendations to anyone seeking to widen their reading of crime fiction. My 'highlight' feature came in very handy, as I marked many of the books for future buying after having my appetite for varying kinds of murder whetted by her descriptions.
She has focused on the indie ebook market, and her carefully explained criteria allow her to assert that the featured books are as good as, often better than, traditionally published crime novels. This is very useful to the reader, as the market floods with indie ebooks of widely varying quality not only of style and content, but of formatting and editing. Also very useful is the structure of the book the different sub-genres of crime are defined, and the books recommended under those dark and mysterious banners, so you can choose your poison, or choose to stray outside your normal beat. Her disquisitions on the sub-genres (cosy, hardboiled, noir, police procedural etc) are valuable to any reader, or writer, in the crime world. She makes personal choices in defining these, but explains those choices, and how they overlap, and how the recommended novels fit them. This is no easy task, as indie authors often defy narrow genre definitions often the reason they end up indie in the first place, as traditional publishers seem to think readers are incapable of understanding crossover books unlike filmgoers or TV viewers who are used to seeing mixed up genres. Longmuir, an award-winning trad published author who is also an indie author, is equal to this task and establishes a body of, well, bodies, which the reader can safely seek out knowing they will be good quality ebooks, by authors to follow up. - There are many books out there which cover the different sub genres within the world of crime writing. This is the first one however, which looks at the contribution of the independent, or indie, author to the genre. Chris Longmuir sets the tone of the book by firstly giving a brief explanation of ebooks and ebook readers. It then goes on to talk about the world of ebooks and Indie writers. This is a fascinating, and insightful discussion and certainly gave me a lot of ideas as a writer. However, tis is just a small part of the book.
The main focus of the book is for the reader and talks about crime writing in general and then the sub genres within this. It gives an over view o the genre, it's history and then discusses different authors, and books, within this. Being an absolutely passionate reader of crime fiction, in all it's genres, I loved this section. It left me wanting to read more from the particular authors and I will be downloading some of their books.
This is an excellent book for any author, or reader, of crime fiction. It is well researched and yet written in an approachable style. It is one I would highly recommend. Buy it now, you will not regret it. - Chris Longmuir has expanded a series of contributions she made to the Edinburgh ebook Festival in 2013 to create a wide-ranging survey of the crime/mystery genre in which you’ll find many excellent writers of whom you may not have heard before. She set out to look at the various genres and sub-genres and, although having necessarily to be selective, still managed to add 61 indie novels to those she’d already read (not to mention her own, award-winning examples). Here, she introduces us to many new names and shares her personal opinions of them all as well as offering us her informed insights into the present state of independent and ebook publishing, all in a conversational style that makes for very easy reading. If you’re looking for a guide around the complexities of crime fiction, this has to be on your shelf.
- A valuable account, 26 May 2014
By Neil Sydenham "dennishamley" (Oxford UK) - See all my reviews
Chris Longmuir is herself an experienced crime writer and also has an excellent knowledge of the genre. She therefore speaks with the authority of the practitioner. Independently published fiction is widely reviewed but there have been few attempts to provide a full critical overview. This is why this book is important. Many authors are examined, many books of worth but not always high visibility are evaluated and the critical judgements are pithy, knowledgeable and trustworthy. Highly recommended as a first-rate introduction to a field which is expanding all the time. - Everything you always wanted to know about crime fiction but were afraid to ask. Award winning crime novelist, Chris Longmuir, delves into the murky depths of crime fiction from the lighter cozy crime to the gritty police procedural or thriller.
A thoroughly researched non-fiction piece, Chris brings her take on what makes good reading and suggests indie authors whose works who live up to her discerning expectations. - Review by A J Strachan
This is a unique book about every conceivable category of crime novel written by a lady who is herself, a prize winning crime author.
However, she is not extolling the work of traditionally published crime writers who need no further promotion. On our behalf, she has trawled through the and other e-readers to present to us, all the different subgenres of crime fiction from cosy crime, through historical, psychological, medical and political crime, even humorous crime, culminating in the scary stuff, Tartan Noir. And they are all written by indie, or self-published authors. Chris Longmuir doesn’t hold back. If any of the chosen books are badly presented or need further editing, she says so.
But on the whole, most of her authors come up to her exacting standards and, given her recommendation, they may be on their way to be bestsellers.
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