tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43338734885444221422024-03-12T19:20:07.951-07:00The Dead ManThe inside scoop on THE DEAD MAN, an exciting new series of original novels by some of the best suspense, mystery, western, horror and science fiction writers working today.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger109125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4333873488544422142.post-21758431079257156642014-01-08T10:12:00.001-08:002014-01-08T10:12:39.740-08:00The Dead Man is REBORN<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span data-mce-style="font-family: inherit;" style="font-family: inherit;">The "second season" finale of THE DEAD MAN, the series of action/adventure/horror novels that William Rabkin and I began two years ago, premieres on January 21st with <a data-mce-href=" http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/asin/B00HQK8U0O/adventuresint-20" href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/asin/B00HQK8U0O/adventuresint-20" target="_blank">REBORN</a>, an action-packed, six-part <a data-mce-href="http://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=5044445011" href="http://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=5044445011" target="_blank">Kindle Serial</a> written by Kate Danley, Phoef Sutton and Lisa Klink. This story is big in every sense of the word... and if it succeeds, then THE DEAD MAN will most likely return in the Kindle Serial format for it's "third season." </span></div>
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Tanis Archer is facing a miserable 25th birthday. She's a part-time barista in her sixth year at Dallas Community College. Her life is going nowhere, fast.</blockquote>
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Because on her way to work, she loses control of her car and is killed in a horrific crash. That should have been the tragic end of her story. But days later, she wakes up on a cold morgue slab...and soon learns that miraculous resurrections have brutal side effects. For starters, there are people around her who look as if they are decomposing from the inside-out, victims of their rotting souls. Even worse, it's no illusion. What she is seeing is real, a shadowy part of the world where the bloody battle between good and evil is being fought every day by Matt Cahill, an ax-wielding "dead man" and his rag-tag army of supernatural freaks.</div>
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Obviously that's not how Tanis wants to spend her after-life--she'd rather party with her new-found abilities--but an unimaginable horror is rising from the Black Sea, and she might just be the only person who can save humanity from an agonizing, never-ending nightmare...</div>
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<b><i>REBORN</i></b> features a fresh, colorful heroine in an action-packed, darkly funny tale of adventure and terror told by an incredible dream team of award-winning, widely-acclaimed writers: <i>USA Today</i> bestselling author <a data-mce-href="http://www.katedanley.com/" href="http://www.katedanley.com/" target="_blank">Kate Danley</a> (<i>The Woodcutter</i>), Emmy Award winning screenwriter and novelist <a data-mce-href="http://www.phoefsutton.com/" href="http://www.phoefsutton.com/" target="_blank">Phoef Sutton</a> (<i>Cheers, Boston Legal), </i>TV writer/producer and author Lisa Klink (<i>Star Trek Voyager, Painkiller Jane)</i>, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author and TV producer <a data-mce-href="http://www.leegoldberg.com/" href="http://www.leegoldberg.com/" target="_blank">Lee Goldberg</a> (<i>The Heist, King City</i>), and two-time Edgar-Award nominated writer <a data-mce-href="http://writingthepilot.com/" href="http://writingthepilot.com/" target="_blank">William Rabkin</a> (<i>Monk, Psych</i>).</blockquote>
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About six month ago, Lee Goldberg gathered all the authors at his house and they broke the story the way Lee & Bill Rabkin would in a TV series "writers' room." Like Bill and Lee, Phoef and Lisa are professional television writers...but this was a new way of working for Kate, but we think she liked it. We had a white board up on the wall, plenty of junk food, and only a general sense of where we wanted to go narratively. And then we brainstormed. By the end of the day, we had a story, which we divvied up into thirds for Kate, Phoef and Lisa to write. A couple of months later, when the three parts came in, Bill and Lee tied them together and smoothed out the rough edges, as we've done many times before on scripts on the various TV series we've produced. <br />
We think REBORN send THE DEAD MAN series in an exciting new direction....and we hope fans of the series will agree!</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4333873488544422142.post-65368551504024578272013-11-29T01:12:00.003-08:002013-11-29T01:12:36.548-08:00Plotting THE RISING DEAD<a href="http://www.leegoldberg.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/0943-Lee-Goldberg-TDMS_THE-RISING-DEAD_7_L.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="0881 Lee Goldberg TDMS_STREETS OF BLOOD" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-19088" height="300" src="http://www.leegoldberg.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/0943-Lee-Goldberg-TDMS_THE-RISING-DEAD_7_L-200x300.jpg" width="200" /></a><em>Stella Green showed Dead Man co-creator Lee Goldberg the manuscript for her novel <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/asin/B00A8UQXT4/lg-wb-otherauthors-20" target="_blank"><strong>Awakening Snakes</strong></a>. The book was great, and her voice was so strong and self-assured, that Lee couldn't believe it was her first novel. So it was a no-brainer for Lee & William Rabkin to offer her an assignment writing the 21st <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=amb_link_359094502_1?ie=UTF8&docId=1000755621&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=hero-quick-promo&pf_rd_r=1MS8EP56YSMCHMKV037N&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_p=1339695242&pf_rd_i=B005SZZYDA" target="_blank"> Dead Man novel</a>. Her novel, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/asin/B00F0SI3EC/lg-bloglink-20" target="_blank"><strong>The Rising Dead</strong></a>, has just been released by Amazon's 47North imprint...and is the final "regular" installment in the bi-monthly series before the series returns with <strong>REBORN</strong>, a big Dead Man Amazon Kindle Serial that's coming in early 2014. Today we've invited Stella to talk about her experience writing <strong>The Rising Dead...</strong></em><br />
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When Lee asked if I wanted to write <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=amb_link_359094502_1?ie=UTF8&docId=1000755621&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=hero-quick-promo&pf_rd_r=1MS8EP56YSMCHMKV037N&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_p=1339695242&pf_rd_i=B005SZZYDA" target="_blank">a <em>Dead Man</em> book</a>, I wasn't sure I could write an action book, but I certainly wanted to try. Who doesn't like stories with tortured characters battling evil, especially when the bad guys are rotting from the inside out?
My biggest hurdle came quickly -- the plot.<br />
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A detailed outline was something new for me. Of course, this type of planning is absolutely necessary in a book series with multiple authors. Unfortunately for me, the group of fine writers that proceeded me had already put Matt Cahill through many varieties of Hell. Most of my ideas were shot down because they were similar to those of other writers who were in different stages of finishing their books. Some of my other inspirations were, well, let's just say Lee wasn't feeling them -- especially the ones with pirates.<br />
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Working with someone else's characters is quite different than working with your own. You have to respect the world they've created. After a few weeks of flailing, I wondered if I was ever going to get it right, but Lee didn't give up on me. Eventually something better came along: the Stranger.<br />
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I liked the idea of a character who had lived a dark and difficult life -- like Matt Cahill's -- for hundreds of years. A person would either go mad or become extremely hard. During drives through the desert between Los Angeles and Phoenix I've seen dangerous looking drifters. They make me remember to lock my car doors; they also make me wonder what their stories are. I began calling my character the Stranger because I hadn't decided on a name. Later, I realized he had worked hard to isolate himself and become the unknown, so I let him stay The Stranger.<br />
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Lee and Bill were open to a new character, and with their help, I finally had that detailed outline. The actual writing flowed. Now I understand the value of all that prep work.<br />
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So I think I've finally got an angle on those pirates that Lee is really going to love...<br />
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In the mean time, here's more on my novel <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/asin/B00F0SI3EC/lg-bloglink-20" target="_blank"><em>The Rising Dead</em></a>. I hope you like it!
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<i>Matt Cahill was an ordinary man leading a simple life until a shocking accident changed everything. Now he can see a nightmarish netherworld that exists within our own. Now he's on a dangerous quest for the answers to who he is and what he has become…and engaged in an epic battle to save us, and his soul, from the clutches of pure evil.</i> </blockquote>
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<em>In the blasted hell of the Arizona desert, Matt hitches a ride with a young couple who meets a terrible fate that he's powerless to stop. The bloody encounter leads him to a mysterious stranger with a terrifying history…who may know the reason for Matt's resurrection and hold the key to finally ending his lonely quest. But first they must survive in an unforgiving wasteland to do battle with a gang of heavily armed smugglers who trade in human flesh.</em></blockquote>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4333873488544422142.post-22348906544746156702013-10-29T13:17:00.001-07:002013-10-29T13:17:10.440-07:00Two New Kindle Words DEAD MAN Novels!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We're thrilled to announce that there are <b>two</b> more new, Dead Man Kindle Worlds novels available on Amazon -- both by Leigh Grayson! They are <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/asin/B00G4JVVZO/lg-bloglink-20" target="_blank">The Dead Man: Halfway to Dead</a></i> and <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/asin/B00G4M8Z4G/lg-bloglink-20" target="_blank">The Dead Man: The Black Nexus</a></i>.<br />
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You can write a <i>Dead Man</i> novel, too. Find out more at the <a href="https://kindleworlds.amazon.com/world/DeadMan?ref_=kww_home_ug_DeadMan" target="_blank">Dead Man Kindle Worlds Home Page</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4333873488544422142.post-55638383792778053592013-10-22T20:03:00.001-07:002013-10-22T20:03:02.681-07:00Amazon Launches The Dead Man Kindle World<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We're thrilled to announce that THE DEAD MAN has joined <a href="https://kindleworlds.amazon.com/world/DeadMan?ref_=kww_home_ug_DeadMan" target="_blank">the Amazon Kindle World program</a>. This means that now anyone can write a DEAD MAN short story or novel..and have it published, publicized and sold by Amazon, absolutely free.</span><br />
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If you are unfamiliar with Kindle Worlds, it gives authors the opportunity to write stories, novellas, and books in scores of different "universes" (including <i>Vampire Diaries</i> and <i>Pretty Little Liars</i>) and get significant royalties from the sales of their work. </div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The first DEAD MAN Kindle Worlds Tale has just been released... it's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/asin/B00G3NUI0K/adventuresint-20" target="_blank">Joe Nassise's EATER OF SOULS</a>. Here's the skinny:</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4333873488544422142.post-27555787243279356572013-05-31T13:10:00.001-07:002013-05-31T13:10:15.452-07:00Contest Winner's DEAD MAN Novel Now Available!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The winner of our 2012 "You Can Write a DEAD MAN Novel" contest was Barry Napier, and his winning entry, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Streets-Blood-Dead-Man-ebook/dp/B00CONQ8U2" target="_blank">DEAD MAN #18: STREETS OF BLOOD</a>, has just been published Amazon's 47North imprint. We think once you sample the first chapter you'll understand why the judges picked his manuscript from among the 100s of entries we received.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4333873488544422142.post-19225810828451544652013-03-13T20:45:00.003-07:002013-03-13T20:45:53.712-07:00What I Learned Writing STREETS OF BLOOD<i>From <a href="http://barrynapierwriting.wordpress.com/2013/03/12/what-i-learned-from-a-dead-man/" target="_blank">Barry Napier's blog</a>...</i><br />
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Most of you know that I won Amazon’s <i>You Can Write a Dead Man Novel</i> contest last year. The months between October – January were spent writing and editing it. If I’m being honest, I learned a lot from writing it, some of which I think most writers can either relate to or need to know.<br />
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First, <a href="http://www.leegoldberg.com/" target="_blank">Lee Goldberg</a> and co. were very kind about pointing out a few of my flaws…flaws that have plagued me since writing my first short story at the age of 14. Among them…I’m too wordy. I tend to wax poetic when it’s not called for. I try to create back story that serves as a story in and of itself (this one, I will argue to my last breath, is often necessary and pivotal for longer works). When I try to write about someone collecting information or being smacked by insight, I tend to come off as too passive.<br />
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The great thing is that I have had these things pointed out by editors in the past. But with <i>The</i> <i>Dead Man #18: Streets of Blood</i>, these things were not only pointed out, but highlighted with blood and gore. Writing this book was perhaps my biggest lesson in reigning myself in when I wanted to get too wordy or experimental when it wasn’t called for.
