A book by any other name

[pbray]

Struggling to come up with a decent title for the not-so-sekret project. Having failed at several other methods I'm now compiling a list of suitable verbs and nouns, then playing random mix & match. I'll probably wind up with a title like CHASING KIBBLE or DEATH BY SEMI-COLON.

Luckily I don't need a title at this stage of the game--it would be nice to have, but it's not an absolute requirement.

Reading: Finished DEXTER IN THE DARK by Jeff Lindsay, the third novel in his Dexter series. I enjoyed the book, but not as much as the first two, largely because of the continuing evolution of young Astor and Cody into budding serial killers. Interestingly enough, based on the first season of Dexter on Showtime, I get the sense that this is one of the areas where the television show and books will diverge. Anyway, I'm looking forward to the new season on Showtime which starts next Sunday.

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Re: MLK

[pbray.livejournal.com]

There are certain things about the Dexter books that ping my authorial radar to say "This is a literary novel rather than a mystery or detective story." The story line with the kids is one of those things. Not to say that a literary style is a bad thing, but that obviously influences his readership.

What really surprised me when I was in Miami last winter was that his books weren't prominently featured in local bookstores. There's such a rich, vivid sense of place in his writing that I thought they'd be a natural fit.

FL author

[allaboutm-e.livejournal.com]

What really surprised me when I was in Miami last winter was that his books weren't prominently featured in local bookstores. There's such a rich, vivid sense of place in his writing that I thought they'd be a natural fit.

Huh. That surprises me as well. I know the crew at Murder on the Beach are big supporters, but can't remember whether they were in the local section at Books & Books when I was last there... been a couple of years now.