Thursday, September 24, 2015

The Characters of THE FORGETFUL STRIPPER A Harvey Valentine Hard-Boiled Short

Friday the 25th you can meet Harvey Valentine in this first in a series of Hard-Boiled Shorts inspired by the Novel GOLD DIGGER.

Don't have time to read a full-length novel, but you have 30 minutes to kill.  Then do it with Harvey Valentine, Private Dick in THE FORGETFUL STRIPPER.

Meet the cast of Characters-

  • Harvey Valentine- A private Dick that doesn’t take shit. 
  • Detective Harris – Muskegon Police Department Detective and longtime friend of Harvey Valentine. 
  • Officer O’Toole – Cop and acquaintance of Harvey Valentine. 
  • Monica Marlowe – A stripper involved in a case of mistaken identity. The client of Harvey Valentine. 
  • Cameron Reese- He had a plan, but it didn’t work out to well. 
  • Aunt Christy Agatha - Relative of Monica and a tough old biddy.

AVAILABLE FREE FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 25TH 

Wednesday, September 23, 2015

This FRIDAY you can read the New Harvey Valentine Short - THE FORGETFUL STRIPPER for FREE!

Private Dick, Harvey Valentine appears in the Novels, GOLD DIGGER, THE JUDGE AND THE CULTIST (November) as the main character and THE SECRET CABAL as a supporting character.

Now is your chance to meet Muskegon's Top-notch Private Dick for FREE in an exciting NEW HARD-BOILED SHORT SERIES:

HARVEY VALENTINE PRIVATE DICK

let it wet your appetite for more action, intrigue and perilous underlining animal magnetism of Harvey Valentine!

THE FORGETFUL STRIPPER finds our protagonist on the case of a beautiful stripper with an identity problem that only Harvey can solve.  It's an adventure to stay alive as Harvey solves the clues that lead to putting a lid on this case.

Now's your chance to enjoy THE CASE FILES OF HARVEY VALENTINE PRIVATE DICK for

FREE 

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 25TH





Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Watch Jack Nicholson in THE TWO JAKES *FREE NOIR PI MOVIE*

This movie is the sequel to Roman Polanski's CHINATOWN.


IMDB Rating: 6.0/10 from 6,360 votes Release: 1990 / The Two Jakes Genre: Comedy | Crime | Drama Director: Jack Nicholson Stars: Jack Nicholson, Harvey Keitel, Meg Tilly Synopsis: Los Angeles 1948: private eye Jake Gittes shall convict the client Jake Berman's wife of adultery. But instead of making her a scene like planned, Berman shoots her lover in affect - or was it murder? Gittes is surprised when he learns that the dead was Berman's companion, who now inherits his share of the company. Of course the police doesn't believe it was affect and suspects Gittes too. The dead lover's widow manages to force Gittes into investigating against his own client... The trace leads back to an old case in Chinatown.

This movie is hosted-streamed by PUTLOCKER.  You  will need to kill a few popups to watch this, otherwise it plays fine and dandy!

http://putlocker.is/watch-the-two-jakes-online-free-putlocker.html

A HARVEY VALENTINE HARD-BOILED SHORT coming SOON!

From R. Archer comes a short tale about his very own Private Dick, Harvey Valentine.  The author has written 2 Harvey Valentine novels to date, and this will be the 1st Harvey Valentine Short to be released by Hard-Boiled Books.

GOLD DIGGER is currently available in paperback with a kindle release appearing very soon.

The 2nd novel in the series, THE JUDGE AND THE CULTIST will be available in paperback here next month with the kindle version to follow.

But before the 2nd novel hits the retailers expect the following Harvey Valentine short. This will be the 1st Harvey Valentine short story to be published, with others planned. The Harvey Valentine Hard-Boiled Shorts are a perfect way to get to know Harvey without having to sit down and digest a novel.

Hard-Boiled Shorts are perfect for when you're short on time.



A Peek at Sam Hill #9 THE BROKEN DATE CAPER

Here is a cover reveal of the latest Sam Hill short in the works. The Broken Date Caper should be available Thursday, September the 24th. And if Kindle is co-operative, it may be available for FREE that day. If not Look for it free the next.




Visit the Hard-Boiled Books Amazon Store

Please visit our Amazon Store by visiting the STORE TAB. There you will find the latest Hard-Boiled shorts and novels by Hard-Boiled Books, along with some select items for retail.