This book was equally odd to write because of its content. It’s one of the bloodier things I have written in a while. When you consider the fact that I was writing a faith-based suspense novel at the same time, it was a very challenging and eye-opening few months.<br />
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So, while researching parts of scripture for the faith-based novel, I was also having to research old morbid nursery rhymes for my <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=amb_link_359094502_1?ie=UTF8&docId=1000755621&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=hero-quick-promo&pf_rd_r=1ER8F07NRS9182MD5JMH&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_p=1339695242&pf_rd_i=B005SZZYDA" target="_blank">Dead Man book.</a><br />
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I’m not going to lie…it was sort of fun.<br />
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So again, a big thanks to Lee Goldberg for helping me through the process. It was an intensive course in writing short novels while helping me to further cripple some of the mistakes that I still wrestle with in my writing. <br />
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<i>The Dead Man #18: Streets of Blood</i> will be released sometime in May. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4333873488544422142.post-72781284451757748202013-03-09T19:41:00.002-08:002013-03-09T19:41:43.591-08:00Plotting Death and Destruction<a class="asset-img-link" href="http://leegoldberg.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c669c53ef017d41abe29f970c-popup" onclick="window.open( this.href, '_blank', 'width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0' ); return false" style="float: left;"><img alt="0609 Lee Goldberg ebook V4 TDMS_5" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341c669c53ef017d41abe29f970c" src="http://leegoldberg.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c669c53ef017d41abe29f970c-200wi" style="margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; width: 200px;" title="0609 Lee Goldberg ebook V4 TDMS_5" /></a>A half-dozen authors spent the day together plotting a <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=amb_link_359094502_1?ie=UTF8&docId=1000755621&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=hero-quick-promo&pf_rd_r=00WR2CGT8KMCB87M01EH&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_p=1445693762&pf_rd_i=B009H73MAM" target="_self">DEAD MAN</a> novel...not just any book, but our biggest tale yet, both in page count and ambition. The story will be published next fall as a Kindle Serial (six to eight, 10,000 word "episodes" that will add up to one, cohesive novel). The project is being written by <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0840380/" rel="imdb" target="_blank" title="Phoef Sutton">Phoef Sutton</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Lisa-Klink/e/B008785PAC/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1362886490&sr=1-2-ent" target="_self">Lisa Klink </a>and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Kate-Danley/e/B004HXIXGY/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1" target="_self">Kate Danley</a> from a shared outline. So series co-creator <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0704983/" rel="imdb" target="_blank" title="William Rabkin">William Rabkin</a> and I (Lee Goldberg), along with DEAD MAN author <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1814779/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1" target="_self">David Tully</a> (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Killing-Floor-Dead-Man-ebook/dp/B009W3OFG6" target="_self">THE KILLING FLOOR</a>), got together with them and we all spent the day cracking the story in a "writer's room" setting.<br />
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Bill, Phoef, Lisa andI are experienced TV writer/producers so we are very comfortable with the "writer's room" process of hashing out the story as a group, analyzing every character motivation and story beat until we come up with all the moves of the story, which we layout on a white, dry erase board. It was a new experience for Kate and, to a lesser extent, for David, who has been part of a writer's room on some television projects in Germany (where his wife was a network executive).<br />
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The writer's room process is wonderful because not only do you benefit from the creativity of everybody in the room, but it also forces you to really explore, analyze and figure out all the angles of your plot and the motivations of your characters. <br />
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The group experience also forces you not to give in to the easy, lazy or cliche way of resolving plot and character issues...to go further and dig deeper. It means there are some inevitable frustration or disagreements, but it's all positive...because you end up with a much stronger, more-thought-out story.<br />
It's my favorite part of the TV writing experience...spending hours, days and weeks in a room full of smart, clever, outrageously creative writers...all working to together to tell the best possible story.<br />
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Our writers room session for THE DEAD MAN went great. We first discussed character and our over-arching, creative goals for the book. Then we started talking broad plot points. Then we drilled down to the novel equivalent of the eternal TV question: "what do we want our act breaks to be?" (Or, in this case, the "cliff hanger" moment at the end of our six "episodes") And once we had that, we got into the nitty-gritty of the specific beats of each "act." <br />
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That's where the real work was. We hashed it out in spirited debates while eating lots of food (and, occasionally, diverging into discussions of lame plot points in SKYFALL and the last BATMAN movie. Do you realize Bond failed at *everything* he did in SKYFALL? He didn't do anything right. Still a great movie, though).<br />
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We got started at 10:30 am and by the time we finished around 5:30 pm, we'd plotted out the novel and felt great about what we'd come up with. Or, as one person in the room put it, we accomplished in one day what it would take an author by himself a month or two to figure out. It's going to be a kick-ass, standalone DEAD MAN novel that requires no previous knowledge of the series to enjoy...but that will also satisfy our loyal fans with a game-changing story that acknowledges past events, answers some long-standing questions, sends Matt Cahill in an exciting, new direction.<br />
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Now everybody is writing up their portion of the outline, which Bill and I will cobble together into one document and submit to our editors at <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Publishing" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Amazon Publishing">Amazon Publishing</a>'s 47North imprint for their notes. Once we have their input, the authors will start writing.<br />
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I wish I had a writers room for my novels...<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4333873488544422142.post-17579207048589829282013-02-26T17:03:00.000-08:002013-02-26T17:06:08.991-08:00Streets of Blood Cover<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HJPiL5FlaAI/US1bOJqtKRI/AAAAAAAABz8/AGbVl1hgmTw/s1600/0881+Lee+Goldberg+TDMS_STREETS+OF+BLOOD_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HJPiL5FlaAI/US1bOJqtKRI/AAAAAAAABz8/AGbVl1hgmTw/s320/0881+Lee+Goldberg+TDMS_STREETS+OF+BLOOD_2.jpg" /></a>We're excited to share the cover for THE DEAD MAN: STREETS OF BLOOD (formerly known as DREAMLAND), Barry Napier's award-winning entry in our "You Can Write a Dead Man Novel" contest last year. The book will be out this spring.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4333873488544422142.post-22944731963948125492013-01-27T11:12:00.002-08:002013-01-27T11:12:33.913-08:00How COLDER THAN HELL Made Me a Better Writer
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Neil_Smith" target="_blank">Anthony Neil Smith</a> on writing <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Colder-than-Hell-Dead-ebook/dp/B00A6HCF32" target="_blank">COLDER THAN HELL</a>, out this week on Amazon...</div>
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Look, I don’t <i>do</i>
supernatural. I just flat out thought that was beyond me. I write crime novels
about people doing awful things to each other, no ghosts or monsters or demons
in sight. But this Dead Man thing, I was watching it grow with awe. Several
friends of mine, also crime writers, got caught up in the fervor and churned
out some great horror pulp. And I was jealous. Really jealous. But…<i>I </i>couldn’t do that sort of thing, could
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But then I got an email from <a href="http://writingthepilot.com/" target="_blank">Bill Rabkin</a>—co-creator of <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=amb_link_359094502_1?ie=UTF8&docId=1000755621&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=hero-quick-promo&pf_rd_r=0TKFS3SJDST0KENWPSHP&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_p=1445691862&pf_rd_i=B00A6HCF32" target="_blank">The Dead Man</a></i> series along with <a href="http://www.leegoldberg.com/" target="_blank">Lee Goldberg</a>—who I had met via <a href="http://todgoldberg.typepad.com/" target="_blank">Tod Goldberg</a> and who was writing a screenplay
adaptation of my novel <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Yellow-Medicine-ebook/dp/B004XWQ0DC/" target="_blank">Yellow Medicine</a></i>.
