Continue reading about No, no, NOT the one with Sebastian Cabot! The OTHER one!
It occurred to me one day, about four or five years, that a kiddie-version of the Tom Clancy formula might work. It might…just hasn’t yet, but here’s the first chapter of what I came up with:
Chapter One
Wiesbaden, Germany
Airman Sean Jordan was on a night time training exercise in the densely wooded forest between Wiesbaden and Frankfurt when his new orders came through.… Read the rest
The Same Old Story, she is written, being read by several friends for consistency and suckishness (my wife’s already read it; not to keep you in suspense, she loved it). It’s also out to an agent of my acquaintance for consideration.… Read the rest
About a month ago, I ran an excerpt from Hey, Sophie!, a young adult novel I wrote for a client that will likely never see publication. Here’s a bit more, taking place later in the story, with Sophie heading out into the bayou by herself to investigate the mysterious stranger who lives there:
Back when my son was three or four years old, we were having breakfast at IHop with a friend and her daughter, Hannah, a couple of years older than Max. She was talking about their new house, an old 18th century farmhouse, saying that some of it was kind’a spooky, especially the “scare cases.” What, I wanted to know was a “scare case”?… Read the rest
Progress on The Same Old Story (here, here, here and here) continues at a steady pace, with the word count up to 45,000 or so. The Same Old Story is a mystery set in the early-1950s whose protagonist is a pulp and comic book writer.… Read the rest
In 2002, I heard the publishers of the Hardy Boy mysteries were open to pitches, so I wrote the following chapter (along with an outline for the rest of the story) and pitched. Timing, of course, is everything, and the editor I was pitching to left the publisher shortly thereafter.… Read the rest
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