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high-resolution QuickTime, or check it out at Vimeo or YouTube.
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my chat with writer Ken Lewis, host of NetDrag.
“CHASING SMOKE is a tour-de-force, New Century Noir at its finest. Fans of Michael Connelly will relish Cameron's colorful characters. Cameron writes mortality like no other. Watch this guy!”
— Julia Spencer-Fleming, Edgar finalist and
author of I SHALL NOT WANT
Portland homicide detective Skin Kadash just wants to survive cancer treatment so he can get back to the work he loves. When his partner tries to drag him into an unofficial investigation of a series of deaths, he’s not interested — he’s dead-dog sick and doesn’t need the grief — until she reveals the victims all suffered from cancer themselves, and all had one thing in common with Skin. His oncologist.
- NEW: The Chasing Smoke Trailer
- The Chasing Smoke Photo Tour of Portland
- Chasing Smoke Soundtrack
- Available Fall 2008 from Bleak House Books
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News
- My story, "Coffee, Black," has been accepted for the forthcoming Portland Noir from Akashic Books. Kevin Sampsell, Portland-area writer and publisher, is the editor.
- Hear my story Counterflow read by Alan Vogel on Lit 103.3: Fiction For the Ears, starting Tuesday, July 8 through July 15. Streaming live July 8 at 1pm EDT, or available as a podcast throughout the week. Fiction for the Ears is broadcast on Valley Free Radio, Northampton, Massachusetts. "Counterflow" was a finalist in the 2008 Press 53 Open Awards
- Read “Bill Cameron’s Portland Noir” by Jeff Ayers (PDF). This profile appeared in the May/June 2008 Issue of The Northwest Magazine.
- My story “Counterflow” is a finalist in the Press 53 Open Awards Short Short Story category.
- The telephone rang...and it was Ben Leroy, publisher of Bleak House Books. Listen to our chat at The Future Is Bleak, the Bleak House podcast.
- 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!
- Lost Dog is a runner up for the 2008 Spotted Owl Award and named a great read for 2007 by Friends of Mystery. Congratulations to Kate Wilhelm, winner of the 2008 Spotted Owl for A Wrongful Death!
- The Chicago Tribune describes “Slice of Pie” as “an irony-filled gem” in its review of Killer Year.