That magical, unlikely email asked me to write a <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=amb_link_359094502_1?ie=UTF8&docId=1000755621&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=hero-quick-promo&pf_rd_r=0TKFS3SJDST0KENWPSHP&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_p=1445691862&pf_rd_i=B00A6HCF32" target="_blank">Dead Man</a></i> novella. Yep, one o’ them spooky, supernatural,
knock-em-out, fists and axes and evil spirits sort of books.<o:p></o:p></div>
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But what I said was, “Yes. Yes. Yes. Fucking yes.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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And then I told them I’d get to work in May, probably have
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At which point I fell off a writing cliff and had to drag my
ass back up the sheer rock face inch by inch.<o:p></o:p></div>
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No idea what happened. I had recently finished a short,
punchy third entry in my Billy Lafitte series. I was riding high off some nice
reviews and decent sales of <i>All the Young
Warriors</i>. But then it was as if words and me stopped getting along. In
fact, those goddamn words were bullying me. Taunting me. And I didn’t know what
to write.<o:p></o:p></div>
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But I was under contract for <i>Dead Man</i>. I had to write it. I wanted to. It ended up helping me
break the drought and get back to the normal flow of things. But it didn’t take
two months. It took nearly five, and I even went over the deadline by a week.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The story came to me more easily than I had expected. At least some of it. If I had to pitch it, it
would come across as “The Shining, but on a frozen interstate.” One of the most
frightening things I’ve come across while living up north is the idea of being
trapped in your car on an interstate or highway due to snow and ice. You’re
surrounded by hundreds of others in the same boat, but you’re all little
islands of loneliness, seems to me. So what if some horrible virus or spirit or
[INSERT SUPERNATURAL THING HERE] was loosed on top of that?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Fine, fine, the guys
in charge liked the idea. They just didn’t get the cause of it all. Something
wasn’t clicking. Two reasons for that: 1) I was trying to be a bit too ambitious
by tying some ancient evil from a previous <i>Dead
Man</i> into this one, hoping to cement a place in the “mythology”, and 2)
Again, I don’t do supernatural. <o:p></o:p></div>
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But I wrote it, including an old 18<sup>th</sup> Century
diary, some Scandinavian settles in North Dakota who met up with evil Native
Americans from <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Blood-Mesa-Dead-ebook/dp/B005SZZYQC" target="_blank">The Dead Man #5: The Blood Mesa</a></i> who had
some more ancient evil that was older than Mr. Dark’s evil, and so there was a
killer on the loose and an Indian golum, and and and…<o:p></o:p></div>
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What the hell was I thinking?<o:p></o:p></div>
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I finally finished it, turned it in, and waited to be told
how bad it was.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Now, the thing I discovered about Lee during the
outline process is that he is one tough son of a bitch when it comes to ideas.
He was shooting them down all night long. I could imagine his Grinch-like sneer
as my emails came in, rubbing his hands in glee as he printed them out for the
sole purpose of watching them burn.<o:p></o:p></div>
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But after I turned in the draft, something remarkable
happened. His heart grew three sizes…for the first half of the novella, anyway.
All the other historical/mythology stuff? I had truly wasted my (and his) time.
As bad as I thought it was. That doesn’t mean I didn’t try to save it. Of
course I did. That was a month’s work! But it came down to Lee telling me,
“Rewrite the second half. You’ve got a month.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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THING THAT PUT MY SUPERNATURAL THING TO SHAME, AS IT WAS MUCH MUCH BETTER
HERE]?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Why come I hadn’t thought of that? So I was learning a lot
about how this sort of story works, what’s expected, how to subvert what’s
expected and still deliver a good fright. And best of all, I had to write about
fifty pages in a month.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In a good week, I can maybe get fifteen pages done. I hadn’t
been having good weeks. But still, fifty pages was within my window of doable. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Five weeks later, I turned it in again. And this time the
damn thing worked. We went through a few
edits, not so hard at all, and then<a href="http://www.jeroentenberge.com/" target="_blank"> Jeroen ten Berge</a> put together a killer
cover for it. This was actually happening! I was a <i>Dead Man</i> author! Not only that, but the turnaround on this book was
a few months—it would be out by the end of January. That, of course, continued
to shore up my already good impression of Amazon Publishing. They knew exactly
what they were doing.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Once <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Colder-than-Hell-Dead-ebook/dp/B00A6HCF32" target="_blank">Dead Man #16: Colder Than Hell</a></i> was out of my hands, my head was spinning with new ideas—how to
fix the stalled novel, how to get a couple of other ideas I had into bed
together for yet another novel. I was thinking much more like a pulp
writer—write the damned story. Faster. Think through the first two drafts in
your head, put the third one down as the first. Hey, I did it once, I could do
it again.<o:p></o:p></div>
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All in all, this was a tremendous experience. I’m glad Lee
and Bill let me play in the <i>Dead Man </i>toy
box, and I look forward to trying it again one day, maybe. In the meantime,
there’s not an hour I sit at the typewriter when I don’t think about how my
writing process has changed for the better after <i>Dead Man</i>. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Hope you’ll check it out. And if you do happen to have
travel plans through North Dakota in the winter, make sure to bring extra
layers, some gloves, a thick blanket, and a last will and testament. Just in
case.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The fourteenth terrifying DEAD MAN tale, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Black-Death-Dead-ebook/dp/B008SFPJWI/" target="_blank">THE BLACK DEATH</a> by Aric Davis, is now available, just in time for Halloween. Davis is the author of the innovative, widely-acclaimed horror novel, A GOOD AND USEFUL HURT. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In THE BLACK DEATH, Matt Cahill is<span style="background-color: white;"> stranded in small, Indiana town in the grip of a horrible plague…not a disease, but a deadly new form of crystal meth that is turning its users into black-eyed, blood-crazed monsters and that could be even more virulently evil than the touch of Mr. Dark. So Matt embarks on a harrowing quest, a journey into darkness and depravity, to find the source of the black death and destroy its makers before the drug, and the homicidal madness it creates, can spread to the entire nation.</span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4333873488544422142.post-50392086761595362422012-10-08T11:58:00.002-07:002012-10-08T11:58:28.658-07:00The Dark Side of Love and LoyaltyAuthor Christa Faust shares her experience writing THE DEATH MATCH in a blog post on Amazon's <a href="http://www.kindlepost.com/2012/10/death-match.html" target="_blank">Kindle Daily Post</a>. She says, in part:<br />
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<a class="asset-img-link" href="http://www.amazon.com/Death-Match-Dead-Man-ebook/dp/B008DWUTT4/ref=kin_post_os_10012012_deathmatch" style="background-color: white; color: #055d90; float: left; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;" target="_self" title="Death Match book cover"><img alt="Death-Match" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a00e54ed05fc2883301774400615c970d" src="http://nozama.typepad.com/.a/6a00e54ed05fc2883301774400615c970d-320wi" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; padding: 10px;" title="Death-Match" /></a><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">One of the things that appealed to me about the<i> Dead Man</i> series was that it wasn't just empty meaningless gore. Sure it's violent, but it also explores the psychological repercussions of that violence, delving into the darker side of love, loyalty, and friendship. With that in mind, I wanted to use my own uniquely female perspective to highlight the complex emotional depth in the character of Matt Cahill without sacrificing the kind of gripping action that the series is also known for. And combining emotion with action has always been at the heart of my own hardboiled crime fiction. It was a perfect fit.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4333873488544422142.post-34230033992311816842012-09-27T14:44:00.003-07:002012-09-27T15:33:01.163-07:00News from the DEAD<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">Lots of exciting things are happening in the world of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=amb_link_359094502_1?ie=UTF8&docId=1000755621&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=hero-quick-promo&pf_rd_r=0VZSXN8942KSRP91BG12&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_p=1382573902&pf_rd_i=B008DWUTT4" target="_blank">THE DEAD MAN</a>...</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">Our 13th tale, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Death-Match-Dead-ebook/dp/B008DWUTT4" target="_blank">THE DEATH MATCH</a>, by Christa Faust was published on Sept. 18th and is one of our fastest selling books yet. Readers are gobbling this one up, and for good r</span><br />
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eason...not only does it reveal new levels to our mythology, tying together events from several previous DEAD MAN novels, it's also full of Christa's trademark brand of dark noir that made her novels CHOKE HOLD and MONEY SHOT such widely acclaimed successes.</div>
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In October, just in time for Halloween, comes Aric Davis' exciting DEAD MAN tale <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Black-Death-Dead-ebook/dp/B008SFPJWI/" target="_blank">THE BLACK DEATH</a>, which pits Matt against Mr. Dark, the Hillbilly mafia, and a new evil that could sweep the nation. It's a bloody thrill-ride. But you can get a taste of Aric's unique brand of horror now in his bestseller A GOOD AND USEFUL HURT.</div>
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In November, we're releasing our fourth compilation, which contains FREAKS MUST DIE, THE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL and SLAVES TO EVIL (the audiobook will follow soon).</div>
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And in December, screenwriter David Tully makes his literary debut with his DEAD MAN tale THE KILLING FLOOR, which features Mr. Dark big time...and in a way we've never seen before...in one of the most thrilling, and darkly humorous, books in the series.</div>
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The new year will bring exciting new DEAD MAN novels from Lisa Klink, Anthony Neil Smith, Barry Napier, Chris La Tray, and Stant Litore, among others, that will deepen the DEAD MAN mythology, solve some of the mysteries, and reveal startling new aspects to Matt, Mr. Dark, and their strange relationship. </div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4333873488544422142.post-64800339448642213622012-09-17T13:16:00.000-07:002012-09-17T13:16:01.406-07:00Runner Up Wins, Too<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The judges in the "You Can Write a DEAD MAN Novel" contest liked the runner-up's entry so much that we've decided to award him a publishing contract, too. So look for THE DEAD MAN: COYOTE BLOOD by <a href="http://chrislatray.com/">Chris La Tray</a> in early 2013. But in the mean time, you can catch La Tray's work in the latest issue of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Blood-Tacos-3-ebook/dp/B0094PB3TE">BLOOD & TACOS.</a>, which is edited by author Johnny Shaw, who will also be writing a DEAD MAN novel in the coming year.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4333873488544422142.post-28198908041487149252012-09-13T11:47:00.002-07:002012-09-13T11:47:45.885-07:00Playing Santa Claus<p>DEAD MAN co-creator Lee Goldberg had the pleasure of calling writer Barry Napier to let him know that he'd won the "You Can Write a DEAD MAN Novel" contest. Today, <a href="http://www.kindlepost.com/2012/09/horror-novella-contest.html" target="_self">he writes on the Kindle Daily Post</a> about the call and his reaction to the news. Here's an excerpt:</p>
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<p>I was stopped at a red light on a Thursday afternoon at a busy intersection with my family. As a mini-meltdown from my son in the back seat rose to a thundering level, my phone rings.</p>
<p>“Hello?”</p>
<p> “Hi,” comes an unfamiliar voice on the other end. “This is Lee Goldberg and I’m calling to let you know that you’ve won the Write a Dead Man contest!”</p>
<p>I paused for a minute. My son kept screaming. With the look of shock on my face, I think my wife must have thought there was bad news on the other end.</p>
<p>“Oh, hi,” I said rather stupidly.</p>
<p>For the next thirty seconds, Lee went through some details, most of which I only caught fragments of. Feeling like an idiot, I could hardly speak when he was done. The light turned green. A good thing, too; it’s likely the only thing that unfroze me from the amazing news that I had yet to digest.</p>
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<p>We're looking forward to working with him on his DEAD MAN tale, which will be published in early 2013.</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4333873488544422142.post-10249153204750209562012-09-12T00:00:00.000-07:002012-09-12T10:57:45.730-07:00Winner of the You Can Write a DEAD MAN Novel Contest<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We are pleased to announce that <a href="http://www.barrynapierwriting.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">BARRY NAPIER</a> has won the "You Can Write a DEAD MAN Novel" Contest, snagging a publishing contract for his DEAD MAN tale DREAMLAND, a $500 advance, and a $500 gift card.<br />
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Barry has published more than 40 short stories and poems in print and online. He is the author of the <i>Everything Theory </i>series, <i>The Hollows, The Masks of Our Fathers</i>, and <i>Broken Nightlights</i>, a short story collection. He has also had work published thought various small presses, including his novel <i>The Bleeding Room</i>, and two poetry collections. He has served as guest poetry editor of Inkspill Magazine and has recently completed compiling and editing the poetry anthology<i> I Know What I Saw: poems of the unexplained</i>.<br />
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You'll be seeing his book in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=amb_link_359094502_1?ie=UTF8&docId=1000755621&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=hero-quick-promo&pf_rd_r=1EDVFY5PEVSGNVD65GDQ&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_p=1339695242&pf_rd_i=B005SZZYDA" target="_blank">the DEAD MAN series </a>in early 2013. But you can get a sneak peek right now. His winning chapter is below.<br />
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Thanks again to everyone who entered the contest.<br />
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<b>DREAMLAND</b></div>
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She’d been in bed for so long that
it seemed unnatural to be standing again.
