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The novel, Late Season, is released
Started Jun 26
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- Hometown:
- Fort Gay
- About Me:
- My answer to people who ask me how to get a story published is this…”Write something good.”
If you’re here right now, you might buy my novel, or you might be looking for answers to your own writing questions, you may or may not give a whiff ‘about’ me.
Write something good.
If that works…try to find someone who will read the first page.
Good luck.
Keep trying.
Continue writing something good.
Keep trying.
Someone will read that first page.
That’s when things get interesting.
That’s what I try to be ‘about’.
I’m a West Virginia boy, born and bred, Appalachian until the day I die. We’re a minority, I hear…Appalachians are, that is. I was educated at small, rural county schools. I can read and write, add and subtract with the best of them. I spent my latter teenage days at Marshall University, where I eventually graduated. I hopped around Lexington, Kentucky as an apprentice horse trainer for a year before coming home to my mountains. I’ve been here ever since. I direct television in Huntington, pretty good gig. I still train and show horses from my family’s farm. We’ve won championships, but we’re not in to selling horses. We either buy them, or they’re born on the property. They live out their lives there. I’m an animal lover. I take in strays. Been a vegetarian for 23 years. Haven’t missed the flesh one bit.
I’m a writer. I try to be a good one. Let me know if I try hard enough.
The link to the publisher's webstore is on my site listed below. Late Season will also be available on Amazon in eight weeks.
- Website:
- http://www.noahcopley.net
- Favorite Authors
- Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, Mark Twain, Stephen King,
- Favorite Books
- Salems' Lot, Dracula, Frankenstein
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International Issue of Apex Magazine Posted
This month Apex Magazine presents a special “international” issue of their online magazine.Patient Zero – Book Review
This is the best zombie novel I’ve read to date. It even knocks Brian Keene’s classic take on the undead, The Rising, out of its top spot.Postscripts To Get Bigger
After some lengthy consideration PS Publishing has decided on another change for the creature formerly known as Postscripts.Storytellers Unplugged
AND NOW, OUR … LOSER!
The Chicago Tribune ran “The Great Chicago Ghost Story” contest for Halloween.
The rules: A Chicago site must be mentioned in the story. No more than 750 words.
I wrote a story. Entered.
Lost.
Here’s the loser.
THE GHOSTS OF CHICAGO, I SET THEM FREE
I see the ghosts of Chicago.
I set them free.
This is a mission statement.
Mine.
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How is it [...]
Q&A the Second
Q: How does it feel to walk away? You’ve just complete a ginormous four book cycle (well, you finished it a while ago). Is it refreshing to turn back to other things, or do you light-headed?
A: The answer, of course, is yes. I am tremendously grateful to be done with the Doctrine of Labyrinths, but [...]
When I Wish I Wasn’t a Writer
When people ask me what I do for a living, I am always at a bit of a loss as to how to answer. It sounds a little too highfaluting to announce, “I am an author.” You just can’t say that sentence without sounding like you graduated from Oxford, or that you [...]
Dream Versus Time, Life, the World, And All The Really Important Things
The holidays are coming. We’re arriving at an intersection of worlds – the real and the imagined, outer and inner, concrete and symbolic, the past and the now.
What must be done, what needs to be done.
Kids dressed up as monsters expect candy offerings. Blood-bonded friends and enemies gather for the ritual slaughter [...]
Long-Term Relationships With Your Characters
One of the things authors decide when they sit down to write is how long and drawn out their relationship will be with particular characters. There are short stories, novellas, novels, and then – at the far end of the spectrum, you find trilogies and the continuing series. Each of these involves a level of [...]
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It's going to be a big change. I didn't even like any veggies but corn and carrots until recently. Then I started drinking Green Vibrance and it's really given me a taste for them.
My daughter has just gotten into competition, she's in the "hunter" class. She's been taking riding lessons since she was big enough to hold herself up in the saddle.
I'm creeping toward vegetarianism. I have Celiac, though, so I have to avoid gluten. I'm trying to phase out any processed food in my diet, which is really hard to do.
Anyway, best of luck with your new novel. :)
I hate those "fav" questions because I have such ecclectic taste and a short attention span. *grin*