Readers, Writers, and Marketeers: Who Killed Brienne Cross?

My thriller, THE SHOP, has had a checkered career. This book got me the agent of my dreams, one of the best in the business, who could get the undivided attention of every big publisher in New York. She read the book on a plane during a terrible thunderstorm, and told me that reading the [...]

Is There a “Silver Bullet” to Achieving Bestselling E-book Sales?

As bestselling author Vincent Zandri indicates below from his May 19, 2011 blog post, we will be publishing an ongoing conversation between him and J. Carson Black. As the digital publishing industry continues to evolve at breakneck speed, authors and their independent publishers like Breakaway Media will focus on best practices as these practices evolve [...]

Darkscope

After Chelsea McCord’s marriage falls apart, her uncle talks her into a change of scene—Bisbee, Arizona, the scenic mining town with a notorious past. Her great-grandfather, mining magnate Lucas McCord, helped build Bisbee at the turn of the last century. Chelsea discovers an ancient box camera in a dusty trunk, the film still inside. On [...]

The Devil’s Hour

“J. Carson Black’s THE DEVIL’S HOUR is a superior mystery novel in all respects. Fine prose, terrific suspense, believable characters, and one of the most unexpected and satisfying conclusions I’ve read in a long time. Highly recommended.” –John Lescroart, New York Times bestselling author of Damage In 1997, the disappearance of three young girls rocked [...]

Dark Side of the Moon

Have you ever seen true evil? I mean, looked it in the face and recognized it for what it is? I have. And you know what? It’s a face like any other. Thus begins DARK SIDE OF THE MOON, the second book in the Laura Cardinal series. When two newlyweds are found murdered at an [...]

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bisbee, Arizona. A family community that attracts a healthy trade in tourism. Like many small towns, it has its fair share of petty thefts and domestic disturbances. But no one is prepared for the discovery of a teenage girl’s dead body propped up inside the park band shell, clothed in a doll-like dress. Arizona Department [...]

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    FREE! * * * Special Bonus Section * * * PONY RIDES, the Tucson Weekly Magazine Words and Images Award-winning short story by J. Carson Black DARK HORSE, a novel of suspense Despite the accidents plaguing his racing business, horse breeder Coke McCallister was sure that Shameless, his prized filly, would put him back on [...]

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