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Les Edgerton
Goodreads Author
Member Since
April 2009
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/blueskies
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Hooked: Write Fiction That Grabs Readers at Page One & Never Lets Them Go
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2007
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6 editions
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Finding Your Voice: How to Put Personality in Your Writing
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2003
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6 editions
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Just Like That
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2011
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5 editions
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The Bitch
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2011
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5 editions
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The Rapist
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2013
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The Perfect Crime
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2011
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Mirror, Mirror
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2012
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Hard Times
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The Death of Tarpons
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Adrenaline Junkie
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MY SCREENPLAY NAMED A FINALIST
Hi folks,
Just got some good news! My screenplay, THE DEATH OF TARPONS, was named a Finalist in the Script Matrix True Story Screenplay Competition.
Announcing the Finalists of the Scriptmatix True Story Contest!
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We are thrilled to share with you the highly anticipated announcement of the finalists in t
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"It started with original and interesting insight about how to start a story, but the further I went along, the more something became painfully clear : science backs most of conventional writing advice.
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Hi Mark, I think you'll enjoy Gerald's book. He wrote it in my online class on novel writing. Blue skies, Les Edgerton
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Les Edgerton
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The Origins of Benjamin Hackett
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Hi Steven, Here's a novel I think you'll enjoy. Gerald wrote this while a student in my online novel-writing class. Blue skies, Les
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Les Edgerton
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Hi Matthias, I think you'll enjoy Gerald's novel--he wrote it in my online novel-writing class. Blue skies, Les Edgerton
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Les Edgerton
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The Origins of Benjamin Hackett
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Hi David--Here's a book I think you'll enjoy. It's Gerald's first novel, written in my online novel-writing class. Blue skies, Les Edgerton
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"If anyone else had written this book I don't think I would have liked it. That's the power of Amor Towles. One of the best writers of modern times. He can take a story that really isn't all that appealing and make it worth your while. The best charac"
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“If life hands you lemons... make lemonade. Then... try to find someone to whom life has handed vodka...”
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“Wissen Sie, weshalb man zwischen uns Verurteilten eine Zelle unbelegt lässt? Damit wir kein Komplott schmieden, uns selbst abzumurksen. Das würde gegen das Gesetz verstoßen [...]. Ein sehr schwerwiegender Verstoß, allerdings! In diesem Fürstentum wird es als niederträchtige Handlungsweise erachtet, den Versuch zu unternehmen, das Exekutionskommando auszutricksen.”
― The Rapist
― The Rapist
“What is reasonable for you to expect is that no matter how idiosyncratic or “different” your own, particular voice may be, there will be a number of readers who will like it. Who will be drawn to the personality on the page.”
― Finding Your Voice: How to Put Personality in Your Writing
― Finding Your Voice: How to Put Personality in Your Writing
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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
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“To find out if she really loved me, I hooked her up to a lie detector. And just as I suspected, my machine was broken.
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― Love Quotes for the Ages. Specifically Ages 19-91.
― Love Quotes for the Ages. Specifically Ages 19-91.
“She craved a tall glass of the fresh-squeezed lemonade from the pitcher she’d left chilling in the fridge. Two glasses served with a generous slice of pound cake with orange glaze icing sounded twice as nice.”
― Fur the Win
― Fur the Win
“Wissen Sie, weshalb man zwischen uns Verurteilten eine Zelle unbelegt lässt? Damit wir kein Komplott schmieden, uns selbst abzumurksen. Das würde gegen das Gesetz verstoßen [...]. Ein sehr schwerwiegender Verstoß, allerdings! In diesem Fürstentum wird es als niederträchtige Handlungsweise erachtet, den Versuch zu unternehmen, das Exekutionskommando auszutricksen.”
― The Rapist
― The Rapist
“What is reasonable for you to expect is that no matter how idiosyncratic or “different” your own, particular voice may be, there will be a number of readers who will like it. Who will be drawn to the personality on the page.”
― Finding Your Voice: How to Put Personality in Your Writing
― Finding Your Voice: How to Put Personality in Your Writing
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Hey Les, I tried adding your other books but it won't let me add them even though I am a librarian. Do you know if you can claim them from the Leslie Edgerton author page?
