Search Results for: The Mail I Get

Who Do You Know

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I got this email today from a reader of my MONK books.  I’ve changed the names, but otherwise I haven’t edited it: I can’t help but recognize your name. Of course Goldberg is rather common in L.A.  Do you recognize the last name of Sandstrom?  Howard or Betty or Steve?  They lived on Sherbourne in … Read more

Mr. Monk and the Finished Manuscript

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I’ve just emailed the finished manuscript for the fourth Monk novel, MR. MONK AND THE TWO ASSISTANTS, to my editor in New York. The book will be published in hardcover in July 2007. Here’s what the cover copy says (yes, the cover was completed before the book): Only a special kind of person can keep … Read more

IAMTW Seeks Scribe Submissions

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We’ve had lots of submissions for the first annual Scribe Awards for Excellence in Tie-in Writing arriving over the last few months inside the dormant volcano where the International Association of Media Tie-In Writers has its world headquarters…but we could use even more. The Scribe Awards and How You Enter…the details are after the jump:

Inhuman

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I’ve never written a biography, but I must get two or three emails a month from complete strangers who want me to write a book about their lives. Here’s one I got today (I took out the name of the person and the company she mentions): I am 70 years old and I have been … Read more

Showtime Series For Free

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In a bid to get more subscribers, Showtime is offering free episodes of DEXTER, L WORD, WEEDS,  BROTHERHOOD, and SLEEPER CELL on Yahoo to get you hooked. They are also aggressively courting bloggers like me to get the word out. Obviously, its worked, since here I am, talking about it.But this is not the first time … Read more

Giddy Up.. or Giddy Down?

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I received this email from Chuck: I read on your blog some comments about Westerns going the way of the buffalo. However, I’ve come across some data that indicate otherwise. Nielsen BookScan, which covers about 70% of U.S. book sales, says Western sales have increased by 9% in 2005 and 10% thus far in 2006. … Read more

I am going to be RICH!

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I got this email today: Dear Goldberg My name is Charles Kobenan a Banker and accountant with BIAO BANK Abidjan.I am the personal accounts manager to Engr Lake Goldberg a National of your country, who used to work with an oil servicing company here in Cote Ivoire. My client, his wife, and their three children … Read more

Tied Up in Tie-ins

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I got an email from someone who has written his first original tie-in novel, which will be released very soon in paperback by a major publisher. He was paid a flat, work-for-hire fee of $5000 to produce a 90,000 word novel and was put through at least one revision.  He had this question for me: … Read more