Contact
In its author-site years, this page offered a direct line for readers who wanted to talk about the books, ask a question about writing, arrange a talk or reading, or just say hi. In the same spirit, the caretakers of this archive welcome messages from readers, researchers, and the writers whose work is indexed here.
Reasons to Get in Touch
- Corrections. The issue credits in the Archives were reconstructed from historical captures of the original zine. If you are a contributor and a title, byline, or issue attribution is wrong, we want to fix it.
- Research. Students and historians of the 2000s crime-zine era are welcome to ask about the site's history, the guest-editor model, or the publication record preserved here.
- Rights. All fiction indexed in the archive remains the property of its authors. If you are an author with questions about how your work is referenced, contact us and we will respond promptly.
- General. Questions about noir, the zine's history, or the books discussed on the books page are always fair game.
A Note on the Original Page
The original contact page belonged to the author-site era, when the domain's owner made himself available for talks and book readings and invited readers to write in about the stories and novels, to ask a question about writing, or just to say hi. That open-door spirit ran through the whole project — the zine answered its submitters personally for five years, and the mailing list put readers and contributors in the same room. This archive tries to honor that: every serious message gets a reply.
How to Reach Us
Use the contact form on this page to send a message. We don't publish a phone line or mailing address for the archive; the form reaches the people who maintain the site directly. Please include enough detail for a useful reply — the page or issue you're writing about, and any correction or question spelled out plainly. Messages are read in the order they arrive, and corrections to the historical record take first priority. Like the zine itself, we keep it simple: say what you mean, keep it tight, and we'll do the same in reply.