Daniel Hatadi's Posts - CrimeSpace2024-03-19T05:47:52ZDaniel Hatadihttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/danielhatadihttps://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/60985163?profile=RESIZE_48X48&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1https://crimespace.ning.com/profiles/blog/feed?user=dhatadi&xn_auth=noFirst Draft Of Second Novel Completetag:crimespace.ning.com,2013-03-03:537324:BlogPost:3684202013-03-03T03:50:46.000ZDaniel Hatadihttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/danielhatadi
Finally typed the final words of the first draft of my second novel. The first one was a bust, but this time round I’m determined to whip this baby into shape.<br />
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Now the real work begins.
Finally typed the final words of the first draft of my second novel. The first one was a bust, but this time round I’m determined to whip this baby into shape.<br />
<br />
Now the real work begins.Back In The Seattag:crimespace.ning.com,2013-02-18:537324:BlogPost:3677322013-02-18T02:30:00.000ZDaniel Hatadihttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/danielhatadi
<p>I started a novel in October 2006 that was a mix of crime and horror with a large portion of the story set in 1920s Sydney. I worked on it solidly for two years and reached the climactic scene and then spent about four and a half years writing ten pages.<br/><br/>Last night, I wrote a thousand words. The first draft should be finished soon.<br/><br/>Sometimes it takes a while to finish things I start, but I always get there in the end.<br/><br/>Sheesh.</p>
<p>I started a novel in October 2006 that was a mix of crime and horror with a large portion of the story set in 1920s Sydney. I worked on it solidly for two years and reached the climactic scene and then spent about four and a half years writing ten pages.<br/><br/>Last night, I wrote a thousand words. The first draft should be finished soon.<br/><br/>Sometimes it takes a while to finish things I start, but I always get there in the end.<br/><br/>Sheesh.</p>You Call That A Book Launch? THIS Is A Book Launch.tag:crimespace.ning.com,2009-06-03:537324:BlogPost:2013732009-06-03T03:56:16.000ZDaniel Hatadihttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/danielhatadi
<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_n8sVMdyG5so/SiXf1wQawyI/AAAAAAAAAW8/2a4CcXYfNhA/s1600-h/e-mail+flyer+copy.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342922647524786978" name="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342922647524786978" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_n8sVMdyG5so/SiXf1wQawyI/AAAAAAAAAW8/2a4CcXYfNhA/s320/e-mail+flyer+copy.jpg" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 233px; height: 320px;"></img></a><br />
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Big Daddy's doing a Booze And Bands Book Launch for SEX, THUGS AND ROCK & ROLL, the latest Thuglit anthology (which includes a story by the bald headed guy all over this page). Jason Starr, Justin Porter, Sarah Weinman, Patrick Lambe and Big Daddy Thug himself are all going to do readings from the book before they stage dive into the mosh pit.<br />
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I'd be there, but…
<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_n8sVMdyG5so/SiXf1wQawyI/AAAAAAAAAW8/2a4CcXYfNhA/s1600-h/e-mail+flyer+copy.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 233px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_n8sVMdyG5so/SiXf1wQawyI/AAAAAAAAAW8/2a4CcXYfNhA/s320/e-mail+flyer+copy.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342922647524786978" name="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342922647524786978"/></a><br />
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Big Daddy's doing a Booze And Bands Book Launch for SEX, THUGS AND ROCK & ROLL, the latest Thuglit anthology (which includes a story by the bald headed guy all over this page). Jason Starr, Justin Porter, Sarah Weinman, Patrick Lambe and Big Daddy Thug himself are all going to do readings from the book before they stage dive into the mosh pit.<br />
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I'd be there, but I'm half way across the globe and I've gotta see a man about a dog.<br />
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Details in the flyer above.<br />
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If you're scared of bricks and mortar, you can grab a copy of the book from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Thugs-Rock-Roll-Todd-Robinson/dp/075822267X/ref=pd_sim_b_73">Amazon</a>, <a href="http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Sex-Thugs-and-Rock-and-Roll/Todd-Robinson/e/9780758222671/?itm=2">Barnes & Noble</a>, <a href="http://powells.com/biblio/1-9780758222671-0">Powells</a>, <a href="http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780758222671">Indiebound</a> or <a href="http://www.kensingtonbooks.com/finditem.cfm?itemid=14163">Kensington</a>.SEX, THUGS AND ROCK & ROLL is now availabletag:crimespace.ning.com,2009-05-18:537324:BlogPost:1988742009-05-18T06:00:00.000ZDaniel Hatadihttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/danielhatadi
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Thugs-Rock-Roll-Todd-Robinson/dp/075822267X/"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337033052697626402" name="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337033052697626402" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_n8sVMdyG5so/ShDzSNyPhyI/AAAAAAAAAW0/ntlz4n6iMz0/s320/Sex+Thugs.jpg" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 185px; height: 280px;"></img></a><br />
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Smack bang in the middle of a fine collection of thuggery related literature is my story, BUDDHA BEHIND BARS. It's my first publishing credit so I'm celebrating by dehydrating a bottle of Johnnie Walker and snorting it off the belly of ... okay, I'm just having a glass of Coke. But still, I'm hoping this will kick my arse on to a chair and force me to write some more.<br />
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With an intro penned by Sarah…
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Thugs-Rock-Roll-Todd-Robinson/dp/075822267X/"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 185px; height: 280px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_n8sVMdyG5so/ShDzSNyPhyI/AAAAAAAAAW0/ntlz4n6iMz0/s320/Sex+Thugs.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337033052697626402" name="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337033052697626402"/></a><br />
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Smack bang in the middle of a fine collection of thuggery related literature is my story, BUDDHA BEHIND BARS. It's my first publishing credit so I'm celebrating by dehydrating a bottle of Johnnie Walker and snorting it off the belly of ... okay, I'm just having a glass of Coke. But still, I'm hoping this will kick my arse on to a chair and force me to write some more.<br />
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With an intro penned by Sarah Weinman, followed by a love letter from Big Daddy Thug, the collection includes stories from the broken keyboards of Patricia Abbott, Jonas Knutsson, Jedidiah Ayres, Justin Porter, Albert Tucher, Joe R. Landsdale, Scott Wolven, D.T. Kelly, Marcus Sakey, Steven M. Messner, Hugh Lessig, Lyman Feero, Gary Carson, Matthew Baldwin and Jason Starr.<br />
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The faint of heart and the high of morals need not apply.No Longer Fishingtag:crimespace.ning.com,2008-10-06:537324:BlogPost:1619962008-10-06T05:37:14.000ZDaniel Hatadihttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/danielhatadi
Which means I'm back. Strangely, after three weeks of limited internet access, I haven't had much of a desire to get back in the cyber-swing of things.<br />
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Right now, I'm pretty happy playing lots of guitar. Witness the latest addition to my tools of procrastination:<br />
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<p style="text-align: left;"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/70742332?profile=original" alt="" width="1024" height="685"/></p>
Which means I'm back. Strangely, after three weeks of limited internet access, I haven't had much of a desire to get back in the cyber-swing of things.<br />
<br />
Right now, I'm pretty happy playing lots of guitar. Witness the latest addition to my tools of procrastination:<br />
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<p style="text-align: left;"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/70742332?profile=original" alt="" width="1024" height="685"/></p>A Half-Life Long Dream Achieved!tag:crimespace.ning.com,2008-09-10:537324:BlogPost:1595092008-09-10T07:30:00.000ZDaniel Hatadihttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/danielhatadi
Remember when I talked about my <a href="http://crimespace.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=537324%3ABlogPost%3A133969">desires</a> for a National Steel guitar? The kind of guitar that costs whole people's yearly salaries to ship to the sunburnt shores of Australia?<br />
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Well, in the last couple of days, I discovered to my absolute and goose-pimple-inducing delight, that I could purchase one of these beautiful beasts for about half the price I would expect in my home country.<br />
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So, I did it.…
Remember when I talked about my <a href="http://crimespace.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=537324%3ABlogPost%3A133969">desires</a> for a National Steel guitar? The kind of guitar that costs whole people's yearly salaries to ship to the sunburnt shores of Australia?<br />
<br />
Well, in the last couple of days, I discovered to my absolute and goose-pimple-inducing delight, that I could purchase one of these beautiful beasts for about half the price I would expect in my home country.<br />
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So, I did it.<br />
