this is the first part of my series on writing and publishing a book. i want to make a few things clear if i may. one not all of these concepts are specific to writing print books. many of these concepts can be used in writing ebooks magazine articles short stories or pretty much anything else one wishes to write. two all of these steps arent concrete these are my o...... [Show More]
it seems that whenever i visit a comic book convention i always manage to stumble across a few public service comics i havent seen before. wizard world texas was no exception and i managed to find a few good ones. for starters here is supergirl or american honda presents dc comics supergirl in cooperation with the u.s. department of transporta tion8217 s national safety...... [Show More]
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i am the owner of one of the replica 1914 stutz bearcats built for the 1971 tv series bearcats by custom car builder george barris .
i bought the car in 1998 and spent two years restoring it while i was living in abilene texas. i had never owned a unique thats a good word for a barris car car before so i went into the restoration with blind fait...... [Show More]
im in baltimore at bouchercon having a hard time blogging but finding it easy to enjoy lots of panels with a wonderful assortment of crime fiction writers. ill try to make some sense of my notes and offer a wrapup on monday82 11i8217 ll also assemble some linked lists of the various award winners. ill be at the shamus awards tonight. but for now visit the ...... [Show More]
audiobooks
real ponies dont go oink patrick f. mcmanus cassette
tr uelife8 221 tales of man against nature in a collection sure to entertain the most hardtoplease listener.
radio broadcasts
sam spade private eye cassette
the falcon daring detective michael waring cassette
murder at midnight cassette
books
peter ...... [Show More]
it has been a bit on the slower the side the past week or so but there have still been some great comments from our always excellent readers. a smattering of them are below. note that the first two are simply selections the actual comments are quite long and worth reading in their entirety.
interesting wideranging discussion but its cheapened severely by your subsequent proclama...... [Show More]
pragmatists in the green energy war tend to consider natural gas a necessary transition fuel for electric generation. they are cognizant of the role quick start fast ramp gas generation will play in integrating intermittent wind and solar generation until large scale dispatchable demand response and storage technologies become commercial realities. they embrace the material environmental bene..... [Show More]
...problems or so his books have been described to me. im relying here on some of the comments i found after a quick google through the internet with as usual kevin burton smith at thrillingd etective.c om having the most concise but illuminating things to say.
heres the entire list of moses wine adventures. ive read only two of them im sorry to say.
the big fix . straight arrow tra... [Show More]
a nice story about how i came to read this book. back in june i started recording the books ive been reading by posting them on the blog prior to that it was a separate page. the was a good move because ive had a few comments including this one
graham if youre in to action might i suggest stuart woods stone barrington novels. im currently reading ...... [Show More]
one of my earliest objects of car lust was the costar of one of my favorite tv shows.
theres a recurring character in american television which might be called the freelance troublesho oter.822 1 he its usually but not always a he 822141 may be a private detective gunslinger nomadic gambler international man of mystery reformed catburgla...... [Show More]
george harmon coxe focus on murder.
pyramid r1259 reprint paperback 1st printing january 1966. cover by frank kalan. hardcover edition alfred a. knopf march 1954. hardcover reprint dollar mystery guild june 1954. previous paperback reprint dell 970 1958.
what with two paperback editions and more importantly a book club edition this is not a difficult book to...... [Show More]
good jobbad job Post Source: bringingthefun.wordpress.com Posted: Jul 10 2008 05:27:36
good job working with things you love e.g. toys comic books cupcakes 8230
bad job working with things you hate e.g. tobacco worms snotnosed kids
good job swanky office space e.g. big windows new furniture cool stuff
bad job personal spot in dilbert country e.g. beige on beige cloth walls
good job an ext...... [Show More]
as a brief introduction to this piece ill begin by saying that mystery writer john t. mcintyre was the subject of a post you saw here last saturday albeit somewhat accidentally so he was the author of blows in the dark the lead story in complete detective novel magazine for november 1931.
thanks go first to mike grost for the comments he left after that percending pos...... [Show More]
this here is a picture of radio and television actor parley baer and he is the voice model of one of the characters in high moon deputy jebidiah garrett. parley baer appeared in a slew of awesome radio and televison programs including gunsmoke and yours truly johnny dollar . as an oncamera performer he was recognizable by both his voice and his paunchy appearance. he also voiced ern...... [Show More]
smatterings Post Source: hermenaut.org Posted: Apr 02 2008 14:30:00
the pioneer press chats with raymond benson about his talents in many writing and musical spheres.
the hartford courant profiles pediatrician karen laugel one of ten finalists for amazons breakthrough writers competition.
leon neyfakhs new pub crawl column focuses on the sibling rivalry between harpercollins imprints .
i wrote about my stillmixed feeling...... [Show More]
j. kingston pierce has written the most amazing tribute to arthur lyons author of several p.i. novels featuring palm springsbased detective jacob asch . lyons most recently a city councilman and founder of the annual film noir festival died last week at the age of 62 . jiro kimura broke the news . and now like many others i suspect i have a number of books to track down asap....... [Show More]
tvtipp far den 1. marz Post Source: kriminalakte.wordpress.com Posted: Mar 01 2008 00:18:20
sat.1 02.05
blue city usa 1986 r. michelle manning
drehbuch lukas heller walter hill
lv ross macdonald blue city 1947 blue city
billy turner kehrt nach fanf jahren in seine heimatstadt blue city zurack. sein vater wurde ermordet und billy will den marder finden. das gefallt der korrupten stadtspitze nicht.
walter hill produzierte. zusammen mit luka...... [Show More]
last time out we considered chester himes charles portis iceberg slim robert silverberg and walter tevis as potential candidates for library of america collections. i had been hoping to hear a lot more suggestions from commenters but im an optimist maybe this second batch of nominees for the black jacket club will stir up some arguments or at least additional suggestions.
c...... [Show More]
bicarbonate johnny Post Source: xperimentaledu.blogspot.com Posted: Aug 31 2007 13:01:00
thats right hes called bicarbonate johnny and he doesnt let a little dyspepsia keep him from discovering the mystery of the claw of the kidnapped idol . while not as physically challenged as other defective detectives a subsubgenre of pulp mystery fiction such as inspector allhoff the double amputee or calvin kane ...... [Show More]
harold innis the bias of communication begins with this epigraph why do we attend to the things to which we attend james broekegood question. when asked why i write about chicks and crime my response is either flippant good for cocktail parties or theoryladen good for getting someone to stop talking to you at a cocktail party. but those are not the onl...... [Show More]
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