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About Eric Stone

Eric Stone

Hometown:: Los Angeles

About Me:: I'm a writer of fiction and non-fiction. I was a journalist for many years, 11 of them living and working in Asia. I'm currently writing the Ray Sharp series of detective thrillers. The books are based on stories that I covered while working in Asia.

The first two books in the Ray Sharp series (in order) are:
THE LIVING ROOM OF THE DEAD - new edition coming out in paperback in August '07
GRAVE IMPORTS - coming out in both hardcover and paperback at the end of September '07.

I also wrote a true crime / sports biography of the greatest prison baseball player of all time:
WRONG SIDE OF THE WALL - it's still available in hardcover.

As for the personal stuff: I like traveling to strange places and trying to talk with people whose language I don't speak. I love urban exploration - especially by car - which I know isn't PC but I grew up in Los Angeles and have gasoline in my blood. (I also love long road trips, which is why I usually drive on my book tours.) I love cooking and am a pretty good cook if I say so myself. I love blues, 1940s and early '50s bebop - especially honking sax, and a lot of strange foreign pop music. I've worked as a photographer and now just do it for fun. I read more non-fiction than fiction, especially history and biography. I love baseball and have recently particularly enjoyed minor league games. I live with Eva (girlfriend, SO, partner?) in Silverlake, one of my favorite neighborhoods in the world and can see the Griffith Park Observatory and part of the Hollywood sign out my home-office window. You want any more than that, you're just going to have to ask.

I Am A:: Writer

Website:: www.ericstone.com

Books And Authors I Like:: Chester Himes, Dan Fesperman, Megan Abbott, Laura Lippman, Loren Estleman, Jonathan Valin (where'd he go anyhow?), Martin Limon, Colin Cotterill, Qiu Xiaolong, Graham Greene, William T. Vollmann, Eduardo Galleano, Mark Twain. A bunch of others. My favorite book of all time is Moby Dick. I reread it once every 10 years or so.

Movies And TV Shows I Like:: Movies: Battle of Algiers, King Kong (the original), Sullivan's Travels, The Killer, Christine, Barton Fink, Badlands, Ali Fear Eats the Soul, Chinatown, Painted Faces, The Conformist, Once Upon a Time in America and others that escape me at the moment.
TV: NYPD Blue, Lucky Louie, Ugly Betty, LA Dodger and St. Louis Cardinal ballgames, The Daily Show, Weeds, Dexter, Deadwood

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The Sex Scene: Build It And They Will...Come?

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I would have to agree with not liking gratuitous. On the other hand, I have a fairly liberal concept of what is, and isn't, gratuitous. I don't, for instance, think that every element in a book nee... Read More »

The Sex Scene: Build It And They Will...Come?

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A good, explicit, honest sex scene can certainly tell you as much about a character as all those lavish descriptions of meals that we get. No one ever seems to make a fuss if the action stops in a ... Read More »

Pseudonyms, According to Joyce Carol Oates

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Double M sounds good. A drawn relative makes for an amusing tale. I'm envious. Unfortunately, as far as I can get out of my family, they seem to have sprung magically into being on Ellis Island som... Read More »

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BOOKS, UPCOMING EVENTS & OTHER STUFF

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FLIGHT OF THE HORNBILL BOOK TRAILER
- well, a temporary one, I'm working on an actual action-packed video book trailer that will show up sometime this summer. But in the meantime, you can get a peak at some of the locales where the action takes place in my upcoming Ray Sharp novel, and hear a slice of a way cool song by a Jakarta all-girl band called Geger. (You can hear the whole song over in the music section of this page, on the left.) You can do that here:
http://ericstone.com/flash/hornbill.html

A video interview with me, conducted by my publisher, Ben Leroy of Bleak House Books.

BOOKS
The Ray Sharp series of detective thrillers, set in Asia, based on stories I covered as a journalist in the region:

FLIGHT OF THE HORNBILL The third Ray Sharp novel, coming this fall from Bleak House Books. Based on the true story of a massive gold mine fraud in Indonesia.

GRAVE IMPORTS -Based on the facts of the trade in looted Cambodian antiquities.
View the full length book trailer here.
Or the short attention span version here.

THE LIVING ROOM OF THE DEAD Bleak House Books. Based on a true story of the trafficking of Russian women to Asia.

And, non-fiction:

WRONG SIDE OF THE WALL - Lyons Press (Globe Pequot) hardcover. The true crime / sports biography of Blackie Schwamb - the greatest prison baseball player of all time.

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CLASSIFYING THE CONSTITUENTS OF CHAOS

Natchez, Mississippi: 4,380 miles The whole quote is: "The classification of the constituents of a chaos, nothing less is here essayed." and it's from Moby Dick, which I am currently rereading. A good road trip is something like that. You point your car here or there, pretty much at random but with an abiding sense of where you're headed, and soone or later you've made something of it. What? I'm not sure yet. But something. And so far something very good. Following two great meals in Chicago…

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CRUISING & ABUSING THE ARTERIES

Merriam, KS - 2,186 miles It's a good thing that my doctor isn't along for this ride. America's heartland hasn't confronted me with much traffic on its highways, but it's clogging my arteries. Lunch yesterday was at Al's Chickenette in Hays, Kansas. It's famous for its fried chicken. So of course, that's what I had. The place looks great, old neon, been there forever, but alas, the chicken was pretty bland. Nicely cooked but without much flavor. Dinner was a big salad that might have been some…

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At 4:06pm on May 9th, 2008, Lee Weeks said…: Hi eric
thanks for inviting me x

At 7:44am on May 1st, 2008, Amy Gugerty said…: Thanks for the add :)

At 10:30am on April 26th, 2008, Jessica said…: Hi eric thanks for your welcome!

At 2:14pm on April 16th, 2008, Janet Ortegon said…: Hello Eric. Thanks for welcoming to your friends list! I'm looking forward to getting to know you and the other writers on the list!
Janet O.

At 1:06pm on April 16th, 2008, C.F. Jackson said…

Hi Eric,

Thanks for stop by and friend request!

I'm surely looking forward to learning
and sharing.

Continue to make this your day!

Live Life to Leave a Difference,
C.F. Jackson

http://www.CFJackson.com

At 4:50am on April 9th, 2008, Lia said…: Hi Eric

Thanks for the welcome . I'm looking forward to spending many an hour reading all these writers I am discovering !

Gutted to hear ER is ending , it may have lost its way a bit but it will be an end of an era !

Lia

At 4:38am on April 9th, 2008, Lia said…: Hi Eric

Thanks for the invite . I look forward to reading your work :)

At 9:26am on April 7th, 2008, Susan said…: Hi Eric! You've done so many things and have so many interests. Me, too. I'm also a musician, a trumpeter, love jazz (tho I don't play it). Also love old photographs. I've got a few on my website (woman musician page/images); one from WWI, women in the Navy.

Must confess I'm a Yankee fan (gulp!) which gets me in trouble when I visit friends in Bawston, but I remain true to the Celtics, even tho the N.O. Hornets are doing very well.

I've gotta get one of your books!

Susan