Julius Katz and Archie Virtual Book Tour June 2011

Julius Katz and Archie

Join Dave Zeltserman, author of the thriller novel, Julius Katz and Archie (Top Suspense), as he virtually tours the blogosphere in June 2011 on his second virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book!

About Dave Zeltserman

Dave Zeltserman Dave Zeltserman won the 2010 Shamus Award for Julius Katz, Ellery Queen’s Readers Choice Award for Archie’s Been Framed, and is the acclaimed author of the ‘man out of prison’ crime trilogy: Small Crimes, Pariah and Killer, where Small Crimes was named by NPR as one of the five best crime and mystery novels of 2008, and Small Crimes and Pariah (2009) were picked by the Washington Post as best books of the year. His recent The Caretaker of Lorne Field received a starred review from Publisher’s Weekly, calling it a ‘superb mix of humor and horror’, and was shortlisted by ALA for best horror novel of 2010. Outsourced (2011) has already been called ‘a small gem of crime fiction’ by Booklist and has been optioned by Impact Pictures and Constantin Film.

His latest book is Julius Katz and Archie (Top Suspense).

You can visit Dave’s website at www.davezeltserman.com. Connect with him on Facebook at www.facebook.com/people/Dave-Zeltserman/1434849193.

About Julius Katz and Archie

Julia Katz and Archie The award-winning Julius Katz mysteries have delighted thousands of mystery fans since first appearing on the pages of Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine in 2009, winning a Shamus, Derringer and Ellery Queen’s Readers Choice Award . ‘Julius Katz’ introduced readers to Boston’s most brilliant, eccentric and possibly laziest detective, Julius Katz, as well as his sidekick, Archie, a tiny marvel of whizbang computer technology with the heart and soul of a hard-boiled PI. Now in Julius Katz and Archie’s first full novel, the stakes have never been higher when a famous Boston mystery, Kenneth Kingston, tells Julius he wants to find out who’s planning to kill him. The problem is almost everyone in Kingston’s life has good reason to want to kill him, and this case soon plunges Julius and Archie deep into the world of murder and publishing.

Read the Excerpt!

“What do I want from you? Simple. Find out who’s planning to kill me.”
These words were spoken by one Kenneth J. Kingston as he sat across from Julius, his voice having a thick nasal quality that bordered on whining. Kingston’s legs were crossed, his manner seemingly casual and unconcerned, his mouth compressed into a curious smile that seemed at odds with what he had just told Julius.
Kingston was a well-known Boston-area crime writer. I’d say he was a bestselling writer, but he wasn’t, at least not with his last several books. He was forty-nine and physically almost the exact opposite of his fictional private eye, and he certainly had no resemblance to tough guy crime writers like Mickey Spillane or Robert B. Parker. Dressed in an Armani suit and wearing expensive Italian loafers, he was five feet eight inches tall, and thin with a slight build. I had seen his publicity photos, so I thought I knew what to expect, but those must’ve been carefully posed because in real-life he didn’t resemble them very much. From his demeanor you could tell that he believed himself to be good-looking, but he wasn’t. Even if his tight curly hair hadn’t begun receding up his forehead, he wouldn’t have been. Not with his thin nose being as pointy as it was, and not with his chin being even pointier, and certainly not with that mouth of his being too big and wide for his angular face when it wasn’t compressed into a curious smile. If I had olfactory senses, I would have been able to describe the cologne he was wearing, but since I don’t, I could only guess it was some sort of dense musk. Of course it was possible he wasn’t wearing any cologne, but he seemed like the type that would.
Kingston wasn’t the first person to ever sit in Julius’s office and speak those words, or at least words to that effect, but those other prospective clients appeared anxious and worried as they did so. I found Kingston’s smile and his overall behavior confusing, maybe even disconcerting. If it confused Julius, I couldn’t tell. Julius didn’t respond to Kingston’s bombshell. Instead, he sat expressionless, although the fingers of his right hand began drumming lightly on the top of his antique walnut desk, which indicated an annoyance on his part.

Here’s what critics are saying about Julius Katz and Archie!

