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Feb.23.2013
Tomorrow is my one year anniversary on Red Room. Thanks to fellow Red Roomer, David Henry Sterry, who, after helping me with the pitch for my forthcoming novel, The Memory Box, urged me to start blogging on Red Room. And so I did, albeit slowly at first. It was both exhilarating and terrifying to...
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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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Jun.01.2011
Janet Fitch, the author of the blockbuster White Oleander and a teacher at USC and The Squaw Valley Community of Writers, approved the publication of this list -- intended for fiction writers but good for many of us -- in its entirety in the Los Angeles Times: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/...
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Mar.20.2011
Long ago, I'd read The Laughing Policeman, a great novel by Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö, Swedish journalists who married and started writing great crime fiction together. Later the book became a movie starring Walter Mathau. Thus, when Stieg Larsson, another Swedish journalist, came along with The...
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Oct.06.2010
Mystery writer Michael Connelly, known for his series of books with police detective Harry Bosch as well as his handful of books with defense attorney Mickey Haller, came out with his new book, The Reversal, yesterday.
That book brings Haller to work for the prosecution to retry a man who was let...
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Aug.28.2010
Here is an eclectic gathering of some small literary items and news that I've come across recently on the Internet, much of it thanks to Facebook:
There's an interesting debate going on about the New York Times Book Review. Best-selling authors Jennifer Weiner (Fly Away Home) and Jodi Picoult (...
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Aug.23.2010
Since my debut novel, 'Kincaid's Call' was published by The Wild Rose Press in May this year, I've explored the web looking for information and advice about all aspects of writing. Initially my focus was on information about marketing online, specifically in relation to e-publishing. As an e-pubbed...
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May.14.2010
Up-and-coming writers want to hear how down the line things will get easier. Heck, I want to hear that. Thus, when I sent my current novel-in-progress, Ten Days to a Bad Habit, to my agent Jim McCarthy in New York, I wanted to hear how my first mystery was an amazing delight, staying true to the...
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