Here’s a big Garden State welcome to the folks who heard about Well Told Tales via  Sunday’s story in the Asbury Park (N.J.) Press.

You can hear the “Cold Rolled Dead” excerpts here:

• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3

So clip on your beach badge and dive right in.

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Written and produced by Finn Colgan.

Starring Norm Sherman, Steve Anderson, Christina Colligan, J.B. Goodspeed, Kerry Finlayson, Eleiece Krawiec and Mur Lafferty.

A mild-mannered comic book shop clerk accidentally kills his favorite superhero … then must assume his identity to save the world.  Episode 1 of 8.

Visit www.ikilledawesomeman.com for more information.

 

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Written by Edward McDermott, read by Brandon Carpenter.

A private detective tries to protect a man threatened by a seemingly omniscient stalker.

With a promo for “I Killed AwesomeMan!”

 

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Novelist (the Jack Palms series ) and podcaster (Crimewav.com) Seth Harwood drops by Well Told Tales to deliver the first installment of his serialized podcast novel “Young Junius.”

Go to SethHarwood.com to get the full novel — for free.

Explicit: violence and language.

 

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It came out to mixed reviews and tepid box office numbers, but Woody Allen’s “Cassandra’s Dream” (2007) deserved better.

Much better.

Well-written and directed — and beautifully acted -– the neo noir thriller stars Ewan McGregor and Colin Farrell as star-crossed, working class brothers in London.

McGregor plays the smart brother, who toils in his father’s money-losing restaurant while dreaming of a bigger life and chasing a woman out of his league. Farrell’s brother is a sensitive grease monkey/compulsive gambler who finds himself dangerously deep in debt.

When a rich uncle (Tom Wilkinson) asks for their help, it promises a way out for both brothers -– but at a terrible price.

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NBC’s online sci-fi series ‘Gemini Division’ launched today on SciFi.com, NBC.com and a few other outlets.

My first-blush reaction after watching two episodes — meh.

The series, which is toplined by ‘Sin City’ siren Rosario Dawson, is set “five minutes” in the future (although it will take Microsoft a bit longer than that to deliver the nifty iPhone rip-off through which Dawson monologues her “transmissions” — a product placement, which gets to be a little intrusive by the second episode.)

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Written by Paul D’Ambrosio, read by J.B. Goodspeed.

A disgraced detective gets a chance at redemption in this novel of crime and corruption at the Jersey Shore by veteran investigative journalist Paul D’Ambrosio.

The third and final installment of our excerpt of “Cold Rolled Dead” contains chapter six. If you missed them, go back and listen to part 1 and part 2. 

Buy “Cold Rolled Dead” at Amazon.com.

 

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Written by Derek Rutherford, read by Eve Berkson.

In the future, love hurts … but an amorous young couple will take enormous risks to become intimate.

Explicit: sexuality, violence

 

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If you’re like me, you read all day long on your computer — but don’t seem to have enough time to read all the books you want to get to.

Enter DailyLit.com, a new (to us) Web site that delivers bite-sized portions of books via e-mail or RSS on a regular schedule so you can get your reading done in five-minute chunks.

There are a slew of free books — and some paid books — to choose from.  The total library just hit the 1,000 mark.  So far they have 46 books categorized as sci-fi, which isn’t shabby.  There are only three crime and four horror titles now, but I have a hunch those numbers will grow.

Pretty cool.

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