Charles Ardai: “Being Read. It’s Just That Simple.”
Folks, I’m so excited to share this interview with you. Charles Ardai is kind of a dream interview for me. You have to understand how much I love Hard Case Crime. Easily my favorite publisher of my favorite kind of fiction. And not only a fantastic publisher, but Charles is also a fantastically gifted author. Seriously, if you’ve read the blog for any length of time at all, you know how much I love short stories, and his newest collection DEATH COMES TOO LATE is an amazing book of short crime fiction. Really, go buy it now. You’ll thank me.
Tell us a bit about your most recent work.
I split my time between writing my own books (most recently, comic books) and publishing other people’s in the pulp-revival line I created 20 years ago, Hard Case Crime.
Anyone interested in my writing can check out the various volumes of my GUN HONEY and HEAT SEEKER comics – the newest series, HEAT SEEKER: COMBUSTION is in comic book stores as we speak, and the four prior storylines can be found in collected graphic novel form from your favorite bookseller – or if they prefer only words on the page, no pictures, they might enjoy the short story collection I published back in February, DEATH COMES TOO LATE.
As for Hard Case Crime, we just published Max Allan Collins’ newest novel about the hitman known as Quarry, QUARRY’S RETURN, and in January we will be bringing out a new edition of Donald E. Westlake’s wonderful novel THE ACTOR to coincide with the release of a new feature film based on the book.
Read the full interview:
https://seanhtaylor.blogspot.com/2024/12/charles-ardai-being-read-its-just-that.html
