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Kudos to the published...

As I sit here, finishing up another writing session, I can't help but feel overwhelmed and exhausted. Writing is a taxing effort, and all the more so when you're dealing with a day job, a family and a myriad other time consuming activities.

You see, I'm a novelist wannabe, which means writing isn't paying the bills. Hell, I'm not even sure if being a published novelist would pay the bills. Anyway, I'm sure every one of you reading this, if anyone takes a moment out of their busy lives… Continue

Added by E Scott Johnson on March 31, 2007 at 6:33am — 6 Comments

Neurotic Writer

I was just staring at my page here, where I have a little bio and I thought: Mark Terry lives in Oxford, MI with his wife, two sons, a dog and a dozen or so neuroses. Then I wanted to rewrite it (of course). Mark Terry lives in Oxford, MI with his wife, two sons, dog and closet full of neuroses. Then I thought: Is "neurotic writer" an oxymoron? So... is it?

Added by Mark Terry on March 31, 2007 at 5:47am — 1 Comment

Why I'm Happy for Cormac McCarthy

From my review in a newspaper you probably don’t know (The Grand Rapids Press), to my myspace blog, for months I’ve been blathering on about how much I like Cormac McCarthy’s THE ROAD. Now, the news that the book has become Oprah’s next pick. AND he’s going to do her show! Are we living in truly apocalyptic times, or what?

This is why I think THE ROAD is a terrific book: If you’ve read McCarthy’s earlier work, you’ve seen how he has developed as a writer over the past twenty-five or so… Continue

Added by Laura Benedict on March 31, 2007 at 5:39am — 5 Comments

The Panelist's Prayer

Lord, save me from book raisers.

Stay their hands.

Lay their volumes upon the table . . . flat.

If nothing else works, let the pages of their books fly unto the ground like ginko leaves in autumn.

Protect me from panelists who put down cohorts to raise self worth.

Still their snipes.

Silence too-frequent references to their own…

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Added by Pari Noskin Taichert on March 31, 2007 at 3:39am — 3 Comments

My second printing of Mood Swing just arrived!

Yesterday the UPS truck pulled up outside my house, and the man in brown delivered several cartons of the new printing of my novel, Mood Swing: The Bipolar Murders. I've sold nearly all of my first edition. It occurred to me I could have signed and numbered them like an edition of silk screens or lithographs; the printing was that small. Nonetheless it's thrilling. Mood Swing is a print-on-demand book, and I'm very happy I took this route. I plan to use the same publisher for my…

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Added by Julie Lomoe on March 31, 2007 at 3:13am — No Comments

Award winning author

I am an award winning author. Originally I only wanted to claim to have written a novel. I progressed, fortunately, to wanting to be a published author. Oh my God, that happened. Never had I ever thought I would be an award winning author. Then in November my first book Shepherd's Pie received a Golden Wings award for excellence in writing. A pinnacle reached. What more could I ask? Then came an awful realization, I must do marketing. That nasty term. Being reduced to a book salesman from award… Continue

Added by J. D. Webb on March 31, 2007 at 1:56am — 1 Comment

Soggy golf and drunken art

Had a real thrill this morning when Paul Burston (http://www.myspace.com/paulburston) who edits the Gay Section in Time Out emailed me to say how much he'd enjoyed A Dangerous Man (http://www.flamebooks.com), as below:

"I finished off A Dangerous Man and I have to say I loved it. Michael is a wonderful…

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Added by Anne Brooke on March 31, 2007 at 1:46am — No Comments

I blog, therefore I am? I think not.

Hmmm, always wondered what I would say if I had a blog....waiting for inspiration.........well, it's a cloudy day. Finished Death Comes For the Fat Man last night. What a book! I did something I very rarely do, read another book along with it to drag it out a bit.

Guess I'll go see if I can unclog the bathtub drain now.

Added by Ann Cornellier on March 31, 2007 at 12:53am — No Comments

Lost in Crimespace

Surfin' around here on Crimespace since tuesday - and I'm astonished about all the writers, authors and readers here on the net. Wow!

Last week I went to Munich here in Germany, where a crime fiction festival took place. It's one of the biggest cf events and I met wonderfull authors like John Katzenbach, Nury Vittachi, Jeffery Deaver and… Continue

Added by Ludger on March 31, 2007 at 12:36am — 2 Comments

Winning over readers?

