Michael C. Jacobs

United States

Profile Information:

Hometown:
Seattle, WA
About Me:
Unpublished novelist.


I'm not really active on this site at the moment, but find me on Facebook if you want to chat. Oh, and I shave my head now, so don't be fooled by impersonators.


Keywords: card cheating, con artists, fiction, grifters, mystery, MWA, non-fiction, Old Time Radio, pugs, radio-drama, Seattle, Writers in Paradise, more to be added eventually.
I Am A:
Writer
Books And Authors I Like:
Milton Caniff, Raymond Chandler, James Ellroy, Dennis Lehane, John Le Carre, Norman Mailer, the MacDonalds (John D., Ross, & Phillip), David Mamet, Dav Pilkey, Rex Stout, Hunter S. Thompson, and of course many more...

A few favorite books in no particular order:
Where the Truth Lies by Rupert Holmes
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Carter Beats the Devil by Glen David Gold
Citizen Vince by Jess Walter
California Fire and Life by Don Winslow
Smonk by Tom Franklin
Blood Father by Peter Craig
Movies And TV Shows I Like:
The Wire, Blackadder, Twin Peaks, Scrubs, Firefly, Homicide; Life on the Streets, the original BBC version of Coupling.

The Thin Man series, Time Bandits, Dead Again, Dersu Urzala, Anatomy of a Murder, The Last Days of Disco, Blue Velvet, F is for Fake

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  • Cyndi Martin

    Thanks for adding me! Aren't they fun at this age? Is your son in high school this year? It's a whole new world!

    Sep 22, 2007

  • carole gill

    Hi Michael, I'm not yet published either. But working on it!
    Your novel sounds good. I just read the Grifters by Jim Thompson--I thought it was better than the movie.
    best of luck with your work.

    May 31, 2008

  • carole gill

    thanks! yes, I did write one. Hadn't a clue--I was taking a writer's workshop class--and the teacher, Clive Hopwood, something of a playwright himself kept encouraging me--so I wound up writing on (wait for it) for the BBC! they were offering a prize--didn't get the prize but they said they liked it. I found I loved writing dialogue in particular. then I did another contest--to get a place at Lancaster U.--it was something that North West playwrights sponsered. I got one! and it was fun for awhile--but I prefer novel writing--it's easier to do--you're in your own home, you don;t have to kiss up to theater folk, you know?
    if you like radio--go to the BBC radio website. Radio Four in particular! and choose anything you want. Play of the week, the day and so on.
    I think you'd like it.
    sorry this is so long. it's lovely meeting you too!
    Good luck with your work!
    keep me posted, please!
    all the best!

    May 31, 2008