Her old aching knees seemed fifty years younger and the lungs that had
hindered her lifestyle for the last five years seemed reinvigorated, breathing
in the crisp air of the afternoon. When
she breathed the clean air in it made her body feel plump, a far cry from the
frail state she had last seen herself in.<o:p></o:p></div>
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She was standing in the middle of an
ancient dirt road, the ditches to each side so worn and faded that she could
imagine the finger of God etching them shortly after Eden. The dirt track wound away to both sides,
bending to the right ahead of her where it eventually merged into the distant
forest. In the other direction, the path
sketched itself through an impossibly green field where it then narrowed to a
pencil point on the horizon of greens and blues.<o:p></o:p></div>
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A butterfly passed by her, circled
back around her head and perched on her shoulder. It seemed to be directing her eyes slightly
to the left where a long forgotten white house stood untouched by human hands
for countless years. A once-white porch
sat crumbling and gray. A porch swing hung
from a single chain with its fallen twin curled up in a rusted loop on the
porch boards.<o:p></o:p></div>
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She knew this all; she had been here
before and she knew that something was missing.
She looked beyond the house and saw a fence, the majority of it cracked
and fallen. She waited for a human
shadow to fall across its weak posts but there was nothing. The sun blazed down fat and bright but there
was nothing behind the fence to cast a shadow, not a man, not an animal, not so
much as a tree.<o:p></o:p></div>
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She frowned and waited. She knew that she wouldn’t be here long; she
could already feel the weight of reality tugging at her, pulling her towards a
world where her knees still flared with pain, where her now delicate fingers
were callused and weathered.<o:p></o:p></div>
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She looked back to the wooden fence,
its rails splintered and cracked, waiting for that figure to appear. But the blue country sky on the other side of
the fence and the golden fields that rolled out beyond them were all there was
to see.<o:p></o:p></div>
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And
as beautiful as this all seemed, she was still slightly disappointed; the man
that should be standing there by the fence post was not coming.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In this to-good-to-be-true place,
she felt a tear forming in the corner of her eye. It was the sweetest relief imaginable, the
most normal thing her body had done in weeks.
And with that sign of human frailty, that other place stopped tugging at
her and simply claimed her.<o:p></o:p></div>
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She let out a gasp and tried
desperately to feel the warmth of the tear on her cheek before she was taken.<o:p></o:p></div>
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She opened her weary eyes to a white
ceiling, dreary walls and poor light.
She felt something on her shoulder, wondering if she had somehow brought
the butterfly back from that country road.
But when she lolled her head to the side, she saw what perched there and
it was not a butterfly.<o:p></o:p></div>
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A
plastic tube brushed against her shoulder where a small patch of her dry skin
was exposed by the yellow hospital gown that she wore. The tube traveled upwards, into her nose and
then, in the opposite direction, over the side of the bed and into some machine
that hummed patiently.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Momma, you’re awake…”<o:p></o:p></div>
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She looked over and saw
Chester. His graying hair was frazzled
and the poor boy looked as if he hadn’t slept in ages. Calling him a <i>boy</i> seemed foolish; the amount of life lived and the knowledge
acquired from it was evident in his eyes.
But she had held him inside of her for nine months, had breastfed him,
had clothed him and sent him to college, had nurtured him through his first
broken heart, his first experience with death…fifty-five years old or not,
Chester would always be her little boy.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Yeah,” she said in a shaky hoarse
voice. “Haven’t gone anywhere yet.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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She looked into his eyes, made tiny
behind the lenses of his glasses, and was reminded of the man she had not seen
by the fence.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“You were smiling in your sleep,”
Chester said. He grinned at her when he
said it, not voicing the fact that it pleased him to know that whatever dream
she had been having could very well be her last, and that he was glad it had
made her happy.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The machine that she was plugged
into made a persistent beep-beep sound, like a metronome for the life she had
left to live. But she did not hear
it. These days, it was hard to hear
anything past the rattle in her chest when she breathed.<o:p></o:p></div>
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There was a fleeting moment when she
knew that she needed to tell Chester something, but she couldn’t remember
what. She knew that he would like to
know about the house she had seen, the failing fence and the winding country
road. But that wasn’t it…there was
something more.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Her eyes were growing heavy and she
felt the ghost traces of pain begin to tickle her at the knees. She felt her eyelids fluttering and was
vaguely aware that her boy was reaching out, grasping her hand lovingly.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Chester,” she said, so softly that
she didn’t know if he had heard her.
“The man at the fence…so handsome…please stay away from the man at the
fence…”<o:p></o:p></div>
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But before her son could respond,
she was gone again.<o:p></o:p></div>
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She wore a sundress and smelled of
jasmine. The smell was pushed out ahead
of her by the country breeze at her back, making it so that she walked into her
own scent as she made her way over the gentle rise of an impossibly green
hill. There was a man walking with her,
his eyes glued to her. He usually wore a
hat but, in those times when chivalry wasn’t quite dead just yet, he held it in
his hands. His dark brown hair stood up
in several directions as a result.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Do you not love me?” he asked. “Is that it?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Of course it’s not,” she said. “Nothing is ever so simple that it can be
blamed on love. Do all men think women
are that stupid?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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He grinned and looked down to his
feet. “No, I suppose not,” he said.<o:p></o:p></div>
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She looked to him quickly, out of
the corner of her eye, and repressed a smile.
There was the slightest trace of grass stains along the elbows of his
shirt sleeve from where they had been rolling in the grass, kissing. Yet when
his hands had found the waistband of her skirt, she had pushed him playfully
away, stood up and began walking. It was
not the first time she had done this.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Are you waiting on marriage, then?”
he asked. “If that’s the case, I think
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She smiled at him and stopped for a
moment. “Not all women are <i>that</i> stupid, either,” she said and then
started walking again.<o:p></o:p></div>
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She glanced down the hill and saw
the dirt track that would lead her home.
The sunset cast out shades of subtle gold that seemed to be sewn into
the ditches along the track. God, it was
such a beautiful day. Had she had a few
more glasses of wine with her lunch earlier, perhaps she would have given him
what he had been seeking from her for nearly a year. The thought made her tremble inside and she
felt an anxiousness in that place that her mother told her was supposed to only
be for the man she married.<o:p></o:p></div>
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male companion tensed up a bit because he knew this is where they parted
ways. “Do you want me to walk you home?”
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“I’m a big girl,” she said. “I think I’ll be okay.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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He nodded, leaned in and kissed her
on the mouth. He tasted like salt and
she knew that the taste of wine was still lingering on her own lips. When their tongues touched, she felt that
creeping need once again. She broke the
kiss and smiled at him.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Can I see you tomorrow?” he asked.<o:p></o:p></div>
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She nodded and gave him another
kiss, this one on the cheek, and turned away from him.<o:p></o:p></div>
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A few steps down the road, she
paused. Up ahead she could see the
framing of a fence, like a giant crooked spine springing from the ground. She felt the slightest bit of uncertainty and
the fear caused her to turn back towards her boyfriend.<o:p></o:p></div>
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He was headed down the road, his
shoulder hunched like a defeated man and his hat once again on his head. She smiled briefly at him, considered going
to him and then thought better of it.
She watched him go until he was nothing more than a silhouette and then
she started walking again. <o:p></o:p></div>
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In
a blur of motion that only exists in dreams, she found herself standing by the
fence. The man she has been expecting is standing there as if he had been there
all along. He wore torn blue overalls
and a straw hat on his head, but she somehow knows that this is not what he
wears most of the time.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“How
do?” she said. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The man grinned and adjusted the
straw hat. He looked as if he might be a
bit uncomfortable, but he never took his eyes off of her. He didn’t speak to her, only looked her up
and down.<o:p></o:p></div>
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She stared right back, cocking her
head to the side and studying him as best as she could. She felt her heart pulling in two directions,
one wanting to retreat back down the dirt trail, the other wanting to stay here
with this man, to venture into that old abandoned white farmhouse with him and
learn his secrets.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Without a word, the man removed his
hat in a sign of chivalry. The gesture
made no sense to her, but she instantly felt an irrational fear spreading
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Something dead…the smell of a gutted
animal left the rot in the woods in the summer.
