Posted Nov 17 2011 in author, Book Hungry, Patty Blount, What I'm Reading
If you haven’t seen ABC’s hit show CASTLE, you won’t ‘get’ HEAT WAVE, written by… Richard Castle. In a bold marketing ploy, ABC decided to release a book ‘written’ by the same best-selling author who tags along with NYC detectives as they close cases in the Monday night prime-time crime drama. I don’t watch a […]
Read More...Posted Nov 10 2011 in author, book deal, fiction, Patty Blount, Sourcebooks, YA
Many years ago, after a particularly bad day, I cried to my mother that my life sucked. Her reply? “Go write yourself a life.” And I did. I began a novel called Postpartum Deception after that conversation. It never sold, but it showed me I had what it takes to conceive and finish a novel. […]
Read More...Posted Nov 8 2011 in author, characterization, fiction, Patty Blount, Stereotypes in Fiction, YA
One of my coworkers shared a link with us that led to an interesting video ‘experiment’ – actually an advertisement for a beer, but nevertheless interesting. The video shows a small theater in which all but two of the 150 seats were filled with rough-looking, tattoo’d, muscle-bound biker guys. Theater managers then sold the last […]
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