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Saturday, May 21, 2005
TEN BOOKS I'VE LOVED
Pat, at Brainster, has posted his TEN FAVORITE BOOKS and has asked what ours are. Books, more than movies and television shows, hold a certain snob appeal, so I was reluctant at first to answer the question. In fact, my reply was, Hmmmmmmm? Have I even read ten books?, which, of course, I have. I guess my reluctance comes from DogMan whose IQ can't even be found in this stratosphere, who used to read Dante's Inferno FOR FUN! while I read a murder mystery, my favorite kind of book. Just for fun, though, I opened my cupboard and pulled out some of the non-mystery books that I've read and enjoyed over the years. In no special order:
1) Anya by Susan Fromberg Schaeffer: The story of a non-practicing Jewish college-aged woman in 1939 Poland, told so vividly that I was convinced it was an autobiography. One of the first books I read twice. I like to read "struggle books," stories about how people have overcome great odds.
2) A Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich by Solzhenitsyn: Definitely another struggle book.
3) Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt: One of the saddest struggle books I started and finished and still loved. In fact, it spawned two of my own stories: here and here.
4) Sweet Thursday by Steinbeck: Before DogMan there was a certain someone who was older, who always carried a paperback in his hip pocket. I was very young and very impetuous and wanted desperately to impress Certain Someone, so I read whatever he was reading at the time. Sweet Thursday was the first Steinbeck book I had read. I also read Cannery Row, Tortilla Flat, and The Winter Of Our Discontent. I tried to read The Short Reign Of Pippin IV, but couldn't get into it even though Certain Someone thought it was Steinbeck's funniest book. Sweet Thursday remains my favorite for several reasons, the least of which is because it is that good.
5) The Invisible Heart: An Economic Romance by Russell Roberts: One of the best and most entertaining primers on economincs I've ever read. HIGHLY recommended!
6) A Slipping Down Life by Anne Tyler: It's the only Tyler book I've ever read. I was 22 and had no television, so I frequented the Public Library a lot. I've read this book three times. A semi-struggle book.
7) When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr: Another struggle book from a young girl's perspective. Set in Europe during Hitler's rise to power. I bought it for Nurse G, who loved it, and read it twice myself.
8) Heartburn by Nora Ephron: Nora Ephron is my writing idol; I envy her easy style. I read the first page and became hooked. I also had the sense to read it before I saw the movie, which I also loved.
9) The Godfather by Puzo: Another book I read before I saw the movie, which, for 1972, was smart as the Mafia was still something of a mystery to most people. I dragged DogMan to see it. Since I had read the book, I knew the "history" of the story. While I'm certain many there were lost at times, I kept whispering the pertinent info to DogMan. The theater was packed. During the film when Sonny beats the crap out of his brother-in-law Carlo using a garbage can cover, I began to laugh. A woman behind me became absolutely incensed at my laughter. A couple of days later, some anal old biddy wrote this snotty letter to the editor of our paper denouncing a young woman who laughed, LAUGHED! during a violent scene. I'm still laughing. I also recall that the Italian-American League was up in arms over this movie when it premiered.
10) All of the Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich: Just good raucous fun about a female bounty hunter, her hefty spandexed sidekick, her shoot 'em up granny, and her two lovers. For those of you who are familiar with the books, I'm very partial to Ranger :)
Okay, there's my list. How about yours?
Rachel, at TinkertyTonk, has posted hers here.
