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The first draft is always shit

by Rob @ 52 Novels on May 8, 2006

Looks like you’re new here. Get all the fun of 52 Novels as it happens and subscribe by e-mail or subscribe using your favorite RSS feed reader. Might as well. Don’t cost nothin.I was recently reading a from Immediate Fiction, the wonderful book from Jerry Cleaver at the The Writer’s Loft in Chicago.
Cleaver pointed out [...]

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Hummels and Horse

by Rob @ 52 Novels on April 3, 2006

I submitted this story to a magazine called The First Line. It didn’t sell and I didn’t think it would. I tackled the piece because the premise of the magazine intrigues me — each story in the publication begins with the same first line — and I wanted to submit something.
I didn’t think it would [...]

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The Godfather Returns

by Rob @ 52 Novels on January 18, 2006

As a diehard fan of both the original novel by Mario Puzo and Francis Coppola’s triad of films (yes, I even like the much-hated “The Godfather, Part III“), I was wary of giving this a read. I was turned around by Stephen King. He listed it as one of his ten favorite books of 2005. [...]

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Kiss Me, Deadly

by Rob @ 52 Novels on January 10, 2006

I wasn’t hooked by this book from cover-to-cover. It was great to read this master of the hard-boiled genre, though. There were lots of good parts throughout (I especially liked when Hammer first found Lily Carver … telling her to put the gun down or he would punch her out).
Also the terminology used in the [...]

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