Joe R. Lansdale

Kasey Lansdale will be featured singing a half hour set of originals and covers, including Edge of Dark Water named after her father's novel. Kasey's album is currently in production with John Carter Cash, and her anthology Impossible Monsters is forthcoming in July.

Location: Street: 2421 Bissonnet St City: Houston, Province: Texas Postal Code: 77005-1451 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

MysteryPeople Presents Edgar Award-Winning Author Joe R. Lansdale speaking & signing Edge of Dark Water. Joe will be joined at this event by his daughter, Kasey Lansdale, who will perform music, including a song based on Edge of Dark Water.

With more than twenty books to his credit-and 200 short stories-Joe R. Lansdale is the champion Mojo storyteller. He's been called "the Stephen King of Texas" by Texas Monthly; "an immense talent" by Booklist; "a born storyteller" by Robert Bloch; and The New York Times Book Review declares he has "a folklorist's eye for telling detail and a front-porch raconteur's sense of pace."

And here at MysteryPeople? We call Lansdale one thing, plain and simple: Good.

May Lynn was once a pretty girl who dreamed of becoming a Hollywood star. Now she's dead, her body dredged up from the Sabine River. Sue Ellen, May Lynn's strong-willed teenage friend, sets out to dig up May Lynn's body, burn it to ash, and take those ashes to Hollywood to spread around.

Only problem is, Sue Ellen has some stolen money that her enemies will do anything to get back. And what looks like a prime opportunity to escape from a worthless life will instead lead to disastrous consequences. In the end, Sue Ellen will learn a harsh lesson on just how hard growing up can really be.

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Thank you for supporting Joe Lansdale, MysteryPeople, and your local independent bookstore!

Location: Street: 603 N Lamar Blvd City: Austin, Province: Texas Postal Code: 78703-5413 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Joe Lansdale reads from Devil Red.

signs Devil Red($24 Knopf) the 8th Hap and Leonard Hap Collins and Leonard Pine return in a red-hot, mayhem-fueled thriller to face a vampire cult, the Dixie Mafia, and the deadliest assassin they’ve ever encountered—Devil Red. When their friend Marvin asks Hap and Leonard to look into a cold-case double homicide, they’re more than happy to play private investigators: they like trouble, and they especially like getting paid to find it. It turns out that both of the victims were set to inherit serious money, and one of them ran with a vampire cult. The more closely Hap and Leonard look over the crime-scene photos, the more they see, including the image of a red devil’s head painted on a tree. A little research turns up a slew of murders with that same fiendish signature. And if that’s not enough, Leonard has taken to wearing a deerstalker cap . . . Will this be the case that finally sends Hap over the edge? Full up with Lansdale’s trademark—whip-smart dialogue, relentless pacing, and unorthodox-to-say-the-least characters—Devil Red is one rambunctious thrill ride by one hell of a writer. Joe R. Lansdale is the author of more than a dozen novels, including Vanilla Ride, Leather Maiden, Sunset and Sawdust, and Lost Echoes. He has received the British Fantasy Award, the American Mystery Award, the Edgar Award, the Grinzane Cavour Prize for Literature, and seven Bram Stoker Awards. He lives with his family in Nacogdoc Hap Collins and Leonard Pine 1. Savage Season (1990) 2. Mucho Mojo (1994) 3. The Two-Bear Mambo (1995) 4. Bad Chili (1997) 5. Rumble Tumble (1998) 6. Captains Outrageous SIGNED(2001) 7. Vanilla Ride SIGNED(2009) 8. Devil Red Signed(2011) 9. Hyenas (2011) (aripoisonedpen)… (more)

Joe Lansdale, Act of Love.; Joe Haldeman reads from The Forever War.; Allen Steele reads from Coyote.; Felix Gilman reads from The Half-Made World.; Lois Gresh reads from The Science of Superheroes.; Laurie Rozakis reads from Zombie Notes: A Study Guide to the Best in Undead Literary Classics.; Kenneth Wishnia reads from The Fifth Servant.; Michele Lang reads from Lady Lazarus.; Robert Schnakenberg reads from Secret Lives of Great Authors: What Your Teachers Never Told You About Famous Novelists, Poets, and Playwrights.; Keith DeCandido reads from Serenity.

April 15th-17th. GOH Joe Lansdale, Gallun Award recipient Joe Haldeman, Allen Steele, Felix Gilman, Voltaire, Frank Mentzer, Gil Gerard, Julie Benz, Lois Gresh, Michael Golden, Thomas Jane, Tim Bradstreet, etc!!! On Stony Brook University campus. (jlabeatnik)… (more)

Joe R. Lansdale signs Leather Maiden.

Edgar Award winner Joe R. Lansdale will sign & discuss his new Texas crime novel, Leather Maiden (Knopf; $23.95). Leather Maiden is a brash amalgam of suspense, raw humor, and mystery that unfolds in the vividly rendered shadowy lowlands of eastern Texas. It’s country noir as only Joe Lansdale can do it. Joe's event will be preceded, at 6:00 p.m., by a performance by his daughter Kasey Lansdale and her band, the Daletones. CDs will be available for purchase (album: No More Rain, $15; single: "Back of My Smile", $6). Please bring cash or check for CDs. (christiguc)… (more)