All Blog Posts Tagged 'Child' (7)

COMING ATTRACTIONS and 5 book give-away

Check out the latest books from William Kent Krueger, Kelli Stanley, L.J. Sellers and a new series by Ray Daniel. Also, here's a link to sample 11 chapters from the latest Douglas Preston/Lincoln Child novel. http://kingsriverlife.com/07/26/coming-attractions-end-of-summer-edition/

And 5 cozy mysteries from Penguin can be yours by emailing…

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Added by Sunny Frazier on July 28, 2014 at 9:46am — No Comments

Lee Child, Agatha Christie, Christmas short stories, giveaways & more in KRL this week

In the new issue of Kings River Life today we have the last of our Christmas mystery short stories, this one by Gail Farrelly http://kingsriverlife.com/12/22/silver-bells-a-christmas-mystery-short-story/ (there will be a Christmas fantasy story on Christmas Eve)

In case you missed it-we had some other ones go up during the week so be sure and check them out in our Terrific Tales section…

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Added by Lorie Ham on December 23, 2012 at 5:16am — No Comments

Lee Child and Dennis Lehane – crowd pleasers at Theakston Crime Writing Festival 2011

Lee Child was undoubtedly the star of this weekend's Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival. Not only did he win Crime Novel of the Year for 61 Hours, but half of Yorkshire seemed to be packed into the assembly rooms at the Old Swan Hotel (where Agatha Christie hid out) to hear his Room 101 routine with journalist Christina Patterson.

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Added by Robin Jarossi on July 25, 2011 at 8:49am — No Comments

Involved Reading Versus Automatic Reading

Sometimes you feel like a rut; sometimes you don't.

There are books that are automatic. You know the characters, know how they're going to react. You know, generally, what situations they will encounter, and you know they will triumph in the end. Books of this type, when well done, are entertaining, and authors like Sue Grafton and Lee Child do well with them.

Non-automatic books take a different type of writing. The reader does not know…

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Added by Peg Herring on June 13, 2011 at 10:30pm — No Comments

First Thrills anthology announced

The International Thriller Writers officially announced the First Thrills anthology today. Edited by Lee Child and featuring stories from the bestsellers of today and tomorrow, it will be published by Tor/Forge in June 2010.

Two reasons why I'm excited about this: First, it features a fun wee crime caper I wrote entitled UnderBelly; and second, it will be published around the same time my debut… Continue

Added by Grant McKenzie on December 11, 2009 at 2:56am — No Comments

ROGUE MALES: SUBJECT #11, LEE CHILD

(Author’s note: Rogue Males: Conversations & Confrontations About the Writing Life, is a collection of author interviews. It includes Elmore Leonard, Stephen J. Cannell, Pete Dexter, James Ellroy, Daniel Woodrell, Craig Holden and James Crumley. Rogue Males also features an account of a trip to the desert to interview crime fiction greats Ken Bruen and James… Continue

Added by Craig McDonald on August 1, 2009 at 10:37am — No Comments

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY ON ROGUE MALES

Rogue Males: Conversations & Confrontations About the Writing Life by Craig McDonald. Bleak House Books $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-60648-036-6; paper $14.95 ISBN 978-1-932557-45-9

A fascinating follow-up to the 2006 Art in the Blood dialogue with leading crime writers, this collection by journalist and fiction writer McDonald (Head Games) underlines the “rogue male” theme by putting some of the most influential crime fiction wizards under the spotlight. Among… Continue

Added by Craig McDonald on March 16, 2009 at 11:00pm — No Comments