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News January 11, 2021

Down & Out: The Magazine Vol. 2 No. 2

Down & Out: The Magazine [v2 #2, December 2020] ed. Rick Ollerman (Down & Out Books, $12.99, 172pp, tp, cover Lance Wright)
Contents Page
1 • A Few Clues from the Editor • Rick Ollerman • ed
3 • Bon Noir [Ellen Flay] • Don Stoll • ss
13 • Killer Advice • Michael Cahlin • ss
32 • sparkbirth • Arthur Klepchukov & Kyle Stout • ss
38 • The Daisy Nelson Case [Ray Douglas & Jenny Parker] • John M. Floyd • ss
52 • The Stonewall Jackson Death Site • Josh Pachter • ss
57 • The Lie Detector [Tim Hallett] • James O. Born • ss
68 • Whiskey and Rain • Ken Luer • ss
79 • Christmas Confidential • Steven Nester • ss
89 • Lug Nut • Jeff Vorzimmer • ss
97 • Complimentary Stay • John Shepphird • ss
102 • On Stephen Marlowe • Jeff Vorzimmer • bg
104 • The Blonde at the Wheel • Stephen Marlowe • nv Manhunt October 1955
120 • An Epistolary Romance: The Correspondence of Walter Satterthwait and Bill Crider • Walter Satterthwait • lt
151 • So What’s in the Hummus? • Rick Ollerman • ss

Down & Out: The Magazine website

Down & Out: The Magazine Vol. 2 No. 2 back cover

News November 3, 2019

Down & Out: The Magazine Vol. 2 No. 1

Contents Page
Rick Ollerman: A Few Clues From the Editor
April Kelly “Rolling Gormay”
Brendan DuBois “The Good That Men Do”
Ray Daniel & Kellye Garrett “Code Switch”
J. Kingston Pierce: Placed in Evidence
Walter Satterthwait “The Death of Mr. Jayacody”
Sylvia Maultash Warsh “The Veiled Heart”
Benjamin Boulden “121”
Dane F. Baylis “Debts”
Robb T. White “Hansel Alone in the Deep Dark Woods”
Richard Prosch “Capitol Offense”
Richard Risemberg “The Last Word”

Down & Out: The Magazine Vol. 2 No. 1 (Book 5)
Editor: Rick Ollerman
Cover design: Lance Wright, Cover photo: Peter Rozovsky
5.5” x 8.5”, 180 pages
Print $12.99, (Kindle $5.99 coming soon)
Down & Out: The Magazine website (subscriptions available)

Reviews January 29, 2019

Rick Ollerman Hit Me

Excerpt from the review of Down & Out: The Magazine No. 1 in The Digest Enthusiast No. 7.

“Hit Me” by Rick Ollerman reminded me a lot of a story one might’ve found in a 1960s newsstand digest. It’s a first person account of a self-aggrandizing refrigerator salesman who whips up the perfect plan to put a hit on his wife and inherit her otherwise untouchable bankroll. The fun is not in reaching the wrong destination, it’s the journey that takes you there.

Interviews December 14, 2018

Elements of The Magazine

Excerpts from the interview with Rick Ollerman, editor of Down & Out: The Magazine, appearing in The Digest Enthusiast No. 7.

TDE: What are the core elements of The Magazine?

RO: I knew that I wanted to cross-pollinate fanbases as much as I could, and to promote the authors and their stories—especially when they write a story with their series’ characters—as much as their own fanbases would support the magazine.

Another was kind of the unspoken notion of size; we just sort of knew it should be a digest-sized magazine without ever really talking about it.

Another thing I want to do that many new magazines in the POD era don’t do is offer subscriptions, something we will definitely do, probably starting with the second issue.

We’ve also got a non-fiction column by J. Kingston Pierce, who used to write for Kirkus Reviews before they reshuffled.

Another hopefully unique feature answers that burning question you never knew you wanted to ask: what happened to short crime fiction after Hammett and Chandler left the pulps for the slicks and nov- els and Hollywood? Obviously, the pulps kept going, but who kept them going with the two big stars gone?

