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Mar.18.2011
The word counts are creeping up. Creeping, not blazing a trail through the white space, but plodding, slowly, as if they are weighed down. This isn’t writer’s block. This isn’t lack of enthusiasm.
It’s starting a new book. As my favorite warrior philosopher, Lao Tzu, said:
A journey of a thousand...
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Feb.18.2011
I can hardly believe I’m saying this…
It’s that time again. I have a new book coming out on Tuesday. SO CLOSE THE HAND OF DEATH is the sixth book in the Taylor Jackson series, and the sequel to 14. The Pretender is back, and finally making his move on Taylor.
When I started this series, I planned...
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Feb.06.2011
"I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains."
– James Michener
Well. That says a lot.
I’ve been doing some heavy duty thinking lately. Brainstorming on a new book mostly, but also about some...
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Jan.21.2011
by JT Ellison
Shalimar.
Quick. What's that make you think of? Can you smell it?
Shalimar on cold fur, whispering against my mother’s skin as she came to tuck me in after an evening out at a fancy ball.
Shalimar means Temple of Love in Sanskrit. And really, isn’t that why we use perfume and cologne...
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Jan.17.2011
Planning on a career as a writer? You'll often have to dig into your own pockets to cover the cost of doing research. Read my new article at AOL Daily Finance to see how you can do all the research you need without going broke.
Continue reading Doing Book Research Without...
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Jan.10.2011
For the past two years, I’ve been doing annual reviews of my life and work, based on the format from Chris Guillebeau’s wonderful Annual Review on his blog, The Art of Non-Conformity. Chris’s system is exceptionally detailed, more so than I really need, but the gist is there. It’s a...
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Jan.10.2011
For the past two years, I’ve been doing annual reviews of my life and work, based on the format from Chris Guillebeau’s wonderful Annual Review on his blog, The Art of Non-Conformity. Chris’s system is exceptionally detailed, more so than I really need, but the gist is there. It’s a...
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Dec.27.2010
Welcome AOL Readers! If you've just joined us from AOL, thank you for taking the time to check out my Red Room page. If you haven't read the piece on AOL, please take a moment and look it over. It is my wish for all of us in 2011.
I was inspired by the following quote by Johann Wolfgang von...
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Oct.30.2010
I had to make an executive decision about my writing this week. As I’ve discussed here before, I switched from Word to Scrivener, and tried writing my 6th book in it. Things went well up to a point, but in the end I caved and went back to Word.
Then I went to Pages. Then back to...
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Oct.15.2010
This is an irreverent title for a very serious post, and I chose it specifically to show that sometimes, we need some irreverence to deal with things in our life. Humor heals all wounds, and writing cop novels means I’ve dealt some really off color moments which defuse the tension of the...
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Sep.20.2010
As a part of the Oprah Winfrey Network's LIFE IS NOT A STRAIGHT LINE series, OWN came to Tennessee to delve into the 90 degree turn my life took when I decided to leave the world of politics and aerospace marketing behind and become a thriller writer.
Click here to see the very cool short movie...
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Aug.06.2010
Last week I ventured down to Orlando for the RWA conference. For those of you unfamiliar with the acronym, RWA is Romance Writers of America. RWA is to romance writers what ITW eventually could be for thriller writers, and I say eventually because RWA has 10,000 writers on its rolls, 145 chapters...
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Jul.23.2010
I started writing my seventh Taylor Jackson novel this week. This is cause for great rejoicing on many levels, obviously, but the process of beginning a novel is only part of the fun. It’s not as simple as opening a Word file and starting to type. Oh, no. There are steps that must be taken,...
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Jul.22.2010
I am sitting in a bookstore.
Earth shattering news, I know.
I’m in between appointments—I had a fabulous lunch with members of Nashville’s Dutch Lunch crowd, where we feasted on salmon and death by chocolate cake and a delicious crème brûlée with a candle in it, for our fearless leader...
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Jun.11.2010
I have a dilemma.
Thankfully, it is neither life threatening, nor particularly important. It's really rather silly, truth be told. But it is a dilemma nonetheless, one that’s bothering me tremendously.
I have bought a ridiculous number of books over the past couple of years. Books of all shapes...
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Do, or do not. There is no try.”
—Yoda
About JT
J.T. Ellison is the bestselling author of nine critically acclaimed novels, multiple short stories and has been published in over twenty countries. Her novel THE COLD ROOM won the ITW Thriller Award for Best Paperback Original of 2010 and WHERE ALL THE DEAD...
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