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January
2010.
The Pink Tarantula,
a Crip & Henrietta tale set in Huntington Beach will be
published in Plots With Guns in January.
A
dark blue Toyota low-riding rice burner, windows
tinted black, pulled into an angle slot between a
Mercedes and a Lexus SUV. On Main, three blocks up
from the pier. Seated in the front seat was a tall
muscular man, around 35, with dirty blond hair,
wearing mirror sunglasses. He waited and checked out
the scene. No one on the sidewalk. No traffic on the
street.The man stepped out into the blazing sun. His
face had the kind of burnt tan that marked him as a
local. A surfer or a lifeguard. There were hundreds
like him in Huntington Beach. He reached inside the
trunk, pulled out a black ski mask and put it over
his head. Then he grabbed a double-barreled 12-gauge
shotgun and closed the trunk.The blond man walked
towards a store with a sign hanging over the door -
“Pink Tarantula – Coiffeur.”
The masked man fired one round of buckshot directly
into the head of the proprietor. Pieces of flesh and
dyed red hair soaked in blood, spattered the walls,
ceilings, and the young woman in the chair. In less
than a second a place of extravagant beauty was
transformed into a macabre scene of carnage.
June 2008.
Hardcore Hardboiled, a collection
of neo-noir fiction from Thuglit, a trendsetting
ezine edited by Todd Robinson, has just been
published by Kensington Books. The collection
includes Juanita by Tim Wohlforth.
Juanita awakens naked in a pool of sweat.
She staggers out of bed, throws on a
threadbare pink robe, shoves her stubby toes
into her bunny rabbit slippers, and heads
downstairs. She discovers her husband,
Albert, lying on the floor with a gaping
hole in his chest. “Shit,” she shouts,
“somebody finally got the bastard. Calls for
a drink.”
“If you’re man enough,” Otto Penzler says in his
introduction, “you’ll love this book. If you’re
not, give it to your girlfriend. If she accepts
it and enjoys it, never turn your back on her.”
The book is available as a quality paperback at
local bookstores and on Amazon for $14.00.
May 2008.
Two of my short stories are now available in audio
at a new site:
www.sniplits.com. This site features a variety of
short stories from different genres in MP-3 format. This
means you can download them to your iPod or play them on
your computer. The stories are sold, like songs, for
$.88 each. Check the stories out. I would love to hear
your reaction. Spread the word about this new outlet for
short stories.
L'il
Joe's Blues. Set back in the time when
rock & roll was born while the blues still survive, a
college boy confronts a killer while L'il Joe plays on
and on....
Killer Fog. Jack London Square is shrouded
in a thick suffocating fog the night PI Jim Wolf agrees
to protect a young woman who has the largest deep brown
eyes he has ever seen... |
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April 2008.
A new Crip & Henrietta story, Alvin's Choice,
is now available on line in the current issue of Back
Alley. Crip
is determined to stop Alvin, Henrietta's white supremist boyfriend,
from assassinating an abortion doctor. Back Alley is a
new e-zine dedicated to hardboiled and noir mystery
writing. In its first year of existence, the e-zine
has garnered two Derringer Award nominations. On a
personal note, Wohlforth's mother, who was a gifted
novel writer, worked for years for Planned Parenthood
ghosting material for Margaret Sanger. She would have
liked this story.
February 2008.
A new story of Wohlforth’s, The Mask, is now
available on line in the current issue of
www.mystericale.com.
Victoria Renard, a TV crime report who never came across a
dead body she didn’t like, investigates the death of two
young women, hands tied, bags over their heads, grotesque
masks on their faces. And it’s almost Halloween. The story
is based on a real event that occurred on the California
coast.
January 2008. Meet Tim Wohlforth on
YouTube, with an excerpt from his June 2007 interview with Ed
Battistella on Ashland Mystery rvtv noir. You'll
get a taste of Wohlforth's writing with a reading from No
Time To Mourn, narrated by Garth Pitman.
December 2007. The Masseuse
has been listed as a Distinguished Mystery Story of 2006 in
Otto Penzler's just released Best American Mystery Stories
2007. The Masseuse originally appeared in the
Mystery Writers of America anthology Death Do Us Part edited
by Harlan Coben published by Little Brown. This is the
second time one of Wohlforth's stories has been chosen by
Penzler. Jesus Christ Is Dead was similarly
honored in the 2005 edition of Best American Mystery
Stories.
November 2007. Short suspense story
Sophie is now available at
candidcanine.blogspot.com. Originally published in
Futures Magazine, it is a tale about the rescue of a
mini-dachshund from a puppy mill. The blog also includes the
story behind the story, a photo of the inspirer of the
story, and a miniature painting of the miniature dog by a
very talented woman in the Netherlands.
November 17, 2007. Wohlforth exhibited at the Southern
Oregon Book & Author Fair held on the campus of Southern Oregon
University in Ashland, Oregon on Saturday, November 17th between
10 am and 4 pm. He had a number of his books and anthologies
with him, including rare hard-to-find volumes.
September 27, 2007. Wohlforth
was a panelist on
Size Doesn’t Matter at the
Bouchercon
World Mystery Convention in Anchorage, September 27-29,
2007. The panel is moderated by
Andrew Gulli of Strand Magazine. Wohlforth also has his own
25m segment as part of the Author’s Choice track.
Tim Wohlforth's No Time to
Mourn
has produced several rave reviews and a newspaper article. In
addition Futures Mysterious Anthology
Magazine has interviewed the author and
Thrilling Detective has added Jim
Wolf's biography to its extensive listing of fictional private
detectives. We have gathered all this material here for your
convenience. Just click and enjoy!
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