Members of the media may schedule an interview with Ace or request information about an upcoming event by contacting summer.smith@us.penguingroup.us.

On the Road

Ace will be on the road for Wicked City in spring and summer 2008. Check back here for more dates and locations.

• Sunday, April 6: LIttle Rock, Ark. | Arkansas Literary Festival | 1:30 p.m.
• Wednesday, April 9: Birmingham, Ala. | Alabama Booksmith | 4 p.m.
• Thursday, April 10: Oxford, Miss. | Square Books on Thacker Mountain Radio | 5:30 p.m.
• Friday, April 11: Phoenix, Ariz. | Poisoned Pen | 7 p.m.
• Saturday, April 12: Houston, Texas | Murder By the Book | 5 p.m.
• Monday, April 14: Jacksonville, Fla. | The Book Mark | 7 p.m.
• Tuesday, April 15: Sarasota, Fla. | Sarasota News & Books | 7 p.m.
• Wednesday, April 16: Tampa, Fla.| Sin City Night at King Corona Cigars | 7 p.m.
• Thursday, April 17: St. Petersburg, Fla. | Haslam’s | 3 p.m.
• April 19: Montgomery, Ala. | Alabama Book Festival | Time TBA
• Thursday, April 24: Greenwood, Mississippi | Turnrow Books | 5:30 p.m.
• Friday, April 25: New Orleans, La. | Garden District Bookshop | 5 p.m.
• May 1: Phenix City, Ala. | Red Clay, White Water, and Blues: Programs on Local History | 7 p.m.
• May 1-3: Monroeville, Ala. | Alabama Writers Symposium | 9 a.m.
  

On Wicked City

Read some recent reviews and interviews with Ace about his newest novel:

• New Orleans Times-Picayune: New mysteries focus on 'Daddies dearest'
• Ft. Worth Star Telegram: Mysteries & Thrillers
• Mobile Press-Register: Wicked good Phenix City reborn in Ace Atkins' hands
• Alabama Arts Radio podcast interview: http://www.arts.state.al.us/actc/1/radioseries.html#rheta_ace
• National Public Radio podcast interview: Q&A on "Wicked City"
• Feature in the Columbus Ledger: “Phenix City's villainous past has the makings of good fiction. But how do novels set post-'54 affect the real city?”
• Review in the Tampa Tribune:“Something 'Wicked' Comes Our Way”
• Interview in Sarasota Herald: “Wicked City Tale”
• Review in the St. Petersburg Times: “Ace Atkins captures Phenix City in Wicked City”
• The Associated Press raves: "Family crime history is point of pride"
• Review of Wicked City in the Washington Post: "Vice and Its Grip"
• Short piece on Ace in the St. Petersburg Times: "Ace Atkins, local reporter turned novelist"
• A Q&A with Ace in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: "Q&A / ACE ATKINS, author: Real-life 'Wicked City' behind historical novel"
• A review of Wicked City in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: "BOOKS: 'Wicked' puts Phenix City on murder map"
• A profile of Ace and Wicked City in the Birmingham News: "Alabama native Ace Atkins' novel 'Wicked City' a patchwork of tales from Phenix City's sordid past"
• A review of Wicked City by Noir master Eddie Muller in the San Francisco Chronicle: "Stansberry's 'Ancient Rain' reimagines SLA"
• Library Journal Q&A with Ace: "Q&A: Ace Atkins"

In Others’ Words

Check out some of our favorite profiles and reviews of Ace’s work:

• St. Petersburg Times: “Cigar City Confidential”
• Tampa Tribune: “Ghosts of Tampa”
• Associated Press: “First-rate historical novel also a superb crime story”
• Salon: “Steam Heat and Cold Ground”
• Check out Ace’s stunning Hurricane Katrina travelogue for Outside magazine: http://outside.away.com/outside/features/200512/hurricane-katrina-1.html
• Library Journal: “Q&A with Ace Atkins”
• The Mean Streets: An Interview with Ace Atkins, Part 1 | Part 2

Downloads

• Wicked City Press Kit (104 kb .zip)
• Photos of Ace:
  

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  Note: All photos credited to Jay E. Nolan and copyrighted to Carrefour, Ltd. 2008.