FREE TODAY

You can get the latest SAM HILL short for FREE today at Amazon Kindle.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B015NGF7N0?*Version*=1&*entries*=0

Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Tuesday, September 8, 2015

THE SEXY KILLER CAPER: A SAM HILL SHORT is FREE TODAY

Grab a copy of SAM HILL- THE SEXY KILLER CAPER today for FREE while supplies last.


Sunday, September 6, 2015

Submission Guidelines

HARD-BOILED BOOKS 

HARD-BOILED PULP MAGAZINE 

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS

Hard-Boiled Pulp, (referred to as HBP) is OPEN for SUBMISSIONS.

What we are looking for-

Stories that take the reader back to a simpler time when fiction was written in a hard hitting pulp fashion and produced in dime store rags. In the day, there was a hoard of pulp fiction magazines. These magazines were produced in very much the same format and size as comic books. Think 1930’s to 1950’s. And the print edition of HBP is published in the classic format.  The only exception, we are not printing on “true pulp” paper. Sadly we admit this. The paper quality is much better, blame technology on that and our printer. But to continue, we have strived to create a look and feel with our pulp rag. A feel that reminds readers still around (those still living) of such detective pulp magazines like True Detective and Crack Detective.

Supplementing our regular content is period advertising from old pulps. Which further aids, to the look and feel of an old pulp mag. With such being said, we are looking for stories that complement our magazine. Stories perably about PRIVATE DETECTIVES, OR PRIVATE INVESTIGATORS for those don’t’ grasp the difference. Written in FIRST PERSON or THIRD PERSON. We like both.

FEMME FATALE is acceptable and POLICE DETECTIVE. SPY stories will be considered. There should be a strong protagnatist in the story that carries the story from beginning to end. Now to make your piece of work SHINE!!! Do the following and it will make it worth our while to read it-


  • PROOF READ 
  • FOLLOW THE GUIDELINES (there not rocket science)
  • SEND YOUR BEST COPY 


Include with your work in your email NOT in your manuscript a brief 300 word or less bio and you may mention your other titles or website and or both (please do not exceed more than 5 titles or links). Include a pic of yourself if you like.

NOTE: Bios do not appear in the magazine or your picture. If we publish content that is from an existing book such as an excerpt, we will publish the Front Cover of your book or use it for Book Reviews/Author Interviews. Bios and Author Pics (not book pics) will be published on the Hard-Boiled Books website. If we choose to interview or book review you for the Magazine will use author pic, book pic, and bio info in aiding in the Magazine Interview.

Nuts and Bolts: Now because we are a small press and wear a lot of hats, we ask that all MANUSCIPTS meet the following specs to be considered for publication:

  1. 12 pt type NEW TIMES ROMAN 
  2. INDENT first line (word) “.2” 
  3. SINGLE SPACE 
  4. 0 line spacing after Paragraphs 
  5. JUSTIFIED PARAGRAPH ALIGNMENT – do not align to the left. 
  6. At the END of your story. Please type THE END. Typed as The End. NO CAPS with a period. 
  7. Do not include PICS or GRAPHICS embedded in your text. 
  8. DO NOT PAGE NUMBER 
  9. NO HEADERS OR FOOTERS 
  10. SAVE AS .DOC or .DOCX 
  11. DO NOT OVER USE CAPS! OR ITALICS 
  12. FIRST PAGE: Starting at the top of the page (left margin) Type YOUR NAME, PEN NAME if used, MAILING ADDRESS, EMAIL ADDRESS, PHONE NUMBER if you like, and WORD COUNT. Keep this information in one BLOCK PARAGRAPH. Aligned to the LEFT. Go down 5 carriage returns and start your story with the TITLE and BY LINE if using your pen name USE IT. Double space after title and byline and input your body content. 
  13. PROOF READ 
  14. SEND YOUR BEST COPY. Don’t stress if you realized later you made a typo or some minor, we will edit your work if accepted, but fill free to email us an updated copy or we may request an updated copy before continuing further in the publication process. 
  15. DO NOT PESTER US if we accepted your piece. WE WILL CONTACT YOU. 
  16. Allow 3-4 weeks for us to read your story and get back with you. We may take longer time if the work is a longer piece. 
  17. EMAIL your manuscript to harboiledbooks@gmail.com