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<a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3248/2844627589_bd32cbf3e5.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3248/2844627589_bd32cbf3e5.jpg" border="0" alt=""/></a><br />
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I'm sorry, <a href="http://ombites.blogspot.com/">Mary</a>, but there's a new love in my life.<br />
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Arrggghhh, grrrlll, drooooool ....Gone Fishin'tag:crimespace.ning.com,2008-09-01:537324:BlogPost:1582162008-09-01T10:30:00.000ZDaniel Hatadihttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/danielhatadi
<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_n8sVMdyG5so/SLurWBpOuzI/AAAAAAAAAQA/GdXeEzBxOWI/s1600-h/mg2y2-09b-gonefishin.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240970986262543154" name="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240970986262543154" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_n8sVMdyG5so/SLurWBpOuzI/AAAAAAAAAQA/GdXeEzBxOWI/s320/mg2y2-09b-gonefishin.jpg" style="cursor: pointer;"></img></a><br />
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It's pretty easy for three weeks to pass without my posting here, but I just thought I'd let you all know ... I'm going overseas for three weeks. New York and Los Angeles to be exact. I'll definitely be meeting some of the people that I've only known through the internet for the very first time and I hope to meet a few others too. Like…
<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_n8sVMdyG5so/SLurWBpOuzI/AAAAAAAAAQA/GdXeEzBxOWI/s1600-h/mg2y2-09b-gonefishin.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_n8sVMdyG5so/SLurWBpOuzI/AAAAAAAAAQA/GdXeEzBxOWI/s320/mg2y2-09b-gonefishin.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240970986262543154" border="0" name="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240970986262543154"/></a><br />
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It's pretty easy for three weeks to pass without my posting here, but I just thought I'd let you all know ... I'm going overseas for three weeks. New York and Los Angeles to be exact. I'll definitely be meeting some of the people that I've only known through the internet for the very first time and I hope to meet a few others too. Like <a href="http://www.jasonstarr.com/Appearances.html">these</a> <a href="http://www.kenbruen.com/index.php">guys</a>.<br />
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Have fun, all. Don't break the place while I'm gone.The Lineup: Poems On Crime, Issue 1 Out Nowtag:crimespace.ning.com,2008-07-09:537324:BlogPost:1504542008-07-09T00:00:00.000ZDaniel Hatadihttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/danielhatadi
<a href="http://www.lulu.com/content/2132580"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5220801538083266162" name="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5220801538083266162" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_n8sVMdyG5so/SHQDVoBEHnI/AAAAAAAAAPY/3S2NgbnIF0c/s400/lineup-blogheader.jpg" style="cursor: pointer;"></img></a> <br></br>
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<span style="font-style: italic;">"...every word has purpose: to plant clues, reveal character, move toward resolution."<br />
Gerald So</span><br />
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Edited by Gerald So of <span style="font-style: italic;">Thrilling Detective</span>, with Patrick Shawn Bagley, R. Narvaez, and Anthony Rainone.<br />
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Including the hard-hitting poets Patrick Shawn Bagley, Ken Bruen, Sarah Cortez, Graham Everett, <b>Daniel Hatadi</b>, Daniel Thomas Moran, R.…
<a href="http://www.lulu.com/content/2132580"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_n8sVMdyG5so/SHQDVoBEHnI/AAAAAAAAAPY/3S2NgbnIF0c/s400/lineup-blogheader.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5220801538083266162" border="0" name="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5220801538083266162"/></a><br/>
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<span style="font-style: italic;">"...every word has purpose: to plant clues, reveal character, move toward resolution."<br />
Gerald So</span><br />
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Edited by Gerald So of <span style="font-style: italic;">Thrilling Detective</span>, with Patrick Shawn Bagley, R. Narvaez, and Anthony Rainone.<br />
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Including the hard-hitting poets Patrick Shawn Bagley, Ken Bruen, Sarah Cortez, Graham Everett, <b>Daniel Hatadi</b>, Daniel Thomas Moran, R. Narvaez, Robert Plath, Misti Rainwater-Lites, Stephen D. Rogers, A.E. Roman, Sandra Seamans, Gerald So, KC Trommer.<br />
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Now available in paperback from <span class="caption"><a href="http://www.lulu.com/content/2132580">Lulu.com</a> and <a href="http://www.murderbooks.com/">Murder By the Book</a> (Houston, TX)</span><br />
<a href="http://www.lulu.com/commerce/index.php?fBuyContent=2132580"><br />
<img border="0" alt="Support independent publishing: buy The Lineup on Lulu." src="http://www.lulu.com/services/buy_now_buttons/images/gray.gif/" title="Support independent publishing: buy The Lineup on Lulu."/></a><br />
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Get the lowdown at <a href="http://poemsoncrime.blogspot.com/">poemsoncrime.blogspot.com</a>News From Around The Interwebtag:crimespace.ning.com,2008-06-16:537324:BlogPost:1463042008-06-16T00:30:00.000ZDaniel Hatadihttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/danielhatadi
Sure, I'm still firmly entrenched in hibernation mode, watching lots of episodes of The Outer Limits and drinking a responsible amount of absinthe, but that doesn't mean I don't have at least one eye to the cyber playground commonly referred to as "the internet."<br />
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* Spinetingler magazine has just put out its Summer 2008 issue, which of course confuses me and my Antipodean biological clock (it's winter here, dammit!). Still, with fiction of all lengths (as long as they're short) coming from the…
Sure, I'm still firmly entrenched in hibernation mode, watching lots of episodes of The Outer Limits and drinking a responsible amount of absinthe, but that doesn't mean I don't have at least one eye to the cyber playground commonly referred to as "the internet."<br />
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* Spinetingler magazine has just put out its Summer 2008 issue, which of course confuses me and my Antipodean biological clock (it's winter here, dammit!). Still, with fiction of all lengths (as long as they're short) coming from the likes of Patti Abbott, Amra Pajalic, Stephen D. Rogers, Allan Guthrie, Steve Mosby, Tony Black, Brian Lindenmuth, Grant McKenzie, John McFetridge, you're sure to have some chills regardless of climate.<br />
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* Demolition is another fine zine that has the same need for seasonal confusion, but much more in the self-destructive noir mould. Go thou and read now some fine stories from Justin Porter, Stephen Blackmoore, William Dylan Powell and John Kenyon.<br />
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* The Lineup, crime poetry collection extra-ordinaire, is gearing up for launch Real Soon Now. Click away and look forward to some poetry from the likes of Ken Bruen, Patrick Shawn Bagley, Ken Bruen, Sarah Cortez, Graham Everett, Daniel Hatadi, Daniel Thomas Moran, R. Narvaez, Robert Plath, Misti Rainwater-Lites, Stephen D. Rogers, A.E. Roman, Sandra Seamans, Gerald So, and KC Trommer. You saw my name in that list, didn't you? Well, get to it then.<br />
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* I should have blogged about this a tad sooner but winter hibernation kicked in early: For those of you that live in the same sunburnt and overcast country as me, you may want to get your car in order to Rouse Hill Town Centre for An Evening Of Crime with Aussie crime authors Sydney Bauer, Kathryn Fox and Katherine Howell. Details below.<br />
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Dymocks Rouse Hill and Vinegar Hill Memorial Library present “An Evening of Crime” with Sydney Bauer, Kathryn Fox and Katherine Howell. Don’t miss this opportunity to meet three successful crime authors face to face and answer those questions you always wanted to ask.<br />
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Their books will also be available for purchase and signing.<br />
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Sydney Bauer has written 3 riveting legal thrillers –Undertow, Gospel and Alibi. Undertow was recently announced as the winner of the coveted Sisters In Crime Davitt Award under the main category of Best Crime Novel.<br />
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Kathryn Fox is the award winning author of internationally acclaimed forensic thrillers, Malicious Intent, Without Consent, and Skin and Bone. “Malicious Intent is the most exciting crime fiction released in Australia for a long time”.<br />
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Katherine Howell’s first book Frantic was released in May 2007 to rave reviews and will<br />
be published internationally in 2008/2009. Her second book, The Darkest Hour, has just<br />
been released.<br />
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Location: Vinegar Hill Memorial Library<br />
Rouse Hill Town Centre<br />
Rouse Hill, NSW<br />
Date: 17th June,2008<br />
Time: 7.30-9.00pm<br />
Cost: $5<br />
Bookings Essential: (02) 8889 5200Happy Birthday To Metag:crimespace.ning.com,2008-05-07:537324:BlogPost:1401632008-05-07T15:30:00.000ZDaniel Hatadihttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/danielhatadi
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<font size="2">Thank all possible deities for <a href="http://www.drinkboy.com/Cocktails/recipes/Sazerac.html">Sazeracs</a>. I'm 35.</font>
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<font size="2">Thank all possible deities for <a href="http://www.drinkboy.com/Cocktails/recipes/Sazerac.html">Sazeracs</a>. I'm 35.</font>Hatadi Is Notabletag:crimespace.ning.com,2008-05-02:537324:BlogPost:1394432008-05-02T03:30:00.000ZDaniel Hatadihttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/danielhatadi
