Icon Release Date: Tuesday, June 12, 2012. Order your copy now! “Icon is a smart thriller that had me hooked from the start. J. Carson Black has outdone herself. I loved it!” – John Rector, bestselling author of Already Gone From Booklist: Any way you slice it, cult movie star Max Conroy is screwed when [...]
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 [...]
“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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
All three crime thriller novels in the Laura Cardinal series by J. Carson Black are now available on Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble Nook, and on Kobo. “Welcome to a strong new voice in American crime fiction.” –T. Jefferson Parker, New York Times Best Selling Author of Iron River Order the Laura Cardinal Series from [...]
Hosts Josie-Anne Gray and Antony Smith feature “Vengeance” on their radio program, Estuary Radio Arts and Culture Show. Listen to the segment and song here
The Inspiration Forum goes into depth with J. Carson Black on what it takes to become a bestselling author. The interview includes direct access to “Vengeance”, the groundbreaking music video/live action short for her latest thriller, Icon. Go to the interview here. Get inspired!
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 [...]
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 [...]
You can tread the boardwalks of modern day Tombstone Arizona and plunge into a crime spree in Cochise County in J. Carson Black’s new Maggie O’Neil mystery ROADSIDE ATTRACTION. You got a Kindle, Kobo or Nook? Yep, you’re good to go. Introductory price $0.99. Roadside Attraction is the first book in the Maggie O’Neil Mystery [...]
Three critically-acclaimed mystery/suspense novels by #1 Amazon bestselling author J. Carson Black. Go to amazon.com and get these desert classics! Darkscope The Desert Waits Dark Horse
Reviewer’s Bookwatch: April 2012 James A. Cox, Editor-in-Chief Midwest Book Review 278 Orchard Drive, Oregon, WI 53575 Reviewer’s Choice The Tombstone Rose J. Carson Black, writing as Annie McKnight Breakaway Media (Tucson) 0843946814, $3.99 via download Some books you just can’t put down. If you are a fan of historical western fiction The Tombstone Rose [...]
In a special free promotion as part of Amazon KDP’s Select program, Breakaway Media offered J. Carson Black’s best selling crime fiction thriller Darkness on the Edge of Town for free for five days last week leading up to New Year’s Eve. This end-of-year promotion was tremendously successful as readers downloaded more than 50,000 free [...]
Victorine Lieske made a big splash with her book, NOT WHAT SHE SEEMS. Her suspense novel was so popular it landed on the New York Times Best Seller list, an almost impossible feat for an independently-published author. Here she shares with us her journey from beginning writer to published author. You know, it’s funny, I [...]
Today The Summer Book Club’s Scott Nicholson discusses his novel, Disintegration. This particular article hit home for me. Writing is not always easy, because we are people, after all, and go through various phases in our lives at the same time we are trying to make a living. Scott knows that our writing isn’t just [...]