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Download another free e-book from JA Konrath 2007-11-21 18:34:48 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dot com.A couple months back, JA Konrath—author of the Jack Daniels mystery series—made a few of his previously unpublished novels available for download. Way back then he also promised a short story compilation called 55 PROOF.
I just noticed today that he’s finally made it available. You can download it here or directly from JA… whichever you choose you get the same great book of mystery, horror, sci-fi, and crime short stories.
What’s more is that almost all of these stories are now out-of-print commercially. This download is the only way you’ll get them now.
I had a chance today to read some… great stuff! If you’re a fan of Barry Eisler’s John Rain series, you’ll love Konrath’s hilar Read more: Download
Could something like TechStars work for novelists? 2007-11-21 10:15:48 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 remember reading a while back about a Boulder-based technology startup incubator called TechStars.
It sounded like a decent idea: invite young technology entrepreneurs to apply for up to $15,000 in seed money, mentoring from other young technology entrepreneurs, and great networking connections to help insure their success… all in exchange for five percent of the new company’s initial equity.
There’re are some other perks, too. Fifteen grand isn’t a whole lot of money to ramp up a technology concern, so the group organizes an angel investor day, giving the young companies a chance to woo more money into the coffers. They also take care of incorporation details, provide free legal advice, and give coaching on numerous as Read more: something
Jeff Bezos’s folly? 2007-11-20 08:01:09 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.Not sure what I think of this.
Mostly I think it’s absurd to believe that people will trade a centuries-old $10 device for a shiny new $400 device that doesn’t do anything until you buy software for it. They might use the digital to compliment the analog, but I don’t think we’ll see it replace analog in my lifetime… and possibly not in my unborn children’s lifetimes.
I could be wrong. But I don’t think I am.
What do you think?
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Feed sponsor: Holly Lisle's CREAT The mechanics of putting my foot in my mouth 2007-11-19 07:59:28 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 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 DREAM, a segment called “Cinema of the Mind.”
In a nutshell, the book is a compendium of Butler’s lectures to undergraduate creative writing students, and this chapter—as its title suggests—compares movie storytelling to written storytelling and the way both artists employ “camera” techniques to bring vividness to the work. Even as writers, we’re bringing our narrative in close for some scenes and then pulling it back for the crane shot in others.A lot o Read more: mouth
Policies about honesty and ass kicking are good 2007-11-14 07:51:39 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.This has been around the Internet a while, but it was new to me last night. Maybe it’s new to you, too.
By the way, this video is totally NSFW… and definitely beautiful. Definitely beautiful. Definitely beautiful.
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My, oh, my. We’re having some fun now. 2007-11-13 08:22:22 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 had an amazing sports weekend!
First, the University of Illinois Fighting Illini shocked number one Ohio State, 28-21. In Columbus. With the passing game.
It’s not a great time for the Buckeyes to lose. In the BCS, it’s okay to lose a game… as long as you don’t lose it late. Sorry, Jim Tressel. No National Championship game for you this year. See you in Lincoln in 2008.
And if that wasn’t enough, the St. Louis Rams benefited from the Bye week and upset the surging New Orleans Saints. Finally, the Male Sheep looked like the team nearly everyone in RamsNation thought they’d be this season.
Don’t be mistaken… this win is worth celebrating, but it’s not as if the blue and gold won the Super Bo What’s taking so long? 2007-11-12 07:02:37 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.Some of you have e-mailed to ask, “What’s taking you so long to read Joe Hill’s HEART SHAPED BOX?”
Good question. After all, it’s been down there in the Reading right now widget going on three months since August 21st.
I realize I can take some time to get through some of the books I’ve read, but this is ridiculous even by my own pokey standards.
Time to come clean. It’s my first audio book.