The smell was overpowering and she thought that it might be coming from
the man at the fence—a man that was very familiar to her. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“Why are you here?” she asked
him. “I know this is just a dream. I know
I am old and dying in the real world. Why are you, of all people, here?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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When he opened his mouth to speak,
she saw his teeth. They were misshapen,
slightly yellowed. Sharp.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“The same as before,” he said, his
voice like a spring breeze. “To let you know
it is almost time.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“I
don’t understand.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“We’re
coming,” he said to her with a smile.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Then a scream rose up in her throat
(her dreaming throat and her real one) and she opened her eyes to the hospital
room. <o:p></o:p></div>
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She saw Chester again, confused and
crying. She saw the bright lights
overhead and a muted television on the wall.
And for just a fleeting moment, she saw his shape there in the room with
her. Seeing this, she screamed
again. She kept screaming until two
nurses came into the room and gave her an injection which calmed her almost
immediately.<o:p></o:p></div>
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As she rest her head back onto the
pillow, she looked to Chester and shook her head in defeat.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Don’t
let him in,” she told her son. “Keep him
out…he’s coming…”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/4UkrjP8tQQA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4333873488544422142.post-88245713507601663422012-08-03T15:47:00.000-07:002012-08-04T01:54:35.648-07:00The Dead Man Music Video #2Here's the second of three original DEAD MAN music videos. The third version will be up soon...then we hope you'll vote on the one that you like the best.
<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/GD0CCq3uB9g" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4333873488544422142.post-64676167463681823372012-08-02T01:15:00.001-07:002012-08-03T15:36:40.932-07:00The Dead Man Music Video #1Here's the first of three original music videos based on Matt Branham's theme song for <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=amb_link_359094502_2?ie=UTF8&docId=1000755621&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=hero-quick-promo&pf_rd_r=03HZ2EZP13BE9V51RWX2&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_p=1339695242&pf_rd_i=B005SZZYDA" target="_self">THE DEAD MAN</a>... the new series of original novels created by yours truly & William Rabkin...and published monthly by Amazon/47North. Once all three of the videos are up, which should be in the next few days, I'll let you know how you can vote on which one you think should be our "official" video posted on our Amazon series page.<br />
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<iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/UiPkf27H1ac" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4333873488544422142.post-45907241289111796022012-06-26T07:32:00.000-07:002012-06-26T18:16:37.965-07:00The Story Behind "The Midnight Special"<a class="asset-img-link" href="http://leegoldberg.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c669c53ef017742b10018970d-popup" onclick="window.open( this.href, '_blank', 'width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0' ); return false" style="float: left;"><img alt="PhoefSutton" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341c669c53ef017742b10018970d" src="http://leegoldberg.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c669c53ef017742b10018970d-200wi" style="margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; width: 200px;" title="PhoefSutton" /></a>Emmy-award winning writer Phoef Sutton's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Midnight-Special-Dead-Man-ebook/dp/B007XVLCO2/r" target="_self">THE DEAD MAN #12: THE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL,</a> his wickedly funny and scary addition to the series, is out today... and it's the perfect way to end our "first season" of short novels. It's also Phoef's first published novel since his acclaimed <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Always-Six-OClock-Phoef-Sutton/dp/0425167631/" target="_self">ALWAYS SIX O'CLOCK</a> back in 1999...and a real departure from his previous work.<br />
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So we asked him about the book...and his writing career.<br />
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<strong>You're a two-time, Emmy award winner for your work writing & producing CHEERS, and you've written for such shows as BOSTON LEGAL, NEWHART and TERRIERS. You're one of the few TV writers who has been able to move between comedy and drama. Why is that so uncommon and how have you been able to pull it off with such apparent ease?</strong><br />
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It’s just that I approach them all in the same way. As stories about characters involved in compelling situations. When you think of it like that, the specific genre or style doesn’t become paramount. The character’s journey is what matters.<br />
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<strong>How did your first novel come about? What did you think about the experience?</strong><br />
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Writing is my work and my hobby, I wrote my first novel in my spare time, just to see if I could do it.<br />
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<strong>Not only are you a TV writer and novelist, but you've also written several feature films, like THE FAN and MRS. WINTERBOURNE. What kind of writing are you most comfortable doing? Or is it just enough to be writing?</strong><br />
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I like all of it. Doing different things helps keep me interested; that’s one of the reasons I keep branching out. But of the three, screenwriting is the least friendly to the writer. In TV, the writer can be the boss, at least if he’s the showrunner, up to a point. In the novels, of course, the writer is the boss of everybody. Because he makes everybody up!<br />
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<strong> What attracted you to THE DEAD MAN series?</strong><br />
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I’ve always wanted to write horror. I’m huge fan of that genre. Richard Matheson was one of my boyhood idols. For whatever reason, I’ve never gone in that direction professionally, so when Lee Goldberg mentioned this series to me, I jumped at the chance. Of course, Lee was himself another attraction – we’ve been trying to work together for years and this is first time we’ve had the chance.<br />
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<strong> What did you get out of writing THE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL that you don't get from writing sitcoms, dramas, and movies? <a class="asset-img-link" href="http://leegoldberg.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c669c53ef016767d5fd5f970b-popup" onclick="window.open( this.href, '_blank', 'width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0' ); return false" style="float: right;"><br /></a><a class="asset-img-link" href="http://leegoldberg.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c669c53ef016767d5fd5f970b-popup" onclick="window.open( this.href, '_blank', 'width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0' ); return false" style="float: right;"><img alt="0619 Lee Goldberg TDMS_MIDNIGHT SPECIAL_3" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341c669c53ef016767d5fd5f970b" src="http://leegoldberg.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c669c53ef016767d5fd5f970b-200wi" style="margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px; width: 200px;" title="0619 Lee Goldberg TDMS_MIDNIGHT SPECIAL_3" /></a></strong><br />
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There is one obvious thing you get out of writing novels that sets them apart from other forms of writing – no network or studio notes. You’re writing this mostly the way you want to write it. The other thing I love about fiction is the way it’s so easy to get inside your characters heads. You want to let the reader know what he’s thinking? You just write it. No need to resort to voice-over or character foils or narrative tricks. I revel in that!<br />
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<strong>What sets your book apart from the others in the series?</strong><br />
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Some say it’s the humor. I can’t help but find comedy – in even the most dire circumstances. Not that the book’s laugh riot, but there is humor between the lines. Let’s say the narrator of the book has a wry sense of macabre humor. I also liked the narrative trick they used in the first book of flashing forward in time and I tried to use that as well. I think the narrative voice of this book is closest in the series to the original.<br />
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<strong>What were some of the challenges you faced writing the book?</strong><br />
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Action scenes. I’ve never really done them before. And writing them is a real bear. Try writing “he threw a punch” in seventeen different ways. But I’m learning!<br />
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<strong>What's next for you?</strong><br />
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I’m finishing a new novel – a bit of hard-boiled action called CRUSH. And I’m producing a comedy for TVLand, THE SOUL MAN. That should keep me busy through the summer.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4333873488544422142.post-10258779190260827052012-05-31T21:55:00.000-07:002012-06-01T17:16:12.859-07:00You Can Write A DEAD MAN Novel!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Now's your chance to win <b>a $500 advance, a $500 Amazon gift card, and a publishing contract</b> to write your own tale in the DEAD MAN saga, which will be published in early 2013 by Amazon's 47North imprint.<br />
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<b>HOW TO ENTER</b><br />
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All you have to do is write a sample chapter and a brief outline of your story, complete <a href="http://leegoldberg.typepad.com/Write%20a%20Dead%20Man%20Novel%20Entry%20Information.pdf" target="_blank">the entry form</a> and <a href="http://leegoldberg.typepad.com/Dead%20Man%20Release%20and%20Non-Disclosure%20Agreement.pdf" target="_blank">sign the release</a>...and email the whole package to us at <i>thedeadmanbookcontest@gmail.com</i> by August 1, 2012...or before we reach 500 entries...whichever comes first. Each entry will be judged by a group of current writers of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=amb_link_359094502_1?ie=UTF8&docId=1000755621&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=hero-quick-promo&pf_rd_r=022ZQTMR8S453H3E6V4M&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_p=1339695242&pf_rd_i=B005SZZYDA" target="_blank">THE DEAD MAN</a>, led by series co-creators Lee Goldberg & William Rabkin.<br />
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<b>WHAT ARE THE RULES?</b></div>
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The contest rules are below. Please read them carefully to make sure that your entry meets all of the eligibility requirements before you submit.</div>
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Good luck!</div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.45pt;">Please read these
Official Rules before entering the <i>Write a
“Dead Man” Novel Contest</i> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.15pt;">(“<b>Contest</b>”). By submitting an
entry, entrants</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> (“<b>you</b>”
or <span style="letter-spacing: -0.25pt;">“<b>your</b>”)
acknowledge that you are eligible to enter the Contest and have read and agree
to be bound by these Official Rules and our and the judges decisions related to
the Contest. We will select one winner who will receive a full, work-for-hire
publishing contract to write a 25,000 word novel in “The Dead Man” series of
books, commissioned by Adventures in
Television Inc. (the “Sponsors”) and published by Amazon Publishing.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.2pt; line-height: 110%;">1.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.15pt; line-height: 110%;">ELIGIBILITY. </span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.15pt; line-height: 110%;">You are eligible to
enter the Contest if you are at least 18 years old at time of entry and a legal
resident of one of the following countries: Argentina, Australia, </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.4pt; line-height: 110%;">Austria, Belgium, Canada
(excluding the Province of Québec), China, Denmark, Finland, </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.35pt; line-height: 110%;">Germany, India, Ireland,
Japan, Luxembourg, Malaysia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.15pt; line-height: 110%;">Norway, Romania, South
Africa, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, the United States </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.3pt; line-height: 110%;">(the 50 states and D.C.),
or the United Kingdom. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.25pt; line-height: 110%;">You are not eligible to enter the Contest if you are (a)
an Amazon employee or independent </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt; line-height: 110%;">contractor or an employee or independent contractor
of any of Amazon’s </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.2pt; line-height: 110%;"> affiliates; (b) a
family member (spouses, domestic partners, parents, </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.15pt; line-height: 110%;">grandparents, siblings,
children, and grandchildren) of an Amazon </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.25pt; line-height: 110%;">employee or independent contractor; (c) a family
member (spouses, domestic partners, parents, grandparents, siblings, children,
and grandchildren) of an employee or </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.35pt; line-height: 110%;">independent contractor of any of Amazon’s
affiliates; (d) an individual </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.2pt; line-height: 110%;">living in the same household as Amazon’s employee or independent </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.25pt; line-height: 110%;">contractor; (e) an
individual living in the same household as an employee or independent
contractor of any of Amazon’s
affiliates; or (f) a judge </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.05pt; line-height: 110%;">involved in the Contest. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.2pt; line-height: 110%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.2pt; line-height: 110%;">2.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.2pt; line-height: 110%;">HOW TO ENTER. </span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.2pt; line-height: 110%;">We must receive your
Contest entry between June 1, 2012 at </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.15pt; line-height: 110%;">12:01 a.m. (U.S. Pacific Standard Time) and August
1, 2012 at 11:59 p.m. (U.S. Pacific Standard Time). W</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.25pt; line-height: 110%;">e will stop accepting
Entries </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.3pt; line-height: 110%;">after we have received
500 submissions. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.2pt; line-height: 110%;"> You must download <a href="http://leegoldberg.typepad.com/Write%20a%20Dead%20Man%20Novel%20Entry%20Information.pdf" target="_blank">the entry form </a> and <a href="http://leegoldberg.typepad.com/Dead%20Man%20Release%20and%20Non-Disclosure%20Agreement.pdf" target="_blank">the Release and Non-Disclosure Form</a> from </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 110%;"><a href="http://thedeadmanbooks.blogspot.com/">http://thedeadmanbooks.blogspot.com</a>.
