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New Mystery and Thriller Books to Read | April 22
Hold on to the edge of your seat as we hunt for clues and solve the case with these exciting new mystery and thriller books for the week! There are so many bestselling authors with new novels for you to dive into this week, including Sonya Bateman, Ritchie Kemp, Jason Kasper, and...
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NewInBooks · New Mystery and Thriller Books to Read | April 22 | NewInBooksHold on to the edge of your seat as we hunt for clues and solve the case with these exciting new mystery and thriller books for the week! There are so many bestselling authors with new novels for you to dive into this week, including Sonya Bateman, Ritchie Kemp, Jason Kasper, and more. Enjoy your new mystery,
Shrouds of darkening clouds spun around the city, coiling like the hangman’s noose around the dead man’s throat. Buildings rose sharply, cutting into the sky and making it bleed black rain…
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#PennedPossibilities 650 — What profession would you have if you lived within the world of your WIP?
Were I female, I'd probably still end up a programmer. Thaumaturgy is actually a science of semantics and coded imagination, and relies on arranging ideas grammatically. Not everyone with horns is good at logic as well as mathematics, so there's room for collaboration. I could definitely do the logic programming, though it's nothing like JavaScript. I could be college educated and I could find white collar jobs. I wouldn't look forward to having children since I've no brothers to raise them while I work. Fortunately, it's possible to find men who go into childcare whether they have sisters or not, but it's expensive. I doubt I'd be willing to abstain to prevent children, not in their society.
Were I male, I'd have much more limited prospects, programmer not being one of them. The era is a lot like the 1960s with defined gender roles. While there are plenty of things I could do in our world, they are not considered men's work in theirs. I'd face prejudice and likely be barred. Since I'm not good with math, even work as a computer (look up the origins of the word) would be unlikely. That means either manual labor—factories, construction, or waiting tables—or attending to women's "needs." Since I have no sisters, I wouldn't be able to look forward to raising her children, either. Writing is an option, but I'd likely need a patron for that as it wouldn't support me, and favors would be implied. No, RS is not suited for that world.
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Der beste Al Pacino aller Zeiten? Es gibt Leute, denen mag ich da einfach nicht widersprechen. Ganz sicher eines der besten Cop-Movies der Kinogeschichte. Alle, wirklich alle, die danach gekommen sind, mussten sich daran messen lassen. (ARD, 3Sat, WH)
NexxtPressMediathekperlen | Al Pacino - „Serpico“ (1973)Der beste Al Pacino aller Zeiten? Es gibt Leute, denen mag ich da einfach nicht widersprechen. Ganz sicher eines der besten Cop-Movies der Kinogeschichte. Alle, wirklich alle, die danach gekommen sind…
#ScribesAndMakers 2504.21 — Do you create for a certain niche or do you hope to have as broad an appeal as possible?
"Creating for" and "generally writing in" are two different things. I have an aversion to heavily researching things (bore-ing), which means I can't write historical, detective, military, modern settings, or hard sf. Too many things I can get wrong, and will! A story for me always needs be set in a place and time where I, as was once said so eloquently, "…We will control the horizontal. We will control the vertical…"
This generally means I'm writing soft or social SF or I am writing fantasy that had more in kin with Theodore Sturgeon than Tolkien. If you can say I write to a particular niche, my stories will appeal to readers who enjoy female protagonists and feminist messages where the effect of gender roles play an important role. I don't consider that to be a "broad" appeal, but I think my writing ought appeal to SF and Fantasy readers, though maybe not hard SF fans.
As for my photography, I go for eye contact, dramatic color, and/or stateliness. I have no idea whether any of it is appealing. What do you think of the attached picture?
As for my cooking creations, I appeal to an audience of one, though sometimes two. My spouse approves. Check out my media tab on my profile for photos.
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#ScribesAndMakers 2504.20 — Is there a movie that inspires your creative work?
Not in general, but I did write a very emotionally difficult story after watching The Edge of Tommorrow: Live, Die, Repeat, based on a manga, and if you are well read in SF you'll know its not an original plot devise either, but the movie is extremely well done Hollywood SF, possibly one of the best for sticking to the SF premise and not mucking it up to dumb it down or make it more artistic.
Anyway. I wrote a story about a teenage girl (maybe 13) who could literally cut off her past with scissors and relive it, and does so repeatedly to save lives, and shows evidence of PTSD when explaining it to her friend. It might have been titled, Cuts Deeply. The story was well received. I have an idea for a more epic version of the story, which I may write at a later date.
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When Kai Richter and Ori Bier met, sparks flew.
Then a train blew up.
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I didn't want to add much to transport back home since I already am going to bring home a bunch of DVDs and VHS in a checked bag, so when my beloved stepmom and I went thrifting for black #goth ish clothing to wear to an Edgar Allen Poe cocktail night I limited myself just to a few really cheap things (each was 50 cents) that I really wanted. Pretty happy with these 2 dollars worth of pickups.
"New York Times bestselling author Cory Doctorow returns to the world of Red Team Blues to bring us the origin story of Martin Hench and the most powerful new tool for crime ever invented: the personal computer.
The year is 1986. The city is San Francisco. Here, Martin Hench will invent the forensic accountant — what a bounty hunter is to people, he is to money — but for now he’s an MIT dropout odd-jobbing his way around a city still reeling from the invention of a revolutionary new technology that will change everything about crime forever, one we now take completely for granted.
'Picks And Shovels' is a high-tech crime thriller about the “weird era of PCs” in the early 1980s, when Reaganomics, the tech industry, multilevel marketing, and the AIDS crisis all converged in San Francisco. "—Jacobin
"Picks And Shovels" by Cory Doctorow @pluralistic, with Yanis Varoufakis @VaroufakisDE & David Moscrop @davidmoscrop.com >
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Soillse air Alasdair MacIlleathain, ùghdar fìor shoirbheachail eadarnàiseanta le Gàidhlig
MacLean was a Gael who thought he could have written better in Gaelic than English. Currently available on the BBC iPlayer, “Alistair MacLean – An Sgeulaiche” celebrates his work & laments his loss to Gaelic literature
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BBCBBC ALBA - Alistair MacLean: An SgeulaicheAlistair MacLean, the Gaelic-speaking international best-selling author, revealed.
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What makes a Scottish bestseller?
Professor Alan Riach looks at the works of “perhaps the three most famous authors in the second half of the 20th century” – Ian Fleming, Alistair MacLean, & Nigel Tranter
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https://www.thenational.scot/news/17524057.makes-scottish-bestseller/
The National · What makes a Scottish bestseller?
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“MacLean was interested in writing stories with unreliable narrators which could lead to double and triple-twists in the storyline […] From 1963–1971, Maclean wrote a series of near-perfect thrillers–Ice Station Zebra, When Eight Bells Toll, Where Eagles Dare, Force 10 From Navarone, Puppet on a Chain, Caravan to Vaccarès, and Bear Island–which established him as the most successful author on the planet.”
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https://flashbak.com/the-pioneering-novels-and-kick-ass-thrills-of-alistair-maclean-428930/
Flashbak · The Pioneering Novels and Kick-Ass Thrills of Alistair MacLean - FlashbakAlistair MacLean was working as a teacher when he won first prize in a short story competition. The competition was held by the Glasgow Herald newspaper in 1954. MacLean’s story was called ‘The Dileas‘ (‘The Faithful‘). It was the story of a boat shipwrecked on the west coast of Scotland. Maclean (1922-87) was a teacher … Continue reading "The Pioneering Novels and Kick-Ass Thrills of Alistair MacLean"