Get ready, folks! The seventh season of the Crime Cafe podcast is coming soon! 🙂
This week’s guest post and giveaway come from Richard Meredith. For the giveaway, he’s offering an excerpt from his latest novel, Maskirovka — The Russian Science of Deception. Just email Richard at rmeredith@comcast.net with “Book Excerpt” in the subject line. You can sample the first five chapters of his recently published book, The Crow’s Nest below.
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An interesting thing happened to me during the horrible collapse of my book sales and income in 2011/2012. I ended up making the quarterfinals in a screenwriting contest!
At this point, I reached a definite crossroads in my career. Should I pursue screenwriting seriously? At my age???!!!
At the beginning of 2012, I attended a seminar on indie filmmaking. By that time, I had decided to seriously pursue screenwriting, and I understood that filmmaking was a group effort. The seminar was also recommended (well, really sold) as a good way for screenwriters to better understand the business.
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Sam McRae Mystery #2
Tina’s indifference and bravado were absent in the Patuxent Detention Center’s visiting area the following day. She sat hunched in a chair across the table from me, wearing a plain white T-shirt and jeans. She looked at me with wide, fearful eyes.
“I brought these for you,” I said, handing over three young adult books I’d picked up at Books-A-Million in the Laurel Shopping Center, not far from my Main Street office.
“Thanks.” Tina set them on the table, without looking at them. “When can I leave?”
“I’m not sure,” I said. “There’ll be an emergency…
Hi! 🙂 I’m not literally traveling anywhere. Much. Yet.
But that picture kind of looks like my career. At this point, my career is like a badly-planned trip through Hell toward a semi-sustainable lifestyle with dystonia and conflicting stuff to do. I’ve reached the point where I’m sitting in the middle of a proverbial road, checking the map, and feeling slightly lost and a bit confused.
Nonetheless, I’m doing stuff. Writing and so on. Don’t ask me how, but I am. In fact, I’m currently planning the third Erica Jensen mystery. And going through the edits on the second Erica…
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Hi! Today I’m going to talk about how sometimes you just have to get past your fears and do something.
This morning, instead of listening to anything else, I listened to what people had to say during this colloquium I was a part of. I was on a panel, Sisters in Crime. This was back in 2011. And the things that the other two people had to say were things I was most interested in. But then when I heard myself, I was like, I remember after I’d done it thinking, “Oh my God, I must’ve…
Debbi Mack
New York Times bestselling author of seven novels, including the Sam McRae Mystery series. Screenwriter, podcaster, and blogger. My website: www.debbimack.com.
