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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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Under The Dome – Book Review
What happens when Stephen King, the 800-pound gorilla of horror, writes an over one thousand page novel? It works: He validates his weight; and even throws it around, a little.Afterburn SF November 2009 Issue
The November 2009 issue of Afterburn SF is complete and posted online.Horror Bound Online Magazine
Horror Bound Magazine, not only offers free short fiction by some of today's hottest writers but also interviews with your favorite authors, poetry, and book reviews.Storytellers Unplugged
Providence, 1986
Providence, 1986 Wayne Allen Sallee 28 November 2009
I have a road trip, of sorts, ahead of me in a few hours. A zig-zag across the transit system of Chicago. I’m heading up north, but first I have to take the 55th Street bus to an artist friend’s place and drop off a few autographed books. There is [...]
The Ritual of Fine-Tuning My Writing
Most writers I know have rituals. These run the gamut from adjusting their desks a certain way to writing by candlelight to setting a glass of perfectly innocent booze on fire before each writing project as a sacrifice to the Writing Ancestors. They may sound silly, or wasteful (perfectly good booze, after all) or unintuitive, [...]
Thanksgiving
Friends and relatives around he world sing the same song: “We don’t have Thanksgiving here.” Here is New Zealand, South Africa, England, Israel…and on and on. This year, because we are down to three of us—my guardian angel/chef and one friend who lives alone—I stopped to think about what that means.
“We don’t have [...]
In love as it is in war
I promised some friends (and students) that I would talk about how one goes about writing a successful sex scene. There are a lot of theories about this–one school, for example, believes that a successful sex scene should titillate. (Do they believe a successful dinner scene should make you hungry? I write my dinner scenes [...]
“genre vs literary” in the days of the Technorenaissance
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I was hanging out in a writer’s forum and came across the age-old question of how do you define genre and literary? which always turns into genre vs literary: genre types bash the literati for lacking plot (which is absurd), while the literati bash the genre-ati for lacking everything else (equally absurd).
One person [...]
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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*