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David Corbett
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Robert Stone, Pete Dexter, Richard Price, Kate Atkinson, Paulette Jile
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Crimespree Article
The wonderful folks at Crimespree Magazine asked me if I wanted to submit a piece explaining what inspired, informed, motivated and complicated the writing of the latest book. Here's what I said in response:
https://crimespreemag.com/behind-the-...
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The Art of Character: Creating Memorable Characters for Fiction, Film, and TV
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2013
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The Mercy of the Night
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2015
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10 editions
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The Devil's Redhead
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2002
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18 editions
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Do They Know I'm Running?
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2010
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12 editions
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Blood of Paradise
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2007
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20 editions
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The Devil Prayed and Darkness Fell: A Novella
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2015
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Done For A Dime
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2003
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The Truth Against the World
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The Compass of Character: Creating Complex Motivation for Compelling Characters in Fiction, Film, and TV
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The Long-Lost Love Letters of Doc Holliday
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2018
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David’s Recent Updates
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Daughter of No Worlds (The War of Lost Hearts, #1):
"I really enjoyed this read by new to me author Carissa Broadbent. Action, magic, romance, coming of age, political intrigue. It was great and I’m excited to continue the series!"
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Steve is such a gifted storyteller -- and a great guy.
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Weren't Another Other Way to Be: Outlaw Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Waylon Jennings (Gutter Books Rock Anthology Series)
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Having taken part in a number of these music-themed anthologies, I'm looking forward to reading this one.
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A Life for a Life (Appalachian Mountain Mysteries #1)
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It's about time this region of America got its due in a crime series. Thaks for
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Thanks for pointing me to this. I was a PI in San Francisco so I think I'm going to lean in on this one.
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Thanks for bringing this to my attention. Haven't read Rexroth's translations in years. Maybe I should recitfy that.
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“Writers possess only four tools: research, experience, empathy, and imagination. Fortunately, whole worlds can be built from them.”
― The Art of Character: Creating Memorable Characters for Fiction, Film, and TV
― The Art of Character: Creating Memorable Characters for Fiction, Film, and TV
“The problem lies not with genre but with formula, which consists of seeing genre conventions as restrictions rather than mere guidelines, ends in themselves rather than possibilities.”
― The Art of Character: Creating Memorable Characters for Fiction, Film, and TV
― The Art of Character: Creating Memorable Characters for Fiction, Film, and TV
“To paraphrase one of my favorite math professors: The difference between great artists, and artists who are not so great, is that great artists think deeply about simple things.”
― The Art of Character: Creating Memorable Characters for Fiction, Film, and TV
― The Art of Character: Creating Memorable Characters for Fiction, Film, and TV
Topics Mentioning This Author
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| Queereaders: Spring Reading Challenge - Official Record of Points | 6 | 66 | Jun 21, 2010 07:25AM | |
| Bookworm Bitches : Books Read in September 2013 | 15 | 117 | Sep 09, 2013 01:28PM | |
Cozy Mysteries :
Title and Author game, Round 3
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The Seasonal Read...:
Completed Tasks: PLEASE DO NOT DELETE ANY POST IN THIS THREAD
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| UK Book Club: Ian's World Tour Continued | 696 | 450 | Oct 13, 2020 10:35AM | |
| Around the World ...: El Salvador | 18 | 617 | Jan 05, 2021 04:05PM | |
| On The Same Page : El Salvador / Guatemala | 4 | 4 | Dec 05, 2021 03:44AM | |
| Cozy Mystery Corner : Mystery Awards: Agatha & Lefty Awards (2018-2022) | 59 | 291 | May 27, 2022 06:38AM |
“As a rule those who were least remarkable for intelligence showed the greater powers of survival. Such people recognized their own deficiencies and the superior intelligence of their opponnents; fearing that they might lose a debate or find themselves out-manoeuvred in intrigue by their quick-witted enemies, they boldly launched straight into action; while their opponents, overconfident in the belief that they would see what was happening in advance, and not thinking it necessary to seize by force what they could secure by policy, were the more easily destroyed because they were off their guard. 84 Certainly it was in Corcyra that”
― The History of the Peloponnesian War
― The History of the Peloponnesian War
“That is why fiction existed, as a way to look at the world without being broken by it.”
― The Middleman
― The Middleman
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Aug 23, 2014 08:19PM
Best of success with your books, David. Thanks for connecting on Goodreads. Hope you'll add my Prohibition-era mystery, The Yankee Club, to your to read list. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
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