Ask the Author: Joe Hamilton
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Joe Hamilton
I'm not a big fan of science fiction...but if I could go back in time I would probably go back to the early days of the 2016 US election and throw my voice into the mix about voting for a man who is destined to destroy much of the progress made over the past decade.
Joe Hamilton
I have just finished enjoying John Sandford's Golden Prey. There has so much debate over Ruth Ware's The woman in Cabin 10 I will check it out. Then Greg Iles new book.
Joe Hamilton
The time I lost my two year old son. I called a friend and frantically drove up and down the neighbourhood searching. I called the police and reported an abduction. Kidnapped from his own home. I even phone my wife at work and tearfully reported that her son was missing. As the police, my neighbors, my wife pulled into our lane, I heard my son crying, he'd hidden under some cushions and fallen asleep.
Joe Hamilton
I get a daily prompt sent to me and I try to let my mind make the connections. Sometimes I will take the prompt and search for an image on the internet. Sometimes pictures help spark a thought. I spend time each day doing this even if it leads no where. I call it exercise for my imagination.
Joe Hamilton
As a novelist I am free to make up any story I want. I'm only limited by what people want to read and will agree to suspend their disbelief.
Joe Hamilton
Just write, write every day if you can. Read different types books. Don't worry so much about perfection in the first draft...just get it the story out.
Joe Hamilton
A sequel to Murder in Biloxi entitled Rock You like a Hurricane
Joe Hamilton
This is just something I have always wanted to do. When I retired from banking I signed up for some creative writing courses that kept me focused on writing everyday.
Joe Hamilton
The idea started off as a short story for a creative writing class. I wanted to write something about an everyday man who everyone underestimates and how he handles becoming a Private Investigator in the deep south in the seventies.
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