Now to highlight further what we are looking for, we mentioned the type of stories we want to see now here is some further details. Flash fiction is welcome Short Stories up to 5k. Stories of this length or shorter we can print in 1 issue. We will consider NOVELETTES and NOVELLAS. If accepted these pieces will be broken up into parts usually 3-4 chapters per issue to the story is completely published. Thus a longer piece could span 3-4 or maybe longer issues. We will shy away from longer novellas at this time and do not want to exceed 5 issues to complete a printed story. So basically don’t go over 18,000 words, and make novellas exceptional if you want to see it in print with the magazine. Do to space at this time we can only print 1 novella or long novelette (in parts) per issue and still maintain space for individual short stories. If our reader and subscriber increases we can add more pages to the magazine thus more content. HOWEVER, we would be EXCITED to hear proposals or see CHARACTER SERIES from authors that fall within a flash range 1000-1500 words or short stories up to 3,000 words focused on a CHARACTER that can hold the attention of readers monthly.

We would also consider and love to see work from GRAPHIC ARTISTS and ILLUSTRATORS that would like to do cover art or possibly illustrations for a story, or even run a short comic strip like the old Dick Tracey comic strips.

The NITTY GRITTY 
Payment: At this time we do not offer payment beyond RECOGNITION and contributor copies. We offer electronic copies PDF, KINDLE to all contributing authors. To Contributing authors in the UNITED STATES we do supply you with a PRINT COPY of the magazine mailed to your door for the issue that your work appears in. Our first issue will be published this October, and we have content for the Next 2 months after that, possibly 3. Content that can shifted around for New authors to appear or to appear in issues after # 3. If we start getting Subscribers HBP will begin paying its contributing authors. Our GOAL is to begin paying writers by issue # 13. There are few Magazines of this genre or even Mystery that pay at this time, and even a well established mystery magazine that still doesn’t pay its writers. The goal of HBP is not only build a pulp magazine that people will love, but create a paying market for hard-boiled pulp writers and firmly establish ourselves in the publishing industry

BE COME A HARD-BOILED AUTHOR TODAY!

PAT NOVAK FOR HIRE - This months featured OLD TIME RADIO BROADCAST

This month's featured OTR broadcast is PAT NOVAK for hire, Played Jack Webb.  Mr. Webb also played on OTR as Jeff Regan private investigator.

He was one of the best!


Meet Wise-cracking Hard-Boiled Private Dick SAM HILL in THE DOUBLE TROUBLE CAPER

From R. ARCHER and HARD-BOILED BOOKS

A new HARD-BOILED SHORT

SAM HILL

THE DOUBLE TROUBLE CAPER

You can enjoy this Hard-Boiled Short FREE today SUNDAY Sept 6th.  The kindle short was released yeasterday, but we decided to extend the FREE giveaway 1 more day.  Get a copy.




WATCH CHINATOWN FREE ONLINE STARRING JACK NICHOLSON AS A PRIVATE DICK DIRECTED BY ROMAN POLANSKI

It's Jack Nicholson as a Private Dick in CHINATOWN.  This movie was directed by Roman Polanski in 1974.  Three years before Polanski was arrested and charged with raping a 13 year old girl. Since then Polanski lives out of the country in France.  Polanski was of course married to the beautiful Sharon Tate, murdedred by Charles Manson.  Sad thing Polanski turned out to be a pedofile, but he made great movies.

So enjoy Jack Nickolson in CHINATOWN.  A noirish, PI flick for FREE.

http://www.watchfree.to/watch-36f-Chinatown-movie-online-free-putlocker.html/

Wednesday, September 2, 2015

Watch THE LONG GOODBYE FREE

IMDB Rating: 7.6/10 from 11,923 votes Release: 1973 / The Long Goodbye Genre: Crime | Drama | Thriller Director: Robert Altman Stars: Elliott Gould, Nina van Pallandt, Sterling Hayden Synopsis: Chain-smoking, wisecracking private eye Philip Marlowe drives a buddy from LA to the Tijuana border and returns home to an apartment full of cops who arrest him for abetting the murder of his friend's wife. After Marlowe's release, following the reported suicide in Mexico of his friend, a beautiful woman hires him to locate her alcoholic and mercurial husband. Then, a hoodlum and his muscle visit to tell Marlowe that he owes $350,000, mob money the dead friend took to Mexico. Marlowe tails the hood, who goes to the house of the woman with the temperamental husband. As Marlowe pulls these threads together, his values emerge from beneath the cavalier wisecracking.