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Ray Pace

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Born

in Oak Park, Illinois, The United States

Website

http://www.raypacewrites.com

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Genre

Humor and Comedy, Crime, Historical Fiction

Influences

Hemingway, Vonnegut, Robert B. Parker, Elmore Leonard, Carl Hiaasen

Member Since

September 2012

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About Ray Pace

Veteran print and broadcast writer Ray Pace is a member of the Authors Guild and the Alliance of Independent Authors. He is founding President of the Hawaii Writers Guild, and a member of the Waimea Writers Support Group.

His works of fiction are:
Disappearing Act: A Las Vegas Love Story, Sort Of...https://amzn.to/2MYIBKy
Hemingway in Hawaii http://bitly.ws/3Y6u
Bearstone Blackie, Detective http://bitly.ws/3Y6x
Captain Mike's Honolulu Fright Night Tour, a ghost story. http://bitly.ws/3Y6z

His book, Hemingway, Memories of Les is a memoir dealing with Pace's friendship with Leicester Hemingway, author of My Brother, Ernest Hemingway. http://bitly.ws/3Y6D

Some of the places Ray Pace has worked as a writer:
Newspapers:
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	Disappearing Act: A Las Vegas Love Story, Sort of... (Wise Guys You'll Love, If You Know What's Good For You.) 4.05 avg rating — 88 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Babylon Deception (Wise Guys You'll Love, If You Know What's Good For You.) 4.64 avg rating — 14 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sea Change in Crimson (Wise Guys You'll Love, If You Know What's Good For You.) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 8 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hemingway, Memories of Les really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hollywood Blockbuster: Sometimes a Bomb Becomes a Hit (Wise Guys You'll Love, If You Know What's Good For You.) 3.63 avg rating — 8 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Captain Mike's Honolulu Fright Night Tour 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hemingway in Hawaii 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bearstone Blackie, Detective it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cadillac Clem: A Cody Ross Enigma (Wise Guys You'll Love, If You Know What's Good For You.) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Horseback in the Hills 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1993	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Writer Groups and Deadlines

My writing career has been blessed with deadlines. In my broadcast news days, I frequently had eight deadlines per day, Newspapers were a bit better with only one or two each day but those stories required more ink, more research.
These days, I have a weekly deadline, self-imposed. I belong to a writers support group that meets each Tuesday morning. My job, I demand of my self, is to show up with n Read more of this blog post »

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