Well, at least I know that I'm not insane - or if I am, so are you. That's a relief.

(I also stress "ass" when I say harassment. I'm a wild woman!)

I'm a wild woman!

Dudesse, I tear tags of mattresses, without buying them first.

SCREW the penalty of law.

I still say nothing is worse than people being edgy for the sake of edgy, Deb. But what would you expect from a person who pined for the grimy old Homicide squad and creepy credits? Let's see, what's an edgy mystery thing I fucking hate...um, killers that have little-kid personalities that talk about Mommy burning them with cigarrettes. I'd rather read 400 cozies than one more of that, and you know my taste is for the hard-boiled at the moment. Ritualistic, loving description of murder is nauseating too. I mean, I get the rush of power thing, but some writers get a happy off it.

I have no objection to edgy - the one that Linda Marrow at Random House is looking at right now, Still Life With Devils, is edgy and sexy and scary and has demonic feng shui, a serial killer who kills pregnant women, and who may or may not be human. It's really fucking dark, but it's dark because that was the story, not because I wanted to prove 'edgy". Sod that.

The one I'm collaborating on, The Eden Tree, is well beyond edgy and into pissed-off nature versus well-meaning but arrogant humanity, and I ait sayin' who wins, but it isn't pretty.

But why does everything have to be dark? Garcon! Some yang to go with my yin, please?

Feh.

wrod.

I've just posted a long writerly whinge in my livejournal.

I'm probably not fit for humanity tonight. But I'll be more human tomorrow, I hope.

Deb, just so you know, I love Still Life with Devils immensely. I want to read it again. And again.

(loving Anne)

I wish someone would buy it, already. It's very much the dark side of the ghostly stuff in "Weaver" et al.

And it's high, way way way high, on my strongest point as a writer, which is characters.

Send it to England. They want "edgy"

grrrrrrr

Hello there .. hm i´m kinda new here... lurked here for ages but only recently posted here ..

I write a lot .. from novels to scripts to poems and my dream would be to live from writing which is still just very dreamy i think...

well it would be really cool if someone of you guys could read my stuff and tell me what they think, since i´m still learning and english isnt my mother tongue ..

at the moment i write mostly mystery and sci fi ... some things of my friend and me can be found here

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but theres more stuff in my Livejournal ..

anyway would be cool if someone could give me some tips .. Thanks in advance

Kessie