You must then <span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">follow </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.25pt;">the instructions on the entry form and email to us, at </span></span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); font-family: inherit; line-height: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in; white-space: nowrap;"><i>thedeadmanbookcontest@gmail.com</i></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.25pt; line-height: 110%; text-indent: 0in;">, the following attachments: (1) a sample chapter of your
proposed book in the “The Dead Man” series (“<b>Chapter</b>”) of up to 4,000 words,</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.3pt; line-height: 110%; text-indent: 0in;"> (2) an outline of
your proposed book of up to 1000 </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.25pt; line-height: 110%; text-indent: 0in;">words (“<b>Outline</b>”);
(3) a <u>signed</u><a href="http://leegoldberg.typepad.com/Dead%20Man%20Release%20and%20Non-Disclosure%20Agreement.pdf" target="_blank"> release and non-disclosure form</a> and (4) the personal information required <a href="http://leegoldberg.typepad.com/Write%20a%20Dead%20Man%20Novel%20Entry%20Information.pdf" target="_blank">on the entry form</a>. (1-4 collectively, an “<b>Entry</b>”).
We will not accept or review any Entry that does not comply </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.2pt; line-height: 110%; text-indent: 0in;">with these
Official Rules.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.15pt; line-height: 110%;">3.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.2pt; line-height: 110%;">ENTRY REQUIREMENTS. </span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.2pt; line-height: 110%;">You must be the only
author of your Chapter and Outline. Any Chapter and Outline </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.3pt; line-height: 110%;">submitted as an Entry
written by two or more authors will not be eligible. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.05pt; line-height: 110%;">Your Chapter and Outline</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 110%;"> must: (a) be your original creation; (b) be
fictional; (c) be in the <span style="letter-spacing: 0.05pt;">English language;
(d) be of interior black and white text without images; (e) not </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">currently or previously have been the subject of a
publishing agreement with any </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">publisher</span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.25pt;">. Additionally, you must submit your Chapter and
Outline </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">digitally in Microsoft Word
.doc, .docx, .rtf, or .txt format. Any entry that we determine, </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">in our sole discretion, to meet these requirements
will be considered a “<b>Valid Entry</b>.” </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt;">You may be represented by an agent on the
condition that you - not your agent - agree </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.3pt;">to comply with these Official Rules. Our servers and clock will be the
official clock for all </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.25pt;">phases of the
Contest. You will not receive any notice that your entry has been received. You
will only be contacted if you are the Winner. </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">You may only submit one entry</span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">.</span><b><span style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.15pt; line-height: 110%;">4.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.15pt; line-height: 110%;">CONDITIONS OF ENTRY</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.15pt; line-height: 110%;">. By submitting an
Entry, you represent and warrant that your </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.25pt; line-height: 110%;">Entry: (a) is your original creation; (b) has not
been copied in whole or in part from any </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.3pt; line-height: 110%;">other work; (c) has not previously been published as
described in Section 3(e) above; (d) </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.4pt; line-height: 110%;">does not violate or infringe any copyright,
trademark, privacy or publicity right, or other </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.3pt; line-height: 110%;">proprietary or intellectual property
right of any person or entity; (e) is not defamatory, </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.25pt; line-height: 110%;">libelous, obscene, or
otherwise illegal; and (f) is your sole and exclusive property. You further
represent and warrant that you have complete, worldwide distribution rights in </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.2pt; line-height: 110%;">and to your Chapter and
Outline.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.15pt; line-height: 110%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.15pt; line-height: 110%;">5.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt; line-height: 110%;">GRANT OF RIGHTS. </span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt; line-height: 110%;">By submitting an Entry
and if you are selected as the winner</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.2pt; line-height: 110%;">, you grant Adventures in Television the exclusive
first publication rights to your Entry. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt; line-height: 110%;">By </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.2pt; line-height: 110%;">submitting an Entry, you grant us and our respective
affiliates and agents permission to </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt; line-height: 110%;">use, without charge, portions of your Chapter and
Outline, along with your </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.4pt; line-height: 110%;">name and stated reason for writing the submitted Entry (if
provided) for any purpose in </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.35pt; line-height: 110%;">connection with this Contest. You also grant us the right
to edit the </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.15pt; line-height: 110%;">formatting and display of your Entry, and to create literary or any other
types of effects </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt; line-height: 110%;">in respect to your Entry without compensation or approval.
In addition, to the extent </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.15pt; line-height: 110%;">that any moral rights (for example, the right to
attribution and the right to integrity) </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.05pt; line-height: 110%;">apply, you waive (and to the extent that these
rights may not be waived, agree </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.25pt; line-height: 110%;">irrevocably not to assert) your moral rights in
your Entry for purposes of this Contest, </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.4pt; line-height: 110%;">including, without limitation, our use of excerpts
from your Entry in connection with this </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.2pt; line-height: 110%;">Contest. You represent that you have received the
consent of any person (or parent or </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.15pt; line-height: 110%;">legal guardian if such person is a minor) whose
real and actual name or likeness is used </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt; line-height: 110%;">or featured in any Entry that you submit. If you
fail to obtain the consent, your Entry will be disqualified. We have the right
at any time during the Contest to request proof </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.2pt; line-height: 110%;">of consent, and to disqualify your
Entry if you cannot provide the requested documents. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.15pt; line-height: 110%;">Excerpts, along with the
your name, city, and state of residence, and portions of your Entry which
relate to the submitted Chapter, may be posted on any website owned </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 110%;">or operated by us or any of their affiliates
(“Our Site”), any other website or other <span style="letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">online
point of presence on any platform through which any products or services </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.25pt;">available on or through Our Site are described,
syndicated, offered, merchandised, or </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.3pt;">advertised.
