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JUNE 1-30, 2007 EDITION
"Sometimes the Past
Is Buried for a Reason"
An Exclusive Authorlink
AUDIO Interview
With David Morrell, Author
of Scavenger (Vanguard Press 2007)
David Morrell is considered by many to be the father of the modern action thriller. The movie character Rambo was based on his award-winning novel First Blood. David has written 29 books, most of them bestselling novels which have sold more than 18 million copies in 26 languages. His latest thriller, SCAVENGER, takes us on a desperate high-tech scsavenger hunt for a 100-year-old time capsule. Full Story (June 2007)
All It Takes
Is One "Yes"
An exclusive Authorlink interview
with Sara Gruen, author
of Water for Elephants
(Algonquin)
by Ellen Birkett Morris
Sara Gruen was a day away from starting another novel when she saw an article in the Chicago Tribune on Edward J. Kelty, a photographer who followed traveling circuses in the 1920s and 1930s.The photograph that accompanied the article, one of his Congress of Freaksseries, was so compelling that Gruen set aside her earlier idea and began working on the novel that would become WATER FOR ELEPHANTS. Full Story (June 2007)
From School Handout
to Chapter Book Seies
An Exclusive Authorlink Interview
With Brian Anderson, author
of The Adventures of Commander Zack Proton
(Aladdin/Simon & Schuster, 2006-2007)
by Susan Van Hecke
A zany space adventure series for seven- to ten-year olds, packed with wacky graphics to engage reluctant readers, especially boys? Leapin’ leptons! as Commander Zack Proton would say, sounds like a kidlit editor’s dream. But as science-guy-turned-children’s-author Brian Anderson – a piñata-making chemistry professor at University of Texas in Austin – remembers, his Adventures of Commander Zack Proton (Aladdin/Simon & Schuster, 2006-2007) serial was hardly a shoo-in. Full Story (June 2007)
With Brian Anderson, author
of The Adventures of Commander Zack Proton
(Aladdin/Simon & Schuster, 2006-2007)
by Susan Van Hecke
A zany space adventure series for seven- to ten-year olds, packed with wacky graphics to engage reluctant readers, especially boys? Leapin’ leptons! as Commander Zack Proton would say, sounds like a kidlit editor’s dream. But as science-guy-turned-children’s-author Brian Anderson – a piñata-making chemistry professor at University of Texas in Austin – remembers, his Adventures of Commander Zack Proton (Aladdin/Simon & Schuster, 2006-2007) serial was hardly a shoo-in. Full Story (June 2007)
SKILL BUILDING
The Art of Fiction
Revision Toolkit: Part 1
by Lisa Lenard-Cook
Revision Toolkit: Part 1
by Lisa Lenard-Cook
The difference between a first draft and a polished manuscript is so monumental, beginning writers often mistakenly believe that published authors’ work must come out that way the first time. But the reality is that the better a fiction, the more time and effort the author has spent revising it. That’s why I’ll be spending my next few columns sharing my revision toolkit. Full Story (June 2007)
Narrative Nonfiction
Crafting a Narrative
From life Experience: Part 2
Crafting a Narrative
From life Experience: Part 2
by Lisa Dale Norton
Reader Note: This column is the conclusion of a two-part series begun with the May column.
After you have chosen one of the events from your life, after which everything changed, you begin the work every memoirist must step up to: gathering your material. You chart the course you followed as you came to terms with that life-altering event, taking note of the potent memories that rise‹the people you encountered and the events that filled your days as you walked a new landscape, finding your way through a time of change and transition. Full Story (June 2007)
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On Screen Writing
Chronology and Three-Act Structure
A monthly screen writing column
by Neil Flowers
Carey Abney is from Philadelphia, an active duty ITSN (Navy) residing in Newport News, VA, and a new reader of this column. He has sent in a question pertinent to all of us who write feature films and hope that they will be sold and produced. It will take two or three of columns to reply fully to Mr. Abney. Here's his question.
Dear Mr. Flowers,
I have a question about your most recent column regarding three-act structure. Since I'm new to screenwriting, I'm constantly studying and researching how to write a great screenplay. In many books about screenwriting . . . Full Story (May/June 2007)
I have a question about your most recent column regarding three-act structure. Since I'm new to screenwriting, I'm constantly studying and researching how to write a great screenplay. In many books about screenwriting . . . Full Story (May/June 2007)
The White Page
by Rochelle Jewel Shapiro
What could set a writer’s heart pounding more than staring at a white page, worrying how to begin writing, what to say? No matter how much you’ve published, each time you start out, you feel like a novice all over again. Nothing you’ve ever done before seems to help. In fact, former accomplishments may get in the way because you worry that you’ll never be able to write anything as good as the piece that you just received a Pushcart Prize for. (Wouldn’t that be grand?) Full Story (June 2007)
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Editor-in-Chief Authorlink.com
Manager, Authorlink Literary Group
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(972) 650-1986
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