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Blog postWhile researching The Black Kachina, I ran across the story of a special man named Charles Alexander Eastman and his book, The Soul of an Indian. Born in 1858 with the name Hakadah, later called Ohiyesa, finally renamed Charles, this awe-inspiring Native American spent the first fifteen years of his life living the nomadic, natural life of a Santee Sioux (or Dakota tribe) of southern Minnesota. Then Eastman went to college, graduated from Dartmouth, earned his medical degree at Boston University
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Blog postOver 80,000 people have downloaded BIG NUMBERS since it went free more than a year ago. Reviews have climbed from 50 to 118, maintaining over 80% 4 or 5 star average. The other three books in the series are selling better than before, and while The Famous Author and his publisher Down & Out Books are reasonably pleased with the campaign strategy, I -- Austin Carr -- am NOT!
Why? Because that stupid, rat face, lying bastard TFA is working on another thriller without me! Can you b -
Blog postIf you want people to read your post, you have to put SEX in the headline. But my story on Elizabeth A. White's famous blog on writing and editing talks about my female protagonist and how I learned to love writing from different points of view. Take a peek.
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Blog postThere have been several, but Colonel Maggie Black is the best protagonist The Black Kachina ever had. Here's a link to Mystery Tribune where I describe the back and forth. Cate Blanchett (above) is my pick for the role of Lt. Col. Maggie Black, former U.S. Air Force combat pilot.
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Blog postHere's a link to In Reference to Murder, a great crime fiction blog, where I talked about the two kinds of research I used for The Black Kachina. It's was more fun to visit the desert, not look at pictures.
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Blog postMystery Scene's Oline Cogdill let's me blog about The Black Kachina and the twenty-three-year trip from idea to publication. Here's the link:
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Blog postHere's a link to Janet Rudolph's Mystery Fanfare blog where I discuss The Soul of the Indian By Charles Eastman, one of the most remarkable men you'll ever read about.
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Blog postHere's a link to BookLoons where you can win a free copy. Enter by August 31.
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Blog postKirkus Indie reviews The Black Kachina here.
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Blog postOne of crime fiction's top online sites, Criminal Element, posted the entire 29th chapter of The Black Kachina this past week. Here's a link of you want to take a peek.
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Blog postScoop! The Famous Author (TFA) signed me up for another blog tour this fall, but I've learned the whole thing's a rope-a-dope. (Don't we all miss Ali, The Greatest?) Not that there's anything wrong with my wonderful tour people or the nice, mostly lady bloggers who've promised to review BIG SHOES, my fourth novel.
The problem is TFA. He's flipped. I found out for a fact that the next "Austin Carr Mystery" he's writing won't even have me in it! And I mean absolutely no mention wh -
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Blog postIf you're a crime and mystery fan or, heaven forbid, a writer of such things like The Famous Author, I can think of at least two big reasons why you'd want to attend this weekend's Deadly Ink Mystery Conference at Hyatt Regency hotel in New Brunswick, N.J.
1. Hilary Davidson
2. Reed Farrel Coleman
These two crime writers are among the best in the business. They sell tons of books. Each will be available next weekend -- Friday August 5 through Sunday August 7 -- to -
Blog postThey serve sake in Japan however you like it -- hot, cold or room temperature -- although the quality of the sake and the season are often factors. Heated sake -- a wine made from rice -- is a winter drink, but the best is rarely consumed hot because taste and smell are reduced. Old sake and the lower-quality stuff are often heated before serving.
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Blog postThis book offers few tips on writing suspense fiction, which was the reason The Famous Author picked it up at a used book store, but few books on writing have inspired him more than this one.
Ms. Highsmith was an artist in every sense of the word, and through her own thoughts and explanations of the subject, the reader gets to know her own singular artistic sentiments and temperament. What a wonderful time it would have been to sit with her during a meal, although TFA suspects she w -
Blog postThough still a little shaky in high heels -- at least stomping through futuristic wastelands -- actress Emily Beecham is fast becoming a triple-A-list television star. As The Widow in AMC's brand new martial arts drama series, INTO THE BADLANDS, Emily is without a doubt TV's prettiest villain in this reporter's recent memory.
I mean, what's more fun than a redheaded evil queen? Not only can she kick your butt with her karate, her smile, and her sex appeal, Ms. Em plays a murderer wi -
Blog postEverybody knows The Famous Author writes screwball mysteries, right? The Austin Carr series is more about laughs than it is solving murders, and if there's any smart deductions going on, they happen in the brain of Mama Bones or Luis, not me, Austin Carr.
You know my weakness -- I'm always thinking with the wrong organ. Thus it will come as a shock to many in the world of crime publishing that TFA finds one of his stories inside a new anthology, LAST WORDS, and that his story contai -
Blog postTFA -- I can be lazy, so when several scribe friends wanted to waste a whole day of our one-week writing retreat by visiting Cassadaga, Florida, the Psychic Capital of the World, I quickly agreed. I thought the whole idea of psychics to be silly: "Don't they already know we're coming?" But we'd been working long hours for several days and any reason to goof off sounded good, even a road trip to a town of mind readers.
Guess who had his life changed.
No, I am not kiddi -
Blog postThe big thing about my temporary business partner, Angelina "Mama Bones" Bonacelli, her routine professional consultations can easily deteriorate into criminal activity and violence. Breakfast appointments have been raided by the FBI. Her Power Point presentation to a Jersey state racing
commission last summer ended in a fist fight, then later in the parking lot, automatic weapons fire. As a Jersey shore racketeer with direct ties to what's left of a once powerful New York crime -
Blog postVincent Van Gogh painted this peaceful scene one week or two before they say he shot himself. No one really knows, because no pistol was ever found. There was a bullet inside him, and though it struck no vital organ, he died the next day of infection because there was no doctor to remove it.
