June 2009 Blog Posts (187)

Michael Palin mistakes the Palestinians for Buddhists

Last week at the Palestine Literature Festival, Michael Palin produced some of his funniest material since his Monty Python heyday. However, he probably didn’t intend it to be funny.



Palin told an audience that was rather lacking in actual Palestinians – mainly locally based international aid workers, diplomats and heaven knows who else – that he had seen how Israeli checkpoints worked. He thought it’d be a good idea to “always look on the bright side of life” and see the checkpoints… Continue

Added by Matt Rees on June 5, 2009 at 1:04am — No Comments

Obama's speech: the view from Jerusalem

President Barack Obama spelled out what he expects of the Israeli government in his Cairo speech, issuing a challenge that most commentators here believe Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has no way of meeting [I wrote on Global Post today].



Obama’s speech, carried live on all three main Israeli television stations, made clear his firm opposition to any sort of building in Israel’s West Bank settlements. “This construction violates previous agreements and undermines efforts to… Continue

Added by Matt Rees on June 5, 2009 at 12:42am — 3 Comments

Michael Connelly Themed Sony eReader

Have you seen this? Sony has created a Connelly-themed eReader that comes with 3 free books of his, plus excerpts of new novels NINE DRAGOS and THE SCARECROW.

Check it out: http://ebookstore.sony.com/michael-connelly/

Also, Jane Davis is hosting a giveaway of one reader on MichaelConnelly.com: http://michaelconnelly.com/Sony/sony.html

Added by Miriam Parker on June 4, 2009 at 11:41pm — No Comments

Blog Tour and Live Event!

The Russian Roulette blog tour continues today at Slendah's Author Interviews .



And in just 2 days I'll know whether or not my efforts to create local buzz about Russian Roulette have had any effect. Saturday's book release party could be a spectacular success or an abysmal failure. It's doubly important because the party will be an indictor of how well I can expect to do at the first bookstore event, at the Borders Superstore in Waldorf… Continue

Added by Austin S. Camacho on June 4, 2009 at 10:48pm — No Comments

My Voice, Your Voice, His Voice, Her Voice

We hear a lot about voice in writing, and it's one of those hard-to-define things that make a book readable or not. There are some rules, like not switching voice in the middle of a paragraph and such, but the talent for creating voice goes far beyond that. At its best, a character's voice grabs the reader from the first page of a book, making him want to hear that character's story. And nobody can teach you how that happens.



I've been pulled into stories that I never thought I… Continue

Added by Peg Herring on June 4, 2009 at 10:21pm — 7 Comments

More blog touring

The Russian Roulette blog tour continues on Sia McKye’s Thoughts…Over Coffee about my emotional preparation for the book release.

Added by Austin S. Camacho on June 3, 2009 at 10:29pm — No Comments

Enjoying the Failures of Others

Well not really. I mean we're nice people, right? We wouldn't actually enjoy hearing someone else's woes.



But it helps. I just read an interview with a multi-published writer (over 100 books) who admitted to a lot of failures over the years: wrong book, wrong time, wrong publisher, etc. She made the point that it isn't always the author who fails, and we have to remember that or we'd all throw the monitor out the window.



I lunch every once in a while with another writer,… Continue

Added by Peg Herring on June 3, 2009 at 9:52pm — No Comments

You Call That A Book Launch? THIS Is A Book Launch.





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… Continue

Added by Daniel Hatadi on June 3, 2009 at 2:56pm — 1 Comment

Photo Shoot (aka Abandoned in Bow by the London Underground)

New blog post at:

http://mitziszereto.com/blog

Added by Mitzi Szereto on June 3, 2009 at 12:56am — No Comments

The Jedi-writers Strike Back

I was happy to read that JA Konrath's novella, SERIAL, has been the #1-Kindle Bestseller for the past nine days. Read post.

Added by Kathryn Lilley on June 3, 2009 at 12:19am — No Comments

Author interview and book signing

I was interviewed on BlogTalkRadio last night on "Book Bridge: Authors to Readers." It's archived for your listening pleasure at .





My most recent LIVE author event was special, not just for the writers involved but the audience as well. A group of local writers assembled in the Office of Personnel Management building in Washington DC in support of the local chapter of Blacks In Government (BIG). This was their third… Continue

Added by Austin S. Camacho on June 2, 2009 at 10:40pm — No Comments

Giving Up the Baby

I've heard authors much more famous than I am say it: giving a manuscript to someone else to read is like sending your kid off to her first day of school. It feels like everything you've done for years has come to a climax, and you never feel like you've done enough.



A fellow writer told me yesterday that she's got a three book series with one due to the publisher every nine months. I wonder how I would handle that, since I (at least in my own opinion) need more time than that to… Continue

Added by Peg Herring on June 2, 2009 at 9:58pm — 2 Comments

News on Latest Releases

I'm delighted to announce the arrival of my two latest releases, both from Mythica Publishing. First of all is a superb paperback edition of 'The Voice of Anton Bouchard' a collection of my best short stories of the last five years, originally released as an e-book by Stonehedge Publishing, and now available from… Continue

Added by Brian L Porter on June 2, 2009 at 9:30pm — No Comments

Fiddling Up Murder

D. H. Parker fiddles up another great mystery DARK DIAMOND REEL all this week On Wings of Murder at http://murderx5.blogspot.com

Added by Linda Suzane on June 2, 2009 at 10:55am — No Comments

RELICS trailer on YouTube

I posted a 30-second trailer for my medieval thriller/romance RELICS on YouTube today. You can see it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dv2HmgPjwLQ

Added by John Desjarlais on June 2, 2009 at 10:50am — No Comments

Live interview tonight!

I will be the guest on my own BlogTalkRadio show - Book Bridge: From Authors to Readers - TONIGHT! Tune in to hear me live at 8:30pm Eastern time - http://www.geocities.com/ewenprime/cospbb.html

Added by Austin S. Camacho on June 2, 2009 at 10:07am — No Comments

Switch called a frantic, adrenaline blast of a thriller

I was thrilled to note that Robin Jarossi of Suite101.com gives Switch a glowing review this week. He writes: "Switch is a frantic, adrenaline blast of a thriller. Without doubt, a pulsating debut that will grab many thriller-lovers by the lapels and refuse to let them go." You can read the full review at: http://thriller-fiction.suite101.com/article.cfm/switch_by_grant_mckenzie (Warning: There are a couple of plot spoilers.)

Switch gets its official UK debut on July 2, followed by its… Continue

Added by Grant McKenzie on June 2, 2009 at 7:53am — No Comments

Blog Touring

The Russian Roulette blog tour kicks off today at Criminal Minds at Work!

Added by Austin S. Camacho on June 1, 2009 at 11:10pm — No Comments

Talking to Myself

The difference it makes is amazing. I've spent the last few days reading the current WIP aloud, and hearing it is better than reading it. Not better as in "This is so good." Better as in, "That sounds fake," or "This whole passage doesn't fit in this spot." So it actually makes more work, but it's productive work. I can deal.



Years ago, when I first started writing for public consumption, it was plays. I wrote for my students' dramatic productions because we couldn't find enough… Continue

Added by Peg Herring on June 1, 2009 at 9:16pm — 2 Comments

Everything's better in Paris



It’s great to hear good news. It’s even better to hear it when you’ve just arrived in Paris. Everything sounds better when you hear it in Paris.



Last week I had a few days in the French capital courtesy of my publisher Albin Michel, which brought me over for the release of my third Palestinian crime novel “Meurtre chez les Samaritains” (English… Continue

Added by Matt Rees on June 1, 2009 at 9:09pm — No Comments

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