Q & A for The Reawakening with award winning author Joseph Souza. Question: You’ve written crime fiction before moving into horror. Why an apocalyptic Living Dead trilogy? JS: With all the craziness going on in the world the idea for an apocalyptic trilogy hit me like a ton of bricks. The idea for The Reawakening… Continue Reading
‘Tornado Alley’ is a hilarious satire that takes place in the near future. Combining the styles of Don Delillo’s White Noise, George Orwell’s 1984 and George Saunder’s Pastoralia, Tornado Alley takes the reader on wild ride throughout the bread basket. When a troubled young magazine writer with a case of severe writer’s block gets assigned… Continue Reading
Edited by Kate Flora, Ruth M. McCarty and Susan Oleksiw Published by Level Best Books ISBN: 978-0-9700984-7-4 Pub. Date: November 2009 Category: Fiction/Mystery Binding: Trade Paperback, 5.5 X 8.5 Pages: 273 Price: $15.00 Contains the Agatha, Anthony and Macavity Award winning short story “On the House” Quarry is New England with ice storms, ice out,… Continue Reading
Back when we were kids we used to come here on hot summer days to cool off and test our mettle. Leaping into the onyx quarry waters was a rite of passage. Half of South Boston would come here to drink and beat the oppressive slum heat. There was lots of beer and it gave… Continue Reading
The Current – Thursday, February 4, 2010 By Tess Nacelewicz Main streets lined with classic colonial homes, picturesque harbors filled with fishing boats, trees ablaze with color in the fall. Those are some of the images that New England evokes in many people’s minds. But to Joseph Souza, a South Portland crime fiction writer, New… Continue Reading
MaineBusiness.com Released 11/12/09 When fiction writer, journalist, and former DEA intelligence analyst Joe Souza saw the title of Level Best’s upcoming collection, he knew he had to write the story. He’d grown up near the Quincy Quarries and long heard the local tales of the secrets they kept. His dark story, “The Devil’s Dumping Ground,”… Continue Reading