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D.R. MacMaster
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About Me:
I'm a writer of many genres, having written two science fiction novels, one being reviewed by a publisher (knock wood) and I had a trilogy of short fantasy adventure stories published in a now defunct e-zine, and a short crime story in Out of the Gutter #3 called The Death of Suzie Sunshine.

I also have a short story called the Dixie Chrononauts now available in...


I've just started writing my first crime novel. Also a fan of many different crime writers. I also have a blog under the pen name of Furious D, where I dissect the business side of pop culture. I am also writing a non-fiction book, inspired by my blog, where I try to explain the business of pop culture to the average media outsider.
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Reader, Writer
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http://dknowsall.blogspot.com
Books And Authors I Like:
Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Ian Rankin, PD James, Ian Fleming, James Ellroy, Jim Thompson, Arthur Conan Doyle, Georges Simenon, Harlan Ellison, JRR Tolkien, PG Wodehouse, William Gibson, and hundreds of others.

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A little shameless plugging

If anyone here is a member of Authonomy, the Harper-Collins writing site, then you can do me a solid. My novel JOE AVERAGE is currently up on the site, and so far the response has been really good. Actually the response has been great, but like Kanye West, I'm a bott
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Posted on September 15, 2009 at 11:50am —

D.R. MacMaster

Anyone In Authonomy?

I just joined Authonomy the Harper-Collins booksite, and posted a few sample chapters. I got a couple of really good reviews so far, which warmed my little flint heart.

Anyone else on this site?

Posted on September 8, 2009 at 8:51am — 1 Comment

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A Little Writer Related News...


The Writer's Guild of America is filled with righteous anger because the Emmy Awards decided to drop the scribe related categories from the telecast. Apparently they're just not worthy o
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Posted on August 4, 2009 at 11:30am —

D.R. MacMaster

Talk about lazy...

Okay, here's the story: I got a form rejection reply from another agent, or to be more specific, the agent's assistant, which stated that despite what their website and other public statements said, they're too busy and not looking for new clients, good luck, yadda yadda yadda, but this time it came with a little something extra.

You know when someone replies to an e-mail, there's usually the first e-mail on the top of the page, that's fairly common, but this time it got weird.

The repl… Continue

Posted on August 4, 2009 at 7:58am — 2 Comments

D.R. MacMaster

Rejection Letter Blues & A Request For Some Advice...

Got another rejection letter today, but at least this agent appears to have actually read the materials that were sent, which says something. That makes about five out of the dozen that I've applied to over the last few weeks, the rest haven't answered yet, and most of them probably won't if they feel the same lack of enthusiasm as the last agent had.

It does raise a question. Should I mention that the novel was recommended twice by editors at a major genre publishing company only to be held ba… Continue

Posted on August 1, 2009 at 8:33am — 8 Comments

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At 3:22pm on July 15, 2009, Dawn M. Kravagna said…
Thanks for taking the time to respond to my inquiry regarding public domain and Sherlock Holmes!
At 2:22am on December 27, 2008, Shannon Clute said…
Thanks for the invitation. I see we have many favorite atuhors in common, so I look forward to sharing thoughts.

Happy holidays.
At 10:37am on November 24, 2008, Dan Coleman said…
Hey, D.R.,
Welcome.
Please have a free read of my P.I. murder mystery novel, FOUL SHOT, here on my page in pdf, when you have time..
At 3:42am on November 13, 2008, Paul Brazill said…
Cheers! na zdrowia! Paul
At 4:07am on November 8, 2008, Brian L Porter said…
Thanks a lot for the congratulations D.R. Much appreciated.

Regards

Brian
At 12:21am on October 15, 2008, JackBludis said…
Great response to the "defining noir" discussion. I agree with everything you say. My definitions, of course, is just a shorthand way to describe noir and hardboiled.
At 12:20pm on October 13, 2008, Shannon Clute said…
Thanks for the invite D.R. MacMaster. Love your list of favorite authors, and I've got money that if you read the latest from Megan Abbott and Michael Connelly, you'll be adding to that list.
At 10:54am on October 13, 2008, Lawrence Kelter said…
any time-- Good luck with your writing.

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I saw an inventor in India who rigged something like that to an exercise bike and called it the Wash & Workout.
on Wednesday
When I first attempted to write a novel I was originally intimidated by the 100,000 word count limit. I thought "How the hell am I going to make that?" Especially when I had first written the story the novel came from as a 120 page screenplay. Bu...
on Tuesday
George HW Bush did do a "stay in school" type speech broadcast to schools during his term in office, and the Democrats in Congress held hearings to see if he could be criminally charged for doing it. So it's not a new thing.
October 7
Start writing something else. That's what I do while a manuscript's "resting." In fact, right now I have 3 different projects going at various stages of completion. But I like to do way to much at any given time. Probably because I'm a little AD...
October 6
Congrats! Now comes the next edit! Have fun!
October 6
I can't stand romanticized vampires too, and like the Knights Templar, have become the catch all cover for weak stories. Re-title your novel THE SECRET CODE OF EMO VAMPIRES and the publishers will be fighting for it. ;) I don't know why folks won...
September 26
Might as well aim big.
September 25
Congrats on getting a deal. Good luck, I hope it sells a million.
September 25

 
 

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