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Nov.05.2009
I don't have a lot of time, but this week's suggsted topic is near and dear to my heart. I have spent long hours of my life in independent bookstores, browsing shelves, piling and unpiling musty old volumes in search of treasure. That was how I learned to love books - how I cam to collect them. ...
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Nov.03.2009
This is just a quick note to report on the progress of my Nanowrimo novel for the year, "Heart of a Dragon." I've been working on it for three days now, and have just passed the ten thousand word point. It's a good start. I always suggest that people binge write at the beginning to get...
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Oct.28.2009
This one’s gotten pretty old, His hair is thin, he reeks of mold, He wears a hat upon his head, So none will see his “do” is dead, Ten and forty years have passed, Half a century’s been surpassed, And still, he’s smiling, wonder why? Well, hell, he lived and didn’t die! His books have made it to...
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Oct.21.2009
I grew up in small town Illinois. That was my childhood. There were tractor pulls, pep rallies where they actually piled up wood and had bonfires, as often as not stealing that wood from the barns, outhouses, and sheds of surrounding farms. We lived in the middle of Neil Gaiman's amazing novel...
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Oct.14.2009
I thought Stephen King had slipped a cog when he had Roland, The Gunslinger, and his motley crew of travelers, come upon the Emerald City. As it turns out, he's the King for more reasons than one, because he realized what I still had to learn...that there are a lot of levels to iconic stories and...
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Jul.29.2009
When I finished my first novel, "This is My Blood," I was floating around on the ocean on board the USS Bainbridge. The novel was an expansion of my novelette, "A Candle in the Sun." I'd been told it needed to be expanded by a Canadian publisher and expert on vampire...
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Jun.12.2009
You read that right. Ambergris Films has given me the go-ahead to up the ante on the contest. It’s a very simple thing.
Buy one of the two Killer Green t-shirts, either the Peyote Slim’s shirt, or the Killer Green Crew shirt. When it arrives, put it on and get your camera. Be creative. Take a...
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May.07.2009
Writing In Character - You Have to Be There
By David Niall Wilson • May 4, 2009 • Comments (11) [Edit]
This past weekend I bought a book just for idea hunting. The book is titled 101 Things Everyone Should Know about Science and it covers, in very short bursts, interesting...
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May.04.2009
Every now and then I get the urge to speak my mind. Those of you who read my various columns and blogs across the net are probably aware of this. I’ve talked about books and publishing before, but looking back I think a lot has changed since the last time I did so, so I believe I’ll take a stab at...
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Apr.30.2009
I've been feeling a little stagnant lately. Partly this is due to two ghost-writing projects I'm doing, both biographies and both about very different men...keeping them separated in m mind and giving both my full attention in their turn has not been easy. My own work has been relegated...
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Apr.29.2009
I've been doing a series of readings of very short stories - no longer than five or six minutes apiece - and posting them on my main website. I have now imported that audio to my Red Room author's page for your enjoyment (assuming you enjoy such things). These are very short stories based on...
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Apr.28.2009
If there is one thing I dread in the writing of a novel, it’s that point where I have to try and put together the material used to sell it. This means I either have to clean up and revise my working outline into a form that is both legible and in alignment with the story as I actually wrote it, or...
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Apr.27.2009
Since I posted the final scene of the odd, noirish pseudo-sci-fi thriller Killer Green here last night, I thought it was about time for a recap.
On the 27th of February, I was in Baltimore scoping out the office that has since become my company’s first outlying workspace. I stayed at the Embassy...
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Mar.19.2009
I’ve been working slowly on building readership for this site. It hasn’t been live very long, but I’ve had days with upwards of 20k hits, so I must be doing something right. I seem to have gotten into a lot of discussions lately over short cuts and “tools” that are supposed to dramatically...
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Mar.17.2009
This morning I was pointed to this on line article by Tee Morris, who got the link from Neil Gaiman, and I got really angry:
The New Book Banning
This is what we’ve come to? I understand the concern and the outrage over the discovery that a great number of toys from overseas still contained lead...
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"The world of publishing isn't standing still, and the buildings on 5th Street in NYC are...everything is changing..."”
—David Niall Wilson
About David
David Niall Wilson has been writing and publishing horror, dark fantasy, and science fiction since the mid-eighties. An ordained minister, once President of the Horror Writer's Association and recipient of the Bram Stoker Award for poetry and short fiction,...
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David’s Favorite Books
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, On the Road, The Dark Tower Series, The Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, The Haunting of Hill House, The Works of...