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November 20, 2009
- I don’t know about most of you, but today’s announcement by Oprah Winfrey to end her syndicated television show left me empty, morose and wanting to crawl back into bed, never to surface again. This reaction, however, is not due to the impending absence of “The Oprah Winfrey Show” in my life, although I have been a viewer on and off for most of her years on TV. No, it goes far deeper than ...
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November 19, 2009
- My review on Thomas Keneally's The People's Train (he also wroteSchindler's Ark) is now up at Vulpes Libris. A challenging journey indeed ...In other writing news, I'm pleased to say that the lovely people on my online writing course seemed to have enjoyed my attempt at the sonnet form, though I fear it carries a hint of desperation in its innards. Here it is:The Struggling SonneteerAll ...
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November 18, 2009
- I'm an artist by trade and the urge to write came quite by surprise. I've dabbled in it a bit before but nothing as monumental as writing a mystery novel. Writing, I found, and very much to my surprise, was just painting with words. With a brush I can gently stroke indigo blue or vermilion onto a canvas to shadow a face in remorse. The same can be said of the words I brush across a page ...
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November 16, 2009
- Perhaps it is too much to ask (for me of myself, at least) to drastically change the method I write a novel. I embark on a thriller to make (I hope) some fast money. I anticipated more words at the end of a week (and I'm even thinking in the term "words", which I never do). I write in pages. My thousands of words are alien to my vision of the progress of the book.Still - happily - with ...
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November 15, 2009
- I Can't believe I wasn't going to even participate. I just reached 37,065 words today putting me over 12,000 words ahead of the game. The story though, is blowing my mind. It has fallen together like a two piece jigsaw puzzle. This is the most complex thing I have ever written, with such twists and turns and contains some of the most twisted characters to include a detective that's ...
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November 14, 2009
- Goodness me, what a stormy day it is here in southern England - I hope you're all surviving the experience and keeping dry. I was foolish enough to venture out this morning for a paper and some lunch, and everyone seemed very bad-tempered. Must be the wind. As it were. I came home all peculiar and had to have chocolate to cheer up. Not much change there then.Anyway, to provide a moment of warmth ...
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November 13, 2009
- The page proofs have arrived for the new Inspector Horton marine mystery crime novel Blood on the Sand which is being published on 25 February 2010.This is the final stage before the novel goes to print and perhaps the most nerve racking for me, (apart from publication that is) because it is too late to make major changes, or even too many small ones apart from typo corrections and glaring ...
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November 13, 2009
- After much hemming and hawing, I've finally gotten around to creating a website, and I thought I'd share it with Red Room readers. There's information on my new novel, a video of my presentation about the book at Esquire magazine, and a collection of other features, including the illustrated version of Notes to My Biographer. If you're interested, you can find it all at www.adamhaslett.net. ...
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November 13, 2009
- You can read the first two chapters of my mystery novel Lucid on Book Rix for Free! http://www.bookrix.com/showbooks.html?lang=en&showbooktitle=katherine-angela-yeboah-lucid-sample-chapters&pid= Sloane Solomon is a beautiful, young college student who begins experimenting with a very intense type of dreaming known as ‘lucid dreaming’. At first, she really enjoys these dreams, ...
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November 12, 2009
- My novel, 'Lucid', received a great review and 4 out of 5 stars on the Manic Readers website! Manic Readers review:Sloane is a typical college student who spends her free time hanging out with her friends. Her best friend, Alex, and Alex's boyfriend, Silas, begin talking about dreams and their significance on one such occasion. Over the next few days, Sloane's dreams become more and more ...
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