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- Hometown:
- Los Angeles and Bangkok
- About Me:
- All I do is write and read, with occasional breaks for listening to music, which I also do when I write, via an iPod with almost 5000 songs on it. Because I'm lucky, I get to divide my time between the US and Southeast Asia, which is my favorite part of the world, I wrote a series of six Los Angeles private-eye books in the 90s and then took a break to make some money, and now I'm writing a series set in Bangkok and published by William Morrow. The first one, "A Nail Through the Heart," came out at the end of June 2007.
I love to write. The happiest I ever am is when the words are flowing, the characters are talking to each other, and I can actually see a couple of pages ahead. Damn, what a thrill. If there's anyone who wants to write and has trouble either getting started or setting up some kind of workable and productive routine, I recommend taking a look at the "Writer's Resources" area of my website -- I've been teaching writing the novel for almost ten years, and I boiled down a lot of what I share with my students, many of whom have finished their novels. (In fact, one of my students had her first novel published the same month "A Nail Through the Heart" came out.)
I also answer questions about writing submitted through my site.
- I Am A:
- Reader, Writer
- Website:
- http://timothyhallinan.com
- Books And Authors I Like:
- Oh, boy: Haruki Murakami, Banana Yoshimoto, Michael Chabon, Lawrence Block, Edward White (!!!), Henning Mankell, I.J. Parker, Robert Wilson (especially the Bruce Medway books), Kingsley Amis, Martin Amis, anybody else named Amis, William Boyd, David Fullmer, Kem Nunn, Bill James (the crime novelist, not the baseball statistician), Harlan Coban, Lee Child, Martin Cruz Smith, Cao Xequin, Qiu Xiaolong, Ken Bruen, Anthony Trollope, Raymond Chandler and Raymond Chandler again, Randy Wayne White, did I say Raymond Chandler, Rurh Ozecki, Colin Cotterill, Jane Austen, Anthony Powell, William Gibson, W. Somerset Maugham, Barry Eisler, and way, way, too many more to mention. And Raymond Chandler
- Movies And TV Shows I Like:
- I like Korean TV serials and contemporary Asian movies. If I could only watch the work of one director for the rest of my life it would be Kurosawa. I also like film noir from the 40s and 50s, anything written by Preston Sturges, and really, really crappy horror movies. I never watch television, unless there's an earthquake or something, but there's not enough room in my house for all the DVDs.
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Why August? That's when they occurred to me. That might sound flip, but I'm serious about the resolutions. Check them out
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New Book in June
Posted on April 25th, 2008 at 2:29pm —
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Book Proposals
Just sent off two book proposals to my publishers. If accepted, they’ll provide the starting points for the next two Poke Rafferty novels.
I hate writing book proposals. What publishers usually want is a synopsis of the plot, and at this stage I have no idea whatsoever what the plot of either book is going to be. Plotting is something I let my characters do, so to speak. I come up with a situation that needs to be resolved,…
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Posted on October 22nd, 2007 at 2:35pm —
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Between Books
I’m between books at the moment, and I wouldn’t wish it on Kim Jong-Il.
Yesterday I finished the (presumably) final editing pass on The Fourth Watcher. The copy edit and galley review are still hovering spectres in the future, but those are mainly mechanical exercises, rather than creative. The world I was inventing in The Fourth Watcher has moved into the past tense now, and I haven’t begun the next one.…
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Posted on October 11th, 2007 at 3:08pm —
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Death at the Chokegulch Saloon
I’ve been on tour, and today I drove from Tucson to Phoenix, across a hundred-mile stretch of Arizona. I passed a lot of towns I’d never heard of, and it got me thinking: We all know about the Arizona towns with butch names — Tombstone, Deadwood, Red Rock, even Yuma. But we don’t hear much about towns with names like Florence and Queen Creek. With nothing to do except drive, I asked myself why, and below is the reason I came up with.
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Posted on September 25th, 2007 at 9:42am —
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Bloomin' Sacrifice
In the wake of the recent Chinese ban on unlicensed reincarnation, Reuters reports another interesting religious development: On Tuesday, officials of Nepal’s state-run airline sacrificed two goats to appease Akash Bhairab, the Hindu sky god, because the airline was having trouble with one of its Boeing 757s.
Assuming for the moment that this approach is not suggested in the Boeing Users Manual, I think the airline officials de…
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Posted on September 7th, 2007 at 10:31am —
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I've seen your posts on DL and thought I'd introduce myself. It's nice to put a face with your name.
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