Added by Donna Moore on September 19, 2007 at 4:00pm — 3 Comments
I just returned from a trip filled with firsts. My first trip to Denver; my first time doing the "face" thing with booksellers, asking them to remember my book and perhaps schedule me for an event next March when LIFELINES debuts; my first Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers' Colorado Gold conference; and my first ever keynote speech.
Can I just say, Wow!!!
I was nervous about all of the above except visiting Denver. Turns out that was the only thing I should…
Added by ITW Debut Authors - First Kill on September 19, 2007 at 2:11pm — 1 Comment
Nothing like having a reviewer burst your euphoria about having a new book out by letting you know about an error on one of the pages. Actually I appreciated her doing that. Ironically, I got the message on my Blackberry while I was in Tampa at the WOW conference. My editor was there too and I told him. What he's decided to do is correct the error and issue a second edition.
I have copies of the "first edition" of Judgment Fire with the mistake and I am offering them to…
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Scarface Billy saw me before I saw him.
"Hey Roll-yer-own. What's up, tramp?"
I said "Hi" with my chin, and set my duffel down by his park-bench.
I didn't expect to see a familiar face in Portland when I crawled out of the boxcar that morning. Night Eyes was sleeping off a drunk under an over-pass when I slipped away and hopped a freight out of Seattle the night before. She wouldn't cry when she woke-up. Citizens cry. Tramps just move on.
Scarface aimed the neck…
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Hi All:
Here are some pics from my recent Reading/Q&A/Signing Event at the Perquimans Library in Hertford, North Carolina, hosted by the Friends of the Library. We had a full house, the Q&A session lasted over an hour and I sold out all the books I had there. As the Director of the Library said, "It was a very enjoyable experience all around."…
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Posted by Lorraine (L.L.) Bartlett
The recent collapse of the Minneapolis bridge was a warning to America that our infrastructure is failing. That's not surprising, considering that the U.S. system of repair and new-building is based on accepting the lowest bid. Pay crap--you get crap. In Europe, the road beds are several feet deeper than ours. They last…
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I went to see Steve Hamilton speak in Charlevoix, Michigan last night, and it was a good decision. I've enjoyed the Alex McKnight series for several reasons, primarily the Michigan settings that are familiar to me, the characters who are so well-drawn and lifelike, and the fact that my husband also likes them so we can talk about them together. (His usual Vietnam-era memoirs aren't so much fun for me.)
Steve is an entertaining and personable speaker who just talks about what he does…
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Visit In for Questioning to listen to this week's show!
Suspect: Cornelia Read
Age: Where are your manners?!
Occupation: Author, raconteur
Last know location: San Francisco Bay…
Added by Angie on September 18, 2007 at 8:58am — No Comments
I've started writing an Internet mystery serial for Discover Nikkei (Nikkei means of Japanese descent). Titled "The Nihongo Papers," it's actually a bio terrorism/paranormal thriller involving strawberries (!). It's great fun. I'm supposed to deliver a new installment each month for a year.
Here's the first:…
ContinueAdded by Naomi Hirahara on September 18, 2007 at 7:15am — 1 Comment
I'm preparing the ingredients for a great Halloween party for anyone who is interested. I'll be posting it this week. Here's a few tidbits - New Orleans, Cajun Food, Costumes, books, contests, libraries, murder, a secret society, a ghost named Pinch, a voodoo princess name Scrimp.
Prepare to put on the show for yours friends this Halloween 2007!
Lyn LeJeune
Added by Lyn LeJeune on September 18, 2007 at 4:50am — No Comments
With a gun that kills people using natural causes, a secret organization that spies on people via the eyes on pictures called The Panopticon, axe-wielding clowns in Vegas and great chapter…
Added by BrianLindenmuth on September 18, 2007 at 1:24am — No Comments
I have once again finished all the required edits on my new mystery Tree Huggers (as I expected, the editor had more corrections) and the publication date is sometime in December.
Which means it's time to get in gear for marketing.
I hate marketing. Like most writers, I'm perfectly happy to sit hunched over my computer weaving tales of mystery (or romance or horror or long depessing accounts of our own miserable lives and calling it…
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I was surprised not too long ago to get a call from an acquaintance with a problem. As we had talked over the years about writing, he'd told me he had several manuscripts in a drawer somewhere that he'd written as a younger man. He was interested in my quest for publication but maintained that he was too busy with work and family to try it himself. But when the news came that his job would disappear within a few months, he contacted me to ask about getting an agent. It seems he considered…
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Posted by Sheila Connolly
Like a lot of writers, I can't stop acquiring books. I can't walk past a bookstore–particularly one with used books–without stopping just to take a look. And I'm drawn to flea markets and yard sales where books are stacked in unsteady piles, priced to sell–a quarter, a dollar tops. As a result, over the years I have ended up with a rather eclectic assortment of books. I have never regretted buying Emily Post's Etiquette, because if I'm…
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