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There you go. The second two aren't really ready for submission quite yet. Just pitch your first, completed novel, mentioning it is a stand-alone one, but with two others almost done to make a series. Don't go into detail about the second two. If ...
Yeah, that would be kind of like Hemingway writing a mystery.
Right on. I'm with you on that.
Listen to I.J. and Jon on this, not me. They gave active experience with agency representation. I don't. Take everything I say with a grain of salt. Unless, of course, you're allergic to salt, then take a substitute.
I think maybe it's the literary reader, as opposed to the genre reader, who expects more of a journey with the story. The murder up front might be too startling, too quick. It's like the way some folks look differently at food; some like a dining ...
B.R., could I borrow those two fans sometime?
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- Hometown:
- Newport News, Virginia, living in North Carolina
- About Me:
- I'm currently retired from mostly sales and marketing work, though I've done a lot, and will be going back into business. Education in Political Science. I'm a veteran of the Marine Corps before and during the Viet Nam era, which has a profound influence on most of what I write, whether mystery or literary. Am the founder of the short-lived International Crime Study Club of the early '80s, established for the purpose of investigating old and cold cases of murder and missing persons. And like my character, Wray Larrick, I just hate it when such a case goes unsolved in real life. Expect to live way past a hundred, unless somebody runs over me or shoots me first, which is a real possibility.
- I Am A:
- Reader, Writer
- Books And Authors I Like:
- James Lee Burke, Sue Grafton, Jonathan Kellerman, Elmore Leonard, Anne Frank, Robert B. Parker, the Florida mystery novelists Randy Wayne White & Edna Buchanan/others, Pat Conroy, Wm. Styron, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, I.B. Singer, Harrison E. Salisbury, Ernest Hemingway, Ken Follett, Elie Weisel, James Michener, Nelson DeMille, et al.
- Movies And TV Shows I Like:
- 60 Minutes(news, documentaries & investigations), some crime & police series, including Shark, Kojak, Andy Griffith, Crime Story, Seinfeld, Tonight Show, the general run, but not overly so--seen'em all a million times, could write the damn things.
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- At 1:22am on November 14, 2009,
Ronie said…
- Thank you, Dan, for the comments and compliment--and for welcoming me to CrimeSpace! :-D
- At 9:56am on November 13, 2009,
Gale Borger said… - Hi Dan'
Thank you for the kind words-I look forward to this experience with great anticipation.
Gale
- At 8:38am on November 12, 2009,
Joe Souza said… - Thanks for the welcome, Dan. How can you not like Spencer?
- At 2:35am on November 12, 2009,
Marcia Talley said… - Dunno, Dan. Just too busy, I guess. Book deadline 12/31, so I better get crackin'
- At 10:26am on November 11, 2009,
Bennett Kremen said… - I really appreciate your interest, Dan. Sorry I took so long to get back to you -- i've been chasing a deadline. If you do read my novel, Savage Days Haunted Nights. I'd very much value your impressions. Take care.
- At 9:30pm on November 10, 2009,
DeeDee Gauzot said… - Hi! Dan Coleman,
Thanks, for the nice, friendly welcome!
DeeDee
- At 11:51am on November 10, 2009,
Linda S. Prather said… - Thank you, Dan.
- At 5:06am on November 10, 2009,
Cinatra Blu (Pen) said… - Hey Dan! Thanks for the message, I'm currently working on different projects I have a few short stories I'm toning up and will be posting soon. And yeah the Cintra thing was inspired by Ol' Blue Eyes but I put my own little spin on it! My style of writing is hardcore I'm working on a couple of mysteries as well!
- At 9:12pm on November 9, 2009,
Carmel Shute said… - Just hope I have the time to give to this terrific website
- At 12:31pm on November 9, 2009,
N. Ann (Nancy) Niles said… - Hi Dan, thanks for the welcome and for checking out my profile. I'll be adding on to it and will announce the release of my first mystery novel: Vendetta: A Deadly Win which will be published by Second Wind. Let me know when your website is up and running.
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