cj Sez: The Mystery Writers of America last week announced
their 2020 Grand Master, Raven, and Ellery Queen recipients.
Barbara Neely, best known for her Blanche White series, was selected
as the 2020 Grand Master, the annual mystery convention Left Coast Crime received
the 2020 Raven Award, and Kelley Ragland, associate director and editorial
director of Minotaur books, received the Ellery Queen Award. The awards
will be handed out at the 74th Annual Edgar Awards Banquet in New York City on
April 30, 2020
Read more about these awesome recipients here:
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"You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club." …Jack London
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cj sez: A little history of my writing career…
My first interest was in screenwriting. I flew from Detroit to San Francisco to take Robert McKee's three-day seminar on STORY.
The experience was invaluable because I learned to visualize
my story and how to write in terms of the characters’ action-dialogue-and
scenes that show the story. How characters react and what they don’t say can
speak volumes. This is where their actions speak louder than words. This is
deep point-of-view writing.
I’ve talked with writers who visualize some movie star or
other playing a character in their books. Is that something you do? I like to visualize the whole characterization—I’ll
leave it to Stephen Spielberg or Francis Ford Coppola (ha ha) to find the best
mega-star for the role.
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There are only ten (10) more days until Christmas. If you’re still wondering what to give
someone, give them an adventure…give them a book—a gift they can open again and
again.
That’s it for this week’s post. You-all guys keep on keeping
on, and I’ll try to do the same. See you here on Lyrical Pens next week.
cj
PS: FINALLY HOME Facebook hop winners Siobhan Perez and
Tracy Fritts each received a copy of HOMETOWN HEROES, a $5 Amazon gift card, an
art photo magnet, and a cheery Christmas mug.
Eight stories, including my own “Puppy Love” in FINALLY
HOME.
Five stories, including my own “Hobbes House Noel,” in HOMETOWN
HEROES.
Part of the proceeds from both of these Christmas anthologies will benefit a charity.
Autographed print
copies of CHOOSING CARTER, DEADLY STAR, and THE POSSE are still available at
The Haunted Bookshop. TO ORDER (and support an indie bookstore) contact The
Haunted Bookshop here: The Haunted Bookshop Angela Trigg, the awesome owner and a RITA
Award-winning author in her own right (writing as Angela Quarles) will be happy
to ship you the book(s) of your choice.
If you’re in the Mobile area, do
stop in at the book store; it’s a neat place to browse. These friendly people
make a point to shelve the books of local authors, and FINALLY HOME will be
available there soon. If they don’t happen to have any copies of the book you
want, they’ll order it for you.
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