Search Results for: The Mail I Get

Connelly’s Road to Hollywood

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Michael Connelly’s crime novels regularly top the best-seller lists.  His Harry Bosch series has sold more than 2.6 million copies. His website gets one million hits a month, and his email list boasts about 30,000 names. Connelly is a certified celebrity in the mystery book world.  You’d think studios would be scrambling to make movies … Read more

Dyke Van Dyke

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I got this email today from Bradley. I’ve omitted his last name and the title of his show to protect him from  embarrassment. All the typos and errors are his: Mr. Goldberg, I’m an independent film producer in Texas. I recently came across your website through the IMDB. I am writing you to tell you … Read more

WGA Election

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I spent a few hours today reading through the campaign statements, the non-candidate statements and all the email spam I’ve been getting from both slates…and I voted. This was a difficult election for me. I wasn’t moved by either slate. I am moved by a profound disappointment in the way the Guild has been run … Read more

Mystery Lovers Corner

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I got a spam email the other day from Dawn Doodle of  Mystery Lovers Corner, an amateurish website that, for a one-time fee of $35, will list your bio and  one of your books. You don’t want readers to wonder why your books aren’t here. Lots of categories to classify your books. We had our … Read more

Best Wishes to Ed Gorman

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Author, editor, and publisher Ed Gorman reports on his  must-read blog that he’s about to undergo radiation treatment in his battle against cancer. I noted a while back that I wouldn’t be commenting on my health unless things changed. I’m about to go through three five day weeks of radiation therapy. I’ll work in the … Read more

WGA Election Packet

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The fat WGA election packet arrived in the mail yesterday. I haven’t opened it yet. I’m dreading going through all the election material and reading all the statements. I haven’t made up my mind yet how to vote. This one isn’t easy. My friend Mark Evanier does a great job summing up the election over … Read more

Can I Sue?

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I got this email the other day: If you’ve got any time in your hectic sked to offer me advice I’d be grateful. As far as I know, you’re not a lawyer, but as a seasoned pro you may know! Anyone that writes anything knows that ideas float around the ether waiting to be written. … Read more

My Evil Doubles

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I was procrastinating this morning, so I decided to see what folks were saying about me in the blogosphere (via Blogpulse). And I found this: My friends at WJBQ made mention of the blog again yesterday…and let the cat out of the bag that I love Lee Goldberg. Surely she’s not talking about me. So … Read more

Pay me for my fanfic!

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Fandom Wank reports today that a fanficcer named "cousinjean" appealed to her readers to subsidize her fanfiction writing: I’ve gotten a lot of e-mails over the past year asking if and when I’m going to finish both Dancing Lessons and my sequel to The Butterfly Effect. Believe me when I say that nobody is more … Read more

How Not To Sell Your Book II

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I got this spam email today:  Dear fellow MWA members and members of the forensic society,     I have written a murder mystery series beginning with Death, Then Murder and Murder Under Fire starring C.J. Thompson and Lauren Lamplier.  I have also written a nonfiction book letting everyone know that God sends messages to … Read more