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    When is a mystery not a mystery?

    March 1, 2017 by Mike Nemeth Leave a Comment

    Over the weekend I attended a writer’s workshop in Atlanta and was inspired by Chuck Sambuchino’s speeches (you know him as the editor of Writers’ Digest) and a meeting with Mark Gottlieb of Trident Media. These soirees are always the source of insightful information about the writing craft and the writing business. They also provide chicken soup for the writer’s soul as we socialize with hundreds of kindred souls struggling with an amazingly common set of publishing problems. We are not alone. In fact, like salmon swimming upstream to spawn, we are in an overcrowded marketplace and, like the salmon, most us will be eaten by “bears.”

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    Changing Tastes

    February 3, 2017 by Mike Nemeth Leave a Comment

    I’ve read interviews with William Faulkner, Ernest Hemmingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Thomas Wolfe and as I’ve compared the questions those legends were asked to the questions I’m now asked by interviewers, I’ve become aware of the changes in readers’ tastes, and in the measures by which we judge “good writing”, and of the change in expectations when readers purchase fiction.

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    Why Writers Write

    January 7, 2017 by Mike Nemeth Leave a Comment

    Ran across this quote from George Orwell (1984, Animal Farm):

    “When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, ‘I am going to produce a work of art.’ I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing.”

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    Morality and the Holiday Season

    December 21, 2016 by Mike Nemeth Leave a Comment

    Ah, the Holidays, the season when our hearts overflow with goodwill toward our fellow man. Well, maybe some hearts have little capacity for joy.

    The scene yesterday was the overflowing parking lot at a suburban Atlanta mall. Lines of cars waited impatiently for shoppers to empty spaces and make room for new arrivals. I was second in line behind a Beamer with its turn signal indicating an intention to take a soon-to-be-vacant spot near the head of the row. The exiting car moved slowly and awkwardly, avoiding contact with the Beamer that had left it too little room to maneuver. That mistake allowed a crafty woman approaching from the opposite direction to zip into the spot ahead of the Beamer.

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    The Season to be Jolly

    November 29, 2016 by Mike Nemeth Leave a Comment

    Friends and family ask what I want for Christmas and I invariably tell them: books. Which books? Anything new by Joseph Kanon, Martin Cruz Smith, Robert Harris, Olen Steinhauer, Nelson DeMille or Michael Lewis, I tell them.  At the moment, Mr. Smith has a new title on bookshelves called The Girl from Venice. I expect to find it under my tree.

    People often ask what books I would give as presents?  The novel that affected me more deeply than any other was No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy.  I would recommend that tome any time.  The two novels that inspired me to become a writer were Boys and Girls Together by William Goldman and The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer.  If only I could write half as well.  Really anything by those gentlemen would make good reading.

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    Of Heroes and Villains

    October 15, 2016 by Mike Nemeth Leave a Comment

    Many newly published novels, perhaps even most of them, have easily recognizable heroes and villains. The heroes are all-powerful, all-avenging, pure-of-heart, upstanding citizens. The villains are easily recognizable as well–pure evil packaged in human form. No complex explanations are needed to justify the actions of either the heroes or the villains. The villains do evil because they are evil and the heroes do good because they are good.  The villains are sexual predators, serial killers, dictators bent on world domination. The heroes are … well you know who they are. They are the only persons in the world who can save the world from some looming disaster.

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    Three Questions

    October 8, 2016 by Mike Nemeth Leave a Comment

    There are three questions I usually get asked in interviews that I particularly like and wanted to answer here in case readers don’t see the other interviews. These are the three most fundamental questions that can be asked about Defiled and provide readers with interesting (I hope) insight into the writing of the novel.

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    24th Free “Dear Lucky Agent” Contest

    October 6, 2016 by Mike Nemeth Leave a Comment

    Writer’s Digest has just announced its 24th “Dear Lucky Agent” contest on its GLA (Guide to Literary Agents) blog. This is a free contest for writers of literary and upmarket fiction http://tinyurl.com/hmelhd3 judged by agent @AnnieAHwang, via @chucksambuchino.

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    Sales 101

    September 9, 2016 by Mike Nemeth Leave a Comment

    Over the Labor Day weekend, Defiled was unveiled for the public at the Atlanta Journal Constitution Decatur Book Festival and I learned all over again the basics of selling a product new to the market.  Over and over again I was asked, “What’s it about?” or “What kind of book is it?”  There are any number of answers to that question from the metaphysical to the prosaic.

    “It’s about the need for civil disobedience.  You, know, like Thoreau urged a few hundred years ago.”  That did not get an enthusiastic reaction.

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    Welcome to My New Site!

    August 19, 2016 by Mike Nemeth Leave a Comment

    Welcome to the new Mike Nemeth Website and to the Nemowrites blog. Take a spin around the various pages of the site and spend a moment, please, reading about Defiled, the first installment of the Redeemed Trilogy. The second installment, which I call Absolved, is nearly complete so have a look at Defiled now to stay ahead of me. The third installment, Redeemed, is currently a set of ideas spinning around my brain. 

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