“Julius Katz and Archie is a charming and sophisticated drawing room mystery from the pen of the multifaceted Dave Zeltserman. Although the book harks back to the classic whodunits of the Nero Wolfe era, eccentric detective Julius Katz’s sidekick, Archie, is a character straight out of tomorrow: the brilliantly conceived spawn of our digital world. The clever plotting will satisfy mystery aficionados, while long time Zeltserman fans will be pleased to hear that there is a fist of steel lurking under the elegantly tailored velvet glove.”

— Roger Smith, author of Wake Up Dead and Mixed Blood

“Julius Katz is not only one of the most popular and award-winning creations in modern mystery fiction, the sheer wit and cunning of Dave Zeltserman‘s writing takes you into a world as amusing and surprising as the Rex Stout novels that Dave honors with this character.”

— Ed Gorman, author of  Cage of Night and Stranglehold

“Julius Katz and Archie are the best thing since Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin, and I think Rex Stout walks on water and the original Nero Wolfe books are pretty close to perfect. Dave Zeltserman has found a way to update this classic relationship to the 21st century, and then build crackling mysteries around it.”

— Timothy Hallinan, the author of The Queen of Patpong

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Julius Katz and Archie Virtual Book Tour Schedule

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books kk Monday, June 6

Interviewed at Virginia Beach Publishing Examiner

“These days I don’t take NY’s rejections seriously as I know it means absolutely nothing about the quality of the book.”

Tuesday, June 7

Guest blogging at The Dark Phantom Reviews

“I was seven when I first started reading mysteries with Encyclopedia Brown and Freddy the Pig Detective books, and that must’ve gotten me hooked because by the time I was 13 I was devouring all the Rex Stout Nero Wolfe books and Agatha Christies I could get my hands on, and at some point made the leap to the hardboiled PI novels from Hammett, Ross Macdonald, Jonathan Latimer and others. So why do I love these books?”

Wednesday, June 8

Dave Zeltserman - Book Marketing Buzz Interviewed at Book Marketing Buzz

“Getting a bookstore, like B&N, to recommend your book. This is something outside your control, but B&N recommended two of my print books, Small Crimes and Pariah, and two of my e-books, Bad Thoughts and Blood Crimes, and in all these cases it triggered a lot of sales.”

Thursday, June 9

Guest blogging at Writing Daze

“While Nero’s Archie Goodwin is a flesh-and-blood hardboiled PI, Julius’s Archie is something entirely different, although he has the heart and soul of a hardboiled PI.”

Friday, June 10

Guest blogging at Literarily Speaking

“You want to draw the reader in from the very first line. And keep building momentum from there.”

Monday, June 13

Interviewed at Pump Up Your Book

“I’d probably heard of them over the years, but didn’t pay much attention then.  My publicists at Overlook Press and Serpent’s Tail do a good job with my print books, but with putting Julius Katz and Archie out myself as an e-book, I felt I needed to do something.”

Tuesday, June 14

Interviewed at Review From Here

Wednesday, June 15

Book reviewed at Book Reviews by Molly

Thursday, June 16

Interviewed at The Writer’s Life

Friday, June 17

Guest blogging at A Cozy Reader’s Corner Reviews

Monday, June 20

Guest blogging at The Book Boost

Tuesday, June 21

Guest blogging at Beyond the Books

Wednesday, June 22

Interviewed at Paperback Writer

Thursday, June 23

Guest participant at Literarily Speaking June Book Panel

Friday, June 24

Book reviewed at Life in Review

Monday, June 27

Interviewed at As the Pages Turn

Tuesday, June 28

Interviewed at Cafe of Dreams Book Reviews

Wednesday, June 29

Book reviewed at Cafe of Dreams Book Reviews

Thursday, June 30

Interviewed at American Chronicle


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Dave Zeltserman’s JULIUS KATZ AND ARCHIE VIRTUAL BOOK TOUR ‘10 will officially begin on June 6 and end on June 30’11. Please contact Dorothy Thompson at thewriterslife@yahoo.com if you are interested in hosting and/or reviewing his book or click here to use the form. Thank you!

If you would like to book your own virtual book tour with us, click here to find out how!

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