Our decision to post an Excerpt or any portion of an Entry on any one of Our </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">Sites does not mean that the selected Entry has
been selected as a winning Entry. Furthermore, y</span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">ou acknowledge that your Entry is based on copyrighted characters,
concepts, and other creative elements belonging wholly to Adventures in
Television Inc. and that “The Dead Man” logo is a registered trademark of
Adventures in Television Inc. and that you may not publish, or otherwise
publicly disseminate or repurpose your Entry in any media or format, regardless
of whether or not you win the contest, without the written consent of
Adventures in Television Inc.</span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.4pt; line-height: 110%;">6.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; line-height: 110%;">COLLECTION/USE OF PERSONAL
INFORMATION. </span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; line-height: 110%;">We are collecting personal </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.15pt; line-height: 110%;">information primarily to process
Entries, to contact you if necessary, or for marketing </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.2pt; line-height: 110%;">and other purposes. By
participating in this Contest, non-U.S. resident entrants are </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.25pt; line-height: 110%;">authorizing the transfer
of personal data to the United States for these purposes. By entering the
Contest, you agree that we may share your </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.2pt; line-height: 110%;">information, in our sole discretion, with third
parties that have a need to know the information, such as the judging panel or
third parties that we retain to assist in </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.15pt; line-height: 110%;">administering the Contest; however, those third
parties may only use the information for purposes related to this Contest.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.4pt; line-height: 110%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.2pt; line-height: 110%;">7.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; line-height: 110%;">GRAND PRIZE</span></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.25pt; line-height: 110%;">. </span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.25pt; line-height: 110%;">If you are selected as the Winner in a category, you will </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.45pt; line-height: 110%;">receive a $500 Amazon gift card and a standard
work-for-hire publishing contract with </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt; line-height: 110%;">Adventures in Television Inc. to write a novella, of
no more than 25,000 words, in “The Dead Man” series and to market and
distribute your final manuscript as a published book. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.2pt; line-height: 110%;">Upon the full execution
of the publishing contract, Adventures in Television will pay the Winner $500.00
USD. The </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.15pt; line-height: 110%;">$500.00 payment is an advance against the royalties to be earned by the
Winner under the work-for-hire publishing contract. The approximate retail
value (“<b>ARV</b>”) of </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.2pt; line-height: 110%;">the publishing contract
is $500.00 USD for the advance. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.3pt; line-height: 110%;">You will receive half of the advance on signing the
contract, half on delivery of the final manuscript. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.2pt; line-height: 110%;">Adventures in Television
will </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.4pt; line-height: 110%;">determine the royalty
rates to be paid under the work-for-hire publishing contract, which will </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt; line-height: 110%;">depend on the format in
which the book is published and the projected print </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.25pt; line-height: 110%;">run. You may not
negotiate the standard work-for-hire publishing contract with Adventures in
Television, and you must </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.3pt; line-height: 110%;">sign it “as is” upon receipt of the executable contract</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.2pt; line-height: 110%;"> if you wish to enter
into the publishing contract being awarded. The work-for-hire </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.4pt; line-height: 110%;">publishing contract will
be governed by the laws of the State of California. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.2pt; line-height: 110%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.3pt; line-height: 110%;">8.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.25pt; line-height: 110%;">DISQUALIFICATIONS. </span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.25pt; line-height: 110%;">If your Entry is
disqualified for any reason, you will not receive a </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.2pt; line-height: 110%;">notice or explanation
describing the reason for the disqualification.</span><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.3pt; line-height: 110%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 110%;">9.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.3pt; line-height: 110%;">WINNER NOTIFICATION AND REQUIREMENTS</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.3pt; line-height: 110%;">. If you are selected as a
potential </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt; line-height: 110%;">Finalist,
we will notify you by phone or e-mail starting on or before Sept 1, 2012. You </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.35pt; line-height: 110%;">will be required to sign
and return </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.05pt; line-height: 110%;">a work-for-hire
publishing contract with Adventures in Television, which Adventures in
Television will countersign only if you are selected as the Winner. We </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 110%;">must receive the signed publishing contract by
Oct. 1, 2012.<span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;"> If any </span>documentation is
not returned by the specified dates, we may invite an alternate <span style="letter-spacing: -0.4pt;">Finalist, chosen by the Adventures in Television
judging panel</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.05pt;"> to replace the original
Finalist. If notification to the </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.3pt;">alternate
Finalist is returned as undeliverable, we will invite the next eligible
alternate </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.35pt;">Finalist, and so on</span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt;">. Prior </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.25pt;">to
awarding a prize, we may require you to sign additional documents we believe
are </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt;">necessary to confirm your
eligibility, to obtain a liability and publicity release, and to </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.3pt;">award any prize. </span></span><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 110%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.15pt; line-height: 110%;">10.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 110%;">ADDITIONAL TERMS. </span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 110%;">The Contest and all accompanying materials are © 2012 by <span style="letter-spacing: -0.35pt;">Adventures in Television, Inc. All rights
reserved. The Contest is void outside the eligible entry </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.3pt;">jurisdictions and where prohibited by law. You
agree that our decisions related to the </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">Contest are final and binding in all matters. We reserve the right, to
the maximum </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt;">extent permitted by law,
in our sole discretion, to change these rules or cancel the Contest at any
time. We may also modify, terminate or suspend the Contest if any </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">viruses, worms, bugs, unauthorized human
intervention, or other causes beyond our control corrupt or impair the
administration, security, or fairness of the Contest or </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.3pt;">submission of Entries. If you use the name or
likeness of an individual in your Entry, you </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">agree to be solely responsible for that use. Amazon is not a sponsor of
or involved in the judging of this Contest.
You agree that we, Amazon and </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.3pt;">our
and their respective parents, affiliates, subsidiaries and advertising and
promotion </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt;">agencies, along with any
officers, directors, agents, employees and representatives of </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">any of them (collectively, “</span></span><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt; line-height: 110%;">Released
Parties</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt; line-height: 110%;">”),
will not be responsible for any action </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.25pt; line-height: 110%;">brought by a person whose consent you did not
obtain. The Released Parties are not </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.2pt; line-height: 110%;">responsible for: (a) any human or other error that
may occur in the processing of the Entries; (b) any error, omission,
interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, theft or
destruction, or unauthorized access to or alteration of Entries; (c) or for
technical, network, telephone, computer, hardware or software, malfunctions of </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.3pt; line-height: 110%;">any kind, which may occur
in connection with this Contest, including, without limitation, </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.25pt; line-height: 110%;">any errors or problems
related to the administration of the Contest, the processing or </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt; line-height: 110%;">judging of Entries, the
announcement of the prizes, or the </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.3pt; line-height: 110%;">Contest-related materials. Released Parties are also
not responsible for: (y) inaccurate </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.2pt; line-height: 110%;">transmission of, or failure to receive, any entry
information on account of technical </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.05pt; line-height: 110%;">problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or
at any Web site; and (z) injury or </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.2pt; line-height: 110%;">damage to you or any other computer resulting from
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Matt Cahill has an unusual gift: he can see the corruption in people’s souls, making the afflicted appear as walking corpses to his eyes. This macabre ability has set him on a one-man crusade to eradicate these servants of an ancient and powerful evil, embodied by the aptly named “Mr. Dark.”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">On his way through the small town of Breckenridge, Minnesota, Matt sees the unmistakable signs of corruption in the chief of police and numerous cops. The evil that has consumed them now terrorizes innocents and allows drug and sex trafficking to run rampant. Just as Matt confronts the enslaved cops, a gun-toting teen appears, looking to make Matt pay for murdering her brother. Of course, Matt <em>did</em> kill her brother—he was another corrupted soul who’d been planning a bombing. But how can Matt convince Elena of the truth without any proof?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Trapped between Mr. Dark’s forces and a girl hell-bent on revenge, Matt faces an impossible choice: remove Elena—permanently—or let her kill him and doom the town.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Sounds great, doesn't it? Lisa has spent years toiling in the trenches of primetime television, as a writer/producers on shows like <em>Star Trek Voyager </em>and <em>Missing...</em>and has even written a Las Vegas strip tourist attraction (<em>The Star Trek Experience, </em>which was at the Hilton for years<em>)</em> . So we thought we'd invite her over here for a chat about her career and her creative process.</span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: inherit;">How did you become a writer?</span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I’ve written stories ever since I knew how to write. I wrote a play in college and graduated with an English major. After college, I moved to L.A. to work in Hollywood. At first, I wanted to write movies. Then I tried writing a TV spec script and found I liked that better. I took a UCLA Extension class in TV writing from Bill Rabkin, which I really enjoyed. I had been pitching stories to the Star Trek series “Deep Space Nine” and “Voyager,” and finally sold one to DS9. That was my first produced episode. It led to a staff job on “Voyager.”</span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: inherit;">What do you enjoy most about being a writer?</span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I love the feeling when I get a moment of action or line of dialogue just right. It’s like thinking of exactly the right comeback to an argument (usually in the car on the way home). For a few minutes, I feel like a genius. Then it’s back to work. I also like the problem-solving aspect of writing, figuring out the right order for the scenes and which clues to drop where.</span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: inherit;">What drew you to "The Dead Man?"</span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I was lucky enough to work with Lee and Bill on two TV series, “Martial Law” and “Missing.” We became friends. I heard about the “Dead Man” series they were working on and told them it sounded like fun. So they asked if I’d like to write one of the books. I jumped at the chance. I was right – it has been fun.</span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: inherit;">You've written scores of produced screenplays, but this was your first, published book. Did you find the transition to prose tricky?</span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Yes, it was tricky. TV writing is very sparse and functional. A script isn’t a final product in itself, but a blueprint for an episode. If something won’t be on screen, it doesn’t go in the script. With this book, I had to push myself to include more description, emotion and inner thoughts of the characters. There would be no set design or actors to add those elements later. </span><a class="asset-img-link" href="http://leegoldberg.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c669c53ef016305f5d069970d-popup" style="float: right;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="Lisa Klink Photo by Kat Shadian" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341c669c53ef016305f5d069970d" src="http://leegoldberg.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c669c53ef016305f5d069970d-200wi" style="margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px; width: 200px;" title="Lisa Klink Photo by Kat Shadian" /></span></a><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: inherit;">You've spent many years writing and producing TV series, some of them with Lee Goldberg & William Rabkin. How was writing "Slaves to Evil" different than writing an episode of a TV series? In what ways was it the same?</span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I found it challenging to write prose after years of scripts. The biggest advantage of a book over TV is the complete lack of budget and network restrictions. I could have as many sets and characters as I wanted. I could use bad words and nasty violence with no censor to stop me. That was fun.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This experience was like TV writing because the premise and main characters had already been established. I had always found the idea of writing a novel intimidating because I’d have to create the whole universe from scratch. This was the perfect transitional step. Also, I was already comfortable working with Lee and Bill, so I knew I had good support.</span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: inherit;">You've written TV shows, comics, books....you even scripted the "Borg Invasion 4-D" attraction that ran for years at the Hilton in Las Vegas. They are such different mediums. How do you do it? Do you have one guiding philosophy or approach to the writing that you do? What sort of writing do you like best? </span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I honestly don’t think I have a preference. I’m most comfortable with television, but I really enjoy the challenge of working in different media. Whatever the format, good writing always comes down to story and character. I have to get those right first. Then it’s a matter of shaping the script to fit the final product.</span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: inherit;">Now that you've written a book, are you tempted to write another outside of "The Dead Man" universe?</span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I would love to write more books. I read a lot of nonfiction, so I’d like to try that next. I also have a couple of ideas brewing for original novels. I’ll always keep writing, in as many different media as I can. New experiences and new challenges keep it interesting.</span><br />
