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Openings That Work: Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child: Fever Dream
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Dissecting first pages that sold. Saturday, July 24, 2010. Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child: Fever Dream. Since the first pages of Relic, Preston and Child have held my attention in the palm of their competent hands. Call them pulp writers, call them anything you please, I simply don't care. They have the kind of magic that works for me- with one exception, but that's not what this post is about. Let's see if you can figure out why. Behold:. Do you see it? You can buy Fever Dream here.
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Openings That Work: Lightbreaker - Mark Teppo
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Dissecting first pages that sold. Saturday, February 27, 2010. Lightbreaker - Mark Teppo. Lightbreaker, by Mark Teppo. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). A writer and a work in progress. I write commercial fiction with a literary edge. Represented by Alexandra Machinist of Janklow and Nesbit. My debut novel WHITE HORSE is coming soon from Atria Books. View my complete profile. You can also find me here. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov. Total Oblivion, More or Less - Alan DeNiro. Lightbreaker - Mark Teppo.
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Openings That Work: February 2010
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Dissecting first pages that sold. Saturday, February 27, 2010. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov. I'd like my focus for this blog to be on newer books, so I can keep up with what's hitting the shelves now- or at least recently. But when I think about my favorite openings, the ones that have rocked my world, one specific book always comes to mind, so I'd be remiss not to include it here. My writing career, such as it is, can be divided into two parts: pre-Lolita and post. Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov. If we're luc...
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Openings That Work: Total Oblivion, More or Less - Alan DeNiro
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Dissecting first pages that sold. Saturday, February 27, 2010. Total Oblivion, More or Less - Alan DeNiro. It's a funny thing, but I almost didn't buy Total Oblivion, More or Less. I was standing in Barnes and Noble looking for examples of covers I didn't like, when I spotted what I perceived to be a cheesy spine jutting from amidst its peers. When we left the store, the book was mine. Total Oblivion, More or Less, by Alan DeNiro. Yes, I'm stating the obvious but for a good reason: that's no small admiss...
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My Midnight Muse: I feel like A Writer today!
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Hope Springs Eternal, But Fate Will Always Piddle On Your Shoe. Friday, November 2, 2007. I feel like A Writer today! That might sound strange, but I know some people will understand what I mean. Right now, I'm penning In An Ageless Sky - my Great Tea Debacle competition novel. In this story I'm touching on the time travel issues I mentioned further down this blog, like, last month or something. And I've purchased a notebook. The spiral kind, with 200 pages in it. I'm going to handwrite my next n...I can...
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My Midnight Muse: October 2007
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Hope Springs Eternal, But Fate Will Always Piddle On Your Shoe. Wednesday, October 31, 2007. It's The Great Tea Debacle, Charlie Brown! It's now Tea Minus - well, whatever time is left between now and midnight, when The Great Tea Debacle begins. How do you feel? Any aches or pains? Can you sit at the computer for long hours? Can you hold that pen for 4 weeks non-stop? Is your spouse willing to put up with this? Who's gonna walk the dog? Did you pick the wrong month to quit crack? Wait for it . . ! I had ...
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My Midnight Muse: November 2007
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Hope Springs Eternal, But Fate Will Always Piddle On Your Shoe. Friday, November 23, 2007. Booger here has been giving me some fits of late, and I've been covetting Pete's lovely looking blog over on Wordpress, so that's where I am now: mymidnightmuse.wordpress.com. I'll be posting new blog posts there from now on, and as soon as I have the time (ie: After The Great Tea Debacle) I'll move all this stuff there, including linkies and the like. Well, not really, but you have to wait anyway. Just now I crack...
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Openings That Work: July 2010
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Dissecting first pages that sold. Saturday, July 24, 2010. Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child: Fever Dream. Since the first pages of Relic, Preston and Child have held my attention in the palm of their competent hands. Call them pulp writers, call them anything you please, I simply don't care. They have the kind of magic that works for me- with one exception, but that's not what this post is about. Let's see if you can figure out why. Behold:. Do you see it? You can buy Fever Dream here. Links to this post.
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My Midnight Muse: I'm going shopping!
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Hope Springs Eternal, But Fate Will Always Piddle On Your Shoe. Friday, November 16, 2007. Tomorrow, my sister is taking me PEN shopping! Yes, I'm excited about it. I haven't written with a pen in so long, and that's something I'm changing, practicing and relearning the proper way to compose with pen and paper. I'm pathetically happy about that. Okay, I don't mind that label. I'm a happy pathetic! And here's something even more pathetic:. Found a new pen, found a new pen,. Found a new pen just now,.
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My Midnight Muse: Prudence, my love;
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Hope Springs Eternal, But Fate Will Always Piddle On Your Shoe. Thursday, November 15, 2007. Prudence, my love;. Tis midway through my confinment at Castle Debacle, and already I can smell the tea brewing! Rumors grow of the ship bringing us odd writing instruments and parchment on which to compose, and I can no longer ignore such talk. But lo, Prudence, the fog has been so thick of late! I fear a shipwreck. Sing with me, dearest Prudence! What do you do with a drunken writer,. Earl-y in the morning.
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