Christopher C. Payne's Blog, page 8
August 18, 2012
JournalStone Publishing Announces Release of Robert E. Hirsch’s new blockbuster novel, Contrition
For immediate release: JournalStone Publishing Announces Release of Robert E. Hirsch’s new blockbuster novel, Contrition. SAN FRANCISCO, August 18, 2012 –JournalStone Publishing President, Christopher C. Payne is pleased to announce the imminent release of Robert E. Hirsch’s novel, Contrition, which will go on sale on August 24th. ISBN‐13: 978-1-936564-40-8 LCCN: 2012937963 Category: Horror/Mystery/Thriller/Supernatural Price: $16.95 [...]
August 12, 2012
Interview with Anne C. Petty, author at JournalStone Publishing
Research is a good writer’s tool. The single caveat to any research effort is to be that good writer who can see into the information for the spark which will ignite the story. Information is only information, if applied without this cunning and imagination. The best of writers will admit that many times, even a [...]
August 11, 2012
To Is, or Not to Is…Or Perhaps to Do Both
Some while ago, I attempted to write an essay on the uses and abuses of is (and its cohorts are, was, were, be, being, been, seems, and becomes) in poetry. I set out to do so without ever using the word except as the word. I could talk about the meaning symbolized by those two [...]
August 10, 2012
JournalStone Publishing Announces Release of Jaleta Clegg’s new Science Fiction novel, Priestess Of The Eggstone.
For immediate release: JournalStone Publishing Announces Release of Jaleta Clegg’s new Science Fiction novel, Priestess Of The Eggstone. SAN FRANCISCO, August 10, 2012 –JournalStone Publishing President, Christopher C. Payne is pleased to announce the release of Jaleta Clegg’s novel, Priestess Of The Eggstone, which will go on sale today, August 10th. ISBN‐13: 978-1-936564-47-7 LCCN: 2012937962 [...]
August 4, 2012
A Rose by Any Other Name—Some Types of Sentences
A sentence is a sentence is a sentence. Actually, it would be more to the point to paraphrase George Orwell’s trenchant comment in Animal Farm: All sentences are created equal, but some are more equal than others. By this I mean that any sentence—and here I include fragments—may be effective when used in the right [...]
August 3, 2012
JournalStone Publishing donates $500 of JS books to Free Library of Philadelphia
SAN FRANCISCO, August 1, 2012 –JournalStone Publishing President, Christopher C. Payne is pleased to announce that Anna Silvers Lee, Chief of the Materials Management Division of the Free Library of Philadelphia has won Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) of JS books in the JournalStone Publishing Contest, open to all attending librarians who signed up to receive [...]
August 2, 2012
Interview with Robert E. Hirsch, author at JournalStone Publishing
Writers are lucky to be able to craft characters that readers find truly interesting. There is more than luck involved when readers discover characters with which they can share some deeply affected emotions. Within those books, a profound skill is being demonstrated. Characterizations can be contrived; humanity requires understanding, and vivid experiences. Shown such human [...]
July 26, 2012
POINT-OF-VIEW and OTHER ODDITIES
In some ways, contemporary storytellers’ concerns with point-of-view are the great-great-great grandchildren (and a couple dozen more greats if you wish) of ancient writers’ concerns for Unity. In the Poetics, Aristotle defined three Unities as essential for Tragedy: Unity of Action, that is, that there be a single plot, with as few subplots as possible—ideally [...]
July 22, 2012
JournalStone Publishing Announces Signing of New Authors: Allyson Bird, Lisa Morton, & Joseph Nassise
For immediate release: JournalStone Publishing Announces Signing of New Authors And Forthcoming Titles By Allyson Bird, Lisa Morton, & Joseph Nassise SAN FRANCISCO, July 21, 2012 –JournalStone Publishing President, Christopher C. Payne is pleased to announce that JournalStone Publishing has signed three new, prominent, award-winning authors and will have three exciting, forthcoming titles to release [...]
July 21, 2012
Interview with Jaleta Clegg, author at JournalStone Publishing
Living the life you write. Writers can’t always. For many, writing is the escape from the mundane, the wielding of powers they can only display in pages, because wearing a cape in public still has not caught on as a fashion trend. Few of us feel our daily lives really are the stuff of novels. [...]
