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How well can you take reader criticism?
Replied Sep. 2, 2007
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- Hometown:
- Rode Heath, England
- About Me:
- I've come back to writing after a gap of many years, and last year published my first crime novel, Altered Life. I've just finished the second one, The Private Lie, and I'm now polishing it to perfection!
- I Am A:
- Reader, Writer
- Website:
- http://keithdixon.wordpress.com/
- Books And Authors I Like:
- Anything by James Lee Burke, George Pelecanos, Elmore Leonard, Robert Crais, Patricia Highsmith, Lawrence Block, James Hall, Tim Dorsey, Joe Lansdale. Most of Jefferson Parker, Carl Hiaasen and James Crumley. No British crime writers make my cut.
Then add in Scott Fitzgerald, John Steinbeck and John Dos Passos.
And Kurt Vonnegut.
- Movies And TV Shows I Like:
- At the moment:
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
Heroes
The Sopranos
NYPD Blue (deceased)
The West Wing (deceased)
Movies: Too many to mention - some current favourites:
The Bourne trilogy
A Clockwork Orange
Mulholland Drive
Chinatown
Citizen Kane
The 400 Blows
Hi! This is a link to my blog on Wordspace. It's called The Idle Writer and documents the ups and downs of writing: The Idle Writer.
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This won't be a blog I'll write much in, I guess, because I already have The Idle Writer to work on.…
This won't be a blog I'll write much in, I guess, because I already have The Idle Writer to work on. It's as though I only have so many bloggish words in me during any given month, so I have to parcel them out piecemeal.
Just to do a bit of positioning, as marketing folk like to say ... I've published one PI novel already (Altered Life), an
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When you might have time, please have a free read of my P.I. mystery novel, FOUL SHOT, here on my page.
Yes, I just did - it looks good! I'll keep it in my favourites. I forgot to mention George Pelecanos and Walter Mosley, who your interviewee also mentioned. My latest favourite is Joe R. Lansdale - an East Texan writer who is both exciting and comic at the same time. Oh, and let's not forget the great Elmore Leonard!
I need to do some major re-working on my two main novels, 'Medusa's Curse' & 'Inside Justice', as they were written in the early 90's, and I feel that by today's standards, they'd not fair too well.
It's nice to make your acqauintance.
You know, the first month I worked at the store the manager had to remind me to pick up my paycheck. That's how excited I was to be working there. Of course, the perils of retail include messy shoppers, rude shoppers, customers who belive we are a baby-sitting service, and those who believe we need to stock books out of print for the past decade. Even with all that, I love talking about my favorite authors, recommending books, and seeing the new stock come in and sell well. I'm also fortunate that this is a second job, or I'd be bankrupt just supporting my addiction to the printed page :o) BTW Is Altered Life available in the US? I'm in a university community, so we have an eclectic group of readers. We carry (finally) Stephen Booth's mysteries as well as a few others. I'd like to read yours so I can recommend it!