Recently I started a new job. Macmillan publishing will be launching two new websites in 2011, one focusing on crime fiction and one on romance, and to that end they've hired a couple of people to maintain Twitter and Facebook presences. My new Twitter names are @parlormysteries and @safehousecrime, while my new Facebook pages can be found at Parlor Cozies and Safehouse Thrillers.
This is just a part time job, but what with everything else on my plate at the moment, it managed to take up the vast majority of my writing time this week. So my sentences come from the Safehouse page, and pose a question I'd love you to answer over there!
Who are your favorite characters? Mine are John Connolly's Charlie Parker (and his pals Angel and Louis), Robert Parker's Spenser (more mystery, less thriller), Lee Child's Reacher and Kathy Reichs's Temperance Brennan.
As to what I read this week, it seems the only thing I saw at all was that annoying Twitter spam about "Writers Needed." Now, just in case that comes into your mail box as well as your Twitter feed, I thought I'd post the Writer Beware warning about this. It can be found in a post on Fake Writing Jobs. Here's a brief clip:
"Thousands of people online are discovering how doing simple writing jobs from home can be so profitable! See how they're doing it by signing up now!" No experience necessary! Work at home! Make fat money (never mind that pesky earnings disclaimer)! All this for a mere monthly membership fee of $47 (although if you don't read the Terms and Conditions, you won't know that).So what about you guys? Read or written anything of interest? As usual, post a couple sentences and we'll link to you!
- Leah J. Utas has some real bloodsuckers over at her blog this week.
- GM has some edge-of-the-seat sentences in the comments.
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Congratulations on the new job. Good on you.
Hmm, I'll have to give your sentences/question a bit of thought.
Meanwhile, I have something up at my place.
This is a good exercise for stretching your writing muscles: I like it.
Two I read, from Paulo Coelho's "The Witch of Portobello": "When I returned to England, the first thing I did was to tell the producers that making a documentary about the historical figure of Dracula was nonsense, and that one book by a mad Irishman had created a truly terrible image of Transylvania, which was, in fact, one of the loveliest places on the planet. Obviously the producers were none too pleased, but at that point, I didn't care what they thought."
Two I wrote: "The whap-whap of the propeller blades sounded like a train, and blew smoke, dust, and debris into the room through the shattered window. He knew he didn't have much time before he was found out."
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The new job sounds like loads of work but lots of fun. Sounds like all your part time jobs add up to about 3 full time jobs.
I'm reading John Connolly's Every Dead Thing: "For a time, murder tourists would drive up to the house and videotape one another standing in the yard. A local patrolman even caught one couple trying to break in through the back door in order to pose in the chairs where Susan and Jennifer had died."
I wrote: "Mrs. Parkinson looked like the model for a ship's figurehead, with breasts that fascinated the boys and piloted her around the classroom. She came across as statuesque despite needing a stool for the blackboard."
Congrats on your new job. SOunds pretty exciting, and maybe it will open some doors.
Here are two sentences by J. Kingston Pierce of TheRapSheet.com . They're printed on the back cover of the book I'm reading:
"BEAT to a PULP defies its brief history by turning out stories fit for a more mature, established publication. The tales contained here-- whether they feature drifters, killers, cutlass-swinging pirates or slaughterous simians; whether they were penned by established wordsmiths or new hands at the game--speak well of the editors' commitment to pulp that thrills and moves readers, rather than merely shocking them."
I've been writing a lot, but no paltry two of mine can beat that tease, so you'll just have to let your mouths water a second or two longer for our giveaway. If you can't wait, of course, everyplace worth shopping has already got BTAP Round 1!
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