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  • K.F. Zuzulo

    Wishing you all the warmth of the holiday season...

    3 years ago
  • H.E.l.p Handicapped Eva…

    Thank You for supporting H.E.L.P.P. We would like to wish you happy holidays

    3 years ago
  • Mister Conrad and The …

    All the best in the New Year, Mr.M. Looking forward to the next book,take care,Mr.C.

    3 years ago
  • Leonard D. Hilley II

    Happy Thanksgiving!

    3 years ago
  • Ellie Conway

    Have a groovacious week!
    I certainly am. :-)

    Cheers,
    Ellie x

    Latest update:

    killerbyte is a finalist in the 2010 EPIC book competition (mystery and/or suspense category)

    And I'm back in terrorbyte

    Ellie Conway is back: wisecracking, kicking ass and using her psycho-prophetic talents to grapple with a murderer with ulterior motives, secreted behind a series of grotesque crimes.

    3 years ago
  • cat connor

    Hope you're having a fabulous week!

    Cheers
    Cat

    Kiwi author Cat Connor's crime thriller killerbyte now available at Mobipocket, iTunes, and Amazon.

    Watch the killerbyte and terrorbyte book trailers on youtube.

    3 years ago
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    THANK YOU for being our My One School friend.

    We are truly honored!

    We hope that soon you will join and support our mission. You may help us by either donating books to us or buying books from us on our Amazon store:

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    Once again, thank you so very much.

    With all my love,
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    My One School Founder

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    “One book, one child, one school at a time!”

    3 years ago
  • Marc Ceccotti

    Hi David,
    Thanks for the add & kind words,
    Very much appreciated !
    You are welcome on my musical space !
    Marc

    3 years ago
  • Darth Adrian

    Hello, Dr. Morrell. Will be picking up your new book later this month. REALLY looking forward to it as I am all your work. Thanks for inspiring me. :)

    3 years ago
  • LYNZEE

    Thanks for Being our Friend…The World is Listening. . . Please stop by & pay LYNZEE a visit. Even if it’s just to say hello. You might like it!

    3 years ago
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Interests

  • General

    I enjoy a lot of outdoor exercise, playing tennis or hiking in the Santa Fe mountains. I’m a gardener, especially when it comes to vegetables. Also I enjoy research about physical things like firearms and executive-protection driving. Currently, I’m learning to fly.

  • Music

    I like jazz from the 1950s and 1960s: Miles Davis, Oscar Peterson, Stan Getz, Jimmy Smith (his WALK ON THE WILD SIDE album is amazing). I like Frank Sinatra a lot and consider him to be a jazz singer. In terms of pop music, I’m fascinated by Paul Anka’s long career. As a kid in Canada, I really liked his work and still do. Interestingly, he just released a jazz album from Verve.

  • Movies

    THE WILD BUNCH is at the top of the list. I admire a lot of Hitchcock’s films: REAR WINDOW, THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (both versions), PSYCHO, NORTH BY NORTHWEST (which my characters discuss in SCAVENGER). If you’re a thriller writer and would like to see some films that are fairly accurate about action and spy tradecraft, these are some of my favorites in the genre: RONIN, SPY GAMES, THE RECRUIT, and PROOF OF LIFE. The plots might be unrealistic, but the way the actors handle themselves is accurate. The way Robert De Niro studies the café at the start of RONIN is spot on. Also, the way James Caan handles his weapon and his balance in the gunfight at the climax of THIEF is extremely accurate.

  • Television

    The classic TV series ROUTE 66 got me started as a writer because of Stirling Silliphant’s great scripts. These days, I’m addicted to THE UNIT, which has excellent military technical advisers. Also BATTLESTAR GALACTICA. What an amazingly creative and engaging series.

  • Books

    I went to graduate school because of my admiration for Ernest Hemingway. In terms of thrillers, I was inspired by Geoffrey Household’s ROGUE MALE (1939), which is about a British big-game hunter who stalks Hitler on the eve of the Second World War. Household’s WATCHER IN THE SHADOWS is also an inspiration to me. I was a professor of American literature and feel close to the classics: Hawthorne and Melville, Henry James, Edith Wharton, and so on. Thoreau’s WALDEN is a book for all seasons and represents my philosophy. I’m a co-founder of the International Thriller Writers organization and enjoy the work of my fellow board members Gayle Lynds, Steve Berry, Lee Child, David Hewson, James Rollins, MJ Rose, and M. Diane Vogt.

  • Heroes

    Teachers. Members of law enforcement, the military, firefighters, emergency services, and everyone else who risks getting killed in order to try to keep us safe.

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Who I'd like to meet:

I would love to have met Steve McQueen in order to ask him how he prepared for his roles. More than most film actors, McQueen had an amazing ability to connect with the camera. Some of that is charisma, but a lot of it is hard work. The precision of his movement is amazing, as is the way he used props, his hat in THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN, for example.

Details

  • Status: Married
  • Orientation: Straight
  • Zodiac Sign: Taurus
  • Smoke: No

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