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The past month or so, on my blogspot I've been offering thoughts about what it takes to become a bestselling author, giving some informal case studies, drawing a few conclusions, and overall pondering some different attitudes about why we write and…
Here's a rather long quote from Josephine Tey (the speaker is Grant in The Singing Sands)
"It's a harmless sort of weakness," Tad said, with a tolerant lift of a shoulder.
"That is just where you are wrong. It is the utterly destructive quality. W…
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- Hometown:
- San Diego, CA
- About Me:
- After borrowing time from his youthful passions, such as baseball, golf, romance, and trying to make music, to earn degrees in literature and writing from San Diego State University and the University of Iowa, Ken got serious (more or less).
Since then, his stories have appeared in Esquire and dozens of other magazines, and anthologies, been honorably mentioned in Best American Short Stories, and earned a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. He has been a frequent contributor and a columnist for the San Diego Reader.
With Alan Russell, in Road Kill and No Cats, No Chocolate, he has chronicled the madness of book promotion tours.
His Tom Hickey California Century novels include The Loud Adios, The Venus Deal, The Angel Gang, The Do-Re-Mi, The Vagabond Virgins, and The Biggest Liar in Los Angeles (May 2010)
- I Am A:
- Reader, Writer
- Website:
- http://www.kenkuhlken.net
- Books And Authors I Like:
- Nathaniel West, Ruth Rendell, Ross MacDonald, Feodor Dostoyevski, Charles Dickens, James M. Cain, Flannery O'Connor, Jane Austen are some.
- Movies And TV Shows I Like:
- Chinatown, Cabaret, Joan of Arcadia, Witness, Raising Arizona, No Country for Old Men, The Usual Suspects, American Beauty, Popeye
Ken Kuhlken's Blog
How and Why to Become a Bestselling Author, or Not
The past month or so, on my blogspot I've been offering thoughts about what it takes to become a bestselling author, giving some informal case studies, drawing a few conclusions, and overall pondering some different attitudes about why we write and what we aim to accomplish. Sometime soon, I'll collect all this into one piece and give it away to my newsletter su… Continue
Posted on January 1, 2010 at 8:30am —
On vanity and the criminal mind
Here's a rather long quote from Josephine Tey (the speaker is Grant in The Singing Sands)
"It's a harmless sort of weakness," Tad said, with a tolerant lift of a shoulder.
"That is just where you are wrong. It is the utterly destructive quality. When you say vanity, you are thinking of the kind that admires itself in the mirror and buys things to deck itself out in. But that is merely personal conceit. Real vanity is something quite different. A matter not of person but of personality. Vanity… Continue
"It's a harmless sort of weakness," Tad said, with a tolerant lift of a shoulder.
"That is just where you are wrong. It is the utterly destructive quality. When you say vanity, you are thinking of the kind that admires itself in the mirror and buys things to deck itself out in. But that is merely personal conceit. Real vanity is something quite different. A matter not of person but of personality. Vanity… Continue
Posted on November 19, 2009 at 10:45am —
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My sister lives in La Mesa. Nice town!
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Preetham Grandhi
Early Endorsements for “A Circle of Souls”
Linda Fairstein, NYT Bestselling Author: "A fascinating debut - this novel takes the reader to the darkest places in the human soul, from a writer with the authenticity to lead us there. A stunning thriller and an important read."
Judge Judy Sheindlin, star of the Judge Judy Show: "The seminal work of this fine author kept me glued to my chair until the adventure was over and the mystery solved. A great read!"
Book Synopsis:
The sleepy town of Newbury, Connecticut, is shocked when a little girl is found brutally murdered. The town s top detective, perplexed by a complete lack of leads, calls in FBI agent Leia Bines, an expert in cases involving children.
Meanwhile, Dr. Peter Gram, a psychiatrist at Newbury s hospital, searches desperately for the cause of seven-year-old Naya Hastings devastating nightmares. Afraid that she might hurt herself in the midst of a torturous episode, Naya s parents have turned to the bright young doctor as their only hope.
The situations confronting Leia and Peter converge when Naya begins drawing chilling images of murder after being bombarded by the disturbing images in her dreams. Amazingly, her sketches are the only clues to the crime that has panicked Newbury residents. Against her better judgment, Leia explores the clues in Naya s crude drawings, only to set off an alarming chain of events.
In this stunning psychological thriller, innocence gives way to evil, and trust lies forgotten in a web of deceit, fear, and murder.
Good to have you on the space. What would you recommend for a first reading of yours?