March 2007 Blog Posts (300)

World Horror

I’m heading off to Toronto this week for the World Horror Convention.

I’ll be doing:

- A signing with the fabulous Sarah Langan, author of the truly terrific debut THE KEEPER, also a nominee for a Stoker for First Novel, in the Dealers Room at the Toronto Marriott (the con hotel) on Friday at noon (HWA booth).

- A mass autographing on… Continue

Added by Alexandra Sokoloff on March 28, 2007 at 5:51am — No Comments

Limited Edition Project

Three days to order sans S&H my homemade, multi-multimedia project Hitler: Five Impossibly Possible Love Stories. You get: CD; 5 poems; 2 films; a booklet; interactive experiment; moveable parts; book with protected covers. PC/Mac friendly. Order 1/50 signed & numbered copies here. Watch infomercial…

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Added by Paul A. Toth on March 28, 2007 at 5:25am — No Comments

Telemarketing demons

Encouraged by the success of putting CREDO online, I put SELL IN HELL up at YouTube this morning. This is one of my earlier short films, from a few years ago.

It won't prompt the level of theological debate that CREDO has, and isn't anywhere near as technically sophisticated as I LOVE YOU, I'M SORRY, AND I'LL NEVER DO IT AGAIN, but it won BEST WRITING at the Toronto Giggleshorts Comedy Film Festival and has… Continue

Added by Keith Snyder on March 28, 2007 at 3:55am — No Comments

Second Class Citizens?

I just finished reading Christine Falls, the much ballyhooed new book by John Banville. Mr. Banville won the Commonwealth's highest writing honor, the Man Booker Prize, in 2005 for The Sea. He penned Christine Falls under the pseudonym Benjamin Black. In fact, the copy I picked up at …

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Added by Keith Raffel on March 28, 2007 at 3:51am — 3 Comments

Gosh, am I really this popular?

I just clicked on the main page and saw my own photo at the upper left in the section "Popular Members". Hard to believe I'm really this popular - I'll bet Crimespace does this to all the guys and gals to make them feel good. I'll have to check back and see. In the meantime, it's a hefty rush to see myself there in the place of honor.

As I threatened to do in my last blog, I read my poem about my negative YMCA experience at the Lark Tavern last night and it went over well, especially…

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Added by Julie Lomoe on March 28, 2007 at 2:41am — No Comments

Anatomy of Fear Video

Check it out. The promo video for my new novel Anatomy of Fear. You can see it if you go to http://www.harpercollins.com/books/9780060881979/Anatomy_of_Fear/index.aspx

And soon it will be up and in a larger format on my wesite (still being overhauled) at www.jonathansantlofer.com

Originally my publisher was going to have me reading from the…

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Added by Jonathan Santlofer on March 28, 2007 at 1:51am — 6 Comments

Currently Reading...

Joe R. Lansdale's Lost Echoes. So far, it's a great book about a young man who can pick up images of violent deaths and actions based on the sound waves absorbed in the surrounding areas (sounds complicated, but Lansdale explains it clearly and makes it work). He's depressed and an alcoholic (alcohol helps keep the impressions out) and meets another man, an alcoholic former martial arts instructor, who helps him to get a handle on his abilities and who becomes something of a surrogate… Continue

Added by Craig Larson on March 28, 2007 at 12:30am — No Comments

Entertainment or Education? An Author's View on Movies and TV

I am a visual person. Those of you who know me have heard me say this a million times. That is the key to a great book for me. I have to see it playing out in video in my mind. (Keep that in mind if you are submitting a book to me...LOL). If I can't see it as it's happening, I just won't enjoy it. Two of the best examples for me are Nancy Martin's Blackbird Sisters mysteries and James Lee Burke's Dave Robicheaux series. For me, their writing is so vivid that I can see all the details.…

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Added by Echelon Press on March 27, 2007 at 11:21pm — 1 Comment

On Being Mugged and Half Mugged

Someone asked me about my introduction in the Bar where I mentioned being mugged 3 and a half times, so I thought I would put the story of the half a time here, since I understand that the whole point of these blog thingies is that they are updated regularly. Whoops. So here's the story:

A year or so ago, I was in the city centre shopping and left at about 5pm by which time the place was starting to empty of shoppers. To get to my bus stop, I decided to cut…

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Added by Donna Moore on March 27, 2007 at 10:59pm — 7 Comments

Book 3 - Revealed!

Finally, a bit of news about the third Tom Kirk Novel to share with you.

