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I'm finishing off editing the book at the moment and when I'm done with that I'm hoping to have a rather special competition/give away later on in the week, so please do stay tuned.
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
I Hear The Sirens In The Street
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I'm finishing off editing the book at the moment and when I'm done with that I'm hoping to have a rather special competition/give away later on in the week, so please do stay tuned.
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Excellent news.
This is jolly generous of you!
I have read into the second chapter, and I am hooked. I need to stop because I want to read the whole book. Once again, I like the immediacy of the writing, and Sean is refreshingly self aware, I think :) I'd like to wait for the whole book, and I look forward to it. I like the musical references, even if I don't know the all. so I can put my iTunes to work. (More stretching).
That is wonderful news. You just made my day. And possibly my week. :)
I meant to wait and stretch this out a bit, but I read through it all, already. Can't resist. Good to see Newberryport again. :) Still thinking about a Michael cameo?
just read all eight chapters - ace! and I know all the music references - they work so well - hooking me back into that time.. And it reminded me that we were very patient with LPs, singles and cassettes - and we probably loved them more.. (I digress, as usual)
Outstanding. Can't wait for the whole thing. Keep it up mate
John
Cheers, mate.
Deb
Glad you're enjoying it so far.
Lil
I can understand that. It should be out in January.
Monica
I'm definitely planning to have a Michael Forsythe cameo but I think I'll have to squeeze it in in book 3.
Swooper
Glad you're digging it.
Do you know yet if Seventh Street Books will pick it up for American readers?
Seana
I havent heard yet although I think its interesting that Seventh Street are calling Cold Cold book of the Troubles trilogy, so that would imply, I guess, that they're going to publish all 3.
I assume everything will be fine unless book 1 completely tanks.
Or unless they do.
Seana
True. Naming your publishing imprint after the place where they found a famous author dead in the street isnt perhaps the best omen.
I was on Amazon hoping CCG was on Kindle when I notices someone in Florida was selling a copy...for $137.30 plus shipping. It must be a hit!
Okay, I know I should know this, but who is the famous author? My Google searching skills, though of aid to others today, did nothing for my own quest.
Glenna
They must have printed that on gold leaf.
Bizarre. Apparently its available now on Nook for 10 bucks and it'll be an amazom.com e book in a few weeks too.
Seana
Edgar Allen Poe. 7th Street.
Poe lived on Seventh Street in Philadelphia (you can visit his house to this day), but he died in Baltimore. That’s why he’d buried in there and why a group of us at Bouchercon in Baltimore in 2008 talked about digging up his body and bringing it back to Philadelphia.
I wrote about this in a blog post at the time:
I can't reveal what plans were hatched at the pub and restaurant – call it the Bucket o' Bait – but had I been able to score a doggie bag big enough, Poe's body would be back in Philly now.
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I thought of Poe, but looked up the Wikipedia article and it said Baltimore as well.
Peter, Seana
Have either of you see that John Cusack movie about Poe? Its not out here and I've heard very mixed reviews about it. Ebert wasnt so keen but he gave 4 stars to Prometheus so what does he know.
No. Netflix gives it three stars for me, and they are usually pretty accurate. I did read the Linda Fairstein mystery called Entombed, which dealt with used the fact that Poe had lived briefly in Greenwich Village. I like Fairstein for the way she unearths NYC environs for her stories.
I saw clips from it, along with an interview in which Cusack talks about the movie. It looked like it might be an exciting, flashy adventure story, though I'm not sure how much it has to do with Poe.
Seana, Peter
Ok sounds like a DVD movie for sure rather than a cinema one.
I do like Cusack though he's in 2 of my favourite films: Gross Pointe Blank and The Thin Red Line.
He's also in The Ice Harvest, which is worth a look, just as the novel on which it's based is worth a read.
I think the Poe movies is one of those deals that imagines a great author as a detective.
Great authors really have very little else to do but be detectives, do they? Crank out a few chapters, call it a day, and then it's really just a kind of civic duty to go out and solve crimes.
It's kind of similar to how Abraham Lincoln, after a long day of trying to win the Civil War, seems to have a few hours left to be a vampire slayer.
Oscar Wilde is a detective, and I think Samuel Johnson is as well. Other literary figures have cast as fictional detectives, but al probably lived in times before authors had to promote their own books and so had more time to detect.
Peter
Someone should have Jesus solving mysteries in first century Galilee or maybe Hitler as a grubby divorce detective in Freud's prewar Vienna.
the Jesus one would be good, because he could use magic to solve all those tricky locked room problems and of course he could resurrect the dead and ask them who killed them.
He would need a Watson, but then, he would have twelve to choose from.
Hard-boiled Jesus: "Forgive them, Father. They know not what the hell they do."
seana
it would have to be Judas, the rule of contrasts and all that.
Peter
HBJ: "Them fuckas is going down like the Gadarene swine. Them bitches dont swim no mo."
Read It Had to Be Judas, the first Jesus of Nazareth mystery.
It;s a locked-tomb mystery!
I don't think so. I would choose Peter (no offense Peter R.) or maybe more likely, Doubting Thomas.
Seana
Peter is too much of a yes man but Thomas would be good.
Peter
You'd have to have a running gag about Jesus's lousy carpentry skills or something.
Peter would have a significant role in at least novel in the series: Bust-Out.
It depends on how smart you think Watson is.
Peter, Seana
Didnt Monty Python already do this? Sort of.
Yeah, but their version was a comedy.
Probably. But the profit lies in the permutation.
Anonymous, my ointment-coated foot! That was me.
And to think when I suggested to Declan Burke the idea for a novel about Oliver Twist tracking down Jack the Ripper he thought I was crazy...
Write it as a screenplay, John.
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