<em><br /></em>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4333873488544422142.post-86003478296024556252012-04-24T18:51:00.002-07:002012-04-24T18:51:38.437-07:00FREAKS MUST DIEThe tenth book in<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=amb_link_359094502_1?ie=UTF8&docId=1000755621&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=hero-quick-promo&pf_rd_r=0MMNH786QSQKXMP4TQDW&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_p=1347841522&pf_rd_i=B0073VO8FW" target="_blank"> the DEAD MAN series</a>, Joel Goldman's taut and terrifying <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Freaks-Must-Die-Dead-ebook/dp/B0073VO88E" target="_blank">FREAKS MUST DIE</a>, is out today exclusively on Amazon. Here's a short interview with Joel about his career and his experience writing the latest DEAD MAN.<br />
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A: One of my law partners complained to me about another partner and asked for my advice. I told him we should write a murder mystery and kill the son-of-a-bitch off in the first chapter and spend the rest of the book figuring out who did it. So I did.</div>
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<strong>Q: It seems like so many lawyers become novelists. Is there something about framing a case, and presenting it to a jury, that makes a lawyer especially skilled at effective story-telling?</strong></div>
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A: I was a trial lawyer for 28 years. Trying a case is all about telling a story. You need a hook, a compelling protagonist and a narrative that holds together, makes sense and gives the jury a reason to root for your side. Writing a novel requires a lot of the same story-telling skills.</div>
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<strong>Q: After writing several "Lou Mason" legal thrillers, you shifted gears and began writing about an FBI agent. What prompted the shift?</strong></div>
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A: I developed a movement disorder called tics which is similar to Tourette's. It makes me shake, spasm and stutter. I wanted to write about my experience so I created Jack Davis, an FBI agent in his mid-50's and gave him my disorder. I wanted to find out what would happens if he shakes when he should shoot.</div>
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<strong>Q: "Freaks Must Die" novel is your first foray into the horror genre...was that a challenge for you? How is it different from writing a legal thriller or a crime novel?</strong></div>
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A: It was a challenge to get in the horror mindset. Once I integrated that into a crime setting, it felt the same, only bloodier.</div>
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It was a great experience. The collaboration with the creators of the series, Lee Goldberg and Bill Rabkin, was a terrific learning experience. Capturing the voice and sensibility of Matt Cahill was a challenge. I felt a real responsibility to stay true to the character and the series.</div>
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A: I'm working on a novel that will be out later this year introducing a new series featuring Alex Stone, a public defender with a "Dexter" sense of justice.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4333873488544422142.post-82348262842785680482012-04-07T15:49:00.000-07:002012-04-07T15:49:03.849-07:00Goldberg on WritingDEAD MAN co-creator Lee Goldberg sat down for <a href="http://kingsriverlife.com/04/07/the-goldberg-variations/" target="_blank">a print interview with Kings River Life magazine</a> and, later, video interview shot at the Left Coast Crime conference in Sacramento. Here's the video:<br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/RTVc7vmx950" width="560"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4333873488544422142.post-82586685462190308122012-03-25T18:12:00.000-07:002012-03-25T18:12:43.479-07:00Dead Man #9 - Carnival of Death<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The 9th book in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=amb_link_359094502_1?ie=UTF8&docId=1000755621&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=hero-quick-promo&pf_rd_r=18TJDHNEERBJ66C7T9AY&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_p=1347841522&pf_rd_i=B0073VO8FW" target="_blank">the DEAD MAN saga</a>, Bill Crider's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Carnival-Death-Dead-Man-ebook/dp/B0073VO8FW" target="_blank">CARNIVAL OF DEATH</a>, is out this week. We asked Bill a few questions about his career and his new book.</span><br />
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<div style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><strong><img align="right" alt="Bill Crider" height="276" src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/digital/kindle/merch/Bill-Crider._V135649993_.jpg" width="203" />You write in so many genres--western, mystery, horror--do you have a favorite? If so, why?</strong></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I've enjoyed writing in every genre, and I'd hate to pick a favorite. I've been most successful in the mystery and crime field, but a lot of the popular fiction writers I admire most have written in several fields. There's a lot of crossover between mysteries and westerns, for example, with writers like Elmore Leonard, Harry Whittington, Bill Pronzini, Bob Randisi, James Reasoner, and on and on. So I'm just following their lead.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><strong>Is there a common thread to your writing?</strong>Most of my writing is set in small towns in Texas and, though I've ventured far afield on more than one occasion, you could say that Texas and Texans figure in most of my work. I like to write about the changes in life and society I see going on around me and how the changes affect the characters in my books, so that's another thread that runs through them.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><strong><br />
</strong></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><strong>You're considered an expert on pulp fiction and the old Gold Medal paperbacks. Lee Goldberg & William Rabkin say they were influenced by their love of those books when they created The Dead Man series. Where do you think The Dead Man fits in with, and deviates from, books of that era?</strong><br />
</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The Gold Medal paperbacks were short, punchy novels full of action and color. They moved fast, and they featured ordinary people in extraordinary situations. I see The Dead Man as being solidly in that tradition, with some elements of the fantastic added for color. There's also a connection to the kind of adventure books that I wrote with Steve Mertz more than 20 years ago in series like <em>The M.I.A. Hunter</em> and <em>The Tunnel Rats</em>. And of course Nick Carter.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><strong><br />
</strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XWXw2JvGwF8/TyY5d75bKkI/AAAAAAAAA2g/HFTGTG-zTlM/s1600/Carnival+of+Death+Cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XWXw2JvGwF8/TyY5d75bKkI/AAAAAAAAA2g/HFTGTG-zTlM/s320/Carnival+of+Death+Cover.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><strong>How did you approach your Dead Man book, <em>Carnival of Death</em>? What were the challenges? What did you enjoy most?</strong><br />
</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The challenges included writing an action-oriented story that also developed the character and history of Matthew Cahill a bit without violating the rules of his world and what had happened in other installments of the series. An even bigger challenge was to write a book that was up to the high standards of the ones that preceded it, all of which were topnotch stories by writers whose work I admire. The most enjoyment came from getting back to writing the kind of series action story like the Gold Medal paperbacks. It's always great fun to do that kind of thing.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><strong><br />
</strong></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><strong>What's next for you?</strong><br />
</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I'm working on a book in the Rancho Diablo series that I write with Mel Odom and James Reasoner. It's a western with horror elements called <em>Gabby Darbins and the Slide-Rock Bolter</em>. Should be fun.</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4333873488544422142.post-62474256367027867732012-02-26T15:09:00.001-08:002012-02-26T15:10:20.905-08:00A Year Ago Today<div class="photo-wrap photo-xid-6a00d8341c669c53ef01630214414d970d" id="photo-xid-6a00d8341c669c53ef01630214414d970d" style="float: left; margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; width: 200px;"></div><br />
Lee Goldberg here...<br />
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As you already know, Amazon has ordered 12 more books in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=amb_link_359094502_1?ie=UTF8&docId=1000755621&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=hero-quick-promo&pf_rd_r=0NT7C01HMFTWPYNBSG1Z&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_p=1347841542&pf_rd_i=B005WWC5RM" target="_self">the DEAD MAN series</a>...in digital, print and audio...on top of the 12 that they ordered back in September. That will keep the monthly series of original novellas going into 2013 (book #9, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Carnival-Death-Dead-Man-ebook/dp/B0073VO8FW" target="_self">CARNIVAL OF DEATH</a>, comes out in a few weeks).<br />
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The renewal cames just as <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Dead-Face-Knives-Heaven-ebook/dp/B005WWC5RM" target="_self">DEAD MAN VOLUME 1,</a> a digital and print compilation of the first three DEAD MAN tales, and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Dead-Man-Vol-Knives-Heaven/dp/1455878502" target="_self">the audio edition </a>are released.<br />
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What you may not know is that news comes almost to the day that Bill Rabkin and I self-published <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Face-Evil-Dead-Man-ebook/dp/B005SZZYDA" target="_self">FACE OF EVIL</a>, the first DEAD MAN tale, one year ago this month. Last February, I had the silly fantasy that Amazon would see the potential of the series and become our publisher...little did I know how quickly that dream would come true.<br />
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But I owe that to a series of events that began in an "Introduction To TV Writing" class I was teaching at UCLA back in 2007. One of my students was a guy named Mike Daniels. The goal of the class was for students to leave with a solid outline that they could use to write their first spec script in the "Introduction to Screenwriting" class. But it was clear to me that Mike was far too talented to be wasting his time writing an outline...he should go to script now. So asked I him to continue participating in class, but to start writing the script and share his pages with me on the side. He did.<br />
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By the end of the term, he'd turned out a brilliant RESCUE ME spec...and, if memory serves, a spec pilot script as well. At the end of that last class, I told him he was as good, if not better, than most TV writers that I knew and to stop wasting his time taking classes...he was ready to conquer the TV biz.<br />
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And he did. <br />
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Within a year, he was on staff of ONE TREE HILL. Today, he's married to one of the actresses from the show and a producer on SONS OF ANARCHY.<br />
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What does all of this have to do with <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=amb_link_359094502_1?ie=UTF8&docId=1000755621&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=hero-quick-promo&pf_rd_r=0NT7C01HMFTWPYNBSG1Z&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_p=1347841542&pf_rd_i=B005WWC5RM" target="_self">THE DEAD MAN</a>?<br />
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Not long after our class was over, Mike asked me if I'd read an unpublished novel that his brother James had written. James was a lawyer, but on the side he also narrated books for Brilliance Audio. I agreed, with more than a little hesitation, to read the book. Much to my surprise, I really liked the book...it was clear he had enormous talent...but the story needed a lot of work. I suggested some revisions to the opening chapters, which James made, and then referred the book to my agent. She saw the potential too and took him on...and although she wasn't able to sell the book, I never forgot it or how talented he was. When the DEAD MAN came along, I asked him if he wanted to write one. He did...and the book turned out to be <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Ring-Knives-Dead-Man-ebook/dp/B005SZZYHQ" target="_self">RING OF KNIVES</a>, the second in our series.<br />
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When RING OF KNIVES came out, James told all of his friends at Brilliance Audio about the book...and when they read it, they thought that it, and the other books in the series, would make great audiobooks.<br />
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Since Brilliance is owned by Amazon, word about their interest in the series soon filtered up to the editors at Amazon Encore and Thomas & Mercer...who called me about the print rights.<br />
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And you know how the rest of the story goes...<br />
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But the capper is that James, and his brother Luke, are narrating<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Dead-Man-Vol-Knives-Heaven/dp/1455878502" target="_self"> the audiobooks</a> (James narrates his books, Luke narrates all of the others). Is that just too perfect?<br />
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Anyway, this all goes to show how everything is connected...and that you have no idea how something you do today could pay off in unexpected, unimagined ways years from now.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1