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STUFF YOU’RE JUST DYING TO KNOW
  | These are my celebrity lovers. (I'm blessed:) (Pat got Kathy Bates.) |
 | BEAUTY SINS. Okay, so sweet little MiMi is an exageration, but you don't want to end up with "spider lashes," do you? |
 | She's written her book; now comes the hard part. |
 | OMG! If there's no one home [Goldie] finds a neighbor to let her in; once ... she sneaked in through a front window the owner had left unlocked, and then wandered around. h/t TinkertyTonk |
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Friday, May 20, 2005
FOR THE HIGHBROW NEWS
Check out my posts at LifelikePundits:
1) Dean is still on the loose,
2) Saddam is in time out,
3) and the Dems are beginning to catch on that they're LOSERS :)
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NOW FOR SOME REAL NEWS
 | APPRENTICE NEWS: What's-her-face won last night, but the big news is that next fall's class of Trump wannabes on "The Apprentice" were personally selected by Trump ... because he was not "thrilled" with the latest crop of contestants who competed on the show. |
 | DEADWOOD FINALE NEWS: [T]wo residents hook up, Ian McShane's Swearengen makes his deal; Jane takes a bath and puts on a dress; the doc saves the whale; Wolcott finds God; Tolliver doesn't; Wu don't take no crap from nobody; Trixie and Star don't exactly get together and we find out why; Martha and Seth don't exactly split up and we find out why; Hearst shows up to make separate deals with Franum and Swearengen; Chinaman Alley becomes hell on earth; and Seth still has the best walk in the West. |
 | Close Encounters Of A Michael Silverblatt Kind: So I thought to myself, Whointhehell isSilverblatt? I found out and I haven't stopped laughing! Reminds me of the time I stood in line & muttered some juicy profanities about slow-moving bluehairs only to have one tap me on the shoulder. But this is SOOO much better |
 | Jennifer Lopez is classy and gorgeous: Jennifer Lopez shocked fans ... when she wore a T-shirt bearing the words "Fuck It!" J.Lo's charming contempt for the parents who paid for their 12 year old girls to make up the audience at Wango Tango is obviously delightful, but it doesnt quite explain the rest of this outfit. Or why shes sweatin like an Alabama mule. |
 | Ignorant Bush-Hater: "Jersey Girl" Kristin Breitweiser, the professional widow that took it upon herself to claim to speak for all the "9/11 families" during the 9/11 Commission hearings. She's built a cottage industry passing herself off as someone knowledgeable regarding national security and keeping us safe. In reality she's an ignorant, Bush-hating, media-whore. |
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HISSY FITS
Judy Nir Moses-Shalom and What's-her-name
LAURA LANDS IN CATFIGHT
JERUSALEM — The latest soap opera in Israeli politics — a kind of "Desperate Diplomatic Housewives" — will take a new twist Sunday when Laura Bush arrives during a leg of her Mideast trip.
The issue: Will the first lady be greeted at Ben Gurion Airport by the wife of Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom?
That's , who, as everyone in Israel now knows, is still upset about being denied a photo op with Madonna.
Judy Nir Moses-Shalom and What's-her-name
LAURA LANDS IN CATFIGHT
JERUSALEM — The latest soap opera in Israeli politics — a kind of "Desperate Diplomatic Housewives" — will take a new twist Sunday when Laura Bush arrives during a leg of her Mideast trip.
The issue: Will the first lady be greeted at Ben Gurion Airport by the wife of Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom?
That's , who, as everyone in Israel now knows, is still upset about being denied a photo op with Madonna.
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ON A SAD NOTE
 | Pam won't be blogging for a few days due to the unexpected death of her brother-in-law. Please drop by BlogMeisterUSA and leave your condolences. |
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Thursday, May 19, 2005
ISN'T IT MABELLINE?
You'll be relieved to know that I can't afford to conform to the ever-shifting beauty standard du jour. I'm a natural brunette whose smile is an almost-dazzling white and a tad off-kilter. I refuse to cover my freckles, and my apple cheeks are the result of brief encounters with Old Sol. No Mabelline for me. Not all women, however, are as lucky as I to have been blessed with privation. Actresses are doubly damned with fame and fortune, and Rachel, at TinkertyTonk, wonders WHY DO THEY ALL LOOK THE SAME? It's a fascinating, somewhat sad, pictorial. No wonder we have AwfulPlasticSurgery and GoodPlasticSurgery and $600-BriteSmiles.
I am reminded me of the rigors Judy Garland endured -- the diet pills to lose weight and the sleeping pills to fall asleep -- in order to please the studios. I'm certain she was like anybody else, a person who just wanted to be accepted the way she was, which makes this poem she wrote all the more poignant.
The First Cigarette
I was a woman
Glamorous, sparkling,
With eyes that shone, guarding secrets untold,
Lips that were petulant, pouting and bold
With a body moulded to gentlemen's delight
And pedicured toe-nails shining and bright.
I patronized night clubs,
Danced until three.
And hundreds of men
Were mad about me.
Then, in a panic
My dream began to cool,
I mashed out the cigarette
And was late for school.
