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Greg Hatala

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My first novel, I LOVE LIKING YOU A LOT, came about because I opened my mouth and inserted my foot.

A number of years ago I was criticizing the books assigned to my high school-age children, based on their own comments, to an acquaintance who also happens to be a Doctor of Education. She challenged me to do better. Approaching my sixties, the time was now or never.

While this is my first novel, it's definitely not the first time my writing has appeared in print for public consumption. For decades, I wrote advertising copy for a number of major brands as well as publicity for professional theater productions. Most recently, I was a columnist for the Newark Star-Ledger, one of the largest daily circulation newspapers in the country, and still p ...more

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Greg Hatala I go for a walk. There are various settings that somehow inspire words to flow through my head and form into what I'd like to say. With characters and…moreI go for a walk. There are various settings that somehow inspire words to flow through my head and form into what I'd like to say. With characters and dialogue, sometimes I just imagine them in a new and different setting ... and then just allow them to converse.(less)

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Greg Hatala Write constantly. Write about everything. Even if it's likely no one will ever read any particular thing you wrote. Writing is about feeling - and lov…moreWrite constantly. Write about everything. Even if it's likely no one will ever read any particular thing you wrote. Writing is about feeling - and loving - the interaction of words, not the money they'll generate.(less)

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Music Memories: The first first family of music

Remember the Partridge Family? The ‘family’ part of that being entirely fictional save for the fact that David Cassidy was Shirley Jones’ STEPson. No one else in the ‘family’ was related.

(Betcha also didn’t know that some of ‘Keith Partridge’s’ early pre-teen years were spent in West Orange, N.J.)

Betcha ALSO didn’t know that the Partridge Family originally WAS going to be a true family – a pop ban Read more of this blog post »

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