Speculative Los Angeles

Los Angeles Noir , which is also edited by Denise Hamilton, is one of the best-selling in the Noir Series; with sales of roughly 20,000 copies to date it is currently in its 8th printing. Los Angeles Noir featured «The Golden Gopher» by Susan Straight, which won an Edgar Award for Best Short Story. Los Angeles Noir 2: The Classics, edited by Hamilton, has also sold very well and is currently in a second printing with approximately 7,000 copies sold. Denise Hamilton is the author of the nationally best-selling Eve Diamond series, published by Simon & Schuster. Hamilton is very well-connected within the Southern California book world, and does numerous events at libraries, bookstores, etc. Speculative Los Angeles will come out just before the 2021 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books and the festival will feature Hamilton & select contributors on a program focused on this new anthology. Similar to the city-based Akashic Noir Series, each story in Speculative Los Angeles is set in a distinct neighborhood filled with local color, landmarks, and flavor. Speculative Los Angeles features brand-new stories by: Aimee Bender, Lisa Morton, Alex Espinoza, Ben H. Winters, Denise Hamilton, Lynell George, Stephen Blackmoore, Francesca Lia Block, Charles Yu, Duane Swierczynski, Luis J. Rodriguez, A.G. Lombardo, Kathleen Kaufman, and S. Qiouyi Lu.