"Messages" tidbit #1
"Messages" tidbit #1
Latest user review for "Messages," just posted on Amazon.com:
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"Loved it! A very frank and honest portrayal of the quirky side of the news business. The character development is great and the story moves fast. It's hard to put the book down once you've started." (Five stars). -- posted by "wasu"
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I've said that many of the anecdotes in "Messages" were inspired by actual events. I get asked from time to time what's "real" and what's not. Basically, it's all "real" in that the characters and events paint an accurate portrait of life in a TV newsroom, especially during that era.
The crime thread at the heart of the novel was inspired by the case of a homicidal vigilante in one of the markets where I once worked. The version in the novel is highly fictionalized. But vigilante crimes can and do happen, and they sometimes involve surprising people.
Like the example above, many other incidents in the book were loosely inspired by real events. Here's another. There is a scene in the book involving a law enforcement official who demonstrates the effectiveness of a bullet proof vest on a reporter. Although the incident in the book is fictionalized in terms of the characters, location, etc., the shooting itself happened exactly as described in the book -- expletive included (which made it hard for the reporter to use the demonstration).
FC
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ECK0DBK
Latest user review for "Messages," just posted on Amazon.com:
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"Loved it! A very frank and honest portrayal of the quirky side of the news business. The character development is great and the story moves fast. It's hard to put the book down once you've started." (Five stars). -- posted by "wasu"
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I've said that many of the anecdotes in "Messages" were inspired by actual events. I get asked from time to time what's "real" and what's not. Basically, it's all "real" in that the characters and events paint an accurate portrait of life in a TV newsroom, especially during that era.
The crime thread at the heart of the novel was inspired by the case of a homicidal vigilante in one of the markets where I once worked. The version in the novel is highly fictionalized. But vigilante crimes can and do happen, and they sometimes involve surprising people.
Like the example above, many other incidents in the book were loosely inspired by real events. Here's another. There is a scene in the book involving a law enforcement official who demonstrates the effectiveness of a bullet proof vest on a reporter. Although the incident in the book is fictionalized in terms of the characters, location, etc., the shooting itself happened exactly as described in the book -- expletive included (which made it hard for the reporter to use the demonstration).
FC
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ECK0DBK
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