So Much to Talk About

Jay Stringer is a fellow contributor to  Discount Noir , an e-Book flash fiction anthology available now from Untreed Reads . He is an Englishman living in exile in Glasgow, armed only with a world-view and a MacBook. You can catch his thoughts on crime fiction every Tuesday at DoSomeDamage.com .

Albert Tucher is a fellow contributor to  Discount Noir , an e-Book flash fiction anthology available now from Untreed Reads . He is the creator of prostitute protagonist Diana Andrews, who appears in more than thirty published short stories and a series of unpublished novels. A Diana story called "Bismarck Rules" appears in the anthology The Best American Mystery Stories 2010 .

Jack Bates is a fellow contributor to  Discount Noir , an e-Book flash fiction anthology available now from Untreed Reads . He grew up in the northern suburbs of Detroit, Michigan and began writing at an early age. Currently, he pens the Harry Landers, P.I. series available on Amazon Kindle. He also appears in anthologies such as Discount Noir , The Killer Wore Cranberry , and the acclaimed Shadows of the Emerald City .

Eric Beetner is a fellow contributor to  Discount Noir , an e-Book flash fiction anthology available now from Untreed Reads .  He is the co-author (with J.B. Kohl) of One Too Many Blows To The Head  and the upcoming sequel Borrowed Trouble (Feb 2011) He is an award-winning short story and screenwriter with more than two dozen short stories available for reading at his website ericbeetner.blogspot.com .

This is the first in what I hope will be an interview series with my fellow contributors to Discount Noir , an e-Book flash fiction anthology available now from Untreed Reads . Kathleen A. Ryan is a retired 21-year veteran of the Suffolk County Police Department. She lives on Long Island with her husband and two children. About ten days following the release of Discount Noir , her story "Playing with Matches" was published in W.W. Norton's Hint Fiction: An Anthology of Stories in 25 Words or Fewer , edited by Robert Swartwood. Hint Fiction contains stories from Joyce Carol Oates, Peter Straub, Ha Jin, Tess Gerritsen, Gregg Hurwitz, Douglas Clegg, Marcus Sakey, James Frey, F. Paul Wilson ~ and many more. Kathleen is currently revising her true crime memoir and preparing to send it to agents, while continuing to work on short fiction.