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I was a woman
Glamorous, sparkling,
With eyes that shone, guarding secrets untold,
Lips that were petulant, pouting and bold
With a body moulded to gentlemen's delight
And pedicured toe-nails shining and bright.
I patronized night clubs,
Danced until three.
And hundreds of men
Were mad about me.
Then, in a panic
My dream began to cool,
I mashed out the cigarette
And was late for school.
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FORGET THE PEPTO BISMOL & GET ME A BYPASS!
I don't eat fast food or fried foods in general. I like a good piece of meat (she winks slyly), but I don't go to extremes. I'm very careful what and how much I eat, so just reading this caused me such indigestion!
Lileks Thursday bleat:
I stuck around and leaned up against a wall and read the Times Square book . The author has a particular knack for characterization, and I suspect it’s because he’s writing about people who’ve been the subject of many biographies already. Hence he can distill the details down, and let them speak for themselves. But he has an exquisite sense of timing. His passage on Diamond Jim Brady, for example. Everyone loves when Diamond Jim waddles into the story, because we know we’re about to hear tales of trenchermanliness non pareil. Here’s Bianco’s version. Again: this is all timing and pacing.
“Rector’s employed four bartenders, one of whom did little more than squeeze oranges to supply the three or four gallons of juice that Diamond Jim consumed at the start of every pretheater diner. Next, he would eat two or three dozen Lynnhavens, the largest of oysters, and a dozen hard-shell crabs, claws and all. A half dozen lobsters followed. Brady was a seafood specialist but did not mind chasing the lobster with a steak or two. Then came dessert.”
Mmm, that’s good squishy. But he continues:
“’When he pointed at a platter of French pastry he didn’t mean any special piece of pastry,’ Rector recalled. ‘He meant the platter.’ Next he ordered a two-pound box of candy from the restaurant’s ‘candy girl’ and passed it around the table. If any of his guests took a piece, Diamond Jim ordered another box for himself. En route to the theaters nearby, Brady often stopped off to buy another two-pound box of candy, which he usually finished before the curtain went up. ‘It was nothing unusual for him to buy another box between acts,’ Rector added. ‘After the show he would return to Rector’s for a midnight snack.’”
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WILL TOMMY LEE BE THERE?
Down boy! Check out LuckyDawgNews to learn who will be the Grand Marshal of the Nextel All-Star Challenge in Charlotte, N.C.
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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
SPEAKING OF PUBLISHING
Wonder what Rodger Jacobs has been up to lately? He's written a book called "Bogart Sleeps Here."
In “Bogart Sleeps Here”, Trace becomes mired in quicksand after he agrees to broker a sale to the tabloids for David Dulce, a broken-down and aging gay hustler with secrets to spill and skeletons to set free from the closet for the right amount of cash. But brokering for Dulce places Trace in the middle of a feud between eccentric and dangerous pop superstar Rhapsody Williams and Nasser Reid, a venerable Israeli Mafia chieftain whose fallen on times so hard he can’t even afford bullets for his gun. When a small child that Trace encounters ends up dead in a San Pedro oil field, followed shortly by the brutal beating death of Trace’s ex-girlfriend, the police suspect that Trace’s stalker – a deranged fan with Borderline Personality Disorder and a predisposition toward psychosis – might have something to do with it. Or perhaps Trace has finally lost his struggle to maintain his cool sanity in the cold steel jungle of L.A.
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WROTE THE SCRIPT; NOW WHAT?
I haven't written my book's script yet ... I'm working on it ... but I'm interested in what's ahead when I do. I've found an endless number of writer's blogs out there ... some well known and some not-so-well-known ... and most of them eventually touch on the subject of publishing. Some writers have opted to self-publish their books through a POD (publish-on-demand) company, while others warn writers to "do not go there!" POD books have a stigma of being terrible reads, but one blogger, Girl On Demand, discovered that there's gold to be mined in them thar PODs and blogs on them on POD-dyMouth. Her slogan: Wading through the sea of Print-on-Demand titles, one overpriced paperback at a time--and giving you the buried treasure. Lately, she's been running interviews with editors. Here's just a bit of her latest.
Agent & Editor Q&A: Editor One
Girl: If someone POD'd a book but still wants to pitch editors/agents, should he or she simply send the paperback?
Editor One: Get real.
Girl: Bonus question: True or false-"If you have a brilliant manuscript, your book will find a home/get published."
