I had a professor at the U of M(ichigan...she hangs her head after Saturday's humiliation) who was always on about deferred gratification and how Americans had lost any grasp of it in modern times. It's hard to argue the point after seeing the newly touted sports channel that lets you "see every touchdown in every game" on a Sunday afternoon. Jump from game to game, just watching the highlights? How long would it take to be totally lost as to which team you were watching? And what's the…
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Added by Peg Herring on October 5, 2009 at 9:21pm —
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My church friend has started a medical, Heart surgery mistake mystery. It's early but with all the Medical insurance discussions on the news, I think she's going to have a great storyline. There is a… Continue
Added by LeeW. on October 5, 2009 at 3:10pm —
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I was deeply honoured by this
review of Gold And Fishes, by Madhouse Family Reviews. Just wanted to share it with you all.
Best in writing,
Donna
Added by Donna Carrick on October 5, 2009 at 1:49pm —
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I have a new blog spot dedicated to serializing the first book of my fantasy. The book's entitled, Roland of the High Crags: Evil Arises. Starting on the 15th of this month I'm adding the first installment of the book. Every month afterward comes another installment.
You can go check it out now. I wrote a short intro. for it and posted it. Find it at www.rolandofthehighcrags-evilarises.blogspot.com
Added by B.R.Stateham on October 5, 2009 at 11:00am —
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How in the world did he expect her to sleep with him lying next to her all night? She already felt the heat from their close proximity, reaching up to undo some of the top buttons of her shirt. She fluffed the material against her hot skin, thanking God for the cool air of the fan overhead.
In the end it wasn't enough. As Brent settled into an exhausted sleep, Sophie lay there burning up, listening to his soft snores and undoing yet another button, and another. She tried to inch away…
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Added by Tory Richards on October 5, 2009 at 10:44am —
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Royalty statement came in for one of my books--the police-procedural series I'm writing. Oddly enough, I get the strongest impression I'm being screwed. When the book came out it was within three months of the first royalty reporting months. It sold X number of books. This second royalty statement comes almost a year to the publishing date later. A year's worth of advertising, book signings, internet ads, discussions, blogging---a year's worth of getting several very good reviews from fans and…
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Added by B.R.Stateham on October 5, 2009 at 2:30am —
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Tyrus Books, 2009
ISBN 13: 978-0-9825209-2-5
Trade Paper, 204 pages
$14.95, U. S. / $16.50, Canada
Reviewed by Larry W. Chavis
Remington James has a lucrative job in advertising, a wife he loves but from whom he is drifting, and an emptiness of soul he can not fill. When his father dies, Remington returns to his northwest Florida hometown to carry on his father's business and see to the needs of his invalid mother.…
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Added by Larry W. Chavis on October 5, 2009 at 2:30am —
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It's four am
I'm writin again,
Lookin at the next chapter
do I add laffter?
It's a crime fiction
need good diction,
Want to make it intriguing
my spellin a frigging,
Develope the plot
make it hot,
Maybe a twist
need be on my list,
This is the crossroad
where I decide the load,
It must keep your attention
save me from detention,
They say the way you…
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Added by RONALD FEASEL on October 4, 2009 at 8:30pm —
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If you're waiting anxiously like a stray dog at a county fair trash can for a response on a full submission, try going on a honeymoon. As in,
your honeymoon. My holiday from e-mail and the rest of reality yielded the one message I'd been anticipating for four months, from an agent who had requested a full.
(If on the off-chance someone thought the government finally hauled me off, my nuptial is why I haven't been very active in CrimeSpace of late.)
Alas, the high…
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Added by Benjamin Sobieck on October 4, 2009 at 12:00pm —
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I was delighted to be asked to the Mayor of Havant’s reception and the grand opening of the newly refurbished arts and heritage centre in Havant, Hampshire, called The Spring, on 2 October.
The mayor of Havant, Jackie Branson, was entertaining all the mayors from around Hampshire and the Isle of Wight – twenty two of them I believe. It is a tradition that each mayor takes it in turn annually to host an event and to give a small gift to…
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Added by Pauline Rowson on October 4, 2009 at 12:58am —
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Hey Everybody,
My new story Chickens is up at
Thuglit...hope you enjoy
...also check out new stuff by Jimmy Callaway and Mike MacLean
Added by Matthew Quinn Martin on October 3, 2009 at 11:30pm —
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Reminder: today’s writer seminar is “Pushing the Electronic Envelope Even Farther: Using Cyberspace to Advance Your Career” at 9am in the Bernstein-Offit Building at 1717 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.
