March 2010 Blog Posts (126)

Name my next hero and heroine!

Two places to go to my friends, if you're interested. There's a poll on my blog for the hero and one on my yahoo group for the heroine. The link to my yahoo group is located on my blog.

Tootles!

Romance with an Attitude Blog


Added by Tory Richards on March 6, 2010 at 12:16pm — No Comments

Busy week.

So, kicking off the week in style, Dan O'Shea's flash fiction challenge hit the interwebs like a shotgun full of rock salt. The challenge was to write a flash-fiction that took place in some sort of place of worship. All comers brought all kinds of evil, and you can check out the whole God-damned rundown right here. Christopher Grant was kind enough to host my entry, entitled…

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Added by Jimmy Callaway on March 6, 2010 at 12:05pm — No Comments

Avoiding Repetition

Working on the next Inspector Andy Horton, the sixth in the series, I am reminded of a question a reader asked me at a talk I gave recently. How do prevent repeating yourself? The answer can be both with great difficulty, and do I need to worry about this anyway?



Once you find an author you like you search for other novels he or she has written because the style of the writing appeals to you. Therefore a degree of repetition is part of…

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Added by Pauline Rowson on March 6, 2010 at 2:59am — 1 Comment

Meet Me Tomorrow in VA

I’ll spend Saturday afternoon at the Borders Express in Fair Oaks Mall. The folks there are old friends, but I can always use a few more so if you get a chance, please stop by and say hi. I will be signing my novels from 1 pm…

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Added by Austin S. Camacho on March 5, 2010 at 9:34pm — No Comments

Writing my new series

Just started the first book of my new series:

Annelise Griggs is working as a police reporter in the city when the phone call every adult child fears comes:…

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Added by Sandra Balzo on March 5, 2010 at 6:52am — No Comments

A Great Site for Readers AND Writers!

You will find my novels available in a cool new place on line this month! As it’s name implies, The Critic’s Corner is a web site where the creator reviews and rates book’s he has read. It’s also contains an index of reviewed authors complete with each author’s bibliography. And if you scroll to the right you’ll see that I’m the current featured…

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Added by Austin S. Camacho on March 4, 2010 at 9:21pm — No Comments

Coffee cultures of Israelis, Palestinians...and Hawaiians

>I have a lot of good reasons for staying in the Middle East as long as I have. While the main thing keeping me here 14 years and counting may truly be inertia, I also enjoy being an outsider, researching my Palestinian crime novels on site, visiting the Palestinian towns whose atmosphere of violence, decay and liveliness makes me feel so creative.


But let’s get down to brass tacks: I’m here for the coffee.


There’s no…
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Added by Matt Rees on March 4, 2010 at 5:00pm — No Comments

Not Quite a Dream Come True

(Also posted at One Bite at a Time)





Well, someone finally offered me a book contract, with an advance and everything. There were a few caveats.



Among the documents I received were instructions on what I should do to promote the book, all on my…

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Added by Dana King on March 4, 2010 at 11:48am — 7 Comments

The Eye of the Beholder (29)

“Would you come up with me,” Tabitha asked. “I mean if you don’t mind or don’t have to get back home to your boyfriend. I’m too wired to go to bed right now and I wouldn’t mind the company.”



“I don’t mind at all. I’ll just leave Hugh a text so he knows where I am. He’s probably dead to the world right now anyway. He got stuck working late at the construction site and was dragging when he got home.”



A few minutes later they were in her apartment. She asked if he wanted… Continue

Added by Edith Glass on March 4, 2010 at 9:48am — No Comments

Innocence and Art, etc.

The Biggest Liar in Los Angeles, book one of the Tom Hickey California Century novels, is due out in less than two months (May 1, 2010). If you’d like a free copy, shoot email to ken@kenkuhlken.net with an idea for an interesting contest I can run. Any idea I use, the submitter deserves a free book, don’t you think?



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Over the past couple months, I’ve blogged about: making good ideas into realities, on 1/19; birdies (optimism) vs. bogies (pessimism) on 1/26; writing… Continue

Added by Ken Kuhlken on March 4, 2010 at 1:35am — No Comments

Are You Crazy?