<a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_n8sVMdyG5so/SBpy-Hcv64I/AAAAAAAAANg/Xm-rbFxF0nQ/s1600-h/fearloathing.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5195591531602373506" name="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5195591531602373506" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_n8sVMdyG5so/SBpy-Hcv64I/AAAAAAAAANg/Xm-rbFxF0nQ/s320/fearloathing.JPG" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;"></img></a> <br></br>
<font size="2">I feel like the hitchhiker in <span style="font-style:italic;">Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas</span> that says, "Hot damn. I never rode in a convertible before." Of course, it's a slightly different feeling in that I can legitimately say,<br />
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"Hot damn. I never been notable before."<br />
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<a href="http://www.jamieford.com">Jamie Ford</a> let me know that my name…</font>
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<font size="2">I feel like the hitchhiker in <span style="font-style:italic;">Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas</span> that says, "Hot damn. I never rode in a convertible before." Of course, it's a slightly different feeling in that I can legitimately say,<br />
<br />
"Hot damn. I never been notable before."<br />
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<a href="http://www.jamieford.com">Jamie Ford</a> let me know that my name was on the Story South list of <a href="http://www.storysouth.com/millionwriters/2007notablestories.html">notable short stories online for 2007</a>.<br />
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I seem to be getting a lot of mileage out of <a href="http://www.thuglit.com/zine/thug13/docs/buddha.pdf">BUDDHA BEHIND BARS</a>. It feels good. I should write more short stories, but I've been putting my meagre energies into the novel.<br />
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Other notables include Anthony Neil Smith, Katherine Tomlinson, Scott Wolven, and Fleur Bradley.<br />
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Thanks to whoever nominated me and also to the judges over at Story South.</font>Short Story Competition Results 2008tag:crimespace.ning.com,2008-03-31:537324:BlogPost:1346022008-03-31T23:00:00.000ZDaniel Hatadihttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/danielhatadi
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<font size="2">We have now come to the end of the judging period for CrimeSpace's inaugural short story competition. From a total of thirty-two entries, the pre-judging team arrived at a shortlist that was passed on to the final panel of judges.<br />
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From there, the winning three were chosen by this year's panel, made up of authors Katherine Howell, Stuart MacBride, and Sandra Ruttan, as well as Crimespree Magazine's Jon Jordan.<br />
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The theme of 'Australia'…</font>
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<font size="2">We have now come to the end of the judging period for CrimeSpace's inaugural short story competition. From a total of thirty-two entries, the pre-judging team arrived at a shortlist that was passed on to the final panel of judges.<br />
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From there, the winning three were chosen by this year's panel, made up of authors Katherine Howell, Stuart MacBride, and Sandra Ruttan, as well as Crimespree Magazine's Jon Jordan.<br />
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The theme of 'Australia' proved an interesting one, in that most of the entries weren't written by Aussies. Some entrants used their internet prowess and social networking skills to flesh out the cultural details, where others settled for a mention of beer.<br />
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Click through to the <a href="http://crimespace.ning.com/page/page/show?id=537324%3APage%3A134495">results</a> to find out who won.</font>I Was Born In The Wrong Decadetag:crimespace.ning.com,2008-03-28:537324:BlogPost:1339692008-03-28T15:30:00.000ZDaniel Hatadihttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/danielhatadi
<a href="http://www.jacksonsrareguitars.com/National-Style-O-1936-p-18160.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_n8sVMdyG5so/R-0Hf8JnwJI/AAAAAAAAANA/X4qYSTZXhdE/s320/image.php.jpeg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5182806991477129362" name="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5182806991477129362"/></a><br />
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<font size="2">I'm sure this would have been cheaper in the late 30s. Right now, I'd have to kill for it.<br/>
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I'm thinking about it.</font>
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<font size="2">I'm sure this would have been cheaper in the late 30s. Right now, I'd have to kill for it.<br/>
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I'm thinking about it.</font>Hard-Hitting Poets Arrested For THE LINEUPtag:crimespace.ning.com,2008-03-20:537324:BlogPost:1320582008-03-20T00:00:00.000ZDaniel Hatadihttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/danielhatadi
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<span style="font-style:italic;">"...every word has purpose: to plant clues, reveal character, move toward resolution."<br />
Gerald So</span><br />
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Edited by Gerald So of <span style="font-style:italic;">Thrilling Detective</span>, with Patrick Shawn Bagley, R. Narvaez, and Anthony Rainone<br />
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Including the hard-hitting poets Patrick Shawn Bagley, Ken Bruen, Sarah…</font>
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<span style="font-style:italic;">"...every word has purpose: to plant clues, reveal character, move toward resolution."<br />
Gerald So</span><br />
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Edited by Gerald So of <span style="font-style:italic;">Thrilling Detective</span>, with Patrick Shawn Bagley, R. Narvaez, and Anthony Rainone<br />
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Including the hard-hitting poets Patrick Shawn Bagley, Ken Bruen, Sarah Cortez, Graham Everett, Daniel Hatadi, Daniel Thomas Moran, R. Narvaez, Robert Plath, Misti Rainwater-Lites, Stephen D. Rogers, A.E. Roman, Sandra Seamans, Gerald So, KC Trommer<br />
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In paperback spring 2008 from www.lulu.com - $6.50<br />
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Get the lowdown at <a href="http://poemsoncrime.blogspot.com">poemsoncrime.blogspot.com</a></font>An Absinthe-Minded Journal Beginstag:crimespace.ning.com,2008-03-18:537324:BlogPost:1319062008-03-18T23:30:00.000ZDaniel Hatadihttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/danielhatadi
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<span style="font-style:italic;">Around seven years ago, a good friend who played the oud came to my house with a strange bottle that he proclaimed as ‘absinthe’. I’d never heard of the drink before but was pleased to discover its illegal status. So even though he played a girly Turkish instrument that looked like strings on a watermelon, I did my…</span></font>
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<span style="font-style:italic;">Around seven years ago, a good friend who played the oud came to my house with a strange bottle that he proclaimed as ‘absinthe’. I’d never heard of the drink before but was pleased to discover its illegal status. So even though he played a girly Turkish instrument that looked like strings on a watermelon, I did my best to conjure the spirit of Keith Richards as my friend popped the bottle open.<br />
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Daniel Hatadi, March 2008</span><br />
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I never thought I'd stoop so low as to quote myself in my own post, but today it has some worthwhile relevance.<br />
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For those of you that may have been watching <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/62392362@N00/sets/72157604120255680/">certain photos</a> appear on my Flickr account, you may have realised that an obsession centred around that fabled green liquid known as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absinthe">'absinthe'</a> has been building not so slowly in my soon to be feeble mind.<br />
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To ensure that I remember this time when the world seemed so simple and innocent, I've begun a journal of my absinthe-minded adventures. It will be published on a semi-regular basis over at <a href="http://absinthe.com.au">absinthe.com.au</a>. To read it in full you will have to subscribe, but it's free and they don't use your details for anything nefarious.<br />
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The first article is up now: <a href="http://absinthe.com.au/2008/03/19/an-absinthe-minded-journal-begins/">An Absinthe-Minded Journal Begins</a></font>Happy 1st Birthday To Crimespacetag:crimespace.ning.com,2008-03-03:537324:BlogPost:1279392008-03-03T22:30:00.000ZDaniel Hatadihttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/danielhatadi
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<font size="2">When I started CrimeSpace on March 4th 2007, I didn't see it living past the six month mark. I certainly didn't see it hitting over 1000 members or winning any awards either. I just saw a hole in the crime fiction internet universe and wanted to fill it. I'm such a boy.<br />
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To celebrate CrimeSpace's 1st birthday, I've given the site a revamp. I imagine I'll be tweaking it a little over the first week or so, but things…</font>