Then a book signing at Waldenbooks from 1 pm to 5 pm at 10101 Brook Rd, Glen Allen VA.
TOMORROW it’s north to Annapolis to meet some new friends in a Borders Bookstore I haven’t visited before. I’ll sign my novels in that store from 2 pm to 6 pm. If that’s near…
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Added by Austin S. Camacho on October 3, 2009 at 9:15pm —
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That’s right, a brand spankin’ new
Thug Lit is up, featuring “Little Gun” by yours truly. Wait, there’s more! Call now and we’ll include cool neo-noir by CrimeSpace regulars Jimmy Callaway and Matthew Quinn Martin… at no extra cost!
Oh yeah, and there’s a new little Thug in the world.
Thug Lit editor Lady Detroit announced the birth of a bouncing baby… Well, she didn't fess up to whether the little one is a boy or…
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Added by Mike MacLean on October 3, 2009 at 9:40am —
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I get some of my plot ideas from Japanese history and literature. In this case, one of the old chronicles supplied a tale that ended up as a short story.
The TALES OF THE HEIKE is a prose epic that commemorates the bloody battles between Taira Kiyomori and Minamoto Yoritomo which ended the imperial rule and brought in feudal Japan under the rule of a shogun and warlords. The epic contains a number of memorable anecdotal stories, among them that of the murder of the beautiful Lady…
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Added by I. J. Parker on October 3, 2009 at 4:00am —
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by Earl Merkel
October 2, 2009, 7:50 am
There's a myth --started, I suspect, by writers-- that all writers write "not because we
want to, but because we
have to." The compulsion to write is, we tell people, an "artist sort of thing."
Uh-huh.
Ri-i-i-ght.
Yeah-- that explains why so many of us stare at the morning's blank computer screen, motionless hands poised over the keyboard, until our eyeballs bleed.
And then we do…
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Added by Earl Merkel on October 3, 2009 at 2:30am —
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The whole point of travel is to see Red Light districts around the world. That’s what I assume
my German publisher C.H. Beck thinks. Or maybe that's what they think I'll like. Anyway, they keep sending me to Hamburg, which has one of the most famous naughty neighborhoods in the world.
At the invitation of the extremely professional
Harbour Front… Continue
Added by Matt Rees on October 3, 2009 at 1:08am —
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There was certainly a welcome in the hillside and on the banks of the River Tyne for me in the north of England this week during my mini book tour, which kicked off at Newcastle City Library and ended at The Richmond Walking and Book Festival. I met some fantastic people who made me very welcome and very kindly bought tons of my books. Thank you.
The new city library at Newcastle is most impressive and a million miles away from the libraries of…
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Added by Pauline Rowson on October 2, 2009 at 11:51pm —
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Once upon a time I worked in a bakery...for about three days. It was kind of fun, kind of funny. One task taught to me by a kind but verbally challenged worker was the process of what she called "emerging" the doughnuts. It involved a screen that pressed them under the hot oil, and they did eventually "emerge" from it completely cooked.
I do my best writing when immersed in the story, but sometimes it takes a lot to get there: a lot of time, a lot of silence, a lot of freeing my mind…
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Added by Peg Herring on October 2, 2009 at 11:05pm —
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I added a photo of my wife with her latest steed. She'doing quite well in competition. Anyone here interested in horses drop me a line . I'm considering a crime fiction in the horse area/
Added by RONALD FEASEL on October 2, 2009 at 9:30pm —
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I cover DC, MD and VA this weekend. Saturday morning I take part in a program presented by the Johns Hopkins University Masters of Arts in Writing Program and the American Independent Writers. The one day writer’s seminar, called “Pushing the Electronic Envelope Even Farther: Using Cyberspace to Advance Your Career,” will help writers take their personal brand to the next level. Our focus will be on online identity for writers of all types. In four sessions attendees will learn about social…
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Added by Austin S. Camacho on October 2, 2009 at 9:14pm —
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