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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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The eight reprinted and two new stories in Resurrection House horrifically reflect reminders of the fragility of being human.Ron Breznay’s Old Masters of Horror: Charles Dickens
For many people, Christmas isn’t complete without Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol” – whether they read the story, go to the local theater to see a stage production, or watch one of the many movie versions.Storytellers Unplugged
One more Q&A
In January, I’ll be back to trying to think of my own content again, but here’s December’s Q&A:
Q: How about the writing lessons you’ve learned along the way? Anything from outlining to editing your own work.
Try to write every day.
Take notes. No matter how certain you are that you could never possibly forget the incredibly [...]
Okay, I am actually quite afraid
So I know the last time I blogged here, I proudly proclaimed I had no fear. Well. That was specific to the new publishing wilderness. I have tons of fear. I’m full of the stuff.
A nasty farmer inside me plants festering seeds that grow with my insecurities to fertilize. What if this story sucks? What if [...]
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 [...]
Secret Agent Man
Secret agent man, secret agent man,
They’ve given you a number and taken away your name.
Show of hands: how many of you are happy with your literary agent? My guess is that probably fewer than half of you are raising your hands. In my writing life I have had three agents. When I was with agent [...]
Three Editing Tips
So the first draft is finished, and now you have to edit the sonofabitch.
Most writers don’t particularly enjoy the task of rewriting/editing, but I do. Not sure why, but I find it sometimes more rewarding than the initial writing.
Now, for me, the best way [...]
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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*