Editor One: Tremendously false, and though many of my peers feel it is a rather recent phenomenon, I believe it was never true. I would estimate that there are thousands of excellent books that have been lost in the ether for a whole host of reasons. What scares me more is the opposite is true: that if you have a bad book, it does not mean you will not get published. This industry is very arbitrary. My own imprint is guilty of this.
Girl: Anything you want to add?
Editor One: My advice is [if you have a good book] get an agent. If you still [have a good book] and cannot get an agent you might want to try printing the book POD at the cheapest level and make a go of it. Distribution is non-existent for POD presses so you will have to do it all yourself. Self-publishing is an ugly road, but you have a better chance of getting noticed on a miracle level than if you put the book in a filing cabinet. And my advice for the backlist folks: start using POD to save your titles now before the list is too big to bring back all at once.
Girl ended her post, NOT HER INTERVIEW!, with this bit of pique:
Thanks Editor One! Your time is greatly appreciated. By the way, Marketing called and that breathtaking novel you've been pushing got the axe. So sorry.
Oh, and since you rejected my manuscript before Penguin Putnam so quickly snapped it up, let me say this: bite me. Of course, it is not the commercial success I'd hoped it to be, but more the midlist title you predicted it would be. So bite me again.
A writer’s life is never a cake walk. Sometimes it’s Unbearable.
And sometimes it’s "pretty desperate":
I've run out of paper now, and what's betting the ink will go when it comes to the Big Print. It's now all on one document, with a couple of chapters left to correct, and then it'll be off to the agent. This is my Big Push now, if this doesn't work then I'm screwed. As soon as it's gone, despite my earlier rants, I'm going to have to try and find some more non-fiction work to tide me over, or stop the flood morelike at this stage. It's pretty desperate.
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Tuesday, May 17, 2005
THE ANGST OF LIVING SINGLE
DogMan claims he met me months before I say we did ... whatever ... but we basically met for the first time on Friday, April 5th, 19_ _, and got married 3 months later to the day on Friday, July 5th. I was barely 18, far too young to A)know what I was doing and B)experience any of the angst Breakup Babe is suffering. I was blissful in my ignorance.
Breakup Babe
[P]erhaps one is starting to really like a certain someone, and yet one - literally having (almost) written the book on relationships gone south - remembers, quite vividly now, how terrifying it is to develop those feelings towards someone because all of a sudden one is not one's own self-sufficient unit anymore. One is not as lonely, but one is not as safe. And that is because one finds oneself wanting to hand one's heart over on a platter, but just as one starts to do that, one recalls how last time, it got sliced up and served it for brunch.
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FOOT LOOSE & FANCY FREE
In case you didn't know, Rik, the American in Italy who is Irish-pub-crawling his way through Europe, has been on his lonesome for too long (IMHO) since his wife and child went I-forget-where. The missus won't be back for a couple of weeks. In the neantime, Rik has been traveling around Europe seeking out all the Irish pubs he can find. Note the lovely ladies he meets along the way. Liquor, ladies, living single. Something to make you go hmmmmmmmm ...
Rik’s Switzerland Recap
Let me start by saying that I absolutely HATE driving through Switzerland. On the other hand, I absolutely LOVE driving through Switzerland. I hate it because every single time I do it there is some kind of problem. There’s always an accident that causes a traffic jam or overzealous police that will nail you for going a few kilometers over the speed limit. And there is always construction. Always. On this trip I got flashed by one of those hidden cameras that go off when you speed by them and send you a ticket in the mail. And at least half of the journey was slowed by construction of some kind. That being said, there are fewer countries offering such a scenic drive filled with mountains and lakes. Driving through Switzerland is like dating a beautiful but high-maintenance woman; she drives you crazy and you swear that she’s not worth the trouble, yet you always come back to her, drawn in by her physical beauty.
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The drive back to Italy was going fine until I practically got ass-raped at the border by the border guards.
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Monday, May 16, 2005
ONE OF MY FAVORITE SHOWS
We loved this show. God, what was HBO thinking? Their only remaining decent show is the Sopranos. After that it's good-bye HBO.
It's official: Carnivale leaves town
HBO officially announced the end has come for its original series Carnivale, leaving fans in the dust after only two of the show's planned six seasons aired.
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All may not be lost if Carnycon has its way, asking fans to send paper telegrams directly to HBO CEO Chris Albrecht, pleading for the show's return.
