fiction
October 22, 2009
- Added a new story to RedRoom, in my view the best bit of prose I've composed this year. It's called "The Future" and you'll find it in the Articles and Stories section, in the column to the right of this posting.A bittersweet offering, with a coming-of-age angle. It's part of a short story cycle that's posted on my main blog, Beautiful Desolation, which is the exclusive venue for my ...
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October 22, 2009
- Author’s Book Recommendation – Once In A Lifetime Title: Once in a Lifetime Author: Cathy Kelly Paperback: 480 pages Publisher: Harper (3 Sep 2009) Language English ISBN-10: 0007240430 ISBN-13: 978-0007240432 Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 3.4 cm Product Description Every woman needs her Cathy Kelly time! When life is full of changes, your friends are the ones who really count! Ingrid ...
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October 20, 2009
- HEIDEGGER'S GLASSES, the first book to be published by Phoenix, in it's new direction as a serious literary press, is coming out this May. The Editor-in-Chief has been consulting me about the cover, and I just got this write-up for an advance promotion on Amazon. (There's one there now for the Audio, but the Editor-in-Chief thought it was too purple.) Heidegger’s Glasses opens during the end ...
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October 20, 2009
- The always-introspective Jane Friedman of Writer's Digest has come up with a column on "3 Sure-Fire Ways to Insult Someone in Publishing." After you read what she writes, if you're published, you may wince if (like me) you recognize yourself in some of what she says. But then again, publishing isn't a perfect world, and mistakes do happen. There are too many bad book covers and books ...
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October 20, 2009
- Book in the Media - Alex Cross's Trial Title: Alex Cross's Trial Author: James PattersonHardcover: 400 pages Publisher: Century (10 Sep 2009) ISBN-10: 1846057019 ISBN-13: 978-1846057014 Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.4 x 3.6 cm Product DescriptionWhile you wait for the next exciting installment in the "Alex Cross series", "I, Alex Cross" (published November 2009 by Century), ...
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October 20, 2009
- Author’s Book Recommendation – The 19th WifeTitle: The 19th WifeAuthor: David EbershoffPaperback: 608 pagesPublisher: Black Swan (2 Jan 2009)Language EnglishISBN-10: 0552774987ISBN-13: 978-0552774987Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.8 x 4.2 cmProduct DescriptionJordan returns from California to Utah to visit his mother in jail. As a teenager he was expelled from his family and religious ...
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October 20, 2009
- I was asked the other day how I feel when I tap out the immortal words THE END at the completion of a novel.The timing of the question was quite eerie because I was just reaching the final pages of the copy edits of my latest DI Horton marine mystery crime novel Blood on the Sand which is being published by Severn House in February next year. It is the fifth in the Inspector Horton series. ...
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October 19, 2009
- A few of you know how unbelievably happy I am to say this. The rest of you will likely get tired of me saying this: my story chapbook is now officially available for preorder! Books will ship around November 16th. All preorders will receive a copy of the book, along with the following: A (very) personal inscription. Note the specific name you would like the inscription made out to in the ...
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October 19, 2009
- Book in the Media - When Will There Be Good News Title: When Will There be Good News? Author: Kate AtkinsonPaperback: 480 pages Publisher: Black Swan (2 Jan 2009) Language English ISBN-10: 0552772453 ISBN-13: 978-0552772457 Product Dimensions: 19 x 12.6 x 3.4 cm Product DescriptionIn rural Devon, six-year-old Joanna Mason witnesses an appalling crime. Thirty years later the man convicted of the ...
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October 19, 2009
- Author’s Book Recommendation – Creature of the NightTitle: Creature of the Night (Definitions)Author: Kate ThompsonPaperback: 272 pagesPublisher: Red Fox (2 April 2009)Language EnglishISBN-10: 1862303509ISBN-13: 978-1862303508Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 13 x 2 cmProduct DescriptionI could hear Dennis talking to my ma. ‘She was little,’ he said. ‘Little like me. But old. Older than ...
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