It's not parody, really, just his wink at the absurdity of taking any of it very seriously.
If you want to actually analyze prose on some sort of microscopic level, you can choose any writer you want and take some sentences out of context and mak...
Then it came down on her again, like unpleasant presents raining from a poison piñata: the realization that Howie was dead.
The reviewer obviously isn't in tune with King's sense of humor. "...unpleasant presents raining from a poison pinata." Co...
You're kidding, right? Nobody's going to give a shit if you have a hangover. All the cool kids (including all the other authors you're supposed to be having a continuous conversation with) are going to be lining up to hear Michael Connelly, Sue Gr...
I pulled the manuscript and spent about six months on a rewrite. Now it's back with my agent and will be back on submission to editors soon. Thanks for asking!
Hey, Jude.
(Gee, that sounds like something from my past...hmmm.)
Seriously--WTF ever happened to your submission? Is the agent still working it? How about you? Are you writing something else?
Thanks, Karen! I'm thrilled to be a small part of Jack Getze's next release; and, my agent, Jay Poynor, is first-rate. 2007 has been a good year so far!
Wow. All 21 novels. That's great. I don't have all the Travis McGee books yet, but I did get a signed copy of MacDonald's Condominium for Christmas last year. I have quite a nice little collection of signed books.