Robert Crisman's Page
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- Hometown:
- Tacoma
- About Me:
- I write stories about fucked-up people doing fucked-up things in a fucked-up world, addicts and all the other lost dogs noir was made for. If I've done my job, you'll see that, had fate tweaked a little, it could have been you.
I spent years in the mix with the down crowd, chasing the sack and doing the things that the thieves and hos do, till I got sick and tired of being sick and tired and got out.
- I Am A:
- Reader, Writer, Editor, Critic
- Books And Authors I Like:
- Authors: Hammett; George V. Higgins, Ross Thomas, James Ellroy, Mike Lupica, Carl Hiassen, Gore Vidal, Jean Genet, Philip Kerr, Donald Westlake, Lawrence Block, David Freeman, George MacDonald Fraser, on and on. Books: Red Harvest, L.A. Confidential, White Jazz, Cogan's Trade, Eight Million Ways to Die, Burr, Creation...
- Movies And TV Shows I Like:
- Movies: Heat, No Way Out, Midnight Run, Kids, Reservoir Dogs, The Usual Suspects, Road Warrior, Das Boot, Drugstore Cowboy, Destry Rides Again, His Girl Friday, Training Day, Million Dollar Baby, For a Few Dollars More, Nadine. I don't watch TV.
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Look forward to many interesting exchanges over time .
I will have a novel coming out next year, date to be determined. Foul Shot is a murder mystery set down here in the Carolinas.
I don't have any shorter stuff in the public arena. I wrote several short stories over thirty years ago, but they're in a closet somewhere, never published, though I won a contest or two, locally, and have had a comic play produced regionally.
My new web site is up, www.PVT-EYE.net, but with only the background ready, more to come in the next few weeks. Check back and I'll have a chapter or two up or reading in the near future.
I had my novel, Foul Shot, up on my page here for free reading for about a year or so, but I just landed a contract with a small, new publisher who ask that I take it down, naturally. It'll be my first published book, though I've completed a couple, at least, and still write on. Won't know my pub date for a week or so, but it'll be 2010, thinking maybe the spring. It's a contemporary murder mystery set down here in North Carolina, at the beach area, and involves my protag, Wray Larrick, a series P.I., working the killing of a world famous female superstar basketball player. But not a sports story.
Your writing is professional, no question. And you draw the scenes well in your narrative. I can see the shadows, the grays and blacks, the colors. F. Scott Fitzgerald also did this very well...Somebody did a very good job of line editing, too...The subject matter was depressing as hell, something I would not ordinarily read, but the writing was good enough to keep me going...All you need to do now is make something novel length.
I will check them out and get back with you.
Well, you've got the material. Now all you have to do is put it together.