Black teeth by Zane Lovitt: 16 March, 2017
"Lovitt was the Ned Kelly Award-winning author of the collection The Midnight Promise, and this full-length novel is another testament to his skills as a storyteller. The voice of Jason, an ungainly tech-head who would righteously mock me in online forums for using the phrase ‘tech-head’, is clear and true: a man shrouded in anxiety and embedded in the world of his laptop, infrequently surfacing under a new identity to face the world and stitch someone up." – Fiona Hardy
Zane Lovitt was a documentary filmmaker before turning his hand to crime fiction. His debut novel, The midnight promise, won the Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction, and led to Zane being named one of the Best Young Novelists of 2013 by the Sydney Morning Herald.
Zane will join us for a Q&A on Thursday, 9 March between 8 and 9pm. Please leave any questions you have below. (And discuss his writing at your leisure!)
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Hiya Katie
Probably Dashiell Hammett. Chandler called him the original and that's what he was - he basically invented hardboiled fiction, and he was helped along by the fact that he WAS a private detective before he turned his hand to writing. He's got a few masterpieces to check out (The Maltese Falcon, Red Harvest, The Thin Man), but I would also suggest you have a look at his 'Continental Op' stories. Along with Sherlock Holmes, they were the reason my first novel is a collection of private detective short stories.
cheers
z