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Archive for February, 2008

Burning Moonlight (Selected Readings)

Posted in Book review, Child of God, China, Cormac McCarthy, Kublai Khan, Marco Polo, Mongol, Samuel Coleridge, Suttree, Venice, William Gay, Xanadu, history, southern writer, suspense, thriller, travel on February 29, 2008 | 7 Comments »

Twilight
by William Gay
(Anchor Canada; PB; $22.00)
 
“…he climbed up a chimney to a corridor above the stream and entered into a tall and bellshaped cavern. Here the walls with their softlooking convolutions, slavered over as they were with wet and bloodred mud, had an organic look to them, like the innards of some great beast. [...]

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A New Look

Posted in So Dark the Night, blog novel, movie deal, new look, new template on February 24, 2008 | 11 Comments »

Welcome to the revamped “Beautiful Desolation”.
The old template was limited in terms of certain key options (widgets, etc.) and there simply wasn’t room to grow. Now, thanks to the tireless efforts of Sherron, I can post my novels, some short films, podcasts, music…yup, lots of good stuff envisioned in the coming months.
Starting with So [...]

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“Kept” (The Movie) An Update

Posted in "Kept", Twisted Pictures, Variety Magazine, movie adaptation, movie deal on February 15, 2008 | 9 Comments »

Here’s a link to a piece in Variety, the film industry Bible, talking about the movie version of my novella “Kept”. They’ve upped the budget, taken on board a decent director and 2009 is still the presumed release date. Have a look:
“Kept”
And don’t forget the book that started it all…

(My thanks to [...]

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“…I’d rather be in Philadelphia!”

Posted in Color of Money, Conquest of Space, Dreams, Fast Eddie Felson, Fawlty Towers, Joe Frazier, Muhammed Ali, So Dark the Night, Star Trek, Tarantula, Thrilla in Manilla, W.C. Fields, blog novel, editing, final edit, novel writing, writing on February 11, 2008 | 10 Comments »

Oh, I hear you, W.C.
For the last few weeks I have been grinding away on final edits of So Dark the Night and it has not been fun. Rewarding, yes; mentally stimulating, undoubtedly. Fun? Not a chance.
I responded to a post on another blog this morning by opining that maybe the [...]

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“This is a public service announcement…with guitars!”

Posted in "Of the Night", Blindsight, Cory Doctorow, David Wellington, Dr. Watson, Horror, Peter Watts, Scott Sigler, Sherlock Holmes, So Dark the Night, blog novel, hard-boiled, mystery, thriller on February 1, 2008 | 15 Comments »

I’ve been dropping hints that there are big things ahead for this blog in the coming year, now I’d like to make it official:
In the next fifteen months (or so), I shall be posting 4 separate, full-length novels on this site. They will be available to read and download (under the terms of Creative [...]

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