By Tom Julian As an author, sometimes you're asked to pick a passage from your latest book-either to read it aloud during a podcast or to paste into a blog post. You pick an action scene or a dramatic moment that you think will resonate with the audience. I've been asked to do this many times, and I'm happy to oblige-and I have my favorite passages ready to go! But that always feels so controlled to me. Of course, I'm going to showcase what I … [Read more...]
Meet Emilio Corsetti III,Award-Winning Author and Former Airline Captain
I am a retired airline pilot and author. My work has appeared in regional and national publications, including the Chicago Tribune, Multimedia Producer, and Professional Pilot magazine. I have appeared as an aviation expert on the show Studio B with Shepard Smith and in the MSNBC documentary Why Planes Crash: Brace for Impact. I am the author of the bestselling book 35 Miles From Shore: The Ditching and Rescue of ALM Flight 980, which tells the … [Read more...]
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WildBlue eZine Vol. 1 No. 3 NO STONE UNTURNED RELEASE
Your Guide To What's Happening This Week at WildBlue Press April 26, 2015 THIS WEEK'S CONTENT WildBlue Press signs new author John Robinson NO STONE UNTURNED release this week Featured Blog Posts by Caitlin Rother and Steve Jackson Ron Franscell speaks to a writing project that hit close to home Author Spotlight: Steve Jackson about NO STONE UNTURNED release Bradley Nickell on Darkness Radio KENTUCKY BLOODBATH … [Read more...]
Ron Franscell: Should crime writers profit from somebody else’s tragedy?
Every crime writer has heard this little heckling voice, usually from the cheap seats, but sometimes from inside his own head. It isn’t always loud, but it’s often piercing. My 2008 true crime, The Darkest Night, recently enjoyed a revival on bestseller lists when its long-awaited digital edition was released a couple weeks ago. It's an intimate story of a monstrous crime against two of my childhood friends in the small town where we grew up … [Read more...]
Ron Franscell: Is true crime’s death exaggerated?
A few years ago, author Joe McGinniss, whose Fatal Vision is among a handful of acknowledged classics in true crime, pronounced the genre deader than Marley: “The last three books I’ve written have been about soccer, which nobody in America cares about; horse racing, which nobody in America cares about; and true crime, a genre that expired sometime last century . . .” If the genre is dead, it died fairly young. It hasn’t even been 50 years … [Read more...]
