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Calling for judges!! EPIC's Annual EBook Competition is looking for judges.
The competition starts a...
I am reading THE DEATH CHAMBER by British author Sara Rayne. I was poking around on Amazon (when I should have been working) when I spotted this and it sounded very interesting. It's a fiction novel centered around a disused gaol where they held m...
I've been lucky with writing groups in the past. The first one I went to met in a community center in Hurst, Texas. They were supportive and critical and they were strict that crits were to be constructive and not destructive. Some of the things I...
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- About Me:
- Author, editor, and publisher. Native Texan now living in Scotland.
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- Reader, Writer, Publisher, Editor
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- http://www.zettabrown.com
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- cozies, mystery/suspense, thriller
- Movies And TV Shows I Like:
- Alfred Hitchcock movies, Homicide: Life on the Street, CSI, CSI-NY to name a few
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EBOOK COMPILATION SERVICE
The following is a service being offered by my husband, Jim Brown:
EBOOK COMPILATION SERVICE
You have your book ready. It's been read, edited and proofread. You want
it in as many ebook formats as possible; but these are time consuming,
they often require several different programs and decent html
understanding. You may not have the time, the expertise, or the
inclination. This is where I come in. I can provide an ebook compilation
service, producing your book in PDF, Microsoft Reader LIT, Mob… Continue
EBOOK COMPILATION SERVICE
You have your book ready. It's been read, edited and proofread. You want
it in as many ebook formats as possible; but these are time consuming,
they often require several different programs and decent html
understanding. You may not have the time, the expertise, or the
inclination. This is where I come in. I can provide an ebook compilation
service, producing your book in PDF, Microsoft Reader LIT, Mob… Continue
Posted on May 14, 2009 at 2:06am —
Prepping for MALICE
I've been struggling how to deal with MALICE for quite some time. I'm trying to decide the who/what/how of the crimes that occur.
OK--I know the WHO but I still haven't decided whodunnit, or how.
I don't want to say too much because I don't want to give anything away. I guess, now that I have the basic storyline, I just need to decide what kind of mystery/crime/suspense novel MALICE will be. It's not really a cosy, but it's not grisly either.
I guess what I'll be doing over the next few month… Continue
OK--I know the WHO but I still haven't decided whodunnit, or how.
I don't want to say too much because I don't want to give anything away. I guess, now that I have the basic storyline, I just need to decide what kind of mystery/crime/suspense novel MALICE will be. It's not really a cosy, but it's not grisly either.
I guess what I'll be doing over the next few month… Continue
Posted on May 14, 2009 at 1:32am — 2 Comments
Edinburgh Napier University launches UK’s first genre-based Creative Writing MA
[Forwarded Press Release - Edinburgh, Scotland - 25 April 2009]
An innovative masters degree programme, aimed at developing the next generation of novelists and creative writers has today been launched by Edinburgh Napier University.
The traditional writing workshop is out and poetry is not an option.
Instead Edinburgh Napier’s newly validated Creative Writing MA will be based around vocational learning and one-to-one mentoring, targeting different genre specialisms including c… Continue
An innovative masters degree programme, aimed at developing the next generation of novelists and creative writers has today been launched by Edinburgh Napier University.
The traditional writing workshop is out and poetry is not an option.
Instead Edinburgh Napier’s newly validated Creative Writing MA will be based around vocational learning and one-to-one mentoring, targeting different genre specialisms including c… Continue
Posted on April 30, 2009 at 1:08am —
Comment Wall (10 comments)
- At 6:49am on November 1, 2009,
Johnny Russell said… - Thanks Zetta for viewing my trailer. It's a task playing author and filmmaker. I'm like Big Jim, Karen pimps me out like that too but when a man has a good woman, multi-tasking becomes our journey. Check out our first chapter of FIRST BLOOD at:
http://www.johnnyrussell.net/firstbloodchaptersegment.html
available at http://www.firstbloodnovel.com/
- At 1:41am on July 28, 2009,
John Donald Carlucci said… - I like you rule better.
JDC
- At 9:43am on May 19, 2009,
Mark P. Henderson said…
- Hi Zetta. Hope you're making progress with MALICE - more than I'm managing with OVERLOOKED... I've got the beginnings of a site on AuthorTree - at least it has my two published fiction works on it - apparently it gets attention (or so my publisher says). Ditto Manic Readers. I've having fun networking on Authonomy, where I've uploaded some of OVERLOOKED. And following Eric's suggestion I've done the same with YouWriteOn - that site appeals to me. Don't know if information about these sites could be of any use to you or your friends, but if so, please pass it on!
