Kenny Kemp
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male
place of birth
San Diego, The United States
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Literature & Fiction, Religion & Spirituality, Science Fiction & Fantasy
influences
Spielberg, Hitchcock, Conrad, McMurtry, Turow, King, Anne Tyler, Silverberg, Bradbury, Potok
member since
October 2007
about this author
I am a restless soul who has always had the desire to hear and tell a good story. I majored in film production in college, got sidetracked by law school and a few years practicing law, returned to graduate film school, worked in Hollywood for several years as a screenwriter and filmmaker, stumbled into writing novels, and got unbelievably lucky when my memoir Dad Was a Carpenter won the international self-published book award in 1999, resulting in a three-book deal with publishing giant HarperCollins. I continue to self-publish because I love the hands-on nature of it. I speak to writers' groups and book clubs as I travel around the U.S. promoting my books. When I'm not writing, I love to fly my plane, listen to jazz, compose schmaltzy love...more
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My TV Cannot Survive the Iranian Uprising
I WAS SO ANGRY, I ALMOST THREW MY SHOE AT THE TV. An entire nation had been subjugated, a people enslaved, their culture decimated, their vast wealth purloined by a totalitarian regime. The world stood by, the extent of its outrage limited to making angry faces at the aggressor.I am not talking about Iran. I am talking about Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990. When George H.W. Bush finally ordered...more
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I HATED HEAVEN: a novel of love after death by Kenny Kemp (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.44 — 27 ratings — published 1998 |
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LIGHTLAND: A Soul's Journey by Kenny Kemp (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.92 — 13 ratings — published 2008 |
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DAD WAS A CARPENTER: A Father, a Son, and the Blueprints for a Meaningful Life by Kenny Kemp (Goodreads author) avg rating 4.00 — 8 ratings — published 2001 |
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THE WELCOMING DOOR: Parables of the Carpenter by Kenny Kemp (Goodreads author) avg rating 4.50 — 6 ratings — published 2002 |
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DAD WAS A CARPENTER: Blueprints for a Meaningful Life by Kenny Kemp (Goodreads author) avg rating 4.00 — 4 ratings — published 1999 |
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CITY ON A HILL: Parables of the Carpenter (Kemp, Kenny. Parables of the Carpenter Series, Bk. 2.) by Kenny Kemp (Goodreads author) avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published 2004 |
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The Carpenter of Galilee & the Welcoming Door by Kenny Kemp (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published 2003 |
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OKI'S ISLAND: A Hero's Journey by Kenny Kemp (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published 2006 |
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THE WELCOMING DOOR (Parables of the Carpenter, Vol. 1) by Kenny Kemp (Goodreads author) avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2008 |
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DAD WAS A CARPENTER: A Father, a Son, and the Blueprints for a Meaningful Life by Kenny Kemp (Goodreads author) avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2008 |
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LIGHTLAND (Mystery & Thrillers)
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A supernatural thriller set in the near future featuring a deadly worldwide virus, the cloning of a man dead for 6000 years, and the dawning realization by the scientists that they have interfered with the journey of his soul.
Outline: "Characters & Viewpoint" (Reference)
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An outline of Orson Scott Card's indispensible book "Characters & Viewpoint"
The Absurdity of English (Humor)
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I got this via anonymous e-mail. Wish'd I'd written it!
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Meltdown: A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked, and the Government Bailout Will Make Things Worse (Hardcover) by Thomas E. Woods Jr. bookshelves: currently-reading |
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Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto (Hardcover) by Mark R. Levin |
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Meltdown: A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked, and the Government Bailout Will Make Things Worse (Hardcover) by Thomas E. Woods Jr. |
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God and Man at Yale (Paperback) by William F. Buckley Jr. |
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Cancel Your Own Goddam Subscription: Notes and Asides from the National Review (Hardcover) by William F. Buckley Jr. |
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Top Secret: The Truth Behind Today's Pop Mysticisms (Hardcover) by Robert M. Price |
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"It is the writer's privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart."
— William Faulkner
— William Faulkner
"Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it."
— Michael Crichton
— Michael Crichton
"When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it. Then gradually, I write one page and then another. One day's work is all I can permit myself to contemplate."
— John Steinbeck
— John Steinbeck
"Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader -- not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon."
— E.L. Doctorow
— E.L. Doctorow
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