The page count is right around 170 for the first issue. I think we’ll wait on reader response to see if that moves, and by how much.

Reviews December 8, 2018

Introducing D&O: The Magazine

Excerpt from the review of Down & Out: The Magazine No. 1 in The Digest Enthusiast No. 7.

Editor Rick Ollerman introduces his new magazine with the assertion, “Digest magazines aren’t what they used to be.” There are few crime fiction magazines on newsstands today. Even the influx of new titles, since the advent of Print on Demand, are often infrequent or published erratically. The Magazine intends to shake things up. How? The backing of a publisher like Down & Out Books should help. But The Magazine’s big idea is to leverage a character from a novel series in a brand new short story. In the debut edition, that’s Reed Farrel Coleman’s ex-cop, ex-PI, ex-retiree, Moe Prager.

In fact, every story in issue No. 1 features a series character, making it an ideal venue to reach new readers or delight series’ fans with short, between-novels, adventures. There’s nonfiction too. J. Kingston Pierce, who manages The Rap Sheet website, provides crime fiction news and reviews, and Ollerman introduces the issue’s only reprint in a column called, “A Few Cents a Word.”

Interviews November 30, 2018

Starting The Magazine

Excerpt from Rick Ollerman’s interview from The Digest Enthusiast No. 7. Here he talks about the origins of Down & Out: The Magazine.

“I had been thinking about all of the latest wave of magazines that have hit the marketplace, mostly made possible by newer technologies like POD and the ability to do layouts and upload .pdf files to a publisher, etc. and wondered why they seemed to have a limited shelf life.

“I bumped into Eric Campbell from Down and Out Books at Bouchercon in New Orleans. And I told him, ‘You should do a magazine.’ He took a sip of something that wasn’t Kool-Aid and said, ‘That’s funny, I’ve been thinking the same thing.’ I told him I’d be interested in editing it and putting it together.”

The first issue of Down & Out: The Magazine debuted in the summer of 2017.

News August 22, 2018

Down & Out: The Magazine No. 4 Aug. 2018

Contents
Rick Ollerman: A Few Clues From the Editor
Arthur Klepchukov “A Damn Fine Town”
John Shepphird “Headhunter”
Brian Silverman “Scotch Bonnet”
J. Kingston Pierce: Placed in Evidence (book reviews)
Michael Stanley “Shoot to Kill” (feature story)
Rick Ollerman: A Few Cents a Word
Frederick C. Davis “Blood on the Block” (Dime Detective Magazine Dec. 15, 1933)
Robb T. White “Inside Man”
Lissa Marie Redmond “We Don’t Talk About Lester Anymore”

Editor: Rick Ollerman
Cover design: Lance Wright, Cover photo: Peter Rozovsky
5.5” x 8.5”, 178 pages
POD $12.99, Kindle $5.99
Down & Out: The Magazine website (subscriptions available)

News April 7, 2018

Down & Out: The Magazine #3 March 2018

Contents
Rick Ollerman: A Few Clues From the Editor
Peter Sellers “Kickback”
Patricia Abbott “The Wheel Has Come Full Circle”
Frank Zafiro “Adam Raised a Cain”
Robert J. Randisi “Hey, Hockey Puck”
J. Kingston Pierce: Placed in Evidence
Barry Lancet “Three-Star Sushi” (Feature Story starring Jim Brodie)
Art Taylor “Sunday Morning, Saturday Night”
Rick Ollerman: A Few Cents a Word
Raoul Whitfield “Death in the Pasig”
Jim Wilsky “Bear Trap”
Michael Bracken “Texas Sundown”
S.A Solomon “Titan”

Editor: Rick Ollerman
Cover design: Lance Wright, Cover photo: Mason Loring
5.5” x 8.5”, 174 pages
POD $11.99, Kindle $5.99
Down & Out: The Magazine website (subscriptions available)

Get the inside story: Editor Rick Ollerman speaks out on D&O: The Magazine, Gold Medal crime fiction, Stark House Press, and considerably more in The Digest Enthusiast #7. Read Art Taylor’s interview in The Digest Enthusiast #4, and Michael Bracken’s interview is coming in issue #8 this June.