Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Cover reveal for EMMA TREMENDOUS
My young adult shapeshifter novel Emma Tremendous, which is due for release soon (in hardcover, trade paperback, and e-book formats), now has a cover!
Monday, January 27, 2014
Snow Globe Coming Soon! (Book Trailer Below)
Hello, friends. I know it's been some time, but I assure you my absence has been with good reason. You see, I've been writing. A lot. Just not, you know, here.
You see, I've been hammering out novels, the first of which is due next month. It's titled Snow Globe and will be available for purchase on the 15th. Until then, please enjoy the book trailer:
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
15 Best Opening Lines In Books
Being a voracious writer makes me a voracious reader by default. Reading and writing go hand in hand; to be an effective writer, one must read. A lot.
I have compiled a list of the top 15 lines from scores of books I've devoured in my brief time on the planet. Each of these awakens something in me and, I imagine, any true lover of books. In no particular order:
1. Call me Ishmael. - Herman Melville, Moby Dick
2. Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can't be sure. - Albert Camus, The Stranger
3. The man in black fled across the desert and the gunslinger followed. - Stephen King, The Gunslinger
4. You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter. - Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn
5. 124 was spiteful. - Toni Morrison, Beloved
6. It was a pleasure to burn. - Ray Bradbury, Farenheit 451
7. It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. - George Orwell, 1984
8. All children, except one, grow up. - J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
9. A screaming comes across the sky. - Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
10. All this happened, more or less. - Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five
11. Through the fence, between curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting. - William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
12. Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again. - Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca
13. As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. - Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis
14. In a hole in the ground there lived a Hobbit. - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
15. You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings. - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein
Honorable mentions:
To begin at the beginning: It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black. - Dylan Thomas, Under Milk Wood
It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York. - Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories. Over the main entrance the words, CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE, and in a shield, the World State's motto, COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY. - Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
Did I forget some? Got your own? Disagree? Let me know.
I have compiled a list of the top 15 lines from scores of books I've devoured in my brief time on the planet. Each of these awakens something in me and, I imagine, any true lover of books. In no particular order:
1. Call me Ishmael. - Herman Melville, Moby Dick
2. Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can't be sure. - Albert Camus, The Stranger
3. The man in black fled across the desert and the gunslinger followed. - Stephen King, The Gunslinger
4. You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter. - Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn
5. 124 was spiteful. - Toni Morrison, Beloved
6. It was a pleasure to burn. - Ray Bradbury, Farenheit 451
7. It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. - George Orwell, 1984
8. All children, except one, grow up. - J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
9. A screaming comes across the sky. - Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
10. All this happened, more or less. - Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five
11. Through the fence, between curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting. - William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
12. Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again. - Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca
13. As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. - Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis
14. In a hole in the ground there lived a Hobbit. - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
15. You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings. - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein
Honorable mentions:
To begin at the beginning: It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black. - Dylan Thomas, Under Milk Wood
It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York. - Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories. Over the main entrance the words, CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE, and in a shield, the World State's motto, COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY. - Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
Did I forget some? Got your own? Disagree? Let me know.
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