crime
Case Closed… for now
Well, Labour Day weekend is upon us, and the ceremonial end of summer has arrived. Students will be back in class next week, and “fun in the sun” will soon become a phrase of the past.
And it is with Labour Day that we bring “Dundurn’s Summer of Murder and Mayhem” to an official close. It’s [...]
In Search of a Fish
Author Lee Lamothe has drawn on his many years of experience researching and writing about crime to build the characters of his mystery novels. But there’s another part of Lee’s life that he draws on for inspiration…
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IN SEARCH OF A FISH
In my first published novel – The Last Thief – an old Russian bandit and [...]
Dressing Up An Old Friend
Last week, along with mystery writer Vicki Delany, I was a guest of the Public Library in Picton, Ontario. I read two scenes from my recently completed manuscript, Black Tupelo. The audience was relaxed and conversational, and one of the questions I was asked during the Q&A was “What are you working on now?” I [...]
Salvaging A Novel I Wrote In 1983
My first novel, like most first novels, was transparently autobiographical. It was also, I’m guessing, derivative of writers I admired at the time I wrote it, which was 27 years ago, writers like Hemingway and Faulkner. I am guessing that this is the case because I haven’t reread it since it was rejected, after 11 [...]
Two Scenes From Black Tupelo
Although some people can write purely from their imaginations, others require actual experience upon which to base their writing. Stephen Crane never experienced combat, but he was able — through the power of his imagination — to create the most convincing of all Civil War novels, Red Badge of Courage. Conversely, Ernest Hemingway’s early novel, [...]
WHAT I’M WORKING ON NEXT
I wrote my first two novels — neither of which was published — in the 1980’s. The first one, called Country Music, was a coming of age story about a group of young men in Haliburton, north of Toronto. It almost made it; it was with Doubleday for eleven months, and the young editor who [...]
THE DEATH OF JOHN UPDIKE
I’d intended to write about my next project in this blog, but something far more important came up: the death of John Updike. For any serious reader of modern American fiction, Updike is a must. His quartet of novels about Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom (Rabbit, Run, 1960; Rabbit Redux, 1971; Rabbit Is Rich, 1981; Rabbit at [...]
