Albert Tucher
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Back from Bouchercon
September 13th, 2018 18:59 by Albert Tucher
I'm just back from Bouchercon 2018 in St. Petersburg, and I'm starting to recover. I already knew I could sustain my conference personality for three days, but B'con adds up to four days. I did it, but damn, it was tiring. But also worth it. I reconnected with friends Nadine Nettmann, Jay Shepherd and Ray Salemi, and I met quite a few people who had been online friends for years, including Kristen Lepionka, Charles Todd, Michael Bracken and Dana King. It's such a huge conference that I never laid eyes on several people I knew were there.
I sold one copy each of THE PLACE OF REFUGE and THE HOLLOW VESSEL--a personal conference best. A high point was giving the toast to Nero Wolfe at the Wolfe Pack banquet. Many thanks to Jane Cleland for the opportunity.
Today I had recovered enough to register for Bouchercon 2019 in Dallas.
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Cover reveal!
July 2nd, 2018 18:41 by Albert Tucher
Ron Earl Phillips just unveiled the cover for The Hollow Vessel, the next novels in my Errol Coutinho/Big Island of Hawaii series. Bad Fido has done it again!
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All of a sudden ...
June 1st, 2018 15:02 by Albert Tucher
... I'm writing historical fiction. All but one of my Hawaii County Police stories are set before the current volcanic eruption, which from what I can see has made major changes in the whole Puna region. And who knows when I'll be able to go see for myself? The county government is rightly discouraging visitors to the area until the crisis is over.
And the goddess Pele will take her own time with that.
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Welcome back!
May 21st, 2018 17:30 by Albert Tucher
To this positive review of The Same Mistake Twice, which originally appeared in Long And Short Reviews.
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Loco Moco
April 24th, 2018 23:20 by Albert Tucher
I'm working on a new story featuring Officer Jenny Freitas of the Hawaii County Police. It begins with a noise complaint incited by a neighbor keeping roosters on his property in the rainy, sparsely populated Puna district, but the the local breakfast favorite loco moco plays an important part in the climax of the story.
What is loco moco, you ask? Start with a bed of rice. Put a ground beef patty on it, and then a fried egg on top of that. But here's the secret: pour on too much brown gravy, and then pour on even more. Until you can handle it, you're not kama'aina (a longtime resident of the islands).
The working title of the story is Downsides, but that may change.
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Here's why ...
April 10th, 2018 17:19 by Albert Tucher
... I write about the Big Island of Hawaii. Where else do homeowners routinely worry about fresh lava obliterating their homes or cutting them off from the rest of the world? That's in addition to the problems that every would-be homeowner faces in the form of fraud and thievery.
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Read An Ebook Week
March 7th, 2018 15:06 by Albert Tucher
March 4-10. If anyone is inclined to participate, may I suggest my Untreed Reads titles and the first novel in the Errol Coutinho/Big Island of Hawaii series
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The Hollow Vessel
February 27th, 2018 23:28 by Albert Tucher
That's the title of the next book in my Errol Coutinho/Big Island of Hawaii series. It has just been listed as forthcoming in Amazon, with a tentative date of July 2018. No cover yet, but it's becoming real!
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Tickled to death!
December 29th, 2017 00:17 by Albert Tucher
A great review of my story Illusions in the new issue of Spinetingler.
The issue is available here.
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Spinetingler
November 29th, 2017 16:07 by Albert Tucher
The fall 2017 issue of Spinetingler magazine is out, with short fiction, interviews and articles. Included is my Diana Andrews story Illusions. Diana is in her new career as president of Litvinov Associates, a body guarding and security firm, but her old friend, retired detective Dale Tillotson, recruits her for his investigation into the murder of a part-time prostitute in 1964. Yes, it's the Mad Men era, and it's the coldest case of Diana's career.
Available here from Down And Out Books, also from Amazon.
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