- Today I'm talking to the faculty and students here at SMSU about my "Adventures in E-publishing", which means I'm going to lie, lie, lie. (Just kidding, all of you in the audience. Seeing if you were paying attention.)
- Only two more days left of CHOKE ON YOUR LIES at 99 cents! I'm very pleased that four of you got it at the discounted price!
- There's a good chance I'm going to prison...to speak with a writing class. What a cool invite. Unless...it's a TRAP!
- You should all get your pre-orders in for Les Edgerton's THE RAPIST before it starts winning all the awards next year. This is seriously brave literary pulp.
- Also, finished RATLINES by Stuart Neville, and I think he's just written the sort of crime novel that gets made into award-nominated movies. I hesitate to say "award-winning" simply because the nominees are always cooler than the actual winner. Well done.
- So that means my reading will now move on to Jassy Mackenzie and Garry Disher, two more Soho Crime writers worth hunting down.
- Just saw a pretty lousy review of Freaky Deaky...which just makes me want to see it more. I'm not a fan of Elmore Leonard, not really (some of his are pretty good. Some), but I am a fan of misguided low-budget attempts to make a movie.
- That's all I got.
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Thanks, Neil, for the shout-out of my forthcoming novel, The Rapist--I really appreciate it!
BTW, I'm with you on Freaky-Deaky. For one, I don't think it's one of his best, more, I don't think Hollywood has ever "gotten" what he does in any of the movies on his work except for one, Killshot, which was spot-on... and went straight to DVD... The problem is two-fold--the casting is always horrible (and I include Justified in that--here come the comments), but in Killshot they got it right. The second problem is, Hollywood doesn't seem to understand black comedy and seem to always turn his subtle black humor into broad humor. I imagine they know their audience and how their minds (don't) work. But, in Killshot, Mickey Rourke was perfect. And, the director didn't see it as a Guys and Dolls, so... Just sayin'...
Posted by: Les Edgerton | 02/26/2013 at 01:35 PM