Ask the Author: Jimmy Corinis
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Jimmy Corinis
From a misconception in my country that all sub-genres of crime fiction have been characterized as "police stories" (police procedurals to you) a term I am up against because a detective story is a detective story, a thriller is a thriller and a mystery is a mystery, etc, clarifying the great differences between them in such detail that the panel who presented my book came to the conclusion that such a book ought to be icluded in those taught at Universities - a great honour for me, a plain story-teller.
Jimmy Corinis
Looking at reality in the face, seeing how people behave, listening to or reading the news and never believing all of it by adding 2 and 2 together and coming up with 5 instead of 4!!!
Jimmy Corinis
My last book was PULP FICTIΟΝ, a short history of the genre I devoted my life to from the age of 18 (1955) when I became a professional detective story writer to this day. Now I am doing some more (minor) editing of my books published by Amazon.
Jimmy Corinis
The story is not written when it is actuallly being written but when it is edited and by editing, I mean placing the writer's ego aside and really editing out the silly stuff and editing in the clever stuff.
Jimmy Corinis
I am an author of detective stories and thrillers, so the best thing about being a writer is that I create difficult situations - cross-word puzzles I call them -my protagonist does his best to solve often placing his life in danger. And that is a pleasure I compare to nothing else.
Jimmy Corinis
I just sit at my desk and stare at the screen of my computer for hours on end, until my brain - stealthily working behind my back - unblocks itself!!!
Jimmy Corinis
I don't like forror stories. Too farfetched. What I write about is based on real events. Real life.
Jimmy Corinis
Unfortunately, I am so busy, I have no time for reading any book. Besides, having read more than 400 and translated/adapted nearly 100 of them for publishers and the two Detective Story Magazines I was working for - being the Editor in Chief of one of them - I am sort of fed up.
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