September 2007 Blog Posts (253)

Advice for Writers Makes You Crazy

For five years now I've been reading advice from publishers, editors, agents, and fellow writers about how to succeed in the business of selling a book. I have had some success, but I also feel at times like I'm buried in advice.

Don't start with a prologue! You must have a hook! Format exactly as the industry demands! Number your pages on the right! No, number on the left, next to the slug! Make the first line block style! Indent EVERY paragraph! Ban widow/orphan control! Make your…

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Added by Peg Herring on September 4, 2007 at 9:59pm — No Comments

Bob Dylan & Me

Just got back from Telluride. And have I got a tip.

Look for festivals to sell books. Look for people milling around. Look

for a nearby bookstore to sponsor your sales. I stood outside Between

The Covers in Telluride on Saturday selling copies of "Antler

Dust." Okay, I sold 26 copies in just a little over two hours.

They were flying. But people were in the mood to buy, devour, explore.

I believe festivals must make people well, carefree. They certainly

seemed… Continue

Added by Mark Stevens on September 4, 2007 at 12:13pm — No Comments

MWF - First Authors

We saw a few events / panels with new authors this year - so some random mumblings on the matter at:

http://www.austcrimefiction.org/node/2456


Added by Karen from AustCrime on September 4, 2007 at 10:55am — No Comments

Hot Water

I don’t know about other writers, but I get most of my really good ideas in the shower. There’s something about standing dead-center in a stream of hot water that dissolves blocks, brings characters to life, turns mental pictures into streams of words,

and generally makes me feel as though there’s literally nothing I can’t

write. Improve the opening of Dickens’ “Bleak House”? No problem.…

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Added by Timothy Hallinan on September 4, 2007 at 9:36am — No Comments

Road Kill





Zoё Sharp revs up the tension in Road Kill, a Charlie Fox thriller. Road Kill serves as a transition piece. Charlie needed downtime after her job in Florida, an experience related in First Drop. She needed time to regroup and make decisions about her feelings for her boss and lover, Sean Meyer, and her current job as a bodyguard,… Continue

Added by Lesa Holstine on September 4, 2007 at 7:59am — No Comments

Another New Amazon Shorts Tale, "No Going Back!"

Hello:

I'd like to announce my second mystery story to go live in the Amazon Shorts program.

It is entitled, "No Going Back," and is the tale of a journalist who makes a fateful decision in dealing with a traumatic event.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000VJAYIS/ref=dp_bib_1/105-2981074-7253258

Hope my fans will take a…

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Added by R. Barri Flowers on September 4, 2007 at 7:57am — No Comments

Interview of Margot Justes

Interview with Margot Justes



September 3, 2007





What's the title of your book and what's it about?…



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Added by Silvia Foti on September 4, 2007 at 6:09am — No Comments

Rest In Peet's

Posted by Sheila Connolly

Alfred_peet Alfred Peet died this week. To most of the world that means nothing, but Alfred has been a daily part of my life for close to thirty years. Alfred Peet founded Peet's Coffee.

I first encountered Peet's coffee when I moved to the Berkeley area in the late 1970s. I found a dead-end job at the University of…

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Added by Writers Plot on September 4, 2007 at 5:53am — No Comments

One Year Today...

I've left it till now, but today has been one year since my father passed away, aged 83.

I was there by his hospital bedside, as he ebbed away, peacefully in his sleep. His health had been deteriorating for the last 2 years, and it was only after we managed to get him hospitalised, that we discovered that apart from the diabetes, that we aleady knew of, we found out he also had pancreatic cancer.

Between myself and my brothers, we thought that his weight…

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Added by Roger Newbury on September 4, 2007 at 4:37am — No Comments

What We Call Things Makes No Sense

It's bad enough that I still say that I roll down the car window and dial a phone number. We old folks still talk about records and tapes even though we have nothing in our music cabinets but CDs. It's acceptable to say something in writing and type on a computer. We park our cars in the driveway and drive them on the parkway.

If you think about it too much, words can make you crazy. I guess the thought came to me because it's…

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Added by Peg Herring on September 4, 2007 at 1:28am — No Comments

Sept 1, 2007 Book Launch

Yesterday was the Official Book Launch for the recently released Douglas Quinn novel titled "Blue Heron Marsh". My husband and I were among the Invitations Only list of people that attended. The party was held at the Author's home in Weeksville, NC. , so it was a good thing Jerry was with me to help read the road directions, so I didn't get list.



