May 2013
24 posts
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“Those who want respect, give respect.”
– Tony Soprano
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“The secret to a strong career as a comic book artist is being able to sit and...”
– Matthew Dow Smith
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“A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not...”
– Joseph Conrad
Save The Sixth Gun!
No, not the comic book. We’re talking about the TV show (based on the comic book). Here’s friend and The Sixth Gun creator Cullen Bunn to explain how you can help.
A fan has created a petition to “urge a TV network to take a close look at THE SIXTH GUN.” (Full disclosure: we thought about doing something like this, but someone beat us to it.) Personally, I’d...
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“If writing can do anything—and it can—why not do everything all at once?”
– Nick Mamatas, in an interview with Weird Fiction Review.
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“Prose is architecture, not interior decoration.”
– Ernest Hemingway
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“That’s what happens to these guys like Paul McCartney. They put out a new...”
– Howard Stern
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“That’s the thing about fame — even a little bit of it. If...”
– Roger Daltrey
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“Desperate for something to do during the hour or so Twitter was down, I wrote a...”
– John Scalzi
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“Without autocorrect I’d probably be summoning evil outer-dimensional entities...”
– Chuck Wendig
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“I want sushi and I don’t want to wait until payday! Somebody has to owe me a...”
– Wrath James White
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“I am armed with a fountain pen. It is pointy like a knife, and I know how to use...”
– John Urbancik
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“A good story is about pain and hope and the transition from one to the...”
– David Gerrold
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“Overhead a woman just tell a guy: “Star Trek? I never watched that;...”
– Karin Crighton
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“The word “deadline” originated in prison camps, referring to a...”
– Jovanka Vuckovic
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“75% of all my Twitter messages are from people asking me to use the internet for...”
– Warren Ellis
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“You tell someone that you write comic books and they say, “Oh, so you put the...”
– J.M. DeMatteis
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“Editing: Because sometimes when you can’t create, you must destroy.”
– Mike Oliveri
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“I don’t find writing so hard as not writing, so therefore I give it...”
– Joe R. Lansdale
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“A wrong decision is better than indecision.”
– Tony Soprano
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“The lesser the writer, the more likely his or her Facebook page will be filled...”
– Nick Mamatas
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“I’d rather read the worst novel ever written than sit through the best movie...”
– Cancer Man
A Word From Your Sponsor
As previously announced, my novel Castaways is optioned by Drive-In Films (Joe R. Lansdale and Kasey Lansdale) with Jon Wagner (Anniversary at Shallow Creek) and Damian Maffei (Closed For the Season) attached, Charles St. John Smith III producing, and Robert Angelo Masciantonio writing and directing.
Today we’re asking you to help get the film into production. It won’t cost you a...
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“You got no fuckin’ idea what it’s like to be Number One. Every...”
– Tony Soprano
April 2013
29 posts
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“I worked in advertising for 15 years. Advertising Years will age you, but I...”
– John Hornor Jacobs
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“If you’re going through hell, keep going.”
– Winston Churchill
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“It’s an idea. Who knows where it fucking came from? Isaac Newton invented...”
– Christopher Moltisanti
GUEST BLOG: "The Great and Improbable Secret to a... →
The state of publishing was explained to me early on, when I first started writing. You see, publishers prefer it if you write in a specific way, because they can categorize you much more easily. L…
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“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
– Joseph Brodsky
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“Character isn’t giving someone a limp, its how they feel about that limp...”
– Joe R. Lansdale
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“People should leave 2-star reviews if they feel they must. Totally fair. That...”
– John Scalzi
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“I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I...”
– Joss Whedon
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“In writing, and in life, our apparent disappointments sometimes turn out to be...”
– J.M. DeMatteis
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“I beat the urge to call in sick and write all day, but it really feels like I...”
– Nate Southard
NEW ZEALAND
There are going to be some exciting, exclusive, film-related opportunities for Keene fans in New Zealand over the next twelve months. If you live in New Zealand and are a fan of my books, please get in touch by sending an email to briankeene@live.com. Put ‘NEW ZEALAND’ in the subject line so your email is given priority.
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“Write. No amount of self-inflicted misery, altered states, black pullovers or...”
– AL Kennedy
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“If you wait until you got time to write a novel, or time to write a story, or...”
– Harry Crews
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“Never use an adverb to modify the verb “said” … he admonished...”
– Elmore Leonard
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“It’s doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at his workplace is...”
– Jonathan Franzen
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“You can never read your own book with the innocent anticipation that comes with...”
– Margaret Atwood
The Slow Death of the American Author →
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“In my 30s I used to go to the gym even though I hated it. The purpose of going...”
– Geoff Dyer
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“Only bad writers think that their work is really good.”
– Anne Enright
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“Most of us agree that these are dark times, and stupid ones, but do we need...”
– David Foster Wallace
Shameless Plug →
Take a moment to check out my newly redesigned website!
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“Situation, complication, and twist.”
– Carmine Infantino (on how to write comics)
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“My Southern slang is about to give my computer’s spellchecker a nervous...”
– Ronald Kelly 