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The M-word

DOES MARKETING OPPRESS OR FREE  YOU?

Note:  After much google searching on how to "easily embed a video" I could not embed video. Also my scheduler didn't work, again. Anyway, here is the post video-less, late:
It's a good question, and complicated, and my answer is evolving day by day. For instance, this minute, thanks to marketing, I'm in Toronto (!!). I arrived last week to attend the Arthur Ellis awards ceremonies (sorry to say I didn't get first prize), but it doesn't end here. T...

The Other Side of the Writing Endeavor

Please welcome guest blogger Myra Jolivet, who is a fellow member of the Sisters in Crime NorCal chapter. A bit about her follows her answer to this week's big Q.
Q: Does Marketing Your Book Feel Oppressive or Liberating?

Vocational irony is an alternative description of the shoe-less cobbler’s wife and the cake-less baker’s kids. When you promote and market others for a living, then find yourself with a piece of you to market, it is liberating.
It’s not that I don’t enjoy building strategies f...

A Rage On My Bookshelf, or The Reclamation of Chester Himes

How do books you love stack up to their film adaptations?

For me to come out of a bag on A RAGE IN HARLEM (1991 - Miramax Films) is to risk the ire of a generation of African-American filmgoers who prize the work as a marvel of hilarity. Back when movie audiences were bifurcated along racial lines (pre-GET OUT's paradigm shifting phenomena) the film stood as a considerable achievement in the ability of black storytellers to take a black author's property and bring it to the big screen, albeit...

Mission Possible

by Alan

How do books you love stack up to their film adaptations?

I love Lee Childs’s Jack Reacher books, so, naturally, I was excited when I first heard that a Reacher movie was in the works. Then I learned that Tom Cruise was slated to play Reacher. For those of you who don’t know, in the books, Reacher is a big man (Maybe 6’5” and 250 pounds—I don’t remember exactly). For those of you who don’t know, Tom Cruise is not a big man (I don’t know his measurements exactly, but you wouldn’t confu...

From the page to the screen

How do books you love stack up to their film adaptations?
by Dietrich Kalteis
I think of chapters as scenes in a film when I write them, so it’s alway interesting to see a film adaptation based on a novel I that I read. One shows the story, the other tells it. One delivers the action with images and sound, the other goes deeper into the reason behind an action. One comes with popcorn … Well, maybe it’s not fair to compare them at all, although one does represent the other. 
Cormac McCarthy’...

The Good, the bad and the not so bad

By R.J. Harlick
Sorry, people, I thought I would be able to write a blog in my rush to head out west, but I’m afraid I have run out of time. So I thought I would resurrect a blog I wrote a few years ago.  By the time you read this I will be winging my way to one of my favourite cities, Vancouver.
Do you read reviews? Reply to them? Review the works of other writers?
Even though this was written three years ago, my views on reviews still very much apply. I see them as an integral part of my...

The Film Adaptation

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This is my Brain...

How do you keep the balance between that little world in your head and the real one?

by Paul D. Marks

The simple answer is, I don’t. And I don’t care as long as I don’t call someone by one of my character’s names. Hasn’t happened yet, like it did when I called a girlfriend by another girlfriend’s name. That was not a good day…

And the best answer is what Susan said on Monday, “What? You mean the one in my head isn’t real?” I don’t think I can top that, but I gotta say something, so here goes:

Mos...

Balance? Moi?

"How do you keep the balance between that little world in your head and the real one?"

by Catriona

At the risk of sounding like Lady Catherine de Bourgh, if there was only one it would be a skoosh. Not that Lady Catherine ever used the word "skoosh" but she said - of piano-playing: "If I had ever learned I would be a great proficient" and she always comes to mind when someone, me included, makes a baseless claim.
Fictional houseThe thing that gives me trouble is keeping my little fictional world...

Head out of the clouds? by Cathy Ace

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