Chris Albrecht
HBO Entertainment
2500 Broadway, Ste. 400
Santa Monica, CA 90404
Hat tip Crime Fiction Dossier
While we're on the subject, Lee Goldberg has posted the new NBC schedule.
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BOLTIN' BRIDE BRINGS BIG BUCK$
'SAUCY' JEN A RUNAWAY BEST SELLER: ATLANTA
"Jennifer's High Tailin' Hot Sauce," a nod to the saga of runaway bride Jennifer Wilbanks, has sold briskly since its debut Wednesday.
"I'm in the hot sauce business, and this is the hottest thing I've got right now," said "Pappy" David Ryan, who runs Pappy's Peppers in Lawrenceville, Ga. He says he's sold 10 cases of the private-label sauce.
He's not the only one cashing in: Herobuilders.com, a Danbury, Conn.-based manufacturer, has sold out of its first batch of 250 Runaway Bride action figures at $24.95 each.
The foot-tall figures of a dark-haired woman sport jogging pants with a colorful towel similar to the one Wilbanks wore over her head and a midriff-baring jogging shirt that says "Vegas Baby."
Wilbanks items have also flooded eBay since a man auctioned off a slice of toast carved with a drawing of the runaway bride for $15,400. (The winning bidder has refused to pay.)
"It's an unbelievably incredible story," said Emil Vicale, who owns Herobuilders.com. "We had over a million hits in one day."
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PRICELESS KODAK MOMENTS
It's bad enough that alcohol causes brain damage, but booze can age women quickly, too. I don't drink because I don't want a complexion that looks like Tourister luggage. Those are long term problems. Maybe those precious Kodak moments above will cause some women to stay sober. Want to see more? Just do a google/image search for "drunk girls."
Women drinkers more prone to brain damage
ALCOHOL is much more likely to damage women’s brains than men’s, new research published yesterday has warned.
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The new brain scan study has found further evidence that women are especially vulnerable to the harmful effects of excessive drinking.
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"We were able to confirm the telescoping course of alcohol dependence in women, meaning faster progression of the developmental events leading to dependence among female alcoholics and an earlier onset of adverse consequences.
"We confirmed greater brain atrophy in alcoholic women and men compared to healthy controls. Furthermore, the women developed equal brain-volume reductions as the men after a significantly shorter period of alcohol-dependence than the men."
These gender-related effects all occur earlier in women than in men even when they are significantly less exposed to alcohol, added Professor Mann.
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"We know that women metabolise alcohol differently from men and absorb it into their bodies more quickly.”
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A separate research study released yesterday into alcohol and violence in licensed premises, by Dr Alasdair Forsyth of Glasgow Caledonian University, found women who binge drink were just as likely as men to get involved in fights in pubs. His study, which involved researchers visiting eight city- centre pubs in Glasgow, found a "surprising" number of women involved in alcohol-related fighting.
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Sunday, May 15, 2005
I WRITE, THEREFORE I BLOG
Scratch a blogger and you’ll find a writer … literally. I began blogging because I thought it would contribute to my writing. It wasn’t until Pat Hynes, of AnkleBitingPundits and a diehard fan of Diagnosis Murder, directed me to Lee Goldberg’s online conglomerate that I realized how many writers also blog. Not websites, which most authors now have, but actual blogs where readers can communicate with them via comments. Most of these writer/bloggers faithfully check the comments and address them, too. Start with a single blog and you could spend an entire week surfing from there. Check their blog rolls and the comments, too, as other writer/bloggers leave comments. The links you’ll find are endless. This list, in alphabetical order by last name (I am the daughter of a librarian after all), is just a beginning.
1) Writer Rebecca Agiewich leveraged her popularity in the blogosphere to win a contract with Random House/Ballantine. Rebecca Agiewich's memoir, Breaking Up, Blogging On, will be published in 2006 by Random House. Her blog:
Breakup Babe
The self-pitying yet witty rantings of a broken-hearted, boy-crazy, 30-something writer girl on the move (and on the prowl).
Could this picture be the Breakup Babe? I googled her name and came up with this Rebecca Agiewich of Seattle, which is where she lives.
