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Simon Wood's Blog
November 20, 2009
- I’m happy to announce the release of my first audio story original. Sniplits.com bought the audio rights to TENTHS OF A SECOND and it’s now available for download—all for the price of an iTunes download. The story can be downloaded to computers, iPods and smart phones etc. TENTHS OF A SECOND is about a struggling young racecar driver who is given the chance to get an edge on the ...
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November 9, 2009
- Workings Stiffs will be going out of print soon now that there are only a few copies left and so I've made the book available as on ebook. As I've done with all my books, I like to write about the story behind the stories and what inspired me to write Working Stiffs--other than a contract). :-) So please enjoy these tales behind the tales. Feel free to share your thoughts on these inspirations ...
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November 4, 2009
- In a town that boosts the largest number of book buying readers in the nation, San Francisco Mystery Bookstore is the city’s own mystery bookstore. Squeezed by townhouses on both sides, the San Francisco Mystery Bookstore has been a Noe Valley feature for over thirty years. Don’t be deceived by the Noe Valley address, the store is located on a typical San Francisco near-vertical street, so ...
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October 29, 2009
- I was seven when I met my other sister. As a child, it wasn’t uncommon for me to wake up during the night craving something to drink. I usually slept with a glass of water or juice on the nightstand next to my bed. On this particular night, I’d drained my glass and found I still hadn’t quenched my thirst. I hopped out of bed and, glass in hand, left the bedroom I shared with my ...
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October 28, 2009
October 22, 2009
- I'm very happy to announce that my second novella, ROAD RASH, is out under my pen name, Simon Janus. It's featured in the 4-story anthology BUTCHER SHOP QUARTET 2.In ROAD RASH, Straley might think he's life is cursed, but it doesn't compare to what lie ahead of him on life's highway. He's on the run with the proceeds of a botched bank robbery. It's all he has. His crew is dead and his getaway car ...
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October 6, 2009
- I get asked a lot about the inspirations for my stories and they usually have interesting origins. For my re-issued collection, DRAGGED INTO DARKNESS, the reasons for these stories vary greatly in meaning. Several pieces were born out of curiosity, while others have dark personal meanings and don't deviate too far from the truth. A number have a fun, almost whimsical origin which I applied a dark ...
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September 29, 2009
- Take a look at this New York Times article below. Wall Street is basically doing what I wrote about in Accidents Waiting to Happen a few year back. I hope I didn't give anyone any ideas.Wall Street Pursues Profit in Bundles of Life Insurance
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September 26, 2009
- My wife said we should go to Hotel Mac for dinner. Now, I've heard of Hotel Mac, but I couldn't tell you what the place looks like, even though I've been there and eaten there."Have we really eaten there before?" I asked."Yes. You said you liked it.""I did?"She sighed and said, "Not again."Here’s the problem—I have holes in my memory. Not ...
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September 23, 2009
- For every seventeen-year-old male in the UK, the number one purchase is a car. It’s a rite of passage--the first step towards adulthood and independence.I was in engineering college when I turned seventeen. My birthday occurred late in the school year and several of my friends had already turned seventeen, passed their test and gotten cars--albeit jalopies for a couple of hundred quid.John ...
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September 22, 2009
- Certain people, events and occurrences stick with me and no matter what I do, I can’t forget about them. The death of three men in Bristol, England is something I’ve never forgotten. They died a few months apart some time in the late eighties. They weren't murdered and it wasn’t accidental. All three committed suicide. What drew my attention to these men was the circumstances of their ...
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September 21, 2009
- “How could I kidnap a child and get away with it?” This was probably the wrong question to ask an FBI agent right out of the gate. The agent’s expression turned grim and his answer was clipped and a tad aggressive. “You couldn’t. We'd catch you."“Yeah, but,” I said before he interrupted me. “No buts. We’d catch you. When a kid gets snatched, we drop everything. It becomes ...
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September 18, 2009
- A fascination for the odd and the obscure drives my writing. I’m always on the lookout for strange but real occurrences that would make for a really interesting story. When I discovered the unusual business world of viatical settlements, lightning struck and I knew I had a novel.So what are viatical settlements and what makes them so special? In a sense, they’re a reverse insurance ...
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September 11, 2009
- I live with a cold blooded killer. I haven’t turned him into the cops because he’s my cat, Tegan. He’s on a roll at the moment. It’s summer and that means young and inexperienced creatures are poking their heads from their protective homes and Tegan is there to bite them off. I spent last week picking up the chewed remains of mice, rats, birds and a lizard. As soon as I’d ...
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September 2, 2009
- On occasion, conversations will start like this in our house. "Julie, will this kill me?""No, that's a daddy longlegs.""What about this?""That's a twig, Simon."The problem is that there aren't any dangerous animals in England. Obviously, there's the fabled beast of Bodmin Moor, which hasn't been bestial in twenty years or so. There are adders but I've never ...
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