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Robert Liparulo
Bob and I have gotten to be good friends over the past few years and I am so thankful that he has taken the time to help me through my writing maylays!
“A powerhouse storyteller delivers his most fantastic ride yet!”
— Ted Dekker, bestselling author of Chosen and Infidel
Best-selling novelist Robert Liparulo is a former journalist, with over a thousand articles and multiple writing awards to his name.
His first two critically acclaimed thrillers—Comes a Horseman and Germ—were optioned by Hollywood producers. Bestselling author Michael Palmer calls Deadfall, released in November, 2007, “a brilliantly crafted thriller.” Liparulo’s young adult series, Dreamhouse Kings, debuted in May 2008, with House of Dark Shadows and Watcher in the Woods.
He is currently working with director Andrew Davis (The Fugitive, The Guardian) on the novel and screenplay of a political thriller.
New York Times best-selling author Steve Berry calls Liparulo’s writing “Inventive, suspenseful, and highly entertaining . . . Robert Liparulo is a storyteller, pure and simple.”
Liparulo lives in Colorado with his family.
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above - pic 1:Bob and me at the Colorado Writers conference in 2010 during his fiction intensive, which I was also priveleged to be faculty this year. pic 2: Bob and some of us heading for pizza before one of the night sessions. 2010
Click here to visit Bob's website and enter his world...
Jim Bell
Jim has also been a good friend and mentor over the past few years so I thought I would share him with you.
James Scott Bell's fiction has been compared by Booklist and the Los Angeles Times to Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett, two of his favorite authors. A former trial lawyer, Jim was also fiction columnist for Writers Digest Magazine and adjunct professor of writing at Pepperdine University. His book on writing, Write Great Fiction: Plot & Structure, is one of the most popular writing books available today.
After graduating from Taft High School in Los Angeles, Bell went on to play basketball at the University of California, Santa Barbara where he pursued a degree in Film. But his love of writing shot to the forefront of his interests. While still in college, Bell's writing got him a spot to study with Raymond Carver, one of America's most honored writers. Bell also won an award for a screenplay he wrote in his senior year.
After graduation, Bell moved to New York to write for the theater. Almost immediately he was cast in a small role in an Off Broadway production of Othello, "and I began my actor phase." That phase included stints in several Off Broadway productions and in television commercials. "Commercials were nice," Bell remembers. "I'd hold up a tray of hamburgers for McDonald's and keep getting these residual checks. What a business."
While in New York Bell met his wife to be, an actress, and decided one thespian in the family was enough. He went to the University of Southern California Law School, graduated with honors and won the American Board of Trial Advocates' Award as the top student in Trial Practice. He was a litigator for a year with a large L.A. firm before opening up his own office.
He now writes full time. His favorite writers, in addition to Chandler and Hammett, include John D. MacDonald and Michael Connelly.
The Whole Truth
The Ty Buchanan series:
An earlier note from Jim about Try Dying...
"It releases in October, but I thought I'd put the word out now...Try Dying got a favorable
review from Publishers Weekly, and can be pre-ordered.
This is the first book in a series...so the characters are going to be on an inner journey,
even though each book can be read for a complete plot. I'm really excited about this
series, and the publisher, Center Street (formerly part of Time Warner Book Group) has
done a great job. I love the cover!
Jim asked me to put down my thoughts concerning, Try Dying...
I found it a great read! Ty was a multi-faceted character that was easy to identify with. A man with foibles, mis-givings and weaknesses, yet a man that doesn't let go of his character.
A spellbinder.
Must read.
- dave
Jim also has some killer writing help books that anyone in the publishing industry would be greatful to own, I have found them invaluable.
Angela Hunt and Nancy Rue aka: "Nangie"
Angie is standing, Nancy is seated, I'm the other one, photo from the 2007 CCWC Writers Conference in Estes Park, CO. Angie and Nancy quite frequently teach sessions at the conferences known as: "The Nangie Experience". I attended both the 101 and 404 that assists authors in their ever increasing climb to the next level. This photo was after I had completed the first week's classes.
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Click here for Angie's website
Click here for Nancy's website
Jefferson Scott
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Jeff and me hanging out at he faculty dinner. CCWC 2010
Jeff is my editor so I thought I would let you in on his amazing skills.
Click here to go to Jefferson Scott's website>>
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Kathy Ide
Here is a little book that is invaluable when it comes to those little bits of structure that bug the heck out of you. Kathy's book will help you with those pesky things like: Punctuation, Usage, Grammar, and Spelling. The PUGS!
daveclick here for Kathy's website >>
Some more of my publishing buddies and authors...
Nathan Williams
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some more of my Nangie 404 buddies from 2008 L to R : Angela Hunt, Nathan Williams, Loretta Oaks, Jackie Colburn, Kerry Krycho, Nancie Rue, Clem Hanson, Barb Haley, Terry Brennan, and me in my heavier days...
click here to visit Nathan's website
Neva Andrews
Author of the Jo Barkley series
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