Ask the Author: Larry Doyle
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Larry Doyle
I am currently writing The Patzer Club for Harper's Children Books. Here's how it was described when it was sold:
Author of I LOVE YOU, BETH COOPER, Larry Doyle’s THE PATZER CLUB and its sequel, a spooky and comic adventure in which an 11-year-old girl and her mathematician mother move into a “haunted” Greenwich Village brownstone, once home to a famous 19th Century game club that included Mark Twain, Nikola Tesla and the Houdini brothers, where unfinished games and assorted specters provide clues leading to a fantastic underground world of lightning machines, giant robots and a Pretty Big Secret, to Kristen Pettit at HarperCollins on an exclusive submission, by Sarah Burnes at The Gernert Company(NA).
Yes, I know that's not a sentence.
That was two and half years ago. The book has turned out to be considerably more complicated (and I hope, better) than I originally conceived it. But I continuer to patzer away, and with luck, my editor will like it when she sees it.
There was a another book I was working on that I put aside in 2013, that has suddenly become very topical. So I'm putting out a 25,000 excerpt from it next week. It's called -- I guess ironically now -- the Next One.
Author of I LOVE YOU, BETH COOPER, Larry Doyle’s THE PATZER CLUB and its sequel, a spooky and comic adventure in which an 11-year-old girl and her mathematician mother move into a “haunted” Greenwich Village brownstone, once home to a famous 19th Century game club that included Mark Twain, Nikola Tesla and the Houdini brothers, where unfinished games and assorted specters provide clues leading to a fantastic underground world of lightning machines, giant robots and a Pretty Big Secret, to Kristen Pettit at HarperCollins on an exclusive submission, by Sarah Burnes at The Gernert Company(NA).
Yes, I know that's not a sentence.
That was two and half years ago. The book has turned out to be considerably more complicated (and I hope, better) than I originally conceived it. But I continuer to patzer away, and with luck, my editor will like it when she sees it.
There was a another book I was working on that I put aside in 2013, that has suddenly become very topical. So I'm putting out a 25,000 excerpt from it next week. It's called -- I guess ironically now -- the Next One.
Larry Doyle
Write. Read.
That's my whole answer. I am only writing more because Goodreads says I have to.
But if you are going to write, you have to do those two things. No other things matter as much.
Read. Write.
That's my whole answer. I am only writing more because Goodreads says I have to.
But if you are going to write, you have to do those two things. No other things matter as much.
Read. Write.
Larry Doyle
I am wearing dirty jeans now and will not shower until later this afternoon.
Also, there are two dogs at my feet tearing apart a sock monkey.
Also, there are two dogs at my feet tearing apart a sock monkey.
Larry Doyle
Not well.
I stopped writing for more than a year a short while ago.
I gave up writing that book. (But am releasing part of it next week!)
I am now two and a half years years into another book that I should have finished in six months.
Here's my not very successful method:
1. Get up.
2. Try to write.
3. The following day, repeat.
I stopped writing for more than a year a short while ago.
I gave up writing that book. (But am releasing part of it next week!)
I am now two and a half years years into another book that I should have finished in six months.
Here's my not very successful method:
1. Get up.
2. Try to write.
3. The following day, repeat.
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