Showing posts with label Novel Writing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Novel Writing. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 20, 2016

A Sample of Taffy

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Right, progress on my second novel, Taffy was a Welshman, has been slowed by some great joys in life, but we're underway again. And to ...
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Thursday, August 20, 2015

Be Not Another. . .

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Well, here's a new one : I was the envy of my 30-something friends in Palo Alto, Calif. I had my own law office right on California Av...
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Saturday, July 18, 2015

Watchman: The Shadow Side of a Classic

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Well, I've read Go Set a Watchman , and I see what all the angst is about. The novel is in its first half sweet without being cloying-...
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Saturday, July 11, 2015

Return to Macomb: Atticus Finch's Dark Side

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The release of Go Set a Watchman isn't until next week (July 14, to be precise), and it's already controversial. From the New York...
Monday, February 23, 2015

The Lost Masterpiece

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Imagine a novel sequence, building to a climax after five preceding volumes, reaching what is meant to be its grad conclusion in volume six....
Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Reflections on Trollope Country

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Ellen Moody has published a thought-provoking essay online regarding Phineas at Bay . As the author of the book under consideration--not r...
Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Who Will Walk Through the Mirror Door?

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This song from the Who's 2006 album Endless Wire (which doesn't get enough love, by the way; see David Fricke's perceptive re...
Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Another Review for Phineas at Bay

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Novelist Tyler R. Tichelaar , has posted a review of Phineas at Bay , in which he writes : "Phineas at Bay" is an intriguing seque...
Thursday, November 27, 2014

In Memoriam, P.D. James

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I was sorry to hear this morning of the death of the great crime novelist, P.D. James . I have long enjoyed her wonderfully complex charact...
Sunday, November 16, 2014

The Colors of Autumn

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I am currently embracing the season of Autumn--always my favorite, in fact--and the pleasures it brings. I've been traveling more than ...
Tuesday, October 14, 2014

On Forsyte Changes

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So, after viewing the entire 1967 adaptation , I decided to re-engage with the 2002-2003 adaptation of The Forsyte Saga , the first season o...
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Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Phineas in Review: How Did I Not Point This One Out?

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I don't know how I did this, but I don't appear to have highlighted a very fine review (on Goodreads) of Phineas at Bay by Douglas...
Sunday, September 14, 2014

Forsyte Phonetics, Philology, and Fate

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I have always been bemused by the fact that the received pronunciation of the first name of Irene Heron Forsyte , the heroine of John Galswo...
Wednesday, September 10, 2014

And Love Itself Have Rest: Indian Summer of a Forsyte

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In his Indian Summer of a Forsyte , John Galsworthy returned to the story he had laid down, he thought, forever--that of Irene Forsyte, né...
Thursday, August 21, 2014

High Praise from a Great Source

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I have received a wonderful endorsement for Phineas at Bay : In writing Phineas at Bay, John Wirenius has done the Trollope-loving world a g...
Sunday, August 10, 2014

The Base Metal Shows Through: Hem and Fitz

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The New Yorker has an interesting piece on the new edition of The Sun Also Rises : Early drafts of the book are well known to scholars, and...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014

Confession of Errors

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So, the thing about writing a 500+ page book is that, even with the best editorial review and will in the world, a few typos and errors wi...
Saturday, July 26, 2014

My World With Bel Kaufman

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I was saddened to see that Bel Kaufman died yesterday, aged 103 . Now, granted, 103 is a great age to attain, and somewhat mutes the mou...
Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Phineas Redux: The Final Proof

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So, as I mentioned , the last step before publication is my approval of the final cover as it has been applied to the actual physical book. ...
Saturday, July 12, 2014

A Real Thing in the World

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Today I received a notification--actually just now, I received a notification--that my initial author's copy of Phineas at Bay has ship...
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