Monthly Archives: September 2011

Talking about Comics at NINC

I’m a guest at the Novelists, Inc. blog today: Sometimes You Need Comics. I have another “Fresh Meat” post up at The Criminal Element, this one on J.T. Ellison’s new novel, Where All the Dead Lie.

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Degrees of Suckitude

I was recently discussing a story-in-progress with someone. I ventured to hope that it didn’t suck. I was told there was no way it could suck, given excerpts she had seen. Au contraire! There are degrees of suckitude. (That is … Continue reading

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Girl With Cat

Girl with cat, Spitalfields, 1912 Via Spitalfields Nippers as photographed by Horace Warner.

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Girl With Rabbit

Girl With Rabbit, Spitalfields, 1912 Via Spitalfields Nippers as photographed by Horace Warner.

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Heat in Nairobi

I chatted about the mystery novel Nairobi Heat by Mukoma wa Ngugi at The Criminal Element this week.

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Retro Cherries, Popped and Not

“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” I’m going to have to do another post’s worth…there are simply too many in this category!

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Line Editing: Specific Examples

I took these examples of revisions from a story I’m still working on. The first version is dated August 15, 2010. The second version is dated February 26, 2011. Between those two versions, I began changing this piece from a … Continue reading

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“To a Soldier in Hospital,” Winifred M. Letts

To a Soldier in Hospital Courage came to you with your boyhood’s grace Of ardent life and limb. Each day new dangers steeled you to the test, To ride, to climb, to swim. Your hot blood taught you carelessness of … Continue reading

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The Jane Hotel

On my recent overnight trip to New York City, it turned out that one of my tourist desires matched up with the places I needed to go, so I stayed at The Jane Hotel. “Completed in 1908, the American Seaman’s … Continue reading

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A serial killer in WWII Paris

I have a new post up at The Criminal Element on a nonfiction book about a serial killer in WWII Paris, David King’s Death in the City of Light.

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