Just want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and that next year everyone get published well!
And, be sure to laugh often! It really is the best medicine.
Blue skies,
Les
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About Me
- Les Edgerton
- Hi! Welcome to my blog. To introduce myself, I'm a full-time writer with eighteen books in print and I teach creative writing on the university level, through private coaching of writers, and on various on-line venues. I write in a variety of forms: novels, short stories, nonfiction books, screenplays and the subjects I choose to write about are just as varied, including sports, literary fiction, thrillers, black comedy and the craft of writing. I'm married to Mary and we have a son, Mike. I have two daughters--Britney and Sienna--from a previous marriage. I immigrated to Ft. Wayne, IN from the U.S.A. and it's where I still live today. Doing my best to learn the language and adjust to the culture. I have a checkered past, having spent two-plus years incarcerated at Pendleton Reformatory back in the sixties for burglary. I'm all cleaned up now and you can invite me into your home and don't have to count the silverware when I leave. Graduated from Indiana University with a B.A. in General Studies (Honors of Distinction); obtained an MFA in Writing from Vermont College. Email: butchedgerton@comcast.net Twitter: HookedOnNoir
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LAGNIAPPE
The Death of Tarpons
Paperback edition from Betimes Books
THE DEATH OF TARPONS
Ebook version from Endeavour Press (UK)
BOMB
Newest novel!
THE GENUINE, IMITATION, PLASTIC KIDNAPPING
It's here!
THE BITCH
Spinetingler Magazine nominee for Best Novel, Legends category
THE RAPIST
Available now from New Pulp Press and Amazon
THE RAPIST- German Edition
Pulpmaster
FINDING YOUR VOICE
Craft book on the writer's voice
HOOKED: Write Fiction That Grabs Readers at Page One and Never Lets Them Go
Craft book on story beginnings
MONDAY'S MEAL Ebook
Monday's Meal
NY Times compared me to Raymond Carver in the review.
Perfect Game USA and the Future of Baseball
History of the world's biggest youth baseball scouting service
The Death of Tarpons
My first novel--was awarded a Special Citation from the Violet Crown Book Awards
MIRROR, MIRROR
Young adult thriller
SURVIVING LITTLE LEAGUE
Co-written by Mike and Les Edgerton. Spoof on "daddyball."
BEST THRILLER OF 2011 AWARD
Preditors and Editors Award
Nominee for Best Thriller of 2014
THE RAPIST
Sent to me by my colleague Holly Love. This is my "signature store" in Boulder, Colorado. BLUE SKIES, EVERYONE!
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Advice to live by
NEVER LET ANYONE RENT SPACE IN YOUR HEAD
Also... Senility isn't when you forget to zip up your pants... it's when you forget to zip them down...
Advice for writers: There is no such thing as a synonym. There's just the perfect word. The perfect word doesn't come in groups.
If life hands you lemons... make lemonade. Then... try to find someone to whom life has handed vodka...
Never argue with an idiot. They'll drag you down to their level... and then beat you with experience.
Political Correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.
The value of the study of philosophy: Studying the deep thoughts of others is like studying their stools to figure out how to cook what they ate. It may be possible, but it's not worth what you have to wade through.
Two rules to live by to have a good life I gave to my son Mike:
1. Never date a girl named after a day of the week.
2. Never play poker with anyone named after a city.
The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. He has a dream. It anguishes him so much that he can't get rid of it. He has no peace until then. Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to get the book written. If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any number of old ladies. (Wm. Faulkner)
Give a thief enough rope... and he'll use it to tie you up, beat you up, and steal all your stuff...
My life in one sentence: I keep getting bottle caps that say, "Try again." And so I do...
Also... Senility isn't when you forget to zip up your pants... it's when you forget to zip them down...
Advice for writers: There is no such thing as a synonym. There's just the perfect word. The perfect word doesn't come in groups.
If life hands you lemons... make lemonade. Then... try to find someone to whom life has handed vodka...
Never argue with an idiot. They'll drag you down to their level... and then beat you with experience.
Political Correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.
The value of the study of philosophy: Studying the deep thoughts of others is like studying their stools to figure out how to cook what they ate. It may be possible, but it's not worth what you have to wade through.
Two rules to live by to have a good life I gave to my son Mike:
1. Never date a girl named after a day of the week.
2. Never play poker with anyone named after a city.
The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. He has a dream. It anguishes him so much that he can't get rid of it. He has no peace until then. Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to get the book written. If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any number of old ladies. (Wm. Faulkner)
Give a thief enough rope... and he'll use it to tie you up, beat you up, and steal all your stuff...
My life in one sentence: I keep getting bottle caps that say, "Try again." And so I do...
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GREAT ARTISTS STEAL
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Buy Les's books here.
Hi,
If you'd like to purchase any of my books, just click on the link.
1. Hooked: Write Fiction That Grabs Readers at Page One and Never Lets Them Go
2. Finding Your Voice
3. Monday's Meal
4. Perfect Game USA and the Future of Baseball
5. Surviving Little League
6. Kindle
7. The Death of Tarpons
Thank you!
If you'd like to purchase any of my books, just click on the link.
1. Hooked: Write Fiction That Grabs Readers at Page One and Never Lets Them Go
2. Finding Your Voice
3. Monday's Meal
4. Perfect Game USA and the Future of Baseball
5. Surviving Little League
6. Kindle
7. The Death of Tarpons
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Love that sign, Les! I've great evidence of global warming on my blog too - coldest winter ever in Ireland, with tons of snow. My trusty brother delivered on my xmas present. He tracked down a copy of the book you suggested, so I'll be digging into it in the new year. Hope you had a great Christmas, and all the best for 2011.
Merry Christmas, Sally! Glad he found the book--I'm sure you're aware of it, but you can get virtually any book published for a buck or two at www.abebooks.com. Even in Ireland. Maybe, especially in Ireland, which is the most "writer-friendly" country in the world. Are poets and writers still income tax-exempt? I wanna move there!
Yes, laughter is the one thing that grows more than double when shared ... it becomes a thing alive with warmth and the magic of healing. May your publication dreams come true this New Year, Roland
Thanks, Roland--same back atcha!
Yup, writers and artists exemption is still going strong, until they take it away in a budget, they've taken just about everything else this year, but not that!
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