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22
Dec
2011

Relentless

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Another quick gem I found in one of the many books by Dean Koontz.  Like some of my previously mentioned authors, I found several gems in Relentless that are blatant and wonderful peeks into the mind of the author / writer:

Relentless
By Dean Koontz

Page 67 – Paragraph 5

“This happens often when writing fiction.  Outlines are a waste of time.  If you give your characters free will, they will grow in ways you never anticipated, and they will take the story places you could not have predicted, raising themes you might or might not have intended to explore.  Characters shape events; events illuminate the characters.  The people in a story begin as seeds, become buds, and blossom in surprise him with their intentions and capacities.”

My only comment is that I  believe Outlines are NOT a waste of time for fiction, however they are not God. 
I use outlines for anchoring the ideas of a story for future reference when my Muse flies by, then when I do my research, and begin the rough draft, I allow the outline to grow as my Muse intended.

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03
Dec
2011

Made in the U.S.A.

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Please remember during the upcoming Holiday Season to buy some American products along with all your shopping. 
Don’t forget to give the gift of a good book for the cold winter evenings! 

Thanks to everyone and Happy Holidays to all.

David

 

 

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29
Oct
2011

Between Life and Death (VERSION 1) no longer on sale.

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Between Life and Death (Second Edition is Here)

Debut Novel by David Pyle
Between Life and Death is a
Supernatural Thriller centered in
historical Natchez, Mississippi.

Released in 2009
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21
Oct
2011

Random Reviews

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If you’d like some reading material, I plan on adding massive content to my review section next month.

Check back?

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18
Oct
2011

Holiday Horror Update –

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As Promised

For my faithful readers:

Thanks everyone for the great comments on the freebies!
The holidays are past and so are the links, but come back soon for more updates.
If you missed the free ebook downloads,
EMAIL me!
and I’ll send you a copy.

Thanks!

As Promised – a little early – Here is a little
gruesome tale of Holiday Horror – Rated Soft “R”
Let the reader beware!

Santa’s Helper — See the Downloads link!

 

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15
Sep
2011

Lets Talk Horror

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Let’s talk:  Not drama, not fiction writing, not even suspense for the moment, but the idea of horror in fiction.

The tingle that couldn’t, wouldn’t dare happen to your audience; they are allowed to live through your characters, using the carefully forged words of the wordsmith.
Benignly reviewing other authors’ attributes and hidden schemes seems to be a popular pastime with most books and classrooms and a foray of websites.  There seems to be some safety harness attached to a lack of unique thought like the gopher popping its head above ground.

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”

                                  Albert Einstein

Where the real trouble begins is when you initiate something yourself and express an original opinion, now that’ll get the whole community in a self-righteous uproar.
That’s when the gopher has to run in terror for its life!

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06
Sep
2011

Holiday Horror

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Just for my regular readers…

I’ve added a new link over on the Navigation bar called Holiday Horror.

If all goes as planned, I’ll have a couple (one at least) Horror Short Story as a free download in PDF format.

Please check back around the first week of October 2011.

If  you missed out, please email me for a copy. 

OR

You can go to Author Stand and download a free copy there!

Thank you all for your interest!

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03
Sep
2011

The Host

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Okay, I’ll admit it.  I’ve been far too busy to read as much as I like.  Lack of time has forced me to throw my mini-reviews here for the time being….

The Host by Stephenie Meyer happened to be the next one in my enormous stack of books screaming, “Read me!” and it did not disappoint me in the least.
I can usually predict the twists and turns in a given novel if the breadcrumb trail of clues is given.  In the case of The Host, there was an overabundance of clues (take note authors) leading the reader to suppose any number of outcomes to several climactic segments.
I was surprised to find that the main theme was not a drenching spout of Science Fiction, even though there was no doubt about the linear alien science from beginning to end.
I found the heaving raw emotions made the focal strength overwhelmingly centered around love and relationship.

From page 184:  Captured, choked, beaten, and facing death-

“My jaw locked hard. It was not THE secret, but still, it was a secret he would have to beat out of me. In this moment, my determination to hold my tongue had less to do with self-preservation than it did with a stupid, grudging kind of pride. I would NOT tell this man who despised me that I love him.”

The word Love is not a strong enough descriptor however, due to its overuse and trivialization in the last half century.
Passion maybe?  Sacrificial gravity…?
You will like the wonderful metamorphosis between protagonist(s) and antagonist(s).
The book cover blurb touts it as a mix of Stephen King and Isaac Asimov, but I found it neither. 

It was Stephenie Meyer all the way.
A must read for Stephenie Meyer fans.

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15
Aug
2011

Hiding behind Pulp Fiction

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Funny how authors that spend their time in fantasy land, especially the highly creative ones, end up sharing a peek at their insides, despite the effort to hide behind the heaping pulp.

Here are two instances I recently ran across by author Laurell K. Hamilton.

Blood Noir – page 295

An interesting take on sorrow:

“People talk of sorrow as if it is soft, a thing of water and tears.  But true sorrow is not soft.  True sorrow is a thing of fire, and rock.  It burns your heart, crushes your soul under the weight of mountains.  It destroys, and even if you keep breathing, keep going, you die.  The person you were moments ago dies, dies in the sound of screaming metal and the impact of one bad driver.  Gone.  Everything solid, everything real, is gone.  It doesn’t come back.  The world is forever fractured, so that you walk on the crust of an earth where you can always feel the heat under you, the press of lava, that is so hot it can burn flesh, melt bone, and the very air is poisonous.  To survive, you swallow the heat.  To keep from falling through and dying for real, you swallow all that hate.  You push it down inside you, into that fresh grave that is all that is left of what you thought the world would be.”

The Harlequin, page 383

A definition of love I hadn’t heard put quite this way before.

“…but love isn’t the absence of pain, it’s a hand to hold while you’re going through it.”

I look forward to sliding through the next few books in her Anita Blake series….

 

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15
Jun
2011

All Things Being Equal…

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Sometimes I feel like my head was fitted with a Volkswagon engine to operate in a Ferrari world.
Then I remember the self-defeating brilliance of stop signs and speed limits, as I drink another shot of espresso!

-DP

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