Les Edgerton on Writing: June 2018

Hi folks,

Brit writer and jazz musician, Mark Ramsden, interviews me on his blog about my forthcoming memoir, Adrenaline Junkie. Click here to see it.

Blue skies,
Les

Ken Bruen

I recently sent copies of THE RAPIST and THE BITCH to one of the best writers in the world, Ken Bruen. I just wanted to get on his radar and nothing else. He misunderstood and thought I was asking for a blurb... so he gave me one. Although unsolicited, it meant the world to me. Here's Mr. Bruen's email:

Dear Les

Thank you so much for the books and the superb novels.

You sure have lived the life and have a nice light touch in describing it.

I loved the novels.

Here is my blurb

Les Edgerton is the reincarnation of our beloved Eddie Bunker.

The writing is as tough and tender as Bunker with that wonderful sense of dry humour that underpins even the most violent of scenes.

This guy can write and like a focused Bukowski.

Make no mistake, here is the real deal.

The books cry out for movie deals.

Warmest wishes

Ken Bruen

On HOOKED

I read every writing book that comes down the pike, and I like a lot of them. But I LOVE Hooked / write fiction that grabs readers at page one and never lets them go! As punchy as Les Edgerton’s hard-hitting fiction, Hooked takes no prisoners. Clear, simple, direct, it offers something fresh in every chapter. I recommend it to all my students and even my colleagues. Your writing library won’t be complete without it.

Jerry Jenkins

Best-selling author of the Left Behind series and many others

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...

BAD ARTISTS BORROW

GREAT ARTISTS STEAL

~~Pablo Picasso~~

Les Edgerton

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BRIT MARK RAMSDEN INTERVIEWS ME

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THE BITCH

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The Death of Tarpons

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Friday, June 22, 2018

BRIT MARK RAMSDEN INTERVIEWS ME

About Me

Joe Lansdale

Ken Bruen

On HOOKED

Total Pageviews

HARD TIMES

ADRENALINE JUNKIE

JUST LIKE THAT

LAGNIAPPE

The Death of Tarpons

THE DEATH OF TARPONS

BOMB

THE GENUINE, IMITATION, PLASTIC KIDNAPPING

THE BITCH

THE RAPIST

THE RAPIST- German Edition

MIRROR, MIRROR

FINDING YOUR VOICE

HOOKED: Write Fiction That Grabs Readers at Page One and Never Lets Them Go

MONDAY'S MEAL Ebook

Monday's Meal

Perfect Game USA and the Future of Baseball

The Death of Tarpons

SURVIVING LITTLE LEAGUE

BEST THRILLER OF 2011 AWARD

Nominee for Best Thriller of 2014

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