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Jun.21.2012
Aristotle once wrote (and here I'm paraphrasing, but only slightly) that all writing should either entertain or inform. The thing that bugs me these days is that there's more journalistic entertaining going on than informing, and a lot of this entertainment poses as news. Information. Reportage....
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Aug.12.2011
Elmore Leonard: Using adverbs is a mortal sin
1 Never open a book with weather. If it's only to create atmosphere, and not a character's reaction to the weather, you don't want to go on too long. The reader is apt to leaf ahead looking for people. There are exceptions. If you happen to be Barry...
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May.30.2011
I just finished reading Moist by Mark Haskell Smith. A friend had suggested his books, saying Smith writes funny ones as I do. I don't think of myself as a humorist, just that funny things pop out of serious situations.
The same is true in Smith's fiction as I quickly learned in the first novel I...
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Apr.04.2011
When you ask writers what underpins the greatest books, they may talk about structure, style, character-building. The best of them identify the novelist’s emotional understanding of himself and his ability to translate it to the page. That’s what strikes readers – perhaps without their even knowing...
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Mar.06.2011
Here's a great website put together by Lee Whiteside that has all the Arizona authors SF authors and our locations during the festival. I think it's awesome that all of them are coming to my festival. And I'm glad to have them showing off their wonderful books.
In addition to me, you can find...
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Jan.21.2011
FADE IN: When I saw this week's Red Room Topic: "My Favorite Movie From A Book..." I just had to write about my ongoing love affair with books into film and adaptations; this is a theme that resonates with me. To say that I am continually inspired and influenced, and sometimes...
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Nov.21.2010
My favorite character name in literature and the arts has to be “Jackie Brown,” simply by virtue of its multiplicity. Nearly all of my favorite creative people seemed smitten with this handle. As far as I know, the first usage of the name in fiction was for an arms dealer in George V. Higgins...
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Nov.21.2010
My favorite character name in literature and the arts has to be “Jackie Brown,” simply by virtue of its multiplicity. Nearly all of my favorite creative people seemed smitten with this handle. As far as I know, the first usage of the name in fiction was for an arms dealer in George V. Higgins...
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Nov.10.2010
"I wanted to sell my books to Hollywood," Elmore Leonard says. "I wanted to make money doing this." (PATRICIA BECK/Detroit Free
Elmore Leonard's crime books fit naturally on film
By CHRISTOPHER WALTONFREE PRESS SPECIAL WRITER
In his famous set of self-imposed...
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Oct.06.2009
Christopher G. Moore has book 10 in his terrific Vincent Calvino crime series out this week. "Paying Back Jack", which will be out in December in the UK. I love the Calvino series for the way it leads the reader into the underbelly of Bangkok in the company of its Italian-Jewish New...
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