You'll be pleased to know it has a title! Months of heated negotations with Bruce, my editor, (that's not his real name but it seems more appropriate for a thriller editor than his actual one!) have led us to The Gilded Seal. My original suggestion was The Napoleon Seal, but Harper Collins were worried that this would make it seem too historical?? Not sure I… Continue

Added by James Twining on March 27, 2007 at 8:00pm — No Comments

guest blogger: Bobbie Faye Sumrall

[toni's note: today I am letting Bobbie Faye Sumrall guest blog because frankly, she's scary and she threatened me.]

Okay, look, people, you probably don't know me. Unless you've read this crazy writer's first book, and I am here to tell you, she's seriously getting on my…

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Added by Toni McGee Causey on March 27, 2007 at 4:31pm — 6 Comments

First entry

I'm jealous. Vicki Hendricks has this great picture of her

in a skydive. I've done skydives (not nearly as many as Vicki and

my skydiving days are over) but I don't have a picture of me in

freefall. I had a video of my first jump and it was pretty

ugly. Nothing to post on a website. So, I settled for the

next best thing--a shot of me running. It's ugly too, but how

about those Willie Nelson shorts?

Although I don't have any skydive pix, I can claim… Continue

Added by Mark Troy on March 27, 2007 at 3:32pm — No Comments

Blog, blog, blog

I don't have time to blog! I barely have time to write down what I'm reading and that's somewhere else. Although I suppose copy and paste works well. Hello, all you crazy people!

Cheryl

Added by Cheryl Reynolds on March 27, 2007 at 2:42pm — No Comments

Anyone else on submission?

Okay, all of you - I didn't say "into submission." I think that might be another Ning Ring altogether.

I've got a manuscript on submission right now (actually two, but only one as Regina). I alternate between wanting to puke and feeling pretty damn good about getting here after so long.

I've heard so many writers' submission stories, but I can't seem to get enough of them. Anyone want to share?

Added by Regina Harvey on March 27, 2007 at 12:41pm — 11 Comments

my first blog

Wow, I get to blog.

Huh.

Never done it before. Heard about it. Thought about doing it when I set up my website last year. But decided against it. I'm not vain enough to think that anybody really cares about my deepest thoughts and radical opinions.

At best, I'd probably just piss somebody off.

So I left the blogging to those of far greater intelligence who really have something to say.

Good enough.

But then comes Crimespace. And they make blogging…

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Added by Steven B. Mandel on March 27, 2007 at 10:42am — 5 Comments

Crimespace Thoughts: Day One

When I'm belly up to the bar, I expect the smell of bourbon on the breath and cigarette smoke in the hair. This virtual community stuff is all new to me, and I can't help but think something's missing--the dirt, the grime, the stories that only come out after the third drink. And yet, this is a damn big bar. I've only been here for about an hour and already I have ten "friends," have "met" some damn interesting people (like Robert Boris Riskin), and have learned that Duane Swierczynski's name… Continue

Added by Shannon Clute on March 27, 2007 at 10:36am — 1 Comment

Greetings

Glad to join the Crimespace space.

Quality publishers: Send an email, and I will put you in touch with my agent so that you may read the utterly off-kilter and still-available novel about which author Dexter Petley says: "The most striking thing is your style. Sentences with real elegance and variation...The pure timbre of the writing just lifts the church roof off.…

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Added by Paul A. Toth on March 27, 2007 at 9:27am — No Comments

The longest wait

There's nothing scarier for an author than getting this e-mail from your agent:

"PW is going to review your book Monday, March 26."

It is Friday, March 23, and I know I am in for the longest weekend of my life.

I e-mail back my agent, "Gulp. If it's good, do they tell you in advance?"

He e-mails me, "Good or bad, you wait."

So I wait, telling…

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Added by ElaineViets on March 27, 2007 at 8:51am — 3 Comments

Introducing my book character Lindsay Frost

So this is my blog site, huh? Pretty nice. Well here

goes. I"m homicide detective, Lindsay Frost. Did I hear you

say big deal? Well it is when you consider I'm dead. God

stepped out for a beer on the night I needed him most. That was

the night I was murdered. I've told my story to a dear friend of

mine, author, Scarlett Dean. She was nice enough to get it all

down without prejudice, and what do you know? The damn thing sold

to 5 Star Publishing! If… Continue

Added by Scarlett Dean on March 27, 2007 at 8:51am — 3 Comments

Stop Thief! (And a few other things)

Mouse steals mans dentures. After being captured three times and escaping a mouse stole his captor's dentures, which were later recovered from inside a wall in the man's home.

That comes from the strange but true file.

This comes from the shocking file. A Texas man dismembered his former…

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Added by Sandra Ruttan on March 27, 2007 at 7:01am — No Comments