Fact imitating your fiction? - CrimeSpace2024-03-29T10:12:46Zhttps://crimespace.ning.com/forum/topics/537324:Topic:129935?commentId=537324%3AComment%3A130508&feed=yes&xn_auth=noHas happened to me several ti…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2008-03-14:537324:Comment:1306412008-03-14T09:00:27.220ZMorgan Hunthttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/MorganHunt
Has happened to me several times. I was starting to get spooked about it, but I see now that it's a fairly common phenomenon.
Has happened to me several times. I was starting to get spooked about it, but I see now that it's a fairly common phenomenon. I just had lunch with a frien…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2008-03-13:537324:Comment:1305082008-03-13T20:31:36.531ZElizabeth Zelvinhttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/lizzelvin
I just had lunch with a friend who had trouble selling her thriller before 911 because the agents and editors said, "It's too over the top, it could never happen," and then after 911, they said, "Not original, you just took this straight out of the news."<br />
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Ken, your example troubles me for another reason. In your book, Silent Counsel, nobody was wrongfully convicted of the crime. In real life, I'm shocked that the attorneys didn't speak up, not to reveal the name but to prevent the miscarriage…
I just had lunch with a friend who had trouble selling her thriller before 911 because the agents and editors said, "It's too over the top, it could never happen," and then after 911, they said, "Not original, you just took this straight out of the news."<br />
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Ken, your example troubles me for another reason. In your book, Silent Counsel, nobody was wrongfully convicted of the crime. In real life, I'm shocked that the attorneys didn't speak up, not to reveal the name but to prevent the miscarriage of justice. What would have happened to them if they had invoked attorney/client privilege but sworn that Mr. Alton was not the guilty party? Unfortunately, it isn't just…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2008-03-13:537324:Comment:1304712008-03-13T13:42:51.401ZDeirdrehttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/Deirdre
Unfortunately, it isn't just crime stories this happens with. How many movies in recent years have been held back because they were insensitive and apparently to close to reality of real life events that occurred a week before the movie was being released.<br />
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The legal system failed Mr. Logan. Unfortunately it still occurs. Juries and evidence, as well as biased police officers, are imperfect and therefore, there is room for error. The two attorneys had no choice but to keep quiet. However, if…
Unfortunately, it isn't just crime stories this happens with. How many movies in recent years have been held back because they were insensitive and apparently to close to reality of real life events that occurred a week before the movie was being released.<br />
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The legal system failed Mr. Logan. Unfortunately it still occurs. Juries and evidence, as well as biased police officers, are imperfect and therefore, there is room for error. The two attorneys had no choice but to keep quiet. However, if the evidence and the witnesses told the truth Mr. Logan should not have been convicted, even despite the attorneys not speaking. Fortunately in the world of crime and murder, we now have DNA and other forensic tests (which were not so precise in the 80's) to cut down on the injustice of the legal system's failures.<br />
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Deirdre When my third book Living On…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2008-03-12:537324:Comment:1302642008-03-12T14:54:02.366ZSheila Quigleyhttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/SheilaQuigley
When my third book Living On A Prayer, was in the proccess of being printed, a young man commited suicide in much the same way as a young man in the book had. I was mortified but it was too late to change anything.<br />
My books are set in my home town of Houghton Le Spring,thankfully only one person mentioned how very much alike they were.
When my third book Living On A Prayer, was in the proccess of being printed, a young man commited suicide in much the same way as a young man in the book had. I was mortified but it was too late to change anything.<br />
My books are set in my home town of Houghton Le Spring,thankfully only one person mentioned how very much alike they were. The number of times this has…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2008-03-12:537324:Comment:1300832008-03-12T02:11:09.387ZL. A. Starkshttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/Starksbooks
The number of times this has occurred for me is scary.
The number of times this has occurred for me is scary. Melbourne's now much publicis…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2008-03-12:537324:Comment:1300492008-03-12T00:50:12.985ZLindy Cameronhttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/Lindycameron
Melbourne's now much publicised gangland war began, in earnest, as I was writing my PI novel Thicker Than Water which features two rival Melbourne criminal families going head to head. For the same book I'd spent the day writing my PI, Kit O'Malley, investigating a couple of clubs in Richmond, only to watch the news that night and discover the exact area had been, unusually, raided by the cops looking for drug dealers.<br />
An after the fact example is my latest thriller, Redback, opens with my…
Melbourne's now much publicised gangland war began, in earnest, as I was writing my PI novel Thicker Than Water which features two rival Melbourne criminal families going head to head. For the same book I'd spent the day writing my PI, Kit O'Malley, investigating a couple of clubs in Richmond, only to watch the news that night and discover the exact area had been, unusually, raided by the cops looking for drug dealers.<br />
An after the fact example is my latest thriller, Redback, opens with my crack commando team rescuing hostages from a Pacific island resort. Like the real-life hostages just last week captured (and released) by rebels in China, my hostages were in the travel industry. Peter at www.detectivesbeyond…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2008-03-11:537324:Comment:1300252008-03-11T23:11:06.955ZGeoff McGeachinhttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/GeoffMcGeachin
Peter at <a href="http://www.detectivesbeyondborders.blogspot.com">www.detectivesbeyondborders.blogspot.com</a> had a discussion recently not so much on authors making discoveries after the fact but fictional stories being pre-empted before publication by events similar to those in an upcoming book actually occurring. The heading was Crime Fiction and Unfortunate Events.<br />
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My contribution concerned creating a major plotline about a deranged environmentalist using a stolen nuclear warhead to…
Peter at <a href="http://www.detectivesbeyondborders.blogspot.com">www.detectivesbeyondborders.blogspot.com</a> had a discussion recently not so much on authors making discoveries after the fact but fictional stories being pre-empted before publication by events similar to those in an upcoming book actually occurring. The heading was Crime Fiction and Unfortunate Events.<br />
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My contribution concerned creating a major plotline about a deranged environmentalist using a stolen nuclear warhead to trigger a massive landslide, producing a tsunami intended to devastate Tokyo as punishment for the Japanese continuing to hunt whales. I came up with the idea on a 10-hour drive to Melbourne on December 24th 2004. Two days later the whole world was watching the horrific reality of just such a massive tsunami.