Re: Re: Mike M. Especially--And Others

From: <mikal9000_at_comcast.net_at_hypermail.org>
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 17:52:38 +0000

I wish I could provide advice or help, but I pretty much stick to non-fiction.

Plus, I prefer hardboiled mysteries -- the noir-er, the better. Ever read any James Ellroy?

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From: "tschibasch" <tschibasch_at_yahoo.com>
> Hm. I would love to read an excerpt of this murder mystery.
>
> John
>
>
> --- In OliveStarlightOrchestra_at_yahoogroups.com, "Joy McCann"
> <joy.mccann_at_...> wrote:
> >
> > I expect to be finished with the first draft of my murder mystery by
> > Halloween. Some of the chapters will still suck, but I expect to have
> > an unbroken narrative at that point; problems can be fixed in second
> > and third (and fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh) drafts.
> >
> > Still, some of the beginning and ending chapters should be reasonably
> > polished, and I think it would be reasonable to try to get
> > representation circa December/January, using sample chapters and my
> > outline. If anyone knows anyone who handles crime fiction, please let
> > me know. (This thing is probably at the median point on the tea
> > cozy-to-mean streets continuum, and I'm trying to write a novel that
> > would stand alone even if there weren't a dead body in it. There is a
> > love interest, contra some old rules about these things, and the tale
> > starts out with a lot of conversation and ends up with people waving
> > guns around. Our heroine is a plucky tall woman with a photographic
> > memory and a prudish streak; there are too many clever/sardonic
> > characters in the narrative.)
> >
> > Really, enough about me. What do YOU think of the chances that this
> > thing will Really Sell?
> >
> > --J
> >
>
>
>
>





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