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karl alexander
novelist & screenwriter specializing in fascinating characters

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Sep.26.2012

Wondercon, March 24, 25, 26 2013

I will be signing copies of my new novel, "Time-Crossed Lovers," at the GLAWS booth at 10 am on Saturday

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PUBLISHED: Sep.24.2012

Time-Crossed Lovers

The best-selling author of Time After Time returns to his time-travel roots in this suspenseful new novel. Moments before his execution for murder, Curtis Beckett has a vision of a beautiful woman he would never meet. But instead of being killed when the executioner throws the switch on the electric chair, Curtis and the sister of the woman he is accused of murdering turn up...

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PUBLISHED: Feb.02.2010

Time After Time

H.G. Wells chases Jack the Ripper through time.... This novel was the basis for the classic film starring Malcolm McDowell and Mary Steenburgen. It has been rewritten and released in a trade edition.

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PUBLISHED: May.01.1980

A Private Investigation

Sara Scott, private eye, discovers that her husband’s murderer is the California state comptroller.

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PUBLISHED: Apr.01.1979

Time After Time

In 1893-on the run from Scotland Yard-the infamous Jack the Ripper steals H.G. Wells' time machine and journeys to 1979. Outraged, Wells follows, chases the Ripper through San Francisco determined to bring him back to justice in Victorian England. Along the way, he meets Amy Catherine "Jane" Robbins, a modern American woman, and they become time-crossed lovers. In a...

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PUBLISHED: Nov.10.2009

Jaclyn the Ripper

Jack the Ripper comes back from infinity transmogrified into a beautiful woman and terrorizes Los Angeles in 2010. Now middleaged, H.G. Wells chases the monster through time, in the process saving his wife, his marriage and his mistress. The buzz so far: “Alexander’s novel is everything you’d expect in a sequel to Time After Time. The sweep of history through time...

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PUBLISHED: Apr.01.1989

Papa & Fidel

The Cuban revolution through the eyes and actions of Papa Hemingway and Fidel Castro.In 1957 Cuba, Fidel Castro starts a revolution with twelve men while Papa Hemingway wonders if he's washed up or has another book in him-the big book that's always eluded him. Looking for publicity, Fidel challenges Papa to come to the Sierra Maestra and write about the barbudos. Not one to turn...

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PUBLISHED: Nov.01.1982

Curse of the Vampire

Los Angeles actress Melanie Ross is in Transylvania to shoot a film. It is the ancient home of her Romanian ancestors and their tortured spirits that stalk her every move. On a tour through Vladimir Castle, an ancient evil is unleashed, and a hideous bloodlust invades Melanie's innocent body. By day she continues her life as an actress on a foreign location shoot, but at dusk she...

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May.20.2013 - 5:51 pm

2013 International Book Awards

I’d like to share some good news. My novel, "Time-Crossed Lovers, " is an Award Winning Finalist in the 'Fiction: Science Fiction' category of the 2013 International Book...

Mar.13.2013 - 6:34 pm

Write and/or Read

Over a two-hour lunch, a colleague and I discussed the changes (mercurial) in the publishing industry, Claudia particularly knowledgeable with her "This Business of Books,"...

Mar.13.2013 - 6:33 pm

Write and/or Read

Over a two-hour lunch, a colleague and I discussed the changes (mercurial) in the publishing industry, Claudia particularly knowledgeable with her "This Business of Books,"...

Sep.26.2012 - 8:44 pm

"Time-Crossed Lovers"

My new novel will be out on Friday. I will be signing copies at the West Hollywood Book Fair on Sunday, September 30th from 2PM till 5PM. I hope to see you there. Then it's on to...

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Aug.27.2009 - 9:24 pm

In response to: Writing

Writing

Brenda: I think you're being easy on yourself by calling writing an obsession. Let's face it: writing is an addiction...

Mar.05.2009 - 9:25 pm

In response to: Intimacy

Intimacy

James: I think you're talking about language becoming transparent so that the reader loses him/herself in the story,...

Feb.20.2009 - 11:00 pm

In response to: Robin Hood 101

Robin Hood 101

When he was campaigning, the Gropenator railed against Gray Davis for taxing Californians to death and creating the...

Feb.02.2009 - 4:13 pm

In response to: Panic Attack

Dealing with panic

If all else fails, try a couple of Xanax.

Jan.29.2009 - 10:23 pm

In response to: Thoughts on completing a novel.

Jet lag from another world

Roger: Are your characters still talking to you in your head when you try to go to sleep at night? Or at the same time...

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Jul.20.2011

Published by Austin Camacho

Alexander scores - Time after Time!, July 18, 2011 By Austin Camacho (author) - This review is from: Time-Crossed Lovers (Kindle Edition) With his first novel, "Time After Time"...

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About karl

Believe it or not, I'm a fifth-generation Angeleno. I was born in the ‘40s when the major cause of pollution in L.A. was residents burning trash in incinerators. A few years later, the city fathers banned incinerators in favor of landfills, but inexplicably...

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karl alexander
novelist & screenwriter specializing in fascinating characters