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My name is Rob and I'm a writer living in Denver, Colo. I read a novel a week and tell lies.
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Best-selling author Michael Crichton dies
From MSNBC: Best-selling author Michael Crichton dies Novelist and ‘ER’ creator passed away after a long battle with cancer Prolific novelist and “ER” creator Michael Crichton has unexpectedly died after a private battle with ...
Writer = lawyer = linebacker
So says big time Hollywood screenwriter John August last Friday, in a great piece about what he calls “The One.” While the essay’s specific to screenwriters, turns out they’ve got no monopoly on the nut of it: writing is stil...
My first mention in Kirkus Reviews
Copyright © 52 Novels dot com. Seems I’ve backed my way in. Here’s a snippet of the review: FUZZY NAVEL In the beginning were the three murderous members of The Urban Hunting Club: Swanson, Munchel and Pessolano. Conceived by Swans...
The Sunday Salon: Wanna win a book?
Copyright © 52 Novels dot com. Free books are good. And Lynn Viehl agrees. That’s why she’s decided to grant a BookWish. Just drop by her blog before midnight EST on April 21, 2008… leave a comment in this thread. Sometime a...
THE UNDEAD KAMA SUTRA and the best book trailer ever
Copyright © 52 Novels dot com. If you’re in Denver this week, go check out Mario Acevedo at Murder by the Book tonight (3/26/2008) at 5:30, or at Tattered Cover–Lodo tomorrow night (3/27/2008) at 7:30. Mario — whom I’ve...
On being prolific
Copyright © 52 Novels dot com. A couple of things I noticed yesterday around the Intarwebs: First, Lynn Viehl of Paperback Writer posted her Novel Notebook template… including what a completed version looks like. In a nutshell, the book s...
Get a FREE novel (The Sunday Salon Friday Edition)
Copyright © 52 Novels dot com.A couple of weeks ago I wrote about THE CONCRETE MAZE, by Steven Torres. Yesterday, Steven spent some time Googling himself and found the post. He was kind and generous enough to make the following offer: If any of you...
Download another free e-book from JA Konrath
Copyright © 52 Novels, 2007. If you can read this it means a spam-blogger scraped my RSS feed. It's not illegal… it's just poor form and tenth class all the way. Instead, come get the good stuff directly from the source: 52novels dot com.A couple ...
Could something like TechStars work for novelists?
Copyright © 52 Novels, 2007. If you can read this it means a spam-blogger scraped my RSS feed. It's not illegal… it's just poor form and tenth class all the way. Instead, come get the good stuff directly from the source: 52novels dot com.I remembe...
The mechanics of putting my foot in my mouth
I think I may have offended my writing instructor. It was an accident. But it may have happened nonetheless. Last week in my novel workshop we were discussing the assigned class reading… Chapter 4 from Robert Olen Butler’s FROM WHERE YOU ...
Give ’em hell, Pat
Pat Conroy had this to say about writing and reading and writers and teachers… and people who like to ban books: The world of literature has everything in it, and it refuses to leave anything out. I have read like a man on fire my whole life be...
The top six blogs of writers you probably don’t know (or don’t know you know)
I’ve got deadlines out the yingyang this week so I’m a day late on this week’s SOTB. My apologies to the handful of people who wait with bated breath. Now that that’s out of the way, here’s a double scoop of links…...
Get free books from JA Konrath
You’d think, judging by the number of times I’ve blogged about him, that I have a man-crush on JA Konrath. No, no. That distinction belongs to Eisler, a man my wife calls my “literary boyfriend.” Truth told, I blog about Konra...
The sons of no one
God, what a mess, on the ladder of success, where you take one step and miss the whole first rung.” The Replacements, from “Bastards of Young“ There’s an awesome discussion on tap over at Konrath’s blog about the definit...
The most beautiful blog in the world
I’m serious, and it belongs to writer who calls herself Vienne. The blog, Eavesdrop Writer, is simple and elegant: she listens to the world around her and then posts up what she hears. It’s a living, breathing writing exercise… this...
My Five Most Important Books
Today Yesterday at The Outfit, Marcus Sakey takes a tip from Newsweek and posts his five most important books. It’s a great list, and it contains two books I considered putting on mine (see if you can guess which ones). Heeding his call, here&#...
Get WHISKEY SOUR for FREE
JA Konrath is giving away 1,000 electronic copies of his debut novel, WHISKEY SOUR. Get one while you can! This is where the Lt. Jack Daniels saga started. Meet Jack’s arch nemesis, the Gingerbread Man, for the first time… and, as always...
