"Great copy, Jemir. My suggestion is the length is too long. I'd cut heavily & have the product description jump out in half the words.
Good luck,
Jed"
Welcome To CrimeSpace
Winner of the Spinetingler Magazine Special Services To The Industry Award, CrimeSpace is a place for readers and writers of crime fiction to meet. Find new authors to delve into and discuss the latest in crime fiction. Share photos, videos and make some friends. Pull up a chair at the bar and share your poison.
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For those of you looking to join CrimeSpace, the requirements are simple: You need to have a genuine interest in crime fiction. While there are a number of authors on the site, the main focus of CrimeSpace is not promotion. It's community.
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C.S. Miller posted a status"Go to http://csmillerbks.blogspot.com to read the 1st chapter of the new CSMiller mystery, 10th & Penn, out in June."
Jemir Johnson posted a discussionCover copy help part 2 ... sorta ... kinda ...
Hello, Everyone. First hope any and all reading are having a great week or on the path to it. Second: this post is patterend a bit after one that Jude Hardin did and Eric Christopherson knocked out of the park by providing help with the back cover copy provided. My own four story collection - called Blind Corners - featuring a black, female, private eye named Jay Nova (her ethnicity isn't really harped on as it will either be apparent through the final cover if not the stories themselves so…See More
Richard Krauss posted a discussionMem. Day sale on AHMM and EQMM eSubscriptions
Sale on eSubscriptions to AHMM and EQMM over Memorial Day weekend.http://trace-evidence.net/2013/05/24/memorial-day-weekend-digital-edition-sale/See More
C.S. Miller posted a status"Coming in June from the author of THE COLDEST CASE, a new DC Mystery
***10th & Penn***
Read 1st chptr at http://www.csmillerbks.blogspot.com"
Rachel Amphlett posted a videoUnder Fire by Rachel Amphlett
UNDER FIRE by Rachel Amphlett Coming in 2013 www.rachelamphlett.com Also check out Rachel's other release: WHITE GOLD -- Available Now Trailer created by Sim...
Rachel Amphlett posted a status"I'm currently giving away 'White Gold' for free! Click here for details: http://www.rachelamphlett.com/
Only to midnight, 25 May (PST)"
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Cover copy help part 2 ... sorta ... kinda ... 1 Reply
Hello, Everyone. First hope any and all reading are having a great week or on the path to it. Second: this post is patterend a bit after one that Jude Hardin did and Eric Christopherson knocked out…Continue
Started by Jemir Johnson in The Main Bar. Last reply by Jed Power 6 hours ago.
Mem. Day sale on AHMM and EQMM eSubscriptions
Sale on eSubscriptions to AHMM and EQMM over Memorial Day weekend.…Continue
Started by Richard Krauss in The Main Bar 9 hours ago.
New series you must check out... 1 Reply
I've posted about this book before but with the second in the series coming out in the next few weeks, I recommend anyone gets into this series...I spotted this article in the mail online, if you've…Continue
Tags: Watkinson, Douglas, Hawk, Haggard
Started by Connor Moore in Reading Room. Last reply by I. J. Parker on Monday.
No E-book for Stephen King's New "JOYLAND" 7 Replies
In a move to bump up…Continue
Started by Jack Getze in The Main Bar. Last reply by Linton Robinson on Tuesday.
ITW Roundtable: Thrillers that challenge the status quo 1 Reply
Please join me this week at ITW's Roundtable, where we are discussing the question, "What are your favorite thrillers that question conventional wisdom or the status quo?" I had the opportunity to…Continue
Tags: thrillers
Started by L. A. Starks in Reading Room. Last reply by Eric Christopherson on Monday.
Finding an editor 13 Replies
Does anyone know of a resource list of honest and competent editors who I could contact regarding an edit of my crime novel? CrimeSpace seemed to be a good place to ask this question. thanks in…Continue
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Started by J W Nelson in Writer's Den. Last reply by J W Nelson on Wednesday.
True crime ... a springboard to fiction? 1 Reply
One of the articles in my recently published true crime ebook inspired my first novel. So kick back, have a pina colada (as it says in the Main Bar description) and check out the others.DARK DEEDS:…Continue
Tags: murders, child, Boston, Strangler, wife
Started by Susan in The Main Bar. Last reply by Susan May 14.
Interesting Forbes article on Self-publishing 2 Replies
Interesting article about self-publishing in Forbes recently…Continue
Started by David DeLee in The Main Bar. Last reply by Patrick Balester May 20.
Looking for Published Novellas for podcast
At Crime City Central we are looking for published crime novellas (dead tree published) to air on our podcast in serial form. Up to 24,000 words, more or less. Old or recent, even OOP, but you must…Continue
Started by Cher in Schmooze Lounge May 8.
Bid on a manuscript critique for a good cause! 2 Replies
Manuscript critiques, cocktails for 4 at Folio Literary Management's NYC offices, a scholarship to the Salt Cay Writers Retreat, and more including my offering: signed books and rocks from my…Continue
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Blog Posts
Review: Fire Knife Dancing by John Enright
First Line: For many years it was the only house out there, a house of elegant exile.
Ezra Strand has been firing off a shotgun at hikers and boaters along the cliffs near his house again, and Detective Apelu Soifua goes out to the remote area to warn him. Again. But when the old man…
ContinuePosted by Kittling: Books on May 25, 2013 at 7:39pm
Review: Norwegian By Night by Derek B. Miller
First Line: It is summer and luminous.
When you're in your eighties and a widower, the last thing you want to do is to move from your home in New York City to a new place with your granddaughter and her Norwegian husband in Oslo, Norway. But as Sheldon Horowitz knows, sometimes the…
ContinuePosted by Kittling: Books on May 25, 2013 at 7:33pm
Review: The Black Country by Alex Grecian
First Line: It was an unusual egg.
The little girl who discovers a human eyeball in a bird's nest sparks fear in a small mining village in the black country of the English Midlands due in no small part to the fact that three members of a prominent family have disappeared. The local…
ContinuePosted by Kittling: Books on May 25, 2013 at 7:28pm
New Anthology Deadline
If you're an author who registered for the Creatures, Crimes & Creativity conference, we have moved the deadline to June 15 to submit a short story to be included in the collector's anthology that every attendee will receive in his goody bag when he arrives. Don't miss your chance to have everyone read your story alongside the likes of NY Times Bestseller John Gilstrap.
And if you HAVEN'T registered yet, it's not too late for you to be included in that special volume - but you…
ContinuePosted by Austin S. Camacho on May 24, 2013 at 10:28pm
RANDY WAYNE WHITE - THE MAN WHO INVENTED FLORIDA
Synopsis/blurb.......
When solitary marine biologist Doc Ford focused his telescope on the woman in the white boat, he didn't know his life was about to be capsized: that his conniving uncle Tucker Gatrell would discover the Fountain of Youth, that The National Enquirer…
Continue Posted by Colman on May 24, 2013 at 8:37pm
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