"Ghosted" author sails into Philadelphia

A Canadian author with the unassuming moniker of Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall has written what sounds like an intriguing, dark crime novel.

Ghosted offers a drug-addled, self-deluding idler who winds up with a job helping those even more desperate than he is: He ghost-writes suicide notes.

Bishop-Stall reads from Ghosted tonight, Monday, Nov. 8, at Moonstone Arts Center/Robin's Bookst0re, 110a S. 13th Street, Philadelpia, at 7 p.m.

(Read about Bishop-Stall's current book tour, which must be one of the odder such odysseys in the history of publishing.)

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In other DBB-related new-book news, Mike Dennis' "tough, compact tale set in Houston and New Orleans," The Take, has arrived with an imprimatur from no less than Vicki Hendricks. Hendricks is a queen of noir, so that's a good sign.

© Peter Rozovsky 2010