Weeksville isn't too far from our home in Hertford, NC., but there's so many side roads… Continue

Added by Kim Howell on September 3, 2007 at 2:21pm — No Comments

The voting page is up!

This is your chance to win a copy of crime mystery SILENCED CRY. The voting page for AUGUST Book Cover of the Month is up and the cover of SILENCED CRY is awaiting your vote.…

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Added by Marta Stephens on September 3, 2007 at 1:01pm — No Comments

An interview with Silvia Foti

Silvia Foti is the author of The Diva's Fool. It is a delighful mixture of suspense, opera, Tarot cards and it is set in our own Chicago Lyric Opera House.



Tell me a bit about yourself?



I've been a journalist for twenty years, writing for trade magazines, Chicago newspapers, consumer magazines, websites. I've recently reincarnated to be a high school English teacher, a lifelong dream.



Your current book deals with Opera and Tarot cards, that is an unusual combination.… Continue

Added by Margot Justes on September 3, 2007 at 10:04am — No Comments

Heroes Often Fail Coming Soon!

My next novel, Heroes Often Fail, is due out September 28th!

Here's the cover:

Added by Frank Zafiro on September 3, 2007 at 6:06am — No Comments

August Reads

DECLAN BURKE - THE BIG O



Protagonist: An ensemble cast

Series?: Standalone

Published: 2007

Setting: Ireland

Karen is a receptionist with bad PMT. She's also a stick-up artist with a .44 Magnum. Karen's boss is Frank - a slimy and distinctly rubbish plastic surgeon with money worries, two grasping daughters, a soon-to-be-ex-wife, Madge, and a dodgy lawyer who suggests that all Frank's worries can be solved by having Madge snatched. Enter Karen's new boyfriend, Ray,… Continue

Added by Donna Moore on September 3, 2007 at 5:23am — No Comments

Astonishing Adventures Magazine is finally here (as well as my publishing debut)!



I have seen the future and it is a fine revival of the past, Astonishing Adventures Magazine is finally here. Katherine Tomlinson, Tim Gallagher and John Don Carlucci have…

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Added by Cormac Brown on September 3, 2007 at 4:54am — No Comments

Waxing sentimental...

The month of September has me waxing sentimental. First, hard as it is to believe, my wonderful (Yes, the best guy in the world!) husband and I are celebrating our 29th wedding anniversary. My, time flies when you're having fun.

September, 2007, is also the month in which I'll attend my high school reunion. And it's not my tenth or twenty-fifth. Nope. I won't say which one, but my! Time flies when you're having fun.

There are a number…

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Added by Cheryl Norman on September 3, 2007 at 1:00am — No Comments

HEREAFTER still haunts me...

So I'm into my conversion of EL REY from script to novel form, hoping to iron out the kinks in the story whilst doing so, and my imagination stalls on me, taking me back in time to the not-so-salad-days of HEREAFTER, a story I wrote when I was feeling pretty low and overdosing on Dashiell Hammett/Clive Barker. I'm chalking this moment up to just being another angle of attack from the demon known as Procrastination (kind of like blogging), but I couldn't help getting lost in that story again…

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Added by Nick Lawless on September 3, 2007 at 12:38am — No Comments

MWF Final Day

Well Melbourne Writers Festival has ended
again for another year and there's something very very sad about that -
even though my feet hurt and my head is stuffed with cotton wool from
the cold I caught... another great year which we'll slowly report on in
more detail over the next few days. In the meantime - a final summary:

Added by Karen from AustCrime on September 2, 2007 at 7:00pm — No Comments

M.I.C.E.

The introduction of The Ultimate Spy Book has a section titled "Who Spies?". It divides the motive of spies into 4 categories, encompassed by the acronym M.I.C.E.: Money, Ideology, Compromise, Ego.

Money is pretty straight forward. Financial gain or financial troubles are strong motives for just about anybody.

Ideology is the beliefs a spy has in the country they spy for. The book mentions people who believed in communism and spied for the USSR. On the other hand I…

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Added by Frank on September 2, 2007 at 4:12pm — No Comments

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