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If You’re a Professional Copywriter, There’s a Book You Should ReadBy Scott D. Parker We talk a lot here about fiction writing, but there are a good number of folks who make a living with a day job that...
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CALL: BISHOP RIDER LIVES - An Anthology of RetributionFor more than a decade now, Beau Johnson's Bishop Rider has rampaged through the crime fiction scene. A combination of The Punisher, Jigsaw,...
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Constructing Doom in Eli Cranor's DON'T KNOW TOUGHI read a lot of crime novels, and when I'm not reading crime novels I'm often reading horror novels, so violence, whether of the physical,...
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The Editing Job LoomsA few weeks ago, in my blog post here, I was talking about how Lydia Davis, when writing about the benefits of translating, says that a lot of...
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Is Time the Most Valuable Resource a Kid Has That an Adult Doesn’t?By Scott D. Parker I’ve been thinking about this off and on for a few weeks now. It stemmed from multiple sources, but a comment from one...
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Alaska Daily and The Company You Keep Prove Network TV Is Not DeadBy Scott D. Parker Remember a few weeks ago when I lamented the end of New Amsterdam and wondered if there would be any more network TV shows...
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Short stories for podcastsOver at Writers Who Kill, KM Rockwood discusses writing stories for podcasts . Short stories have long been some of my...
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Wild CanariesI recently saw the film Black Bear (2020), with Aubrey Plaza, and really liked it. Set in upstate New York, broken into two contrasting...
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How to Promote an Event, in Fine Cactus FashionI'll be in Tucson later this week for Left Coast Crime 2023 , a convention for mystery fans and authors. It's always a wonderful...
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Pushing the Old Guys Aside: HBO's Perry Mason Season 1by Scott D. Parker I finally finished Season 1 of the updated and re-imagined Perry Mason TV series on HBO Ma. Yeah, I know: I’m two years...
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From Sonny Liston to Marcel ProustIn the first place, if Sonny Liston had fought Marcel Proust, the fight would have lasted a shorter time than the two fights Sonny Liston had,...
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What the Number Three Meant Last WeekBy Scott D. Parker Three. I want you to keep that number in mind as you read this post. (And yes, it’s a magical number…) Last week I posed...
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Magic City Blues: A Conversation with Bobby MathewsI've known Bobby Mathews for a few years now. Not only have I had the pleasure of editing one of his stories in Rock and a Hard Place (you...
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Is Word Count the Best Way to Chart a Novel’s Progress?by Scott D. Parker Words, pages, or scenes? What is the best way to measure progress when writing a novel? When I wrote my first novel, I...
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The Books We Haven't Read (yet)My wife's Valentine's Day gift to me this year was to redecorate my office. She explained, "You spend like 80% of your time in there,...
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Death at an Old MansionA few months ago I wrote here about the excellent Japanese mystery novel, The Honjin Murders , published in 1946 by Seishi Yokomizo. It's...
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Springsteen, Showing Your Age, and Knowing Your TruthBy Scott D. Parker “I’m getting a certain vibe here,” my twenty-one-year-old son said as I drove my car on the streets leading to Houston’s...
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With a Twist by Cathi StolerScott's Note: Today Cathi Stoler guest blogs. Cathi is a fellow New Yorker who I've done a number of Noir at the Bars with, and she's one...
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Poker Face and the Spiritual RebootBy Scott D. Parker Poker Face had me at Rian Johnson. But had I not known it was his brainchild, the show would have had me at the title...
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Art Taylor on writing with rangeGuest Post by Art Taylor I debated fiercely about the subtitle of my new book: The Adventure of the Castle Thief and Other...
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Beau recommends RossonThis week, Beau recommends Keith Rosson's Folk Songs for Trauma Surgeons *** “With this excellent collection of...
