Ask the Author: Mike Markel
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Mike Markel
Mel:
1. Big Sick Heart
2. Deviations
3. The Broken Saint
4. Three-Ways
5. Fractures
Thanks!
1. Big Sick Heart
2. Deviations
3. The Broken Saint
4. Three-Ways
5. Fractures
Thanks!
Mike Markel
For Three-Ways, I started with the premise that a young guy had sex with a number of different women during his last day on Earth. The final woman killed him. I thought it might be interesting--in terms of forensics, procedures, and ethics--to see if I could construct a number of different three-way sexual and romantic relationships that overlapped like a Venn diagram.
Mike Markel
I don't get inspired. I just write.
Mike Markel
I'm revising Fractures, the fifth book in my Detectives Seagate and Miner Mystery series.
Mike Markel
Read more. Study the best writers to see how it's done. Try to resist publishing as long as you can.
Mike Markel
A character in a Peter de Vries novel, a writer, said he liked everything about his job except the paperwork. I most like the paperwork: making sentences and paragraphs and scenes.
Mike Markel
I don't believe in it. Just as a plumber doesn't get to have plumber's block, I don't get to have writer's block. I write. If it spills, I clean it up the next day.
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