2) The link which began my journey:
Lee Goldberg
Lee Goldberg is a two-time Edgar Award nominee whose many TV writing/producing credits include Martial Law, Diagnosis Murder, Spenser: For Hire, Nero Wolfe, 1-800-Missing and Monk. He’s also the author of My Gun Has Bullets, Beyond the Beyond, Successful Television Writing, The Walk and the Diagnosis Murder series of paperback originals.
3) It runs in the family:
Tod Goldberg
Tod Goldberg is the author of the novels Fake Liar Cheat and Living Dead Girl (a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize) and the short story collection Simplify, which will be released in September, 2005. Tod also writes a weekly column in the Las Vegas Mercury that has twice been awarded a Nevada Press Association Prize. His short fiction has appeared in numerous magazines, journals, and webzines and has received Special Mention for the Pushcart Prize and honorable mention from the Nevada Arts Council. He teaches creative writing at the UCLA Extension Writers' Program and frequently speaks at conferences and seminars.
4) Rochelle Krich’s NEWS, VIEWS and SCHMOOZE ...
Anthony Award-winner Rochelle Krich is the national best-selling author of an award nominated mystery series (Blues in the Night, Dream House, and Grave Endings) featuring Modern Orthodox L.A. based true crime writer/freelance reporter Molly Blume ("A sleuth worth her salt," New York Times Book Review). Rochelle has also penned five stand-alones (one was filmed as "Perfect Alibi"), five novels in the Agatha-nominated Jessie Drake series, and several award-nominated mystery short stories. Her next Molly Blume mystery, Now You See Me, will be published by Ballantine in November, 2005. Grave Endings recently won the Mystery Writers of America Mary Higgins Clark Award and the Left Coast Crime Calavera Award.
5) I know that Pulp Fiction was supposed to have re-invigorated Travolta’s career, but I think it was actually his top notch performance in Leonard’s Get Shorty.
Elmore Leonard's weblog
Informative FAQ with Leonard, beginning with: How do I get an agent?"
6) David Montgomery's Crime Fiction Dossier
Musings on the world of crime fiction, including books, reviews, authors, movies, television and more. Also includes commentary on publishing, reading and viewing.
David J. Montgomery is a Washington, D.C.-based writer and book reviewer. He currently reviews crime fiction for the Chicago Sun-Times and contributes to other publications such as USA Today, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Boston Globe and the Washington Post.
7) M J Rose has 2 blogs:
Buzz, Balls & Hype
Because there are over 175,000 books published a year and they can't all get reviews in the NYTBR. Authored by M.J. Rose
Backstory
Where authors share the secrets, the truths, or just the illogical moments that sparked our fiction.
Who is Coming to Backstory?
Description: In the upcoming months all kinds of wonderful authors have agreed to post their backstories here. Katherine Neville, Lee Child, Tess Gerritesen, Marcia Talley, Gayle Lynds, Laura Lippman, Jacqueline Winspear,Linda Fairstein, Caroline Leavitt, Denise Hamilton, Lev Rafael, Jason Starr,Lisa Tucker, J.A. Konrath, Robert Ferrigno, Doug Clegg, Carol Goodman and more. So be sure to check in often to read about what inspired the authors who you love to read.
8) SANDRA SCOPPETTONE'S WRITING THOUGHTS
I'm a full time writer and have published about 20 novels, 5 for young adults and the rest are crime for adults. I've also published 2 books with Louise Fitzhugh ... the best known is Suzuki Beane. I used to live in New York City but since 1998 I've lived on the North Fork of Long Island. As a published crime writer (about 15 novels) I've decided to post my thoughts on writing and not writing. Notes on what it's like to be a professional writer, the good and bad days, experiences, and leads to things that might help a novice writer.
First Draft: I just finished it!
9) I told Keith that all of the books I’ve purchased in the past year were books someone had blogged on or mentioned online.
Keith Snyder
everyone's entitled to my opinion
Web promotion for authors: Here are some numbers for those who think web promotion is key to a mystery writer's success.
Keith's books
10) James Winter's Northcoast Excile
James R. Winter is the author of 2005's NORTHCOAST SHAKEDOWN, a tale of sex, lies, and insurance fraud on America's North Coast.
There are weeks I hate this job. This has been one of them. I reached about 150 pages in the first draft of Suicide Solution only to discover the story is much too big for first person narrative. It needs to go multiple viewpoint, 3rd person.
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