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<font size="2">When I started CrimeSpace on March 4th 2007, I didn't see it living past the six month mark. I certainly didn't see it hitting over 1000 members or winning any awards either. I just saw a hole in the crime fiction internet universe and wanted to fill it. I'm such a boy.<br />
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To celebrate CrimeSpace's 1st birthday, I've given the site a revamp. I imagine I'll be tweaking it a little over the first week or so, but things should be solid and hopefully more readable.<br />
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Some of you may need to play around with your member page appearance. Sorry for that, but I can't make it so that it doesn't affect anyone, it's all too tied together. The simplest way to fix these problems is to go to your member page and reapply the CrimeSpace theme.<br />
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Since I'm feeling nostalgic, I thought I'd assemble a list of memorable CrimeSpace moments:<br />
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<a href="http://crimespace.ning.com/forum/topic/show?id=537324%3ATopic%3A101">Welcome To Crimespace</a>: The very first post, still a good summary of what this place has become.<br />
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<a href="http://crimespace.ning.com/forum/topic/show?id=537324%3ATopic%3A2966">The Bar</a>: Before the forum was split up into categories, this post served as a place for people to introduce themselves.<br />
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<a href="http://crimespace.ning.com/forum/topic/show?id=537324%3ATopic%3A6617">Daniel Hatadi</a>: Posted by Ken Bruen, he doesn't mince words. I'm still yet to make it to America, and it looks like I won't be hitting a convention this year, but I will be in LA and NY in September so I'm sure I'll be organising to meet some of you fine folks at CrimeSpace.<br />
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<a href="http://crimespace.ning.com/forum/topic/show?id=537324%3ATopic%3A3732">The Must-Reads</a>: I've been meaning to compile a list from this thread for some time, but it's easy to forget since it was so long ago. Hopefully this will make me remember.<br />
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<a href="http://crimespace.ning.com/forum/topic/show?id=537324%3ATopic%3A54282">JESUS!!!</a>: Quite possibly the most fun post ever put on CrimeSpace, almost everyone felt the need to chip in with ideas on how to react when a severed head landed at your feet.<br />
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<a href="http://crimespace.ning.com/forum/topic/show?id=537324%3ATopic%3A74940">Are Libraries Unethical?</a>: The only post I've ever had to close replies to, this would have to win the competition for Most Flameworthy. I'm happy to say that this is one rare exception to the general niceness of all the people on board this web-shaped ship.<br />
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<a href="http://crimespace.ning.com/forum/topic/show?id=537324%3ATopic%3A16681">What are you currently reading?</a>: As far as I know, the longest running thread of discussion, this one's a classic that gets reinvented every month or so. Matter of fact, it's about time to start it up again.<br />
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<a href="http://crimespace.ning.com/forum/topic/show?id=537324%3ATopic%3A35897">How important in grammar?</a>: I always assumed that the mistake in the subject heading was supposed to illustrate the point, but now I'm not so sure.<br />
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<a href="http://crimespace.ning.com/forum/topic/show?id=537324%3ATopic%3A15827">Is BSP Really Necessary?</a>: The most difficult topic for me to find a nice balance between for CrimeSpace, this thread is where a lot of my early policies were formed. Since they came about from member discussion, I feel safe in saying that CrimeSpace has a good balance between promotion and community.<br />
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Anyone else care to share their CrimeSpace experiences? Or, failing that, will someone sing Happy Birthday as I try to blow out this candle?</font>Spinetingler Awards For 2007tag:crimespace.ning.com,2008-02-01:537324:BlogPost:1217372008-02-01T22:32:11.000ZDaniel Hatadihttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/danielhatadi
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<br></br>Spinetingler Magazine has announced its new set of awards, the <a href="http://www.sandraruttan.com/atcentralbookingspinetinglerawards.htm">Spinetinglers, for 2007</a>. So run over and check out the list of <a href="http://www.sandraruttan.com/atcentralbookingspinetinglerawards.htm">winners and nominees</a>, as well as the latest issue of…</font>
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<br/>Spinetingler Magazine has announced its new set of awards, the <a href="http://www.sandraruttan.com/atcentralbookingspinetinglerawards.htm">Spinetinglers, for 2007</a>. So run over and check out the list of <a href="http://www.sandraruttan.com/atcentralbookingspinetinglerawards.htm">winners and nominees</a>, as well as the latest issue of <a href="http://www.spinetinglermag.com/">Spinetingler</a>, and have a gander at Sandra Ruttan's new crime fiction conglomerate, <a href="http://www.sandraruttan.com/atcentralbookingdefault.htm">At Central Booking</a>.
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<br/><br/>Since this is an online award, in lieu of a physical award ceremony, I am happy to accept the award for Special Services To The Industry, for my work at Crimespace.
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After stumbling up towards the stage, clutching the award in my hands, and tapping on the microphone (creating a flurry of feedback), I will now thank the people who helped me.<br />
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<br/><br/>Sandra Ruttan, for running the awards as well as helping to give Crimespace the push start it needed. Also, Stephen Blackmoore, Christa M. Miller, Angie Johnson-Schmit, Bill Crider, Anne Frasier, Karen Chisolm, M. G. Tarquini, Patricia Abbott, and John Rickards were all a great help in the early days of Crimespace. Whether they provided content in the shape of interesting forum topics or gave helpful feedback, they set the tone that the community would follow.
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I'd also like to thank my friend Robert Sakaluk, whose super-hardcore Illustrator skills gave me the logo in its present form.<br />
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<br/><br/>And then there's the fine people at Ning: <a href="http://networkcreators.ning.com/profile/gina">Gina</a>, <a href="http://networkcreators.ning.com/profile/philmc">Phil</a> and <a href="http://networkcreators.ning.com/profile/athenavo">Athena</a> especially, who have all contributed to making Ning a seriously major league service that still feels like a grassroots operation.
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<br/><br/>Many thanks also to all of the 1200 or so members that have joined up since March 2007 and made Crimespace such a great community.
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<br/><br/>Lastly, I'd like to thank Mary, for putting up with my Crimespace-related insanities.
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<br/><br/>Congratulations to all the other winners and nominees.</font>New Author Directory On Crimespacetag:crimespace.ning.com,2007-12-22:537324:BlogPost:1067232007-12-22T13:14:57.000ZDaniel Hatadihttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/danielhatadi
<font size="2">Something I've been wanting to do with Crimespace from the beginning was to make it simple for people to find all the authors on board. Up until now there hasn't been any easy way to do this. So I decided to finally get off my butt (or on it), put my programming hat on and come up with something I hope you'll all like. But it's going to need a little work from members.<br></br><br></br>If you're a reader, there's nothing for you to do other than click on the Authors tab at the top of the…</font>
<font size="2">Something I've been wanting to do with Crimespace from the beginning was to make it simple for people to find all the authors on board. Up until now there hasn't been any easy way to do this. So I decided to finally get off my butt (or on it), put my programming hat on and come up with something I hope you'll all like. But it's going to need a little work from members.<br/><br/>If you're a reader, there's nothing for you to do other than click on the Authors tab at the top of the page once all the authors come on board.<br/><br/>If you're an author (ie someone who's had your work published somewhere), click on My Settings in the top right of the screen, and then click on About Me. At the bottom, you'll find a new section labelled 'Author Profile'. Fill in the text area with an author blurb of your own design (easiest way to do this is to copy & paste the text under 'About Me' and tweak to taste). <br/><br/>Feel free to use some basic HTML and add links to books we can buy or stories we can read. Don't worry that it's marked private, it won't show up on your member page but it will show up in the new author section once you hit Save at the bottom.<br/><br/>I've done a fair amount of testing, but there may still be some kinks to iron out. Hopefully it'll all work smoothly and we'll have a nice Christmas present of an author directory on Crimespace. Speaking of which ...<br/><br/>Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to everyone.<br/><br/>Cheers,<br/>Daniel <br/></font>Vote For Metag:crimespace.ning.com,2007-12-17:537324:BlogPost:1049652007-12-17T00:18:26.000ZDaniel Hatadihttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/danielhatadi
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<br></br>With Australia's federal election well and truly over, it's a good time to grab your voting hats and leg it on over to the <a href="http://crimezine.blogspot.com/2007/11/spinetingler-awards-shortlist_27.html">Spinetingler Awards Shortlist</a>.
