KIERAN SHEA: Gumshoe 101

BIO

KIERAN SHEA’s fiction has appeared in dozens of venues including Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Thuglit, Dogmatika, Word Riot, Plots with Guns, Beat to a Pulp, Crimefactory, and Needle: A Magazine of Noir ...as well as in some beefy-looking anthologies most of which will make you question the tether of his shiny, red balloon. To his self-deprecating astonishment he's also been nominated for the Story South’s Million Writers Award twice without sending the judges so much as a thank you note. He co-edited the satiric transgressive fiction collection D*CKED: DARK FICTION INSPIRED BY DICK CHENEY and his debut novel KOKO TAKES A HOLIDAY is out now from Titan Books. Kieran divides his time between 38°58′22.6″N- 76°30′4.17″W and 39.2775° N, 74.5750° W.

5/17/09

Gumshoe 101

Besides reading everything you can in the genre...I found this primer the other day. Meaty, academic fare. Dang, why couldn't have I taken THIS guy's class instead of a snooze-fest survey of that pasty, Oliver Cromwell suck-up John Milton? Face it, after Lucifer splits in "Paradise Lost" it just plain suuuuuuuuuucks.