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TCA’s Fiction Friday Previews “Dancing with Derrida”

March 12, 2010
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TCA’s Fiction Friday Previews “Dancing with Derrida”

The March 12 issue of Fiction Friday from the Culture Alliance, included a special excerpt from Dancing with Derrida, an as yet unpublished novel by Mary Grabar, a writer and college English teacher, who earned her Doctorate from the University of Georgia in 2002. Her writing has been published in the Weekly Standard, American Thinker, Andrew Breitbart’s Big Government, and with the John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy. She has also published short fiction and poetry. Learn more about Dr. Grabar at her website MaryGrabar.com. Dancing with Derrida is set within the University System of Georgia. At the system’s flagship campus, the paths of Morgan Fay, a feminist professor of rhetoric, Sean O’Toole, a hapless lovesick cowboy struggling to meet his teaching duties while completing a dissertation on Robert Penn Warren, and Michael McMann, a California transplant, body-builder, erotica aficionado, and moving company entrepreneur collide in a comedic novel about “the promise of new love and lessons learned about the true nature of postmodernism, feminism, and the sexual revolution.” Here is the prologue from the novel’s manuscript. The dawning of the twenty-first century was a time when all things were possible–-especially at Georgia’s flagship university, the University of

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‘The Red Right Hand’ Praised

March 30, 2009
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‘The Red Right Hand’ Praised

              A classic mystery novel has just received some well-deserved new appreciation, S. T. Karnick writes.  

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Tie-In Novels for ‘Psych,’ ‘Burn Notice’

January 11, 2008
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Tie-In Novels for ‘Psych,’ ‘Burn Notice’

After the success of several tie-in novels featuring characters from the USA Network detective-comedy series Monk, written by TV mystery veteran Lee Goldberg, two more USA Network series will get the same treatment, according to an item on The Blog of the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers. TV writer William Rabkin has agreed to write three original novels based on Psych, with the first going into print in January 2009, and Tod Goldberg will produce three books based on Burn Notice, with the first installment due out in July 2008, when the series’ second season will begin on USA Network.

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Amazon.com Holds Novel-Writing Contest

October 8, 2007
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Amazon.com is holding a contest to find the best unpublished debut novel. The winner will be published by Penguin Books, and Publishers Weekly will assist in judging entries. As Publishers Weekly reports, it’s a complicated and expensive-sounding process:

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Rowling Along on Mystery Novel

August 19, 2007
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Rowling Along on Mystery Novel

J. K. Rowling, author of the mega-bestselling Harry Potter books, is writing a detective novel, according to the Sunday Times of London. AP reports: The Sunday Times newspaper quoted Ian Rankin, a fellow author and neighbor of Rowling’s, as saying the creator of the "Harry Potter" books is turning to crime fiction. "My wife spotted her writing her Edinburgh criminal detective novel," the newspaper, which was available late Saturday, quoted Rankin as telling a reporter at an Edinburgh literary festival. A mystery series selling in the hundreds of millions, as the Harry Potter series did, would certainly be good for the genre’s overall popularity—but is