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Creating a PI Protagonist - Marlowe Black is my outrage.

I have read that a writer's protagonists and, too, his antagonists, are all facets of the writer's personality. While I willingly accept the former, I stand in clear denial of the latter.
  • schliess published this 12 / 09 / 2009
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World of Wacraft - Night of the Dragon

warcraft novel
  • baibur published this 12 / 01 / 2009
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Sunset Orange Water, a Marlowe Black Mystery Chapters 1 and 2 FREE

A .32 caliper pistol found at the scene with the victim's fingerprints on it. The medical examiner declares that the victim, Marlowe Black's pregnant fiancé's, death was caused by suicide. Two of ...
  • schliess published this 10 / 20 / 2009
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Sunset Orange Water, a Marlowe Black Mystery

A .32 caliper pistol found at the scene with the victim's fingerprints on it. The medical examiner declares that the victim, Marlowe Black's pregnant fiancé's, death was caused by suicide. Two of ...
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  • schliess published this 10 / 11 / 2009
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Drop Dead Cadillac Chapters 1 & 2

A red 1951 Cadillac half underwater, the bodies of a man and woman drowned in the trunk, one rapist, a reporter and his sister, a mobster and his father-in-law who's a Brooklyn Don, all tied togeth...
  • schliess published this 09 / 22 / 2009
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Writing a story from conception to completion: part three the conclusion.

When creating fiction, conclusions are often far different from conceptions. In part three of what I at first believed would be a two part exercise, I learned this once again.
  • schliess published this 09 / 19 / 2009
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Drop Dead Cadillac Cover Blurb

Writing a rear cover blurb, or pitch for the 3rd Marlowe Black Mystery.
  • schliess published this 09 / 07 / 2009
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The Wedding

Read the first chapter of Nadine Dajani's debut novel, Fashionably Late (Forge Books, 2007). From Publishers Weekly: "Plucky, 20-something, Lebanese-Canadian Aline Hallaby has a promising caree...
  • cubanista published this 07 / 21 / 2009
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Whence the Mockingbird, Chapter 1, Version 3, (sexual content)

Version three contains explicit sexual content. Mystery/Thriller Which is better? Version 2 or 3? Each day, 2300 people go missing in the United States. Alan Paltrow was not one of them. H...
  • schliess published this 07 / 18 / 2009
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Whence the Mockingbird, Chapter One, Version Two

This is the first version. Mystery/Thriller Each day, 2300 people go missing in the United States. Alan Paltrow was not one of them. His killers left his brutally mutilated corpse on the beac...
  • schliess published this 07 / 18 / 2009
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The Path Between Yesterday and Tomorrow - Chapters 1 + 2

Retrieving a priceless sword buried in a mysterious sculpture garden is 14 year old Emma Walker's answer to her family's financial problems, but when she pulls it from the earth where it lay buried...
  • schliess published this 07 / 11 / 2009
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Quiver - Chapters One and Two

Abduction/Murder Mystery Savannah, Georgia born Sue Todd Smith, a disillusioned grade school psychologist, resigns and establishes an agency to locate missing children. With fifteen successes be...
  • schliess published this 06 / 30 / 2009
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Whence the Mockingbird - Chapter One

Mystery/Thriller Each day, 2300 people go missing in the United States. Alan Paltrow was not one of them. His killers left his brutally mutilated corpse on the beach of a famous South Carolina r...
  • schliess published this 06 / 28 / 2009
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Beholden Chapter One

After a stranger's body mysteriously lands in his office after a long 4th of July weekend, PI Marlowe Black is determined to learn why. Is the death a message, and if so from who? To find out, he m...
  • schliess published this 06 / 28 / 2009
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Unmerciful Chapter One

The man convicted of killing Ethel Reiser sits in Attica, where he will remain for life unless PI Marlowe Black insists on meddling and finds proof to free him. The convict's sister, Peggy, conv...
  • schliess published this 06 / 28 / 2009
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Searching for Liberty Grace and Destiny

Fighting, kicking and screaming their way to the top, they do everything to survive. This four part fiction novel weaves together the lives of three different women...Liberty, Grace and Destiny. Th...
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  • BethanyKScanlon published this 06 / 26 / 2009
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The Vicar and His Handmaiden

An excerpt from Templar's Fire, a Gothic Vampire Novel. After days of flirting and frustration, the boys' nanny Mary decides she wants much more than temptation and she pursues fulfillment. H...
  • schliess published this 06 / 20 / 2009
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A Brief History of Noir Mysteries

Noir or dark mysteries grew in importance after World War Two when millions of GI returned home to a country vastly different than the home they remembered. Many combat soldiers bore the burden of ...
  • schliess published this 06 / 18 / 2009
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If I Walked the Crest of Hill

Dreaming for days past might prove to be a trap preventing the future. Examining the past philosophically, with thoughts for tomorrow.
  • schliess published this 06 / 15 / 2009
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Beholden

New York City 1950 The first Marlowe Black Mystery. When Marlowe discovers a stranger's mangled body in his office after a long 4th of July weekend, he ignores the advice of New York cops and set...
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  • schliess published this 06 / 15 / 2009
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