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Writing_PIs's Interests
Music
Ol' 55 by Tom Waits, Leaving Las Vegas by Sheryl Crow, Chaos and Creation by Paul McCartney, Gimme Three Steps by Lynyrd Skynyrd, Stella Blue by the Grateful Dead, Memo from Turner by the Stones, Roadrunner by Aero Smith, Dead Drunk and Naked by the Drive-by Truckers, Blue Hotel by Ryan Adams, Death and Glory by The Clash, Andy's Chest by Lou Reed, Simple Twist of Fate by Bob Dylan, She by Gram Parsons, Only Love Can Break Your Heart by Neil Young, Take Me Away by Roger McGuinn, Exodus by Bob Marley and the Wailers, Lawyers Guns and Money by Warren Zevon, Desperadoes Under the Eaves by Warren Zevon, Torn and Frayed by the Stones...
Television
Wishing the Sopranos had never ended, The Closer, Rescue Me, The Wire, Entourage, Boston Legal, Shark, Dog the Bounty Hunter, Gene Simmons Family Jewels, Monk, re-runs of the Rockford Files, the Jesse Stone miniseries...
Books
Anything by Michael Connelly, Denis Lehane's Mystic River and Shutter Island, Carol O'Connell's Mallory's Oracle, can't get enough of George Pelecanos, other authors: Linda Barnes, Lisa Jackson, Erica Orloff, old short stories by Ed McBain (he nails the PI life), currently re-reading Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction by Patricia Highsmith, and many other authors...including Alison Kent who also designed this myspace!
Next Class: SEPTEMBER 8 -OCTOBER 2 2008. (If enrollment exceeds 35, you'll be notified and given priority for a November or December 2008 class.)
New material added to September class:
Homicide Investigations, Crime Scene Investigations, More Specialized Investigative Fields!
Deadline for enrollment: August 20, 2008
Who I'd like to meet: Writers interested in learning how to accurately portray fictional private investigators.
"This writing course - taught by working PIs who also happen to be published authors - promises to answer many questions of accuracy and verisimilitude all writers in this genre encounter at one time or another."
-Peter Gessner, author of The Big Hello and the Long Goodbye and a licensed private investigator in San Francisco.
Peter Gessner's website
"Wow! Writing PIs' founders not only imparted a great deal of their impressive knowledge and experience to the class, but they knew just what writers needed. A fabulous resource for anyone writing about PIs!"
-Pam McCutcheon, author of Writing the Fiction Synopsis
Thanks for the add! My next book is going to be more like a PI novel.
Keep your eyes out for my bestselling fantasy novel, Paraworld Zero. I just found out that it's a finalist for the Next Generation Indie Book Awards. Yahoo! Have a wonderful day!
Just wanted to give you a heads up that my latest forensic crime thriller, Freezer Burn, is coming out June 3! It will be available in bookstores everywhere next week, and it’s available for preorder on Amazon right now! I'll be doing a bunch of events in and around Philadelphia. For details, see my profile, or my main profile atwww. myspace. com/jonmcgoran. .. Thanks for the friendship!
Hiya - I would personally like to invite you to visit www. novel-storm. com - we went live last week after a long wait. We really need people to register which is free and takes seconds. I would love to read any comments you have which you can leave in the forum. The forum directs you to where new material is posted also.
