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Rick Bass: “It’s your duty to lie…”
8 Sep
“As a regular person, it’s your duty to stay on a straight and even keel, not to swing from the branches of trees. But as a writer it’s your duty to lie and to view everything in life, however outrageous, as an interesting possibility. You may need to be ruthless or amoral in your writing to be original. Telling a story straight from real life is only being a reporter, not a creator. Make your story big, magical, more meaningful than life is.”
~ RICK BASS
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Pink (Sept 8): “The aggressive side of me comes across…”
8 Sep
“The aggressive side of me comes across in my music, but I’m just a sweet girl.”
~ Pink, b. 8 September 1979
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William Goldman: “Nobody knows anything.”
7 Sep
“Nobody sets out to fuck up your movie. It’s not like the director or the stars wake up in the morning and say, “Let’s screw up this scene.” I wrote a line once that caught on out there in Hollywood: “Nobody knows anything.” And they don’t. If we knew what we were doing, every movie would be wonderful. If actors knew what they were doing, every performance would be just swell. It’s a crapshoot. It just is. There’s no answer. I wish there were.”
~ WILLIAM GOLDMAN
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Buddy Holly (Sept 7): “Death is often referred to as a good career move.”
7 Sep
“Death is very often referred to as a good career move.”
~ Buddy Holly, b. 7 September 1936
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Kurt Vonnegut: “All the great story lines are practical jokes.”
6 Sep
“If you make people laugh or cry about little black marks on sheets of white paper, what is that but a practical joke? All the great story lines are great practical jokes that people fall for over and over again.”
~ KURT VONNEGUT
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Harm’s Way enters Top 10 in hard-boiled mystery at Amazon
6 Sep
It’s a mini-milestone! HARM’S WAY has just entered the Top 10 in Amazon’s hard-boiled mystery category. Originally published by St. Martin’s Press in 1992, I revised it extensively in 2012 (see backstory here) and republished it with Amazon and Smashwords.
Since December of last year I’ve offered it FREE on Smashwords to allow people to sample my writing, and thus promote my three other mystery thrillers. During this period, Amazon has toggled the price of Harm’s Way back and forth between free and $0.99. To date, there’ve been almost 15,000 downloads.
So if you like a very fast-paced mystery with a dose of hard-boiled action and dialog, and you don’t get your knickers in a knot over the occasional references to astrology (see that other story here), then scoop up a copy sooner than later.
Have a great day. As for me, I’m celebrating over breakfast with mimosas and — what else? — hard-boiled eggs !
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HARM’S WAY
Montreal investigator with astrologer girlfriend searches for politician’s runaway daughter, only to become embroiled in a plot of corruption, decadence, greed and murder.
(digital $0.99, paper $8.99)
http://www.amazon.com/Harms-Way-ebook/dp/B005LVXIA2
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