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<br></br><br></br>Why, you say, why, Daniel?
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<br></br><br></br>Well, old mate, old chum, old pal, it's because iffun once you get…</font>
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<br/>With Australia's federal election well and truly over, it's a good time to grab your voting hats and leg it on over to the <a href="http://crimezine.blogspot.com/2007/11/spinetingler-awards-shortlist_27.html">Spinetingler Awards Shortlist</a>.
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<br/><br/>Why, you say, why, Daniel?
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<br/><br/>Well, old mate, old chum, old pal, it's because iffun once you get there you scroll down a teensy tadbit, you'll be finding my first and last name under the nominations for <span style="font-weight: bold;">Special Services to the Industry</span>. Now that don't mean I've been handing out free lube to all the crime fiction kiddies, no siree, it's all about this wild and crazy social network I created and maintain, the one that all of you are reading this on, the one called <a href="../../../../../../../">Crimespace</a>.
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<br/><br/>And while I'm being all forthcoming and such, I figure it's a good idea for me to be honest with you, my voting public. All the other people nominated for the same award have been giving good to the crime fiction world on the internet for longer and better than yours truly.
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<br/><br/>But to be equally honest, I'd like you to vote for me. Also, check out all the other categories while you're at it and vote for fellow Australian nominees, <a href="http://amrapajalic.blogspot.com/">Amra Pajalic</a> and <a href="http://www.textpublishing.com.au/">Text Publishing</a>.
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Here's how:<br />
</font><blockquote><font size="2">Voting is open. ONE E-MAIL PER PERSON ONLY. You cannot send another vote in, even for a different category – multiple votes from the same sender will not be counted. Take the time to consider your votes carefully. E-mails must be received by <span style="font-weight: bold;">December 30, 2007</span> - authors, if you're putting this in your newsletter make sure you are clear about the deadline for voting. Many recommendations were not considered in the first round because they were sent late.
<br/><br/>You may vote for one winner in each category as long as all votes are submitted in one e-mail. Simply state the category and your chosen winner for each of the eight categories. Any votes that contain more than one selection per category may be removed from consideration completely. No ties.
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<br/><br/>Send your e-mail to sandra.ruttan@spinetinglermag.com with AWARD NOMINATIONS in the subject line. It is not necessary to explain the reason for your vote.</font></blockquote>Signing My First Publishing Contracttag:crimespace.ning.com,2007-11-19:537324:BlogPost:930222007-11-19T22:49:39.000ZDaniel Hatadihttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/danielhatadi
<a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_n8sVMdyG5so/Rzrem9jvByI/AAAAAAAAAJY/qD0zlzwHogM/s1600-h/HardcoreHardboiledcover102307.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5132659486282942242" name="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5132659486282942242" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_n8sVMdyG5so/Rzrem9jvByI/AAAAAAAAAJY/qD0zlzwHogM/s320/HardcoreHardboiledcover102307.JPG" style="cursor: pointer;"></img></a> <br></br><font size="2">Some
time ago I spent a good six months working in fits and bursts on a<br />
short story idea that needed time to percolate. Most stories do,<br />
usually for much less time, but this one was special: it meant<br />
something to me.<br></br><br></br>I'm talking about religion here.<br></br><br></br>Having
spent many hours reading books on Zen Buddhism and Buddhism in…</font>
<a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_n8sVMdyG5so/Rzrem9jvByI/AAAAAAAAAJY/qD0zlzwHogM/s1600-h/HardcoreHardboiledcover102307.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_n8sVMdyG5so/Rzrem9jvByI/AAAAAAAAAJY/qD0zlzwHogM/s320/HardcoreHardboiledcover102307.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5132659486282942242" name="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5132659486282942242" border="0"/></a><br/><font size="2">Some
time ago I spent a good six months working in fits and bursts on a<br />
short story idea that needed time to percolate. Most stories do,<br />
usually for much less time, but this one was special: it meant<br />
something to me.<br/><br/>I'm talking about religion here.<br/><br/>Having
spent many hours reading books on Zen Buddhism and Buddhism in general,<br />
my programmer's mentality was drawn to the one religion that struck me<br />
more as a philosophy or system for living than an excuse for worship or<br />
mind control. Draw whatever assumptions you like from that, but<br />
Buddhism seems to be the only religion I know of that actively<br />
encourages people to question it.<br/><br/>Of course, one of my other
main interests over the last few years has been crime fiction. Talk<br />
about the other end of the spectrum. <br/><br/>Like many before me, I
wanted to 'write what I know', but I also wanted to keep it within the<br />
realm of crime fiction. Thanks to the wonders of the internet, I<br />
stumbled upon a way to combine my interest in Buddhism with my interest<br />
in crime fiction.<br/><br/>It may seem like a strange idea at first, but a few prisons in various parts of the world have
experimented with the teaching of meditation to inmates, as a way of<br />
helping them deal with their time behind bars.<br/><br/>All this percolation and back story eventually led to the publishing of my story, <a href="http://www.thuglit.com/zine/thug13/zine13.html">BUDDHA BEHIND BARS</a>, over at that ezine that is the hardest of the hard, <a href="http://www.thuglit.com/">Thuglit</a>.
About six months later and we're back in the present, where I've been<br />
lucky to have that story included in the second Thuglit anthology<br />
(whose cover should look something like that above), called "SEX,<br />
THUGS, AND ROCK & ROLL."<br/><br/>Like the first anthology, HARDCORE
HARDBOILED, a handful of guest authors added their contributions to the<br />
swath of stories from Thuglit herself. It's going to be great to be<br />
included among such fine writers as Joe. R. Lansdale, Marcus Sakey,<br />
Allan Guthrie, Scott Wolven and Jason Starr.<br/><br/>The extra special
bit about all this for me is the feeling of signing my very first<br />
publishing contract, which was quickly followed by the realisation that<br />
it will take almost two years to come out. <br/><br/>But that's the biz, and now that I have a taste of it, I want some more.<br/><br/>EDIT: I neglected to mention that the editor, Todd Robinson, is one sexy mutha.<br/></font>New Issues of Spinetingler and Thrilling Detective Now Onlinetag:crimespace.ning.com,2007-11-09:537324:BlogPost:912212007-11-09T03:42:21.000ZDaniel Hatadihttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/danielhatadi
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<br></br><br></br>What's especially good about these two issues are stories from people like <a href="http://www.thrillingdetective.com/fiction/07_11_02.html">Stephen Blackmoore</a>, <a href="http://spinetinglermagazine.blogspot.com/2007/11/short-story-ric-with-no-k-by-patricia.html">Patricia Abbott</a>,…</font>
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<br/><br/>What's especially good about these two issues are stories from people like <a href="http://www.thrillingdetective.com/fiction/07_11_02.html">Stephen Blackmoore</a>, <a href="http://spinetinglermagazine.blogspot.com/2007/11/short-story-ric-with-no-k-by-patricia.html">Patricia Abbott</a>, <a href="http://spinetinglermagazine.blogspot.com/2007/11/short-story-in-ditch-by-patrick-shawn.html">Patrick Shawn Bagley</a>, <a href="http://www.thrillingdetective.com/fiction/07_11_04.html">Seth Harwood</a>, and some <a href="http://spinetinglermagazine.blogspot.com/2007/11/short-story-under-blanket-of-sun-by.html">guy</a> from Down Under that likes to play harmonica and whose favourite colour is black.
