About Bill Cameron
Bill Cameron is the author of the dark, gritty Portland-based mysteries Lost Dog, Chasing Smoke, and Day One. His stories have appeared in Spinetingler, Killer Year, Portland Noir and the forthcoming First Thrills.
He is a member of Friends of Mystery, Mystery Writers of America, and International Thriller Writers.
Whatever Happened to Death With Dignity?
On the page opposite the title page of Lost Dog (Midnight Ink, 2007) you'll see the note, “Forthcoming from Bill Cameron: Death With Dignity.”
I've received a number of queries asking, “Will we ever get to read Death With Dignity?” The answer is yes. Before release, the book got a new title. Death With Dignity became Chasing Smoke.
Past News
- Tasty mention of my Portland Noir contribution "Coffee, Black" at Rose City Reader!
- Listen to the Podcast from Caffeinated Art at Three Friends Coffee House on September 21, 2009. I read an excerpt from my story, "The Princess of Felony Flats," which will appear in the forthcoming anthology First Thrills from Tor. Also reading were Teresa Boze and Liz Grover.
- April 2009: CHASING SMOKE is first runner-up for the 2009 Spotted Owl Award.
- January 2009: CHASING SMOKE is an IndieBound Notable List Next pick for January 2009.
- CHASING SMOKE takes the Page 69 Test.
- October 1, 2008: ★ CHASING SMOKE receives a Starred Review from Library Journal!
- March 26, 2008: as announced in Publisher's Lunch: “Lost Dog author Bill Cameron’s CHASING SMOKE, in which the hero finds himself investigating four suspicious ‘suicides’ of men linked only by their doctor, who is also the hero's doctor while he struggles to recover from cancer, to Ben Leroy at Bleak House, in a nice deal, for publication in Fall 2008, by Janet Reid at Fine Print Literary Management (world).”
- Lost Dog is described as “not so easy to forget” by Richard Krauss at Midnight Fiction. Read the review here!
- The Chicago Tribune describes “Slice of Pie” as “an irony-filled gem” in its review of Killer Year.
- Read “Bill Cameron’s Portland Noir” by Jeff Ayers (PDF). This profile appeared in the May/June 2008 Issue of The Northwest Magazine.
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Read
about Bill's stint "moderating" the Left Coast Crime Sex
and Violence panel at The Rap Sheet. Thanks to Tasha
Alexander, David
Corbett, Marcus
Sakey, and Eric Stone for
being such great panelists!
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Lost Dog is a runner up for the 2008 Spotted Owl Award and named a great read for 2007 by Friends of Mystery.
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Lost Dog is a 2008 Rocky Award Nominee.
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Lost Dog makes the 2007 Top 25 Bestsellers List for Trade Paper at the Seattle Mystery Bookshop!
- Lost Dog, The Movie — a boy can dream, right?
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Battles
and Browne Talk Writing: In Episode Four of
this podcast series on writing, Brett and Rob talk with Bill
about Lost
Dog, process, theme, and much more. Listen online.
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Benetech Bookshare.org adds Lost Dog. Bookshare.org provides access to books for the community of visually impaired and otherwise print disabled individuals. Learn more here.
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August 24, 2007: Fiction
Nation host,
Kim Alexander interviews Bill and Toni McGee Causey in a fun,
free-wheeling conversation about books and the experience
of being members of Killer Year. About Lost
Dog, Kim
says, "Its damaged characters and cold locale make Lost Dog extremely
compelling." Even if you're not an XM subscriber, you can read
her complete review here.
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Chris Well interviews
Bill as part of his Killer
Year series. Check out the other interviews.
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Event, July 11 , 2007: Literary Cage Match: WHO’S THE MOST CHILLING THRILLER WRITER: CHICAGO NEWSHOUND, NEW YORK EDITOR, OREGON ARTIST?
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April 17, 2007: Lost Dog takes the Page 69 Test.
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April 14, 2007: Coffee shop blurb: "[Lost
Dog] looks like a great book for my fiancé to read while he's
in jail."
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April 2, 2007: Lost Dog included in the April ITW Win Books giveaway at BookBitch.
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April 1, 2007: The official release date for Lost Dog.
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Feb 22, 2007: "Lost Dog is an excellent debut filled with suspense, surprises, and memorable characters—and it captures Portland's quirkiness particularly well. I predict we'll be hearing more from the talented Bill Cameron." — Alafair Burke, author of Dead Connection.
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Feb 2007: Bill profiled in the January/February 2007 issue
of Crimespree
Magazine.
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27 Dec 2006: Bethany
Warner at Word Nerd interviews Bill.
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8 Dec 2006: Bill's story, "A
Tall House," has won Spinetingler magazine's Cozy Noir Contest.
- 4 July 2006: Julia Buckley interviews Bill.