I have been reading for longer than I can remember. I will read anything...books, papers, shampoo bottles...do you know how much information is actually on the plastic around new toilet paper? Oy!

At any rate, there was a time when I would just pick something up and read. I think we've all been there. I know a few people who still are. They will literally read whatever they pick up first. I have become much more selective. Perhaps it is maturity...hmmm...naaah! I think it is…

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Added by Karen Syed on March 30, 2007 at 10:45pm — 5 Comments

Allegra Goodman Has 4 Kids, Too

I've donated money to the National Yiddish Book Center which gathers and saves Yiddish books from around the world. Doing a little to save a millenium of rich culture should be reward enough in itself. Still, receiving the Center's quarterly…

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Added by Keith Raffel on March 30, 2007 at 5:15pm — No Comments

I'm Told I Should Blog

So here I go. My friend Brian Thornton turned me on to this site, and I love it! More mature than myspace, and not as weird as LiveJournal.

I have lots of friends on here, people I know personally, Brian, Mike Wolf, Michael Jacobs, Bill Cameron, the Lovely Donna Moore (that's an official title). I'm looking forward to meeting so many more of you! Please chat and let's get to know each other!

Added by Dave Bara on March 30, 2007 at 4:59pm — No Comments

Introducing The Number 62 Bus

Mary wanted a bus story (for some reason, Glasgow's buses are a magnet for the weird and wonderful and I have had more than my fair share of bizarre experiences on them), so here's one of my favourites. All true, and I was almost sober at the time.

Glasgow buses…

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Added by Donna Moore on March 30, 2007 at 4:21pm — 2 Comments

Focus on: Leigh Redhead

Cross-Post with my own blog at AustCrimeFiction,

I've been irregularly running a bit of a focus on some under discussed

Australian authors. Recently I posted a note about J R Carroll and

today I got to thinking about the fabulous Leigh Redhead.

Leigh Redhead is a recentish arrival in the Australian Crime Fiction scene.…

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Added by Karen from AustCrime on March 30, 2007 at 3:51pm — No Comments

Mystery is my favorite genre!

Greetings! It's nice to meet you all. I'm looking forward to good chatting and fascinating mysteries!

~TC

Added by TribalCat on March 30, 2007 at 2:15pm — No Comments

Checking In

I'm happy to report I wrote over 1,000 words this morning and submitted a short story. Exactly what I want to do every day. Well, not always submit a short story, but do some other writerly chore. I also waded through probably more than 200 posts that were duplicates on my Yahoo groups. That was fun. NOT

I'm not positive I have everything here on CrimeSpace figured out--especially even finding my own page. LOL And how to tell someone I got their note--when I click on the link in an…

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Added by Jan Christensen on March 30, 2007 at 1:47pm — 2 Comments

Film Noir at the Egyptian

The Film Noir Foundation is trying to kill me. Their line up at the Egyptian this time around is the best yet, including the rare and brilliant ACT OF VIOLENCE and Sam Fuller’s THE CRIMSON KIMONO, which I would love to see on the big screen. I’m afraid I’m gonna be forced to bring a sleeping bag. There isn’t a single night I want to miss. How can I possibly choose between mint-condition Yul Brenner in PORT OF NEW YORK or THE CROOKED WEB, a… Continue

Added by Christa Faust on March 30, 2007 at 1:21pm — No Comments

Murder Mystery Short by Vancouver Film School

I thought this was good.

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Added by Sylvia Hubbard on March 30, 2007 at 12:57pm — 1 Comment

Just a Quick Post

So, things are moving along nicely and I received my copies of the book. It's a Mass Market Paperback and it does look great. Better than I thought, which is a first. I wasn't crazy about my first three. Or maybe I jsut got tired of looking at them. Who knows.

There really is something to be said about holding your own book in your hand. It changes you, as a fellow author once told me. I agree. You become a published author, and no one can take that away from you, ever.…

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Added by John Misak on March 30, 2007 at 9:25am — No Comments

What Sisters In Crime Can Offer Libraries

The stereotypical "shushing," staid, prim and proper librarian is a portrait from the past. Many librarians are into murder, mayhem and other dastardly deeds. Sisters in Crime helps feed this addiction to things felonious, criminal and psychotic through the pages of the many crime novels and non-fiction books written by its members.

It was wonderful to discover that Sisters in Crime was open, not only to writers of my favorite genre, but welcoming to fans…

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Added by Sisters In Crime on March 30, 2007 at 8:30am — No Comments