Novels
November 5, 2009
- I don't have a lot of time, but this week's suggsted topic is near and dear to my heart. I have spent long hours of my life in independent bookstores, browsing shelves, piling and unpiling musty old volumes in search of treasure. That was how I learned to love books - how I cam to collect them. The bookstore is a magic place...I wrote a story about that once.Now they serve a purpose that ...
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November 5, 2009
- At some point early on in the marketing of Shimmer, someone at Unbridled, the publisher, asked me to write up a quick blurb about where I like to eat in Memphis. It seemed like a simple request, I'm sure. My response: You of course have no idea how deeply you've stepped into one of the strangest of my habits. I am a person with many particular habits, rituals in a way, each day structured around ...
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November 4, 2009
- http://shootingstarsmag.blogspot.com/2009/11/guest-post-from-author-of-jesses-girl.html Tuesday, November 3, 2009Guest Post from the author of Jesse's Girl THE BLANK PAGE – AND OTHER HORRORSBy Gary Morgenstein/Jesse’s GirlThere is nothing more terrifying to a writer than facing the blank page. Yet every day, a writer confronts the Herculean task of translating ethereal thoughts and vague ...
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November 2, 2009
- Doing a road trip for 5 days along the CA coast -- Big Sur, Carmel, Monterey, Santa Cruz, Half Moon Bay -- great inspiration for the next book and tons of new characters. Sometimes I have to get out of L. A. to see where I am and where I'm going. On the road again -- sing it Willie.
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November 2, 2009
- Trying to get published can be an extraordinarily frustrating experience. The key is to not get discouraged. Too often writers get a few rejection slips and give up. That is not the way to get published! You have to keep at it. Send out those lit mag submissions. Send out your latest poem. Send your book proposal to yet another agent or publisher. In my latest book, the most cogent advice offered ...
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October 30, 2009
- Just a quick note to say that, much to my astonishment, The Bones of Summer is a Jury's Choice finalist in the Mystery/Thriller section of the new GLBT fiction Rainbow awards and you can see me on the list here.Well, gosh, eh! That's certainly put a smile on this screwed-up, mood-swing obsessed author's face ...I've also managed to complete my latest GLBT short story, Airheads and Angels, and ...
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October 28, 2009
- A novelists, we struggle to put the truth on the page. We hope to tunnel so deeply into our characters' lives that what is on the page feels absolutely and complete real-so real that we fully expect the characters to walk past us. But we novelists also deal with some people thinking that what we have written is really about us personally, about our lives, that even though it is fiction, it is ...
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October 26, 2009
- I've had a lovely review for Too Many Magpies on Goodreads by a member called 'Bookscout'. It's a long review which ends like this: It's a gripping tale that is not without its surprises. Leaving the reader with a satisfied ending.Baines achieves all of this with the most enigmatic prose; at times haunting, always poetic. She speaks of the modern woman’s paranoia like whispers through ...
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October 24, 2009
- Here's the latest in our ongoing examination of "what the heck is the future of the novel?" -series... --Earl Merkel ----- "Digi-novel" combines book, movie and website NEW YORK (Reuters) - Is it a book? Is it a movie? Is it a website? Actually it's all three. Anthony Zuiker, creator of the "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" U.S. television series, is releasing ...
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October 22, 2009
- I do not understand people who don't read. I have a cousin who is in her mid-thirties and brags about how much she hates to read as if it is a good thing. She hates it so much, in fact, it's written on her Facebook profile. I'm not that close with her, but I can't help but wonder what kind of effect this may have on her son, who is seven. I wonder if he does well in school, and if has an ...
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