- At 9:38am on May 14, 2009,
Mark P. Henderson said…
- I'll take a look at THE GREAT RIGHT HOPE - thanks for the URL. If you read the portion of "Overlooked" that I've posted (the only portion that's currently in a more or less fit state for public scrutiny) then I hope you'll enjoy it; but if not, don't worry, I'm pretty good at taking criticism. I sob very quietly and I hardly drum my heels on the ground at all.
- At 9:09am on May 14, 2009,
Mark P. Henderson said…
- I've just read the excerpt from "Ordinary World" and laughed aloud. Hot + yellow = fire in a jaundice ward; a smell like a sauna full of Frenchmen... delicious! I greatly enjoy that which is not PC. I must buy this book. (I presume Tohon's name is an anagram of 'no hot ashes' - a neat oblique reference to the scene with the garbage bins and knuckle duster.) It's a very different approach to political satire from mine - futuristic rather than right-now-istic, with wit that smacks you in the face rather than operating subtly - but I really enjoyed the little that's available on free download. Thanks for pointing me to it!
Mark.
- At 5:23am on May 14, 2009,
Mark P. Henderson said…
- Hi Zetta,
I couldn't agree more. As I said previously, an old man like me finds it hard to deal with the new world of communication and networking, but I'm not such a damned fool that I can't see the benefit for it - no, the NEED for it. I'm a "published author" now, but with just one volume of short stories and one novel out there in the big wide world, that makes me a novice like any new graduate. I need all the help and advice I can get - and all the encouragement. And exchanging messages with authors in the States is beginning to give me that.
I'm about to post about 30-40,000 words of my WIP (a social/political satire novel - I hate and fear the erosion of civil liberties that's overtaken Britain during the past decade) on a site called Authonomy. If you don't already know Authonomy, take a look! There's some really good stuff on there, and of course plenty of the other sort... no doubt I'll add to one category or the other... The point is that it was an American author who put me on to it. I'd probably never have heard about it through British authors, many of whom still seem to be shy of networking; and as for British literary agents...
Thanks for pointing me to the interview about the MA course. It's a splendid venture and everyone concerned deserves a round of applause, not least because they promise to break those fatuous category divisions wide open. I tend to be dismissive of labels. For example, conventional wisdom classifies Kafka's "Metamorphosis" as great literary fiction. It could just as well be called science fiction. Excellent work as well as a good deal of utter junk is classed as "science fiction", "crime fiction" and so forth - and the same's true of "literary fiction"; the label says nothing about what's in the bottle. Even with my very limited writing achievements, I've published some of the ideas I wanted to explore as "supernatural fiction" and another set of ideas as "crime fiction", and I have one plan for a novel that will probably be labelled "science fiction". I don't care: I just want to get ideas across to readers - and most of all, I want to produce stories that will be enjoyed. I have doubts about writers who think otherwise!
Kind regards,
Mark.
- At 8:35am on May 6, 2009,
Mark P. Henderson said…
- Hi Zetta,
Thanks for the encouragement. I shall take a deep breath and try Twitter.
You're right about the UK being stuck in the 19th century when it comes to encouraging writers. Literary agents in this country won't do anything electronically: you have to send hard copy to them and maybe they'll reply in 5-6 months. That's why I hooked up with an agent in the States, who found me a publisher over there. Having got that novel under my belt, I hope I can persuade an agent on this side of the pond to help with my next effort; my books are too British to sell well in other countries.
But I'm in no position to complain about agents (and creative writing courses) being stuck in the past. I now find myself having to learn about all sorts of new communication systems - now including Twitter - starting from a position of ignorance, apprehension and scepticism... As I said, a fossil! Writers like me deserve British literary agents and old-fashioned courses!
- At 8:16am on May 6, 2009,
Mark P. Henderson said…
- I don't know anything about "twitter", but that's not surprising for a fossil. (I'm probably more comfortable writing with a quill pen and home-made ink.) I shall investigate... and see whether I can engage with the system without my computer doubling up with laughter at my bumbling endeavours, which wouldn't be unprecedented. (Nice to know I can entertain, even though the entertainee is allegedly inanimate.) More seriously: your creative writing MA seems a splendid venture - I wish you good fortune and good students.
- At 11:34am on April 23, 2009,
Luis said… - I live close to Rosarita and Cabo San Lucas, Baja California, but I've never been! People in Los Angeles are befuddled by this. So I can see why you haven't been into London under the circumstances!
- At 5:38pm on December 1, 2008,
carole gill said… - Texan, huh?
wow! delighted!
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