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Mary McFarland
Otway, OH
United States
Profile Information:
- Hometown:
- Mineral Springs, Ohio
- About Me:
- I have just finished my second novel, a mystery, called A Fire in God's Bathtub. My first suspense novel placed third in the Golden Pen, 2010. I'm using 2011 to begin querying agents.
- I Am A:
- Writer, Critic
- Website:
- http://www.marymcfarlandauthor.com
- Books And Authors I Like:
- Connely, Kellerman, Lippman. Ellery Queen. Gerritsen - Bone Garden and The Keepsake. Trevor Howard's "Anatomy of a Murder," everything by Stieg Larson, and I'm in love with The Lock Artist.
- Movies And TV Shows I Like:
- Glades. Criminal Minds. Dog the Bounty Hunter.
Kate the Book Buff
It can be a little overwhelming around here at first, so if you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask!
-Kate the Book Buff
Jul 27, 2010
Clark Lohr
Fights for the protagonist's soul in a good way, huh?
Or not. Either way, sounds good. My crime novel's title, Devil's Kitchen, is a local name for a boulder field in Skeleton Canyon, in SE Arizona. I do have a heroine with paranormal abilities and interests; a red-headed wiccan paralegal who teaches her partner, a rather stodgy-minded homicide investigator, how to use all of his brain.
Clark Lohr
Sep 16, 2010
Clark Lohr
Sep 17, 2010
Copper Smith
Now get to work on that second novel!
Oct 1, 2010
Clark Lohr
Here's a film camera image I took years ago with a Hasselblad, did it as a painting with light, using colored gels. My son-in-law, David Siddall just photoshopped it, making it look bright and menacing.
Oct 16, 2010
Sunny Frazier
Mary, this is Sunny Frazier, the person who discovered Clark's manuscript in a neglected slush pile. He's that one-in-a-million people talk about, a whole lotta luck and timing involved in getting his book into production.
If you aren't dead set on going the agent route, why not pitch your book to me? I'm at Oak Tree Press.
Dec 13, 2010
Tim D
I read the online blog called crimelibrary.com.
The website contains narratives of real criminals and their exploits.
If you are looking for ideas for literary character development, there is no better resource than crimelibrary.com.
I recall that the character called Buffalo Bill in the movie Silence of the Lambs was based on a Crimelibrary documented real-world criminal named Ed Gein. There are tons of disturbed people to choose from at Crimelibrary.com!
Jan 12, 2011
Mark Porter
Hi Mary, thank you for the acceptance. The profiler series sounds fascinating.
Take care. Mark
www.markporter.weebly.com
www.drugstorebooks.com
Feb 16, 2011
Richard Godwin
Feb 16, 2011
jack everett
Jul 2, 2011
jack everett
Jul 2, 2011
Noir Nation
Hi Mary,
I've been offline a few days finishing up a job I've been at ten years, and in crunch time for Noir Nation. So don't have time to respond to everyone. Yet.
However, consider Bare Knuckles Press as a publisher, the editors are all literary guys, MFAs and all that, but who see the whole crossover Nabokov thing we discussed on the Forum. They get it. The first round of books comes out in September, will be looking for more then.
Alan
Jul 4, 2011
Noir Nation
Hi Mary, the discussion on the forum about social commentary in crime fiction has gotten quite a lot of responses. This has inspired us at Noir Nation to add a new section to the first issue of Noir Nation wherein writers opine on the following question: Must crime noir have a moral point? The word limit is 300 to 500 words. Include short bio, and photo. There is a $25 honoraria, payable on publication. Best five get published in Issue No. 1. Send to eddie@evegaonline.com
-- Eddie Vega, Noir Nation editor in chiefJul 6, 2011
Noir Nation
Mary, since you are in the US, if you wanted to submit work to Noir Nation you would need to send it to the North American editor Cort McMeel at: <cortmcmeel@yahoo.com> let him know you heard about it via CrimeSpace.
Jul 6, 2011