Today's Guest on my main blog asks the question: Are writers really insane? - Check it out at http://ascamacho.blogspot.com/

Added by Austin S. Camacho on March 3, 2010 at 9:37pm — No Comments

Roberto Bolano has invented a new genre of crime writing

At the close of his book of essays How Fiction Works, literary critic James Wood writes: "The writer has to act as if the available novelistic methods are continually about to turn into mere convention and so has to outwit that inevitable ageing. The true writer is one who must always be acting as if life were a category beyond anything the novel had yet grasped."

This is as good a notion as any when thinking about Roberto…

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Added by Nick Gadd on March 3, 2010 at 1:30pm — 2 Comments

THE RAVEN AFFAIR ACTION EXCERPT

Please check out www.snedelton.com for details and the book progress. Exclusively for the fans of Forsyth, LeCarre,Tom Clancy and other action/suspense greats...



The Jackal is now gone, leaving only Clerk and The Raven. Men whose services are open to hire. And there are those taking part in the chess game of world domination who do not hesitate to call on them to do their bidding.

It is a hunt for one man across two continents and much,… Continue

Added by STEVEN NEDELTON on March 3, 2010 at 12:27pm — No Comments

CROSSROADS THRILLER EXCERPTS

Crossroads excerpts (book available in Ebook and paperback formats. Can be ordered Online or from bookstores. Also, directly from www.snedelton.com).

http://www.amazon.com/Crossroads-Steven-Nedelton/dp/1934337560/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1266975796&sr=8-1

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The chase car is still… Continue

Added by STEVEN NEDELTON on March 3, 2010 at 12:24pm — No Comments

Review - WYATT, Garry Disher

Book Title: WYATT

Author: Garry Disher

Publisher: Text Publishing

Copyright: 2010

ISBN: 978-1-921656-02-6

No of Pages: 274



Book Synopsis:



WYATT's been away; now he's back.



The job's a jewel heist, quick and simple. Stake out the international courier, one Alain Le Page. Hold up the goods in transit. Get away clean.



Wyatt prefers to work alone but this one belongs to Eddie Oberin - his very smart ex-wife Lydia has inside information. Wyatt… Continue

Added by Karen from AustCrime on March 3, 2010 at 11:13am — No Comments

SCENE OF THE CRIME Hosts Norwegian Mystery Author, K.O. Dahl

The Other Oslo





Kjell Ola Dahl has been called the Henning Mankell of Norway. The author of eleven highly acclaimed police procedurals, most of which feature Oslo

detectives Frank…

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Added by J. Sydney Jones on March 3, 2010 at 3:30am — No Comments

Author Update

It’s hard to beat the fun and fellowship I have every year at the Bay to Ocean Writers Conference. This year was no exception. My presentation on the basics of plot was well received and I got to critique some really impressive manuscripts. I’ve already put in my bid to speak again next year.

In other news, my latest review was published in The Big Thrill, the newsletter of the International Thriller Writers. I got to write about , Keith Thomson's debut novel “Once A Spy”…

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Added by Austin S. Camacho on March 2, 2010 at 9:48pm — No Comments

Gumshoe Review: THE FOURTH ASSASSIN 'excellent'...and a list of crime fiction good, bad and pointless

Top crime fiction blog Gumshoe Review rates my new Palestinian crime novel THE FOURTH ASSASSIN very highly: "Rees does an excellent job of showing the pressures on the young Palestinians and describing the microcosm of one immigrant community within the U.S. The mystery also contains plenty of twist and turns." Read Mel Jacobs's full review.


If you feel compelled to read any other…
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Added by Matt Rees on March 2, 2010 at 8:23pm — 1 Comment

New DC mystery novel published as e-book

I just recently published my first full length work of fiction as an e-book. Color Me Dead is about a DC-based private detective, Al Pennyback, who gets caught up in a major criminal conspiracy in the course of investigating the shooting death of a Washington teen. Al, a retired army officer, is something of a loner, and not your average detective - he does not, for instance, carry a weapon. Unlike many stories with DC as a setting, there are no political conspiracies here, just a look… Continue

Added by Charles A. Ray on March 2, 2010 at 2:45pm — No Comments

Step Right Up and Get Your Free Mini eBook



Ronco couldn't come up with a better offer.



For only three easy payments (please no checks or money orders) of $0.00 a month, we'll send you the first three chapters of "Cleansing Eden."



But wait! There's more.…

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Added by Benjamin Sobieck on March 2, 2010 at 1:48pm — No Comments

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