I’ve been working like the devil on my novel in progress tentatively named Transit of Venus and have let the December 15th deadline for submissions to the Maine Playwrights Festival creep up on me. It’s taken all the effort and skill I have to try to transform my full length play into a novel. It’s […]
Why Write a Novel About Murder? A Bunk on Death Row
Edgar Smith was in solitary confinement awaiting his execution in the electric chair, sentenced to death for the first degree murder of a 15 year old girl by a jury that deliberated for less than three hours following his two week trial. In his jail cell he studied the law and read extensively. He became acquainted with […]
Thoughts on a Murder Novel in Process
`A while back I published a post on reasons why a writer should consider finding a novel in their finished full length play, but I hadn’t actually gone down the road of creating a novel that way, at least until now. I’m currently in the process of creating a novel based on the […]
How I Got My Scar Contest
Every Saturday in the summer, my two older sisters and I would traipse over the tracks that ran through our hometown Westmont, Illinois to Grandma’s house. Grandpa was there too, but he just sat in his easy chair not saying a word. Grandma had the bulletin with the current attractions at the Westmont Theater hanging […]
How to Participate in Amazon’s Discussion Forums
I’m very pleased to welcome novelist and blogger Jeri Walker-Bickett to my blog in this Guest Post. Jeri’s motto “Make Every Word Count” is an apt theme for her blog (http://jeriwb.com) as it never fails to engage and inform her readers and followers in a variety of interesting subject matter ranging from book reviews, art, […]
About An Artist and Activist Named Swoon
Sherm Sharma and Melena Ryzick of the NY Times put together a captivating video about Caledonia Curry, an artist who also goes by the name of Swoon. She started her art career as a street artist who would do things like use bolt cutters to get into a fenced-in condemned building in order to plaster […]
Art Genome, Is There Such a Thing? Art.sy
AO Scott is away sailing somewhere or something, so David Carr asked Melena Ryzik to join him on this video. It’s all about art.sy, a web site that brings to the world of art what Pandora brought to the world of music—an algorithm built by art historians who are indexing and categorizing art for the […]
A Reasonable Doubt – Book Review – Murder
A Reasonable Doubt, by Edgar Smith was published in August 1970 by Coward-McCann. The reader cannot begin to read this book before understanding who the author is and the circumstances in which it was written. Edgar Smith was a convicted murderer of a fifteen year old girl in the New Jersey and sitting in solitary […]
Top Four Blog Posts From The Web This Week – April 20, 2014
Compelling articles from diverse content sources the most important of which is my Twitter List of over 1000 Writer Friend followers. These followers have either created the articles or they have shared them from their perusal of the internet. This week’s top four: How to Publish With Your Own Imprint Good advice on self publishing Getting […]
Top Web Posts of the Week April 21, 2014
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