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<br/><br/>Yes, I know. Black isn't a colour.
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<br/><br/>Go thou and <a href="http://spinetinglermagazine.blogspot.com/2007/11/short-story-under-blanket-of-sun-by.html">read</a> now.</font>
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<br/><br/>Download PDFs:<br/><a href="http://www.danielhatadi.com/files/Spinetingler%20Fall%202007%20Issue%20part1.pdf">Spinetingler Fall Issue 2007 Part 1</a><br/> <a href="http://www.danielhatadi.com/files/Spinetingler%20Fall%202007%20Issue%20part2.pdf">Spinetingler Fall Issue 2007 Part 2</a>Crimespace Short Story Competitiontag:crimespace.ning.com,2007-11-01:537324:BlogPost:870142007-11-01T05:05:56.000ZDaniel Hatadihttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/danielhatadi
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<br></br><font size="2">As a way of celebrating the joining of the 1000th member, Crimespace is proud to open its first short story competition. The plan is to run
this heist every year, with the entries being crime fiction based<br />
around a theme.<br></br><br></br>
To kick it off, this year's theme is 'Australia'.<br></br><br></br>
How you include it is up to you. Your story could be set in Australia,<br />
have an Australian character in it, or simply mention Australia<br />
somewhere in the…</font>
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<br/><font size="2">As a way of celebrating the joining of the 1000th member, Crimespace is proud to open its first short story competition. The plan is to run
this heist every year, with the entries being crime fiction based<br />
around a theme.<br/><br/>
To kick it off, this year's theme is 'Australia'.<br/><br/>
How you include it is up to you. Your story could be set in Australia,<br />
have an Australian character in it, or simply mention Australia<br />
somewhere in the story. Hell, even including an Aussie cultural icon<br />
such as Vegemite will do. Entries must be no more than 2,500 words,<br />
including the title.<br/><br/>
Get cracking. The deadline is January 31st, 2008.<br/><br/>
Details, prizes and rules can be found <a href="../../../../../../../page/page/show?id=537324%3APage%3A86658">here.</a></font> <br/>In For Questioning Podcast Has Movedtag:crimespace.ning.com,2007-10-16:537324:BlogPost:817872007-10-16T00:24:39.000ZDaniel Hatadihttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/danielhatadi
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<br></br>Thanks to Podomatic's recent bout of unreliableness, <a href="http://danielhatadi.blogspot.com/profile/slackerwriter">Angie's</a> moved her world-famous crime fiction podcast to <a href="http://inforquestioning.libsyn.com/">http://inforquestioning.libsyn.com/</a>, so make sure to update this in your podcasting client (usually iTunes).
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<br></br><br></br>And if you haven't…</font>
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<br/>Thanks to Podomatic's recent bout of unreliableness, <a href="http://danielhatadi.blogspot.com/profile/slackerwriter">Angie's</a> moved her world-famous crime fiction podcast to <a href="http://inforquestioning.libsyn.com/">http://inforquestioning.libsyn.com/</a>, so make sure to update this in your podcasting client (usually iTunes).
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<br/><br/>And if you haven't subscribed, what the hell are you doing over here?</font>Smokin' Steinhauers!tag:crimespace.ning.com,2007-10-12:537324:BlogPost:808082007-10-12T14:18:34.000ZDaniel Hatadihttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/danielhatadi
<p><font size="2"><a href="http://crimespace.ning.com/profile/olensteinhauer">Olen Steinhauer</a>, well known among those of us that like our crime fiction bleak and real, is mostly linked with his series of Cold War novels set in a fictional Eastern European country that remains nameless. I'm guilty of only having read the first novel, but the second and third are already in waiting.</font></p>
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<p><font size="2">Why am I mentioning all this?</font></p>
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<p><font size="2">Word around town…</font></p>
<p><font size="2"><a href="http://crimespace.ning.com/profile/olensteinhauer">Olen Steinhauer</a>, well known among those of us that like our crime fiction bleak and real, is mostly linked with his series of Cold War novels set in a fictional Eastern European country that remains nameless. I'm guilty of only having read the first novel, but the second and third are already in waiting.</font></p>
<p/><p><font size="2">Why am I mentioning all this?</font></p>
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<p><font size="2">Word around town (this translates to 'from the horse's mouth'), is that Olen's done and got his upcoming novel, THE TOURIST, <a href="http://www.contemporary-nomad.com/?p=662">optioned</a> by an unknown actor's production company called <a href="http://www.clooneystudio.com/smoke_house.html">Smoke House</a>. They say one of the people responsible is related to George Clooney, but I don't think that's true: he must be a distant cousin of Steinhauer himself.</font></p>
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<p><font size="2">I mean, I can't tell the difference, can you?</font></p>
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<font size="2"><a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_n8sVMdyG5so/Rw9_hm1-WZI/AAAAAAAAAIE/VnRADNFnCQ4/s1600-h/Olen2.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_n8sVMdyG5so/Rw9_hm1-WZI/AAAAAAAAAIE/VnRADNFnCQ4/s320/Olen2.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5120451516682885522" name="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5120451516682885522" border="0"/></a><a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_n8sVMdyG5so/Rw9_im1-WaI/AAAAAAAAAIM/tiMYY4oIWUQ/s1600-h/clooney.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_n8sVMdyG5so/Rw9_im1-WaI/AAAAAAAAAIM/tiMYY4oIWUQ/s320/clooney.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5120451533862754722" name="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5120451533862754722" border="0"/></a></font>Hatadi Caught In Podcast Heist!tag:crimespace.ning.com,2007-10-11:537324:BlogPost:804132007-10-11T03:20:51.000ZDaniel Hatadihttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/danielhatadi
<font size="2"><a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_n8sVMdyG5so/Rw2Vi21-WYI/AAAAAAAAAH8/rGDCb7KHgU4/s1600-h/SF-FLIPPED-JACKPALMS2-POSTER.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5119912777460111746" name="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5119912777460111746" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_n8sVMdyG5so/Rw2Vi21-WYI/AAAAAAAAAH8/rGDCb7KHgU4/s320/SF-FLIPPED-JACKPALMS2-POSTER.jpg" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: none; cursor: pointer;"></img></a><br />
<br></br>That mad Hatadi has done it again: his voice has been captured for all eternity in a digital form. To be replicated and distributed through millions of small boxes with clicky wheels on the front.
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<br></br><br></br>(switch to first person)<br></br><br></br>And it's all thanks to that bold criminal of the podcast universe,…</font>
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<br/>That mad Hatadi has done it again: his voice has been captured for all eternity in a digital form. To be replicated and distributed through millions of small boxes with clicky wheels on the front.
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<br/><br/>(switch to first person)<br/><br/>And it's all thanks to that bold criminal of the podcast universe, <a href="http://sethharwood.com/Podcasts.html">Seth Harwood</a>. If you haven't checked out his podcasts before, you owe it to yourself now, if only to hear my rugged Australian accent at about the nine minute mark of Seth's recent <a href="http://sethharwood.com/MP3s/MP3s.html">Jack Palms</a> episode, all about Russian sex slaves and rabbit holes, number <a href="http://sethharwood.com/MP3s/Entries/2007/9/30_17-JP2%3A_This_Is_Life.html">17</a>.
