All Blog Posts Tagged 'Collins' (7)

Getting Inside A Criminal's Mind

An aspiring novelist asks: How can you get inside a killer's head? Join us at Hook'em & Book'em as published authors and an ex-cop share insights.

Added by Mark Young on July 31, 2010 at 4:30am — 3 Comments

Novelist Brandilyn Collins

Novelist Brandilyn Collins tells about her latest novel Exposure, the long road to publication, and her book on writing, Getting Into Character: Seven Secrets a Novelist Can Learn from Actors.http://hookembookem.blogspot.com/

Added by Mark Young on March 16, 2010 at 11:19pm — 1 Comment

The Poet and the Prose-ist, II

Some things that came to mind as I listened to Billy Collins talk about being a poet and writing in general:

Poets start from scratch more often. Whether that's good or bad I can't say, but the novelist has a thread to follow for months, even years, while the poet faces a blank page every day or two.

Poets are allowed to break the rules of writing (such as they are). Playing with language in encouraged. Novelists have more of a job to do, a goal to reach, less time for… Continue

Added by Peg Herring on October 20, 2009 at 10:27pm — No Comments

The Poet and the Prose-ist, Part I

I went to hear Billy Collins speak yesterday. Imagine yourself listening to an hour and a half of poetry...and then imagine something not boring at all. His combination of self-effacing humor and intelligent, fresh play with language made the time fly by, and my friend and I agreed that we're jealous of his talent with words. But that's why he was Poet Laureate and we never will be.

Mr. Collins made some points about writing that apply to all of us, though, and I plan to write about… Continue

Added by Peg Herring on October 19, 2009 at 10:28pm — No Comments

ROGUE MALES: SUBJECT #8, MAX ALLAN COLLINS

(Author’s note: Rogue Males: Conversations & Confrontations About the Writing Life, is a collection of author interviews. It includes Elmore Leonard, Lee Child, Pete Dexter, James Ellroy, Daniel Woodrell, Kinky Friedman and James Crumley. Rogue Males also features an account of a trip to the desert to interview crime fiction greats Ken Bruen and James Sallis about the craft of writing. During the next few weeks, I’m sharing a little bit about each of the 16 writers featured in… Continue

Added by Craig McDonald on May 22, 2009 at 9:47am — 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

Forgotten Book Friday

(When Patti Abbott asked me to write a blog about a book I thought had been forgotten, it didn’t take me but a nanosecond to know what book it would be about. When I pulled it off the bookshelf, I realized I couldn’t explain it without going into explanation of the author, because the book affected my teenage years and the author a good part of the rest of my life.)

Writer Dennis Lynds had many claims to fame in his lifetime; being… Continue

Added by Michael Haskins on August 15, 2008 at 10:39pm — No Comments