What if Vincent didn't shoot himself? Yes, he cut off his own ear in anger over a fight with Paul Gauguin, another artist, and yes, Vincent had suffered several bouts of mental depression, hallu -
Blog postSure I had to donate some money to her charity, but that's half the fun of spending it. The dough went for another cause beside my own self-gratification. Hope you guys and gals can read what she wrote to me. Just in case you can't, the words say "You're a peach, Austin."
Darn right I'm a peach, Ms. Katee Sackhoff. And so are you. The star of the rekindled television series Longmire is a former redhead of the week, and The Famous Author also spent half a day on one of Kate -
Blog postWhen LONGMIRE the television series was cancelled last year by a network we won't name, four million viewers cried "No freaking way!" And thankfully, after weeks of negotiation, Netflix stepped into the fan-rescue role, contracting to air the show's fourth season sometime later this year. Filming began this week in New Mexico.
It's a fun show, based on Craig Johnson's mystery novels, which I think of as a combo of cops and robbers plus cowboys and Indians. Longmire stars A -
Blog postOf course I'm not hungry, but this is what asking you to buy the book feels like. Ah, marketing.
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Blog postIt's been over seven years since Academy Award-winning actress Nicole Kidman first graced our pages. As Redhead of the Week on Tuesday, November 27, 2007, we reported Nicole ranked among the highest paid actresses in Hollywood. $130 million was the figure Celebrity Networth placed on her net assets. She'd won the Academy Award for Best Actress by playing Virginia Woolf in The Hours, starred in hit movies like Cold Mountain, Fur, The Stepford Wives and Bewitched, plus sold a ton of Chanel No. 5 b
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Blog postAs a reporter for The Los Angeles Times, TFA rode with the Associated Press and The New York Times on an oil tanker (The Arco Juneau) out of Valdez, Alaska. They were loaded with the first oil traveling the Alaska Pipeline from Prudhoe Bay, and were the target of multiple bomb threats -- something they told him AFTER they arrived at Cherry Point, Washington. Way to get the scoop, TFA.
He used to work with the grandson of a very famous New York mafia don.
He once delivered -- in perso -
Blog postI write funny, or screwball mysteries, but I scared myself silly writing Big Mojo, the third novel in my Austin Carr series. Maybe the book really is a thriller. What happened, a supporting character -- Angelina “Mama Bones” Bonacelli -- took over as my favorite writing voice, and that is not supposed to happen. Austin Carr is my chosen speaker, the man whose strange ideas about life found voice inside the devil on my shoulder. Austin’s the star of the show. He talks in first person. It’s his se
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Blog postMOTIVATION: The reason or reasons one has for acting or behaving in a particular way.
The big thing about humans, we're moody -- some a little, others a lot. One day the energy flows and we're ready to tackle life's problems like the Green Bay Packers. The next day, something's upset us, made us want to slack off a little, complain or even feel sorry for ourselves. It happens pretty much to everyone.
But as a writer, I really need to write every day. I can't wait for mo -
Blog postHalf Irish, half Lebanese, Amy Marie Yasbeck is the widow of John Ritter and best known for her role as Casey Chapel Davenport on the sitcom Wings from 1994 to 1997. She has appeared on numerous television shows and co-starred in films like Pretty Woman, Problem Child, Problem Child 2, The Mask, Robin Hood: Men in Tights and Dracula: Dead and Loving It.
Amy says she met Ritter at director Dennis Dugan's house during a read-through of Problem Child in 1989. Ritter suggested she eat a -
Blog postAnybody celebrating anything this week, eat, drink and hug the people and animals you love. At my house, in which seventeen people, a dog and a cat will gather for an old-fashion, fish-only, Italian Christmas Eve dinner, we wish all a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
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Blog postThe Famous Author is hipper than we all thought. Not only does he know who Katee Sackhoff is, he was on the shooting set this week of her upcoming movie, grinning and trying to stay out of the way -- mandatory for movie set visitors.
Honestly, I'm jealous. While he didn't get to actually meet Katee and drool on her shoes, he watched her rehearse, perform and interact with the director in a movie to be entitled GIRL FLU. Not bad for an old man who didn't fall in love with Katee durin -
Blog postLee Child's ex-Army Policeman Jack Reacher shows up in D.C. to say hello to a wonderful voice on the phone, but the surprise he gets isn't happy. Reacher finds himself on the wrong side of the lockup, back in the Army and way deep in trouble, Reacher getting blamed for everything except World War II. I particularly liked his relationship with another wrongly blamed Army type -- the sexy female he came to see -- and the lengthy and exciting road trip they take. The ending was a bit of a let down,
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Blog postUnderstand first I haven't met a Robert Crais novel I didn't like. Haven't given them all five stars, however, as RC is always on his game but some are better than others. So when I give SUSPECT five stars, I'm saying this is one his best. BUT -- I would give this book six stars if could because I believe this is his best book ever. I just loved it. I put it down -- had to go out to dinner -- but it was done by breakfast the next morning because I wanted to see how Scott and Maggie came out. I c
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Blog postFigures. We have a new book coming out next month, we're locked and loaded in our final re-write of BIG SHOES -- number four in my mystery series -- and The Famous Author has major commitments due for fancy blogs. So where is he when most needed?
Hilton Head. Of course.
"Relax, Austin, I'll be back this weekend."
"That's what you said a few years ago when I had to track you down in Mexico."
"Yeah, but I'm a much better
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