A Writer Prepares

Block, Lawrence

ISBN 10: 1788580435 / ISBN 13: 9781788580434

Editore: SST Publications, Birmingham, 2021

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Birmingham: SST Publications:, 2021. First edition, Hardcover, SIGNED, Limited, New in dust jacket, 312 pp. Cover artwork by: Jeremy Pailler This edition limited to 400 numbered copies signed by the author."A Writer Prepares, an examination of the first quarter century of a writer s life, is the work of two writers. There s the middle-aged fellow who wrote about half of it at a blistering pace in 1994, and there s the octogenarian who finished the job another quarter century later. The older fellow brought less raw energy to the task, and his memory is a long way from infallible, but one can only hope he s offset these losses with a slight edge in judgment, in perspective, in maturity. (I was about to add wisdom, but that might be a bridge too far.)" First edition, Hardcover, SIGNED, Limited, New in dust jacket,

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• Titolo: A Writer Prepares
• Editore: SST Publications, Birmingham
• Data di pubblicazione: 2021
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1788580435
• ISBN 13: 9781788580434
• Rilegatura: Rilegato
• Disegnatore: Jeremy Pailler
• Edizione: prima edizione
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: sovraccoperta
• Firmato: Autografato dall'autore

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A Writer Prepares, an examination of the first quarter century of a writer's life, is the work of two writers. There's the middle-aged fellow who wrote about half of it at a blistering pace in 1994, and there's the octogenarian who finished the job another quarter century later. The older fellow brought less raw energy to the task, and his memory is a long way from infallible, but one can only hope he's offset these losses with a slight edge in judgment, in perspective, in maturity. (I was about to add wisdom, but that might be a bridge too far.) I suspect this book's natural audience consists largely of those of you who are already enthusiastic readers of my work. And it seems likely that the book will get a favorable reception from persons who are somewhere in the process of finding themselves as writers. But I'm happy to let the book find its true audience. A very comforting aspect of publishing A Writer Prepares now rather than twenty-five years ago is that I'm so much less invested in its reception.

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LAWRENCE BLOCK is a Mystery Writers of America Grand Master. His work over the past half century has earned him multiple Edgar Allan Poe and Shamus awards, the U.K. Diamond Dagger for lifetime achievement, and recognition in Germany, France, Taiwan, and Japan. His latest novel is Dead Girl Blues; other recent fiction includes A Time to Scatter Stones, Keller’s Fedora, and The Burglar in Short Order. In addition to novels and short fiction, he has written episodic television (Tilt!) and the Wong Kar-wai film, My Blueberry Nights. Block contributed a fiction column in Writer’s Digest for fourteen years, and has published several books for writers, including the classic Telling Lies for Fun & Profit and the updated and expanded Writing the Novel from Plot to Print to Pixel. His nonfiction has been collected in The Crime of Our Lives (about mystery fiction) and Hunting Buffalo with Bent Nails (about everything else). Most recently, his collection of columns about stamp collecting, Generally Speaking, has found a substantial audience throughout and far beyond the philatelic community. Lawrence Block has lately found a new career as an anthologist (At Home in the Dark; From Sea to Stormy Sea) and served as writer-inresidence at South Carolina’s Newberry College. He is a modest and humble fellow, although you would never guess as much from this biographical note.