I’d been hesitant to give them a try. Not because I don’t consider it reading. Truth is, I do consider “listening to audio books” equal “to reading.” (And I consider those who think differently to be snobs.)Reading a book, for me, is a complete sensory experience: the spicy smell of PLOTS WITH GUNS redux 2007-11-27 07:30:13 Copyright © 52 Novels, 2007. Come get the good stuff directly from the source at 52novels dot com.Anthony Neil Smith announced last week the return of the incredible PLOTS WITH GUNS. I’m thrilled Smith’s figured out a way to make it work. It really was one of the finest sources of online crime fiction back in the day.
And this misanthrope from the UK is starting D20, an online/print mag for degenerate crime/mystery/thriller flash fiction. He’s taking submissions now.
The only thing that would make today better is if Tribe announced the return of FLASHING IN THE GUTTERS.
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Copyright © 52 Novels, 2007. All rights reserved. Except when they're not. I'll let you know. Visit 52 DBA Lehane’s annual writing competition 2007-11-26 08:43:36 Copyright © 52 Novels, 2007. Come get the good stuff directly from the source at 52novels dot com.Hey kids… it’s time once again for DBA Lehane’s short story contest. If you recall, last year’s challenge was to write a story with just six words (like Hemingway’s famous six-word story).
This time around you’ve got a little more to work with—the entire alphabet.
Well, you were allowed to use the entire alphabet last year, too. No, in this year’s contest you’re limited to twenty six words using the letters of the alphabet as the first letter of each word… in sequence.
So that means the first word of your story begins with “A,” second word begins with “B,” and so on through “Z.” Check out DBA’s example here, called AN A-Z OF LAST NIGHT’S DATE…AND WHAT I DID AFTERWARDS!
It should be a lot of fun and the winner gets a £25 gift card to their online retailer of choice. S Read more: writing
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The Sunday Salon and "No news is good news" embodied 2007-12-16 12:06:03 Copyright © 52 Novels, 2007. Come get the good stuff directly from the source at 52novels dot com.Hard to believe it was a week ago that I last posted. The previous seven days flew by like… well, let’s just say it was fast.
I haven’t been taking a break from 52 Novels. In fact, I’ve been working on the project a lot:
I finished THE CONCRETE MAZE a few days ago and moved on to one of Donald Hamilton’s Matt Helm books, THE SILENCERS.
I’m currently reading books forty-five (the one I can’t seem to finish) and forty-six (THE SILENCERS), which means ol’ Slowpokey McSlowpokerson here’s gotta hustle to finish 52-in-52 for 2007.
I’ve also been thinking about a retool for this place:
I’ve got a new theme picked out, but it’ll require some tweaking before it goes live.
There’ll be regular weekly and monthly feature sort of stuff.
Plus, I’m reworking some pages, and actively looking for new goodies for the do Read more: Sunday
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The Sunday Salon and a beautiful hunk of heartbreak 2007-12-09 08:20:12 Copyright © 52 Novels, 2007. Come get the good stuff directly from the source at 52novels dot com.First things first: I just hooked up with Debra Hamel’s group of Sunday
readers/bloggers who post up thoughts and stuff about what they’ve got their noses into.
There’s nothing to it… I figured I’d be reading and writing on Sundays anyhoo. Check it out and sign up. Once you do, Deb adds your RSS feed to the group’s Yahoo Pipe. Then that gets blasted out into the world for all to aggregate.
It’s a nice way to be social and learn about some great reads from people around the globe.
That said, I’ve been working my way through Steven Torres’s latest, THE CONCRETE MAZE. Two words: it’s fan-freaking-tastic. (Yes, the hyphens make it one word!)
A while back, I’d read DEATH IN PRECINCT PUERTO RICO and wasn’t bowled over by it. I liked it, yes. But it wasn’t spectacular.
Enter THE CONCRETE MAZE. It’s absolute noir Read more: Salon
The Elephino monthly smackdown 2007-12-18 08:49:56 Copyright © 52 Novels, 2007. Come get the good stuff directly from the source at 52novels dot com.My sister site is running a challenge for writers, part of an ongoing monthly face-off series that’s been newly christened today.
Winner gets a $15 Amazon gift card. It ain’t much, but it’s fifteen bucks more than you’ve got right now.
Visit Elephino Creative Industries for details.
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