Posts Tagged ‘thriller’

Time just slips away…

Posted: 11th February 2013 by jazzdog in Critique Group, DIRTY WATER, TOXIC RELATIONSHIP, Uncategorized, Writing
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(Cue Willie Nelson) Funny how time just slips away… I took a blogging break in December and here it is February. I’m back! We’re in the “prep the literary contest submissions” season for writer conferences in the summer. I think I’m going to submit a short story to Pacific Northwest Writers Association called SWING THING. […]

Austin Book Release Party for TOXIC RELATIONSHIP

Posted: 30th December 2012 by jazzdog in Book Release, Novel, Story, Texas, Thriller, TOXIC RELATIONSHIP, Writing
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Had a great crowd at the Austin book release for the paperback edition of TOXIC RELATIONSHIP. We had a great time together, I got to catch up with old friends and new, had some good food, did a few readings and signed books. Great fun! Thanks to everyone who joined us. Here are a few […]

Week Three: Toxic Relationship Blog Tour

Posted: 29th September 2012 by jazzdog in Blog Tour, promotional giveaway, TOXIC RELATIONSHIP
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  It’s week three of the tour.  Drop by for  interviews, excerpts from Toxic Relationship, book reviews and  a promotional giveaway for readers of the blogs — a $10 gift certificate for Amazon.  Yeah, cool.  So come along for the ride.  The stops this week are: October 1 –  Bless Their Hearts Mom – Review/Giveaway/Excerpt October […]

Lights, Camera, Action: Creating a Book Trailer for TOXIC RELATIONSHIP

Posted: 27th August 2012 by jazzdog in Marketing, Publishing, TOXIC RELATIONSHIP
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Seems like everyone puts out a book trailer for their novels these days, so I decided I’d add a trailer to my promotion plan.  First step — gather all of my Hollywood insiders to put together an incredible team of producers, directors, videographers, all the way to a caterer using only locally sourced, organically grown […]

Suspense: Mission Impossible?

Posted: 18th June 2012 by Richard Hacker in Creativity, Movie, Thriller, Uncategorized
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When writing a scene I also work to bring the tension up.  Falling off a curb and spraining an ankle?  How about falling off a cliff and breaking your back? You get the idea.  But I’ve also found that I have to use some judgement about how far I take things or they begin to […]

Buy A Book, Win A Prize

Posted: 8th June 2012 by Richard Hacker in Creativity, Marketing, Novel, Publishing, Uncategorized
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Read a story today about the author of Ready Player One, Arthur Cline, is giving a prize away for any reader who can find a clue in his novel, then successfully navigate three challenges in an online video game at a specific web address. The contest sounds kind of cool. Much more skill based than […]

TOXIC RELATIONSHIP

Posted: 31st May 2012 by Richard Hacker in Creativity, Novel, Thriller, TOXIC RELATIONSHIP, Uncategorized
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As I may have mentioned, I’ve got a novel coming out in August published by Champagne Books.  TOXIC RELATIONSHIP is a thriller with a humorous twist set in the Hill Country of Texas.  My protagonist, Nick Sibelius, moves to the small Texas town of Pflugerville, turned Austin suburb, to set up a private investigation business, […]

New Cover for TOXIC RELATIONSHIP

Posted: 18th May 2012 by Richard Hacker in Novel, Publishing, Thriller, TOXIC RELATIONSHIP
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Just received the cover for my thriller, TOXIC RELATIONSHIP which will be released August, 2012 by Champagne Books.  I gave the marketing team some very sketchy info, unsure myself what the cover should look like.  I believe I said something like arid, toxic waste and airstream trailers.  You see, I’m one of those people who […]

Book Review: Total Chaos by Jean-Claude Izzo

Posted: 7th October 2011 by Richard Hacker in Book Review, Crime, Thriller
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Total Chaos by Jean-Claude Izzo My rating: 3 of 5 stars This is the first in a trilogy set in Marseilles. Izzo’s Marseilles takes the city off my list of places to visit. The town, dark, gritty, with a raging undercurrent of bigotry, however, provides fertile soil for a crime thriller. A flawed protagonist moves […]

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