We all whine about stress, and we certainly have enough of it. It contributes to all sorts of health conditions, which is enough to add stress to the stress you already have: What if all this worrying about stress is causing too much stress?
I think we should step back every once in a while and consider that life is all about stress. Primitive humans must have had stress, because they did not know when the next natural disaster would hit or how such things occurred. They must have worried…
Continue
Added by Peg Herring on September 2, 2010 at 12:30pm —
No Comments
I wrote a column in my local newspaper about a former English teacher who passed away. The article generated emails from other former students with their own stories to share. But one reader, a woman in my graduating class (1969), wrote to tell me that she not only enjoyed the article, but liked my writing enough to buy my mystery novel, FOOLS RUSH IN.
Compliment accepted (as well as the check).
What this reader responded to is something all writers are told to strive for…
Continue
Added by Sunny Frazier on September 2, 2010 at 5:30am —
5 Comments
Book Title: THE OLD SCHOOL
Author: P.M. Newton
Publisher: Penguin Viking
Copyright: 2010
ISBN: 978-0-670-07451-8
No of Pages: 363
Book Synopsis:
Sydney, 1992. Nhu 'Ned' Kelly is a young detective making her way in what was, until recently, the best police force money could buy. Now ICAC has the infamous Roger Rogerson in the spotlight, and the old ways are out. Ned's sex and background still make her an outsider in the force, but Sydney is changing,…
Continue
Added by Karen from AustCrime on September 1, 2010 at 11:17pm —
No Comments
Cheryl Waggoner saw my discussion of The Troubleshooter on the Kindle Korner Yahoo group and downloaded the book soon after the price dropped to $2.99. Days later when I commented on the increased interest the new price had brought the book, Cheryl added a very flattering comment:…
Continue
Added by Austin S. Camacho on September 1, 2010 at 9:43pm —
No Comments
Hey, me again, how is it going? I think that you may have noticed things are changing here at Gelati’s Scoop. Times are changing with the publishing industry and we are trying to do as much as we can to bring you
varied content, different forms of writing (full length, digital short, graphic
novel), and also authors that are not as well known or have a debut coming in
the near future. Let’s face facts; everybody has to start…
Continue
Added by Giovanni Gelati on September 1, 2010 at 8:59pm —
No Comments
Book Title: BAD INTENTIONS
Author: Karin Fossum
Publisher: Random House Australia
Copyright: 2010
ISBN: 978-1-846-55292-2
No of Pages: 184
Book Synopsis:
Early one September three friends spend the weekend at a remote cabin by Dead Water Lake. With only a pale moon to light their way, they row across the water in the middle of the night. But only two of them return, and they make a pact not to call for help until the following…
Continue
Added by Karen from AustCrime on September 1, 2010 at 8:15pm —
1 Comment
Writing of the disdain expressed for genre novels by critics, Raymond Chandler said that there were just as many bad “literary novels” of the type favored by critics as there were bad genre stories – except that the bad literary novels didn’t get published. In other words, there’s nothing inherent in so-called genre fiction that makes it lesser than “literary” fiction.
Chandler knew what he was talking about. His great noir novels, such as “The Big Sleep”…
Continue
Added by Matt Rees on September 1, 2010 at 6:06pm —
1 Comment
I completed my first e-mail newsletter for my legions of subscribers, all three of them. You can view it free of charge here:
http://tinyurl.com/2763pzp.Authors should consider sending an e-mail newsletter. They are an effective way to reach people who want to read you. Sure, Twitter and Facebook offer the same connections. But newsletters are engrossing and offer attractive formatting options.
There are free templates hanging…
Continue
Added by Benjamin Sobieck on September 1, 2010 at 12:19pm —
No Comments
Back in the late 1980s when I was in writer infancy, I massaged a plot for a mystery novel. I did the submission two-step, sending out query letters and sample chapters only
to discover literary agents weren’t sure what to make of what I was
writing. I combined genres which was a
no-no back then. “Write mystery or
science fiction, but don’t combine the two.”
I had read once to write what you like to read. I liked to read…
Continue
Added by Giovanni Gelati on September 1, 2010 at 6:46am —
No Comments
Quebec Author Louise Penny and Her Chief Inspector Gamache Series
August 31, 2010 by Scene of the Crime | Edit…
Continue
Added by J. Sydney Jones on September 1, 2010 at 5:18am —
No Comments
As guests at SavvyAuthors today, we've posted a blog for writers about interviewing witnesses. Having interviewed hundreds of witnesses both in our investigations agency, as well as Shaun in his 17 years as a trial attorney, we offer an overview of interview vs interrogation, rules on interviewing, the myth of "off the record," and techniques for interviewing both talkative and reticent witnesses.… Continue
Added by Writing PIs on September 1, 2010 at 2:41am —
No Comments
Here's what I do when I finish a new novel: I panic. Check out the whole story in the
Vincent Zandri Vox!
Added by Vincent Zandri on September 1, 2010 at 1:22am —
No Comments
On Saturday, Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore in Forest Park, Illinois kicks off a month-long celebration of its 20th anniversary.
Twenty years in the book biz!
What are the numbers? Sixty percent of start-up businesses don’t survive their first year, and 90 percent are gone before the end of their third?
So to make it 20 years, a business has to be really good.
Augie Aleksy has made Centuries & Sleuths vital…
Continue
Added by Jerry Peterson on September 1, 2010 at 1:00am —
No Comments
Hi! Iʼm Manoj Rao, creator of WMDs the comic, available on the Apple App Store for the iPhone, iPod Touch& iPad. When I approached Giovanni about reviewing our first two issues, WMDs #1.0 & #1.5, I’d also pitched
the idea of writing a guest blog for him, he graciously agreed and so here I
am. I thought I would use this as an opportunity to share with you, the
journey, perils, pitfalls & rewards of self-publishing in the digital age.…
Continue
Added by Giovanni Gelati on September 1, 2010 at 12:05am —
No Comments