Ask the Author: Sean Costello
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Sean Costello
Hey, Rose-marie, there have been so many false starts with movie people, I've given up hope of ever seeing it happen. They all tell the same story. Still, it'd be a trip, wouldn't it?!
Sean Costello
I discovered there's no such thing. I just keep writing. You can't throw out pages that don't exist. One of my favorite authors said to, "Trust that one scene will lead to the next. And keep writing."
Sean Costello
Writing. Seeing it in your head and then finding the words, but only just enough of them, perfect and uncluttered, to transfer those images and feelings into the reader's mind and allow them to see things I never could.
Sean Costello
I tell aspiring writers the same thing Stephen King told me when I asked him: "Read a lot and write a lot; it really works." And I always give him credit for it.
Because I met Stephen King--twice!--and I want them all to know it.
Because I met Stephen King--twice!--and I want them all to know it.
Sean Costello
A novel about a girl who at the age of 19 finally finds the vagrant father she's never met, reunites with her ex-boyfriend and has a run-in with a serial killer. Lots of action and personal redemption.
Sean Costello
Under constant harassment from my mother as a child to read, I finally did...and thought it looked like fun. It is.
Sean Costello
Strangely, from a wonderful cartoon I saw in a Playboy magazine as a teen (I was just reading the articles...seriously); I believe it was by the brilliant artist Gahan Wilson. If memory serves, it was four frames in black and white.
In the first frame a burly dentist leans over a scrawny male patient in the chair, a pair of extraction forceps held firmly inside the guy's mouth. In the second frame the dentist has his knee wedged against the arm of the chair, the stringy muscles of his forearm straining now, the patient leaning forward and grimacing under the strain. In the third frame the dentist has both hands on the forceps, both feet propped against the arm of the chair and the patient is holding on for dear life...but the tooth still won't come.
In the fourth and final frame the dentist is airborne and flailing backward, the patient's entire skeleton leaving his collapsing body through his mouth.
Genius.
The new book is entitled LAST CALL and it's about a serial killer with a thing for teeth...sort of.
In the first frame a burly dentist leans over a scrawny male patient in the chair, a pair of extraction forceps held firmly inside the guy's mouth. In the second frame the dentist has his knee wedged against the arm of the chair, the stringy muscles of his forearm straining now, the patient leaning forward and grimacing under the strain. In the third frame the dentist has both hands on the forceps, both feet propped against the arm of the chair and the patient is holding on for dear life...but the tooth still won't come.
In the fourth and final frame the dentist is airborne and flailing backward, the patient's entire skeleton leaving his collapsing body through his mouth.
Genius.
The new book is entitled LAST CALL and it's about a serial killer with a thing for teeth...sort of.
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