Freedom Fiction

[freedomrider]

I am looking forward to reading my Signed Copy of The Favor by Mark SaFranko. He is a living genius, in obscurity, due to the pathetic state of Publishing Industry.

If you like core hard boiled cult noir Fiction, words fail me here, this is the only living author who can feed your greed.

http://www.murderslim.com/marksafranko.html

His latest book Hating Olivia will also be with me soon, courtesy the generosity of this man who is gifting it to me along with my signed numbered copy of his first book. There is more than fan appreciation or gratitude I am presenting here. This is an example of decadence in modern literature. Proof of degeneration and desertion of Literary brilliance.

Download First Chapter of HATING OLIVIA

There are many such examples of Authors and Works forgotten but another Author whose books I am trying to hunt down is Donald Hamilton of Matt Helm fame. He passed away some time ago and his brilliant novels, parodied in Dean Martin movies, are now OUT OF PRINT. Sad but true. In a ridiculous publishing world that hard sells Teenage Adventures of a teenaged James Bond we can't buy retail a classic and infinitely true Spy Fiction of Hamilton.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Hamilton

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Helm


Here is though a great introduction to the Genius Long Overdue for Recognition on Guardian UK.


I contacted Mr Mark by email and he is a great guy and very generous.

I look forward to more news of him on the media circuit.

Guardian website has always revealed to me lesser known but better authors and I am glad they made this post.

Mr. Mark's exact words were: "...and please keep in touch."
I got goosebumps.

I remember I could not find Haruki Murakami's fiction anywhere in Bombay (now Mumbai) bookstores and I kept demanding one from my Bookstall http://www.strandbookstall.com/store/ and now I see Mr. Murakami's books everywhere. (I would like to think I did it but who knows how it came about). I found Murakami right on Guardian first.

I hope I can do this to Mr. Mark as well .

Read a great short story of Mr Mark SaFranko right here online. The Laughter of the Clown.
http://www.laurahird.com/showcase/marksafranko.html


Do you know any other such Author beaten down by publishers ignorance / arrogance. Post it right here.
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[freedomrider]

I had written a good review of Mark SaFranko's novel - The Favor, which the publisher liked so much that they have linked my blog post on their SaFranko Update webpage.

http://www.murderslim.com/skupdates.html

See the Aug 2008 updates where my review in my blog was featured.

Same review was posted by me at Amazon.com as well.



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The Rider
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You can't teach an old dog new tricks.....
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[Art]

Hey, that's awesome! Good job on that. I'll have to check the author out. I haven't heard of him until now.