J M Cornwell | J M Cornwell
May.18.2013
Struggling to write a new book is just that -- a struggle. It is worth it, or at least that's what I tell myself as I slog on through days when it feels like I'm prying the words out one by one with a toothpick or pair of eyebrow tweezers. There are days, however, when the words flow and time...
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Dec.29.2012
Snow Shadow
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Thomas Wolfe wrote that you can’t go home again. He probably should have written that you can go home again, but it won’t be pleasant.
For Meredith Godwin, coming back to Manitou Springs stirred up memories best left to rest. For five years, she had been free of her...
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Dec.28.2012
The Remittance Man
By J M Cornwell
Chapter One
Twenty years should have made a difference. It hadn’t. Jack Cain had not changed and neither had his habits. I expected towering stacks of newspapers and magazines and books and Jack weaving a path through a darkened room to the...
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Nov.13.2012
(Updated January 10th, 2013)
Don Corleone: Tell me, do you spend time with your family? Johnny Fontane: Sure I do. Don Corleone: Good. Because a man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.
–The Godfather (1972), screenplay by Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola
The same...
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Sep.26.2012
It has finally happened. I broke the top 100 on Amazon's best seller list yesterday after Among Women was available for free. When I went to bed I was at #8 on the contemporary fiction list and #97 on the fiction list. I just took a look and what did I find:
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Jul.24.2011
Technology makes everything easier and the Internet makes everything happen faster. What more could we want? How about people willing to stand up for what they believe is right?
A writer friend recently dumped her Kindle review site because of "threats of litigation." That's Net speak...
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Jun.02.2011
It takes time to get a good marketing roll going, and this is the next step. Don't be fooled. It also takes money to get a marketing roll going. In the end, though, it is up to the author and the book to keep the readers' interest. Here's hoping the interest continues for Among Women. It's not your...
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Apr.08.2011
Like most authors, we love it when people read -- especially when they read our books. This time, it's about kids and a project called First Book and Joe Konrath started the ball rolling with his pledge to donate $500 to the charity if his book reached the top 100 on Amazon. His book, Origin, has...
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