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Lori Rader-Day
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in Thorntown, Indiana
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The Black Hour
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2014
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Little Pretty Things
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2015
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The Day I Died
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2017
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10 editions
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Under a Dark Sky
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2018
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The Lucky One
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An Elegant Hand
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Dia de Los Muertos
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2010
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Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine (March/April 2014)
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Unloaded Volume 2: More Crime Writers Writing Without Guns
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Murder-a-Go-Go's: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Music of The Go-Go's
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Under a Dark Sky is an Anthony nominee!
I was updating some events on this site, getting organized all back-to-school style when I realized I had never posted about Under a Dark Sky being an Anthony Award nominee. WHAT? A chance to brag, missed?
Well, it is. Under a Dark Sky is a nominee for the Anthony Award for Best Paperback Original, along with some great books by friends James Ziskin, Kellye Garrett, Alison Gaylin, and Naomi Hirahara. Full list of...missed?
Well, Read more of this blog post »
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“A god who cares more about a little water on the head than my daughter's character is not a deity I want her to spend eternity with.”
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Under a Dark Sky is a Lefty Award Finalist!
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Big news from my trip to Bouchercon!
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Thank you so much, Liz! You know, I used to read mysteries when I was young (though not Nancy Drew, for some reason), forgot about mysteries as an adult, really, and then when I started to write...crime came out. So I don't know that I decided on...
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Lori Rader-Day has completed the 2018 Reading Challenge
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| I love it that I am the first person to mark a book read on Goodreads because I wrote it. Five stars, you betcha. Hope you like it, too. | |
“I was still thinking about what he’d said about belief. We are more than the magic we believe in. We are more. It had never occurred to me to be more. My life had been chiseled down to the smallest portion. My own doing. I had only ever made plans to be less, to be nothing more than alive.”
― The Day I Died
― The Day I Died
“Did he not know that there was a lower point, yet, when you had accepted your own fate but found yourself too weak to go through with it? The point at which you understood you had made not a single ripple in the pond, and neither would your loss.”
― Little Pretty Things
― Little Pretty Things
“I was afraid that I could have changed everything, and hadn’t. I was afraid that everything could yet change, or not, and I was the one who had to decide. I was afraid of choices I had let go, of decisions I might never make. I was afraid I had turned down every opportunity to be someone other than who I was now. I was afraid I would never get back to someplace real, someplace on the map that would feel like a place to start. I was afraid of the future. I didn’t think I’d ever thought about the future before, beyond fantasies. Fantasies didn’t require anything from me, but real life, the real future, did. I held the lifejackets against the slight swell of my belly. I had never had a future before.”
― The Day I Died
― The Day I Died
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“I don't teach writing. I teach patience. Toughness. Stubbornness. The willingness to fail. I teach the life. The odd thing is most of the things that stop an inexperienced writer are so far from the truth as to be nearly beside the point. When you feel glosbal doubt about your talent, that is your talent. People who have no talent don't have any doubt.”
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“Running a close second [as a writing lesson] was the realization that stopping a piece of work just because it's hard, either emotionally or imaginatively, is a bad idea. Sometimes you have to go on when you don't feel like it, and sometimes you're doing good work when it feels like all you're managing is to shovel shit from a sitting position.”
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“Being in an M.F.A. is like living in a sci-fi biosphere on an alien planet, where everyone shares your obscure visionary notions: namely, that literature matters, that English professors know more than other people, that typing, alone, in a library, is what everyone should be doing on a Friday night. Better to tell strangers that speaking Klingon is what turns you on.”
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“A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.”
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Thanks! Not a textbook, just personal exploration. I LOVE Bird by Bird. Lamott is fantastic. What course are you teaching at RU??
Lori wrote: "IMO, the best instructional book on writing is John Dufresne's The Lie that Tells a Truth. The best inspirational one might be Annie Lamott's Bird by Bird. Looking for a textbook? I think I'll be u..."
IMO, the best instructional book on writing is John Dufresne's The Lie that Tells a Truth. The best inspirational one might be Annie Lamott's Bird by Bird. Looking for a textbook? I think I'll be using the Dufresne book for the class I'm teaching this fall. At RU!
What is the best book on fiction writing you have read?
