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02/22/2015

Portlanders, pick up Peck's Last Orchard now at Broadway Books there and, very shortly, at Powell's on Hawthorne. The latter will also be carrying the All Hands On 10th-anniversary collection. More about them all via http://the2ndhand.com/THE2NDHANDTXT/books

In Michael Peck’s first novel, The Last Orchard in America, Sue Longtree is too young to be a matriarch, but when she moves to run down the story behind her brother’s su***de, she stands at the top looking down on a family in shambles. The su***de’s hardly a whodunit, as the private dick that Longtr…

01/26/2015

Thanks to Emerson Dameron for featuring this bit of voicemail prose from Michael Peck, author of our latest, now officially out and available. Have you been to "The Last Orchard in America" yet?: http://the2ndhand.com/THE2NDHANDTXT/books

He’s running a Kickstarter project for its publication in partnership with our dear friends at the2ndhand. It merits support.

12/16/2014

Last chance, THE2NDHANDERS -- well, 46 hours' worth of a last chance. Funding campaign for Peck's "Last Orchard in America" ends Dec. 17 in the afternoon. The book will be available thenceforth via http://the2ndhand.com/THE2NDHANDTXT/books/the-last-orchard-in-america-a-novel-by-michael-peck/

Help THE2NDHAND bring out Peck's first novel, a meta-noir of at once page-turning suspense and multi-layered complexity.

12/11/2014

Five days remains in the funding campaign for Michael Peck's "Last Orchard in America" novel -- a few more vintage pulps from Ross MacDonald, James M. Cain and Raymond Chandler among rewards for contributing. Grab a copy of Peck's book too, via https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/the2ndhand/the-last-orchard-in-america-a-novel-by-michael-pec

We're in the final stages here of funding Michael Peck's first novel. While we've hit the mark, we're pushing further for the final five days with a few new rewards, three more classic noir paperbacks that Peck runs down for you below. Again, a big thanks from all of us here for funding the project.…

11/21/2014

$58 left to reach the $1,000 minimum goal in the effort around Michael Peck's "Last Orchard"! Getting close. Here's another of the remaining available prints from the illustrations in the cover triptych by Philadelphia-based Vinson Milligan. Peck offered a few words on his history with the artist and friend here: http://the2ndhand.com/THE2NDHANDTXT/michael-peck-on-artist-vinson-milligan-whose-illustrations-grace-the-cover-of-pecks-last-orchard/

11/18/2014

Under $100 left to hit the goal for Michael Peck's novel at Kickstarter. Meantime, here's a window into the cover triptych illustrations (charcoal, in one case colored pencil) by Vinson Milligan: http://the2ndhand.com/THE2NDHANDTXT/less-than-100-to-go-in-kickstarter-effort-window-on-artist-vinson-milligans-cover-illustrations/

11/12/2014

Our Kickstarter for Michael Peck's "Last Orchard" noir is more than halfway there, after week 1. If you haven't checked it out, find Chapter 1 (in audio) and Chapter 2 in the post at the link. You can pick up a copy via the campaign here: kickstarter.com/projects/the2ndhand/the-last-orchard-in-america-a-novel-by-michael-pec/

The audio excerpt above from The Last Orchard in America, read by author Michael Peck, sets the tone for what is to come in the voice of narrator and antihero of sorts, private dick Harry Jome. The book is available today via a Kickstarter campaign launched just a week back to fund its printing. If…

10/31/2014

Coming soon, folks...: http://the2ndhand.com/THE2NDHANDTXT/books/the-last-orchard-in-america-a-novel-by-michael-peck/

Sue Longtree is too young to be a matriarch, but when she moves to run down the story behind her brother’s su***de, she stands at the top looking down on a family in shambles. The su***de’s hardly a whodunit, as the private dick that Longtree hires, the hero of writer Michael Peck’s first novel, Har…

09/07/2014

FROM THE ARCHIVE: Wandering troubadour C.T. Ballentine's excellent multipart Friedrich Nietzsche Waits for a Date, originally inked in http://www.the2ndhand.com/archive/fried1.html -- originally inked in 2006, it later appeared in total in the T2H 20th anniversary tome in 2011: http://the2ndhand.com/THE2NDHANDTXT/books/

09/04/2014

Andrew Davis' "Hideous Bounty" -- latest installment, "Tortoise and Hare": http://the2ndhand.com/THE2NDHANDTXT/tortoise-and-hare-hideous-bounty/

09/27/2013

Check out "Z's Trinity" from Todd Dills' "Triumph of the Ape" in the 4th issue of the Mass.-based Cabildo Quarterly broadsheet -- story behind the story (and more) today on T2H txt: http://the2ndhand.com/THE2NDHANDTXT/zs-trinity-featured-in-cabildo-quarterly-no-4-wing-fly/

My “Z’s Trinity” short story, part of my recent Triumph of the Ape collection, is also featured in the latest issue of the Belchertown, Mass.-based Cabildo Quarterly. Click through the image above to read the broadsheet online and/or download.

09/18/2013

The "Triumph of the Ape" collection by T2H's Todd Dills is the featured "book of the week" over at Fiction Writers Review this week...

This week’s feature is Todd Dills’ new collection, Triumph of the Ape, which was published earlier this year. Dills is the editor of THE2NDHAND, which was founded in 2000 in Chicago. He’s also the author of a novel, Sons of Rapture (Featherproof Books, 2006), and the editor of two anthologies of sto...