March 3, 2011
Here's an announcement from the Watchung Booksellers website
about the upcoming Writing Matters panel, March 25 in Montclair, NJ.
If you're in the area, I hope you'll come by and join the conversation.
OUR TWO PART WRITING MATTERS PANEL CONCLUDES WITH: GENRE VERSUS LITERARY FICTION: MEANINGFUL DIFFERENCE OR FALSE DISTINCTION? In January over sixty Writing Matters guests joined a panel of novelists to discuss the question of what makes a novel literary...or not. Now, we flip flop the question. On Friday, March 25th, 2011, at 7 pm, our second lineup of authors will gather to explore the meaning of genre fiction, and whether this categorization is real or false. Please join Jeff Markowitz, author of the Cassie O'Malley mysteries http://www.jeffmarkowitz.com/ Rick Moss, author of EBOCLOUD http://www.ebocloud.com/ Chris Redding, author of INCENDIARY http://www.chrisreddingauthor.com/ Steven Rigolosi, author of the TALES FROM THE BACK PAGE series http://www.whogetstheapartment.com/ and Todd Ritter, author of DEATH NOTICE http://www.toddritteronline.com/ for a night of continued conversation, food, and fun.
Posted by Jeff Markowitz.
February 23, 2011
It was my first shift as night watchman at the top secret government laboratory. The earnest young scientist who ran the lab left me with explicit instructions. One, he said, don't touch any of the experiments. And, two, and he was quite emphatic here, don't let anyone gain access to the lab.It
was a quiet night, boring, to be honest. I made my rounds. I didn't
understand any of it, especially the part about how scientists at the
lab could use the tiniest of bugs to conduct important gene... Continue reading...
Posted by Jeff Markowitz.
February 21, 2011
So here's one for movie buffs to kick around. With the Oscars a week away, I noticed today on msn, a list of the 10 worst movies to actually win the Oscar for Best Picture. 10. The Hurt Locker 9. A Beautiful Mind 8. Driving Miss Daisy 7. Rain Man 6. Out of Africa 5. Oliver 4. No Country for Old Men 3. Chicago 2. The English Patient 1. Shakespeare in Love So
what do you think? Were these movies deserving of their Oscars? Or
were they bad movies that won the Oscar for all... Continue reading...
Posted by Jeff Markowitz.
February 14, 2011
Sy looked up from his linguini and white clam sauce and asked, "So
ladies, vhat do you t'ink?" His aging fingers fumbled at his jacket
pocket, revealing a bottle of little blue pills. Avoiding his lecherous gaze, the twins giggled and continued eating their lobsters. "But don'tchou never t'ink you vould vant to try somet'ing just a little different?"
The twins hid behind their lobster tails, giggling with restraint.
Helen, the older of the two, dressed in a conservative ... Continue reading...
Posted by Jeff Markowitz.
February 6, 2011
Some people tell me it's crazy to travel to Chicago the first week-end
in February, that the city is too damn cold this time of year. But I
can't imagine anyplace warmer and more hospitable. I first started
coming to Love is Murder in 2005. I was a brand-new author then,
knowing little about the craft, and even less about the business of
writing. I came because a friend told me If you want to be a writer, you have to start going to the places that the real writers go.
And I've been... Continue reading...
Posted by Jeff Markowitz.
January 13, 2011
Words have power. No. Words ARE power. As writers, and as bloggers, we know that to be true. Our style may be informal, we may dash off a blog now and then, but even in the most random of blog entries (perhaps especially in our most random of blog entries), we choose our words with care. Because words have meaning. Denotative and connotative. Literal and symbolic. And if we know that to be true, surely, our politicians and political speech writers, our media spokesmen and their staff, o... Continue reading...
Posted by Jeff Markowitz.
January 11, 2011
The National Geographic Society has just announced the discovery of a six thousand year old winery in an Armenian cave. It is not the earliest archaeological evidence of wine, but it is the earliest, most complete example of the production of wine. And it just happens to be located in the same area where the earliest leather shoe was previously unearthed. There is a bon mot buried somewhere in that archaeological dig, to be found in the juxtaposition of leather shoe and grape-stained foo... Continue reading...
Posted by Jeff Markowitz.
January 5, 2011
A few of my favorite quotes on writing, from one of my favorite books about writing - Rules of Thumb: 73 authors reveal their fiction writing fixations (edited by Michael Martone and Susan Neville). "Write before you wake. Write as you sleep, if at all possible."Heid E. Erdich, Sleep On It "Regularity is as helpful with the muse as with the bowels." John Barth, The Ink-Stained Thumb "You can start a story with a coincidence, but you cannot end with one." Michael Martone, Prescriptions/Proscript... Continue reading...
Posted by Jeff Markowitz.
January 2, 2011
If you're an aspiring writer and you live in the New York/New Jersey
area, you should know about the bi-monthly Writing Matters Series
hosted by Watchung Booksellers in Montclair NJ. "Writing Matters
is a series of informal panel talks about the craft and business of
writing. Moving beyond a reading or book signing, our purpose is to
facilitate a discussion among readers and writers, and to explore the
rapidly changing landscape of contemporary publishing."
(http://www.watchungbooksellers.com... Continue reading...
Posted by Jeff Markowitz.
December 27, 2010
We got two feet of snow overnight, so today has been a good day for
reading. Actually, first it was a good day for digging out from under
two feet of snow, but once that was finished, it has been a good day
for reading. I've been exploring two books, similar in many ways, both
collections of biographical essays and drawings, of wondrous men (and
perhaps, an occasional woman). After a while though (that is to
say, after I poured the first whiskey) I am finding it hard to keep the
two books st... Continue reading...
Posted by Jeff Markowitz.
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