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Terry Irving

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in Bryn Mawr, The United States

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I moved to Washington DC in 1973 to kick around for a few weeks until I decided on a real career. I ended up riding a classic BMW R50/2 for ABC News during Watergate. Carrying that news film was the beginning of a 40-year career that has included producing Emmy Award-winning television news, writing everything from magazine articles to standup comedy and developing many of the earliest forms of online media.

After producing stories in Beirut, Hong Kong, El Salvador, and all 50 states, I still live right outside Washington, DC because my wife and my dog simply refuse to live anywhere else.

I have just finished a memoir of those early years and am in search of an agent.

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	Courier (Freelancer #1) 3.88 avg rating — 348 ratings — published 2013 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Day of the Dragonking (The Last American Wizard #1) 3.95 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 2015 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Warrior (Freelancer #2) 4.28 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Full Circle: (Time Cut: 1969 to 2013 #1) 4.88 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Unemployed Guy's Guide to Unemployment 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On the Road (Time Cut: 1969 to 2013 #2) 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	War Stories: The Berlin Wall 1989: Confessions of a Network News Producer 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	War Stories: Beirut 1982: Confessions of a Network News Producer it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	War Stories: Tiananmen Square 1989: Confessions of a Network News Producer it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Working Through Depression really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“When you're going through hell, go full throttle.”
― Terry Irving, Warrior

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“In Rick’s experience, graphic artists were eternally unhappy–torn between genuine artistic talent and the demands of producers with all the aesthetic vision of a plundering Visigoth. The”
― Terry Irving, Courier

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“Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.”
― Virginia Woolf

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“We were about to give up and call it a night when somebody threw the girl off the bridge.”
― John D. MacDonald, Darker Than Amber

tags: crime-fiction, great-opening-lines, mystery

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“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: imagination, life, money

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“What's one more meaningless act of violence on that zoo of a planet?
It would be appropriate.
When in Rome; burn it.”
― Iain M. Banks, The State of the Art

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“I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.”
― Rudyard Kipling, Under The Deodars

tags: humor, justification, mistakes, pretexts

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message 3: by Jill

Jan 30, 2014 10:41AM

Hi Terry, Great to connect here too. Thank you for your friendship.

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message 2: by Terry

Feb 15, 2013 06:30AM

Hey Folks

I've just read the Guidelines about Spamming and I hope this doesn't cross the line.

So, Courier is just about to (FINALLY) hit the market and I would just like to request any Friends and Admirers out there to put Courier on their To-Read List. So far, I have one person and that might just be me.

Also, those of you who have actually read the book in galleys, please post up an honest review to give readers a clue about the plot. I'm beginning to wonder if a motorcycle/political thriller set in 1972 was the best idea but it's too late to insert a vampire at this point.

Thanks!Courier

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message 1: by Terry

Nov 28, 2012 06:46AM

This is going to be SO embarrassing. I only "read" (listen, technically) to Science Fiction, Fantasy, Thrillers and other trash. I'm going to have to make up classy books so I don't look like a complete moron.

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