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  Tooting my own horn

  I'm a retired journalist, 84 years old. I've written 10 novels, the latest being FORK IN THE ROAD. It is available on the Internet at Fictionwise.com as are my Nick Bancroft mysteries and several romances. I love to hear from any who have read my novels or any who might. My email address is bobliter@verizon.net.

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  O.E.D [obsessive Edward disorder] 

  like I'm confuzeled is this SPAM b/c I am like so not sure I only sorta know what SPAM is

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    Robert of Ravenclaw 

    it looks like SPAM to me , but it is the 1st SPAM, I have seen on shelfari.

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  Bob L 

  Is Tooting my own horn spam. Of course it is. If this is against the rules I'll delete it.

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    Bob L (edited)

    When Nick Bancroft, a reporter who inherits a run-down detective agency and is hired to investigate a case of date rape, he hopes for a financial double-play, getting paid for both solving the case and for writing the story of how he solved it! But, soon Bancroft finds himself in over his head, when he runs into a couple of homicides so cleverly plotted they constitute a case of "murder by the book." Next, he becomes the target of a shooter determined to kill to protect some dirty secrets, the wrath of his stormy lover, Maggie Atley, and the scorn of a visiting detective. Bob Liter's detective novels are full of "twists and turns. Real Loo-Loos!" says Detra Fitch in Huntress Book Reviews
    
    Murder by the Book and other Nick Bancroft novels are available at Fictionwise.com

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  Bob L 

  Writing for Pennies
  
  I’ve just finished reading NIGHTWEBS, a collection of short stories by Cornell Woolrich published by Harper & Row in 1971. The collection was edited by Francis M. Nevens Jr. Woolrich churned out mysteries for such magazines as Dime Mystery, Street & Smith’s Detective Story Magazine, Detective Fiction Weekly, and many others. He also wrote novels, scripts for movies and television plays.
  
  The pulp magazines paid one cent a word. Sometimes they would get crazy and pay as much as two cents a world. There were 16 stories in the collection and I seldom was bored as I read them. Between 1936 and 1939 he published at least 105 short stories, from short-shorts to the novellas, according to Nevens.
  
  I did notice, as I notice in many modern novels, the padding. Woolrich salted his stories with long descriptions of everything from furniture to clothing of characters, to the climax of the mystery. At one cent a word, length was important. Many of his short stories were 20,000 words.
  
  Modern novels? I suspect they are padded at the insistence of publishers to justify the prices they charge. It was an interesting read. Stories with twists, with violence and fear.
  
  I don’t mean to belittle Woolrich for writing for only a penny a word. My nine Internet novels probably don’t earn me that much per word.
  
  Bob Liter
  http://mysite.verizon.net/bobliter/
  http://bobliter.blogspot.com//
  
  

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  Bob L 

  Sue Grafton is one of my favorite authors. I’ve read her mysteries from A to S. Right now I’m reading her latest, T IS FOR TRESPASS. On page 49 she writes, “Henry offered to explain to me the intricacies of Medicare coverage, but it was really too boring to take in. Beyond Part A and Part B everything seemed to have three initials: CMN, SNE, PPS, PEOs, DRGs.”
  
  The sentence reminded me of one of my pet peeves, ACRONYMS. A few of them I understand, like CIA or ASAP. But most are geek to me. There is one acronym I’d like to see become popular and understood by many. RFITR. You don’t know that one? Why it means Read Fork in the Road, of course. What’s that? Fork in the Road is my latest novel. Even if you hate acronyms as much as I do I hope you’ll go to http://mysite.verizon.net/bobliter/ and take a look.
  
  Thanks, Bob Liter
  
  

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  Beejay 

  I am a sucker for whodunits........ thanks for telling me about so many. Will start on them as soon as I can lay my hands on them. It isnt easy to get English books in Czech Republic..... very limited stock but my next trip to the BCL (oops Brit. Council Lib.) should turn up something...
  Thanks

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    Bob L 

    Hello Beejay. My books are only available on the Internet. You can buy them from Renebooks.com, fictionwise.com and many other internet outlets. If you get one or more I hope you enjoy. Thanks for your interest.
    Bob Liter

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