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Mar.13.2013
Over a two-hour lunch, a colleague and I discussed the changes (mercurial) in the publishing industry, Claudia particularly knowledgeable with her "This Business of Books," the most comprehensive piece on the writing to fulfillment process I've read. One point stuck in my mind, a fact I...
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Mar.13.2013
Over a two-hour lunch, a colleague and I discussed the changes (mercurial) in the publishing industry, Claudia particularly knowledgeable with her "This Business of Books," the most comprehensive piece on the writing to fulfillment process I've read. One point stuck in my mind, a fact I...
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Sep.26.2012
My new novel will be out on Friday.
I will be signing copies at the West Hollywood Book Fair on Sunday, September 30th from 2PM till 5PM.
I hope to see you there.
Then it's on to San Francisco, Denver, San Diego, Burbank, in no particular order, but that's the way life is when you're dealing with...
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Jun.01.2012
I've been off the grid for awhile, but never far from a writing pad or PC, wishing it was a Mac. I've just published an excerpt from a forthcoming, yet unfinished book, featured in Construction Literary Magazine. Here is the link:
http://www.constructionlitmag.com/features/bury-their-...
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Feb.06.2012
I stumbled across a website the other day—termite-revolution.com—and downloaded a tract titled “You Are Not a Termite” which seems aimed at consumers. Regardless, the piece defies desciption, yet manages to raise important questions about almost everything people worry about in today’s global...
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Aug.30.2011
Earlier this month, I spent a happy week with family and cousins at Quonnie beach in Rhode Island. Lots of John Sandford, “left, right, center,” and tossing Bocce balls with my now-famous west coast spin that blew away the New Yawkers.
Mid-week, my wife and I went to Providence to check...
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Apr.27.2011
If you’re in southern California this weekend, don’t miss the L.A. Times Festival of Books, this year held on the campus of USC. If you love books, they’ll be there in all shapes and sizes, genres and non-genres. Hundreds of authors will be talking about them.
On Saturday, April 30th at 11:00 AM...
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Apr.19.2011
In the film business, producers are terrified of not “making the day” which means getting every setup and shot done for that day. Usually, schedules are totally unrealistic because the producer has convinced his investors or boss that he can bring the project in (feature, TV show, indus...
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Apr.05.2011
I was leaving Home Depot yesterday and saw a homeless person reading a Kindle. Not a throw-away rag, a newspaper, a magazine or book. A Kindle.
For me, it was a “Hemingway moment,” my slang for brief existential events that give me pause for whatever reason. In this case, I finally realized...
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Mar.01.2011
Dear friends:
The mass-market edition of "Jaclyn the Ripper" will be in the stores tomorrow, March 1st.
If you missed it the first time around, now's your chance.
We hope you're well and happy, and wish you good reading.
–Karl
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Nov.25.2009
GIVING IS GRATITUDE
I’m in the middle of a book tour for my new novel, Jaclyn the Ripper, and I’m very happy with the response. Fans, old and new, are coming out to hear me talk about “Jaclyn” and read. Actually, I’m humbled. Signing the books they buy is a way of saying, “Thank you,” but...
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Aug.27.2009
Most of my male friends are divorced, and in every case, the divorce left them much poorer than before. They moved from large upscale homes with pools and spas to one-bedroom apartments. Their late-model BMWs transmogrified into old Toyota Corollas. They worked longer hours or took second jobs...
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May.13.2009
Recently, my editor gave me a January, 2010 pub date for the reprint of my first novel, Time After Time , the basis for the Warner Bros movie starring Malcolm McDowell and Mary Steenburgen. I think more as a courtesy than anything else, he asked if I wanted to make changes in the original edition...
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Jan.27.2009
The gropenator has been a professional politician for more than five years. He remains “movie-star” popular and has successfully avoided both scandal and character assassination in an era of tabloid journalism. Is that a miracle, or what? I think not. Unlike most politicians, Arnold...
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Jan.17.2009
When my grandmother found out I wanted to be a writer, she chuckled and said, “Welcome to the unemployment line.” I was stunned—not so much by the thought that most writers are unemployed, but by the sardonic humor coming from a seventy-five-year-old Unity minister in Central Point, Oregon. ...
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About karl
Believe it or not, I'm a fifth-generation Angeleno. I was born in the ‘40s when the major cause of pollution in L.A. was residents burning trash in incinerators. A few years later, the city fathers banned incinerators in favor of landfills, but inexplicably...
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