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Jan.13.2012
Interview with Andrew Pyper: bestselling author of five novels, including Lost Girls, The Killing Circle and, most recently, The Guardians.
Interview by Sharif Khan.
SK: Most people who’ve reached a certain degree of success in their field have not done it alone. They...
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Dec.19.2011
I recently saw a documentary, To Write and Keep Kind, a PBS documentary on the life and writing of Raymond Carver. It's part of the two-disc Criterion Collection version of Robert Altman's movie Short Cuts, based on Raymond Carver's short stories. I couldn't help but think at the end of the...
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Dec.07.2011
I started out as a mystery writer, cutting my teeth on Marcia Muller and Sue Grafton. I wrote my first books in first person, the way of tradition. The detective asks you to tag along on her case; you as the reader see what she sees, know what she knows. The clues are fair, the world is -- mostly...
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Oct.25.2011
There are often times when there is nothing to write about and the thought of putting down nothing or some nonsensical stream of consciousness doesn't sit right with the writer, and so they don't write, waiting for inspiration to strike or a job to come along that will foce them to write. What they...
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Oct.03.2011
October already? How is this possible???
Well, it has been quite a day! Amanda Knox has been freed from jail in Perugia, Italy, which is very heartening. I admit shutting things off for an hour to watch the verdict - it is so good to see justice done here. I am a firm believer that she was...
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Aug.25.2011
The Summer of Rapture is moving along at quite a clip. No sooner do I turn my view from the headlines to see that something interesting is happening in the world directly around me. The garden is growing, the visits to friends are getting put in the memory books and their kids sure are growing; the...
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Aug.19.2011
Don’t you love having epiphanies?
Those lightning bolt moments of awareness, enlightenment, insight that alters your consciousness, your actions, even the course of your life?
I’ve been on the road a lot over the past two months. Florida, New York, Florida again, Colorado (where I am now...
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Aug.16.2011
Hope y'all had a good weekend. I did - got the first pass revision of the May '12 book done. Now it's on to the second revision.
In case you're curious, this is how things usually shake out - I do several drafts, my beta readers read it and give their input and corrections, I do one more pass, then...
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Jul.25.2011
The hardest part of writing, for me, is dealing with a recurring crushing lack of confidence. You'd think that I've been here enough times before, I could just get over it. It shakes me every time.
See, whenever something good happens -- something sells, gets nominated for a prize, receives a...
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Jul.22.2011
I grew up in a Frank Lloyd Wright house--or it would have been an official one if he'd had lived a little longer. In a few tours that were given before the house was knocked down last year, people asked me what was it like growing up in an "organic architecture" home. I've thought about...
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