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<br/><br/>As <a href="http://secretdead.blogspot.com/">Duane Swierczynski</a> said:
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<br/><br/>"I like the cut of this young man's jib."</font>New Crime Fiction Podcast: In For Questioningtag:crimespace.ning.com,2007-09-10:537324:BlogPost:708622007-09-10T04:49:42.000ZDaniel Hatadihttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/danielhatadi
<font size="2">One of Crimespace's own, <a href="../../../../../../../profile/slackerwriter">Angie Johnson-Schmit</a>, has started up a crime fiction podcast called <a href="http://inforquestioning.podomatic.com/">In For Questioning</a>, with the first interviewee being yours truly (the theme music's mine too).<br />
I've pointed the music player on the main page to the podcast, just so I can hurt all your ears with my inane babble about starting up Crimespace and writing songs about dead rubber…</font>
<font size="2">One of Crimespace's own, <a href="../../../../../../../profile/slackerwriter">Angie Johnson-Schmit</a>, has started up a crime fiction podcast called <a href="http://inforquestioning.podomatic.com/">In For Questioning</a>, with the first interviewee being yours truly (the theme music's mine too).<br />
I've pointed the music player on the main page to the podcast, just so I can hurt all your ears with my inane babble about starting up Crimespace and writing songs about dead rubber chickens. <br/><br/>Next week's interview will be with Cornelia Read, and as soon as I find a way to combine multiple podcasts, I'll add Noircast.net to the player.</font> <br/><p style="text-align: left;"><font size="2"><img width="300" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/70737728?profile=RESIZE_320x320" alt=""/></font></p>Crime + Horror = Computer Game?tag:crimespace.ning.com,2007-08-24:537324:BlogPost:664382007-08-24T07:10:33.000ZDaniel Hatadihttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/danielhatadi
<font size="2"><a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_n8sVMdyG5so/Rs6Au7pntVI/AAAAAAAAAHg/Al7Xa1r0RRk/s1600-h/cover.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5102156971631949138" name="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5102156971631949138" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_n8sVMdyG5so/Rs6Au7pntVI/AAAAAAAAAHg/Al7Xa1r0RRk/s320/cover.jpg" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;"></img></a> It's not often that a computer game crosses over into blog-worthy material, but <a href="http://www.2kgames.com/thedarkness/local.htm">The Darkness</a> goes against that by being a cross between crime and horror, a genre combination that's a semi-obsession of mine. Mostly because I'm trying to write a novel that does just that, but also because I think the two genres…</font>
<font size="2"><a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_n8sVMdyG5so/Rs6Au7pntVI/AAAAAAAAAHg/Al7Xa1r0RRk/s1600-h/cover.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_n8sVMdyG5so/Rs6Au7pntVI/AAAAAAAAAHg/Al7Xa1r0RRk/s320/cover.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5102156971631949138" name="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5102156971631949138" border="0"/></a>It's not often that a computer game crosses over into blog-worthy material, but <a href="http://www.2kgames.com/thedarkness/local.htm">The Darkness</a> goes against that by being a cross between crime and horror, a genre combination that's a semi-obsession of mine. Mostly because I'm trying to write a novel that does just that, but also because I think the two genres are a natural mix.<br />
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<br/><br/>And it's a not-so-sneaky way for me to plug my article running in issue 19 of <a href="http://www.crimespreemag.com/">Crimespree Magazine</a>, titled 'Crime+Horror=Thriller'.<br/><br/>From <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Darkness_%28video_game%29">Wikipedia</a>:
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<i>In modern day New York City, Jackie Estacado is a young Mafia hitman just turning 21, and finds himself the victim of an assassination attempt orchestrated by the don, his "Uncle" Paulie. Surviving the explosion meant to kill him as he crashes through a window, Jackie begins planning his revenge. A voice in his head manifests, calling itself "The Darkness", and demonstrates the power it has over Jackie by controlling his body and enabling him to use supernatural appendages and powers to violently eliminate all of the hitmen sent to make sure that he was dead.<br/><br/></i><a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_n8sVMdyG5so/Rs58sbpntSI/AAAAAAAAAHI/fF6dr73li8w/s1600-h/927014_20060502_screen002.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_n8sVMdyG5so/Rs58sbpntSI/AAAAAAAAAHI/fF6dr73li8w/s200/927014_20060502_screen002.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5102152530635765026" name="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5102152530635765026" border="0"/></a><a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_n8sVMdyG5so/Rs58jrpntRI/AAAAAAAAAHA/DLR2xa5mDcY/s1600-h/927014_20060815_screen002.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_n8sVMdyG5so/Rs58jrpntRI/AAAAAAAAAHA/DLR2xa5mDcY/s200/927014_20060815_screen002.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5102152380311909650" name="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5102152380311909650" border="0"/></a>
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<br/><br/>In terms of both genres, you can see that the premise is filled to the brim with stereotypes. Mafia hitmen and demonic supernatural powers all exist within one young man that just happens to wear a long black leather coat and has long black flowing hair. On the surface, it seems fairly straightforward, but the presentation of the whole makes the game hang together beautifully.
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<br/><br/>The voice of the demonic presence known as 'The Darkness' is none other than <a href="http://www.mikepatton.de/">Mike Patton</a> of Faith No More, Mister Bungle and probably too many other side projects for me to name. Patton has possibly the most demented control over his vocal chords in the world, save for the Satanic bluesman himself, Tom Waits. Patton's voice isn't the only one that's top notch. The main character, Jackie, strikes just the right note of tough and cool, New York, 'I don't give a fuck' style ever heard in a computer game.
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<br/><br/>And I must give points for a great start to the dialogue: "I remember the night of my 21st birthday. That was the first time I died." Another happy line comes in the form: "Is there a way out of this fucking cemetery?"
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<br/><br/>Graphics are suitably moody and (dare I say it?) dark, with the demonic tentacles that represent Jackie's supernatural powers slithering menacingly all over the screen, making you feel as if they are growing out of your own shoulders as you walk around the neighbourhood laying waste to all the mafia types that get in your way.<br/><br/><a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_n8sVMdyG5so/Rs6ALbpntTI/AAAAAAAAAHQ/GJ_HZBXMdFw/s1600-h/927014_20070627_screen027.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_n8sVMdyG5so/Rs6ALbpntTI/AAAAAAAAAHQ/GJ_HZBXMdFw/s200/927014_20070627_screen027.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5102156361746593074" name="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5102156361746593074" border="0"/></a><a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_n8sVMdyG5so/Rs6ALrpntUI/AAAAAAAAAHY/_ZzsKv4sMuw/s1600-h/927014_20070627_screen014.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_n8sVMdyG5so/Rs6ALrpntUI/AAAAAAAAAHY/_ZzsKv4sMuw/s200/927014_20070627_screen014.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5102156366041560386" name="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5102156366041560386" border="0"/></a>
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<br/><br/>I'm only part of the way into the game, but I'm told that the story hangs together well, which is a difficult thing to do in a computer game. You want to give the player a feeling of freedom, but not too much. The Darkness does well here because the player is forced to feel what the main character is going through by using a solid and immersive first person perspective.
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<br/><br/>The story is fleshed out with a third person voice over where we see Jackie gesticulate in time to his speech over a more than decent soundtrack. And something I haven't seen done in a computer game before: they put the effort in to make you care for the characters <span style="font-style: italic;">before</span> they're killed.
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<br/><br/>Okay, I'll admit I'm a gamer. Not obsessively so, but a definite regular. What pulls this game above the rest is the attention the makers have put into creating an actual story. I'm tempted to say it's one of the finest examples of interactive fiction I've ever come across.
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<br/><br/>Gamers, go buy it. Readers and writers, see if you can look into it, as long as you don't mind a game that allows the player to devour still-beating hearts from victims.</font>Crimespace Statisticstag:crimespace.ning.com,2007-08-23:537324:BlogPost:660622007-08-23T04:24:23.000ZDaniel Hatadihttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/danielhatadi
<p style="text-align: left;"><font size="2"><img alt="" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/70737366?profile=original=/ppr05011910fig01.gif"></img></font></p>
<font size="2">Since Ning added the ability to track statistics properly on Crimespace, I've had <a href="http://www.google.com/analytics/">Google Analytics</a> running for a couple of weeks now. In the spirit of sharing, here are some statistics, all taken from the week starting on August 13th:<br></br><br></br>1,507 Absolute Unique Visitors<br></br>4,308 Visits<br></br>24,548 Pageviews<br></br>5.70 Pages/Visit<br></br>11 minutes 38 seconds Avg. Time…</font>
<p style="text-align: left;"><font size="2"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/70737366?profile=original=/ppr05011910fig01.gif" alt=""/></font></p>
<font size="2">Since Ning added the ability to track statistics properly on Crimespace, I've had <a href="http://www.google.com/analytics/">Google Analytics</a> running for a couple of weeks now. In the spirit of sharing, here are some statistics, all taken from the week starting on August 13th:<br/><br/>1,507 Absolute Unique Visitors<br/>4,308 Visits<br/>24,548 Pageviews<br/>5.70 Pages/Visit<br/>11 minutes 38 seconds Avg. Time On Site<br/>26.02% New Visits<br/><br/>Top countries by Visits:<br/><br/>United States: 3,071<br/>United Kingdom: 632<br/>Canada: 229<br/>Australia: 186<br/>Germany: 44<br/>Ireland: 34<br/>France: 16<br/>South Africa: 12<br/><br/>And, just for fun, here are some random keyword searches that brought people to Crimespace:<br/><br/>"who is conrad hirst"<br/>zeltserman "Bad thoughts"<br/>"jordan dane" harpercollins<br/>love is murder convention<br/>sexiest crime writer<br/>latest crime fiction<br/><br/>Obviously we have a few authors who love Googling themselves (joking!), so it's good to see that being on Crimespace can be helpful to both authors and their readers. <br/><br/>I'm still looking into a good way to display all the authors on Crimespace, but that's turning into something fairly complex and time consuming. I will get there, though, eventually.<br/><br/>Lastly, I'll leave you with a few of the more interesting keyword searches that brought people to this fine drinking establishment:<br/><br/>'barns and novels'<br/>'long dicks'<br/>'horse's arse'<br/><br/>And the winner of the most exciting referral has to go to:<br/><br/>'how to make a man come from his arse'<br/><br/>As far as I can tell, that last one came from someone's mobile phone in Australia. We're certainly an inquisitive nation. Who knows, it might have been one of our world renowned physicists looking at developing a new technique for asexual reproduction using a quantum method of cloning.<br/><br/>Maybe not.</font>Coming Out Of Hibernationtag:crimespace.ning.com,2007-08-06:537324:BlogPost:606972007-08-06T03:05:42.000ZDaniel Hatadihttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/danielhatadi
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<br></br>Every so often I find myself going through a bout of solitude. This has been happening for the last couple of months, possibly brought on by an abnormally cold Sydney winter and probably compounded by the re-entry into my life of copious amounts of caffeine.
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<br></br><br></br>Yes, I'm quitting it again.
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<br></br><br></br>During my hibernation I didn't spent a lot…</font>
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<br/>Every so often I find myself going through a bout of solitude. This has been happening for the last couple of months, possibly brought on by an abnormally cold Sydney winter and probably compounded by the re-entry into my life of copious amounts of caffeine.
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<br/><br/>Yes, I'm quitting it again.
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<br/><br/>During my hibernation I didn't spent a lot of time on the Internet, aside from keeping a watchful eye on Crimespace, but I also found myself not being much of a social animal in the real world.
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<br/><br/>Maybe it's the return of sunlight, or maybe I've had my fill of creative solitude, but this weekend I felt a shift back to normality. Evidence of this is clear: I actually enjoyed going to a party and sucking down <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/phodis/1020577689/in/set-72157601241805981/">cocktails</a>. On top of that, I'm writing this post.
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<br/><br/>Solitude's been great, though. I obsessed over the love I'd thrown away: music. I researched lots of new audio gear and was blown away by how much everything's progressed since I left it all behind a few years ago.
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<br/><br/>For those that might find it interesting, I have a new <a href="http://www.focusrite.com/product/saffire_le/">soundcard</a>, <a href="http://www.audio-technica.com/cms/wired_mics/9b6aac05c5aca887/index.html">microphone</a>, <a href="http://www.ehx.com/ehx2/Default.asp?q=f&f=%2FCatalog%2F02%5FHome%5FStudio%5FPerformance%5FProducts%2F29%5F12AY7%5FMic%5FPreamp">preamp</a> (complete with <a href="http://www.chrisguitars.com/mullard-12at7.jpg">tubes</a>), <a href="http://www.miaudio.com/BP1.htm">guitar pedal</a>, <a href="http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/Axiom25-main.html">keyboard</a>, and a <a href="http://www.steinberg.net/1008_1.html">couple</a> of <a href="http://www.native-instruments.com/index.php?id=battery3">programs</a>. Maybe that's a lot of money spent on what is just a hobby, but it's no more expensive than a decent <a href="http://canon.com.au/products/cameras/digital_slr/eos400dblack.aspx">digital camera</a>.
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<br/><br/>And whenever I look at all that music making gear set up neatly in my 'studio', I have a warm fuzzy feeling inside. Or it could be just the heat coming off all the equipment.
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<br/><br/>Either way, I'm back.</font>Crimespace: More Networks To Come?tag:crimespace.ning.com,2007-05-10:537324:BlogPost:317642007-05-10T04:22:07.000ZDaniel Hatadihttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/danielhatadi
The discussions on the forum have been brilliant, thought provoking, serious and silly. The <a href="http://crimespace.ning.com/forum">categories</a> seem to please most people and have made everyone feel more comfortable to discuss a wide range of topics.<br></br><br></br>Chat walls on member pages are constantly flowing with the rhythms of people getting to know each other. Members have been blogging with enough quality posts for me to be able to feature five at least once a day, often…
The discussions on the forum have been brilliant, thought provoking, serious and silly. The <a href="http://crimespace.ning.com/forum">categories</a> seem to please most people and have made everyone feel more comfortable to discuss a wide range of topics.<br/><br/>Chat walls on member pages are constantly flowing with the rhythms of people getting to know each other. Members have been blogging with enough quality posts for me to be able to feature five at least once a day, often twice.<br/><br/>The <a href="http://crimezine.blogspot.com">Crime Zine Report</a> blog has been joined by the bulk of crime fiction's ezine constabulary and it is quickly becoming a very useful single source for the latest in crime fiction on the web.<br/><br/>New members have rolled in at a steady rate, only tapering off recently, which made the final crawl towards 600 a slow one. And it's personally gratifying to see so many Aussies, including authors, come on board.<br/><br/>Some of our members have created their own social networks on Ning, which is a great thing, as Crimespace is not going to be a perfect fit for everyone. <a href="http://bookplace.ning.com">Book Place</a> in particular has taken off in a big way. <br/><br/>One of the problems that comes from this is that many members are now on multiple networks and they are building large friend lists. Ning is set up this way and it is something of a trade-off between flexibility and exposure. It means members can indulge in a wide variety of interests, at the price of being exposed to a wider group of people on Ning, some of who will send emails and invites to their friends list.<br/><br/>While I can do a certain amount to protect members from unsolicited emails or invites, the control for this mostly rests with members themselves. Which I think makes a lot of sense, as some of you are happy to receive these messages, while others are not.<br/><br/>If you receive messages that to you are spam, especially from outside the Crimespace network, you can report this to Ning. There is a link at the bottom of every single page to do this (<a href="http://crimespace.ning.com/main/index/report">Report an Issue</a>).<br/><br/>Another thing members can do is to block messages from a particular user. There is a link to do this at the bottom of every email received through the Crimespace email system.<br/><br/>I do have two requests to make to those of you that are about to create your own networks.<br/><br/>Please don't accept the default options and create a network named something like "John Doe's crimespace". While many of you are not computer literate, it doesn't take a lot of effort to see that this can annoy members of the current Crimespace, me included. I didn't spend the last two months working on Crimespace to have it diluted in such a way.<br/><br/>Also, if you want to send invitations to your network to Crimespace members, do your best to make sure they are wanted, and relevant. If I receive multiple complaints from members, I will be forced to remove your membership from the Crimespace network.<br/><br/>For those that are interested, Ning has a <a href="http://www.ning.com/about/privacy.html">privacy policy</a> you can read.<br/><br/>That's enough good news and tough business talk from me. I'm parched, so I'm off to <a href="http://crimespace.ning.com/forum/topic/show?id=537324%3ATopic%3A2966">The Bar</a>.<br/>