Don't Miss Your Shot: Win a Hardcover Edition of James Ellroy's 'L.A. Quartet'

It's true!

In the coming weeks, I'm finally republishing my debut novel FOUR DAYS.

It's been a long project. The book was in good shape — courtesy of my original publisher, J David Osborne at Broken River Press — but I wanted to revisit a few parts, plus add in about 150 pages of short fiction from the same story world.

I'm really happy with the new edition. It looks like this:

Stay tuned the release date.

You’ll be able to buy it direct from me at a discount, as promised.

(If you'd like to read the book completely free of charge, in return for an honest review, hit me up at iainkryan@gmail.com with 'Review Team' in the subject line.)

But on to business...

You Can Win This!

To celebrate/shill this new release, I'm having a little giveaway and you're invited!

Click here to enter. It takes 5 seconds.

The prize is very dear to my heart: a beautiful hardcover edition of James Ellroy's iconic L.A. Quartet.

This special edition includes all four gripping novels:

• The Black Dahlia

• The Big Nowhere

• L.A. Confidential

• White Jazz

Experience the groundbreaking work of American popular fiction that has garnered over 6,000 reviews on Amazon, with an impressive four-star average. Plus, delve deeper into the world of crime fiction with an exclusive essay by renowned biographer Tom Nolan (included in the anthology).

These books are insane. You can read my review of L.A. Confidential here, but I love all four.

And this is going to be controversial to some noir buffs, but I rank them as follows:

1. The Black Dahlia — it's a Top 3 of all-time book for me.

2. White Jazz — this is where my entire writing style comes from.

3. L.A. Confidential — this is where modern Ellroy starts, plus it rips.

4. The Big Nowhere — this is a huge fan favourite, but I haven't looked at it in years.

Anyway, that's enough from me.

Please enter the competition and tell your friends.

I'll be back next week with another story.

By the way, thanks for reading the shorts. They're surprisingly popular. Substack lets me see how many people read these emails, and every time I send a story — as opposed to something else — the email gets opened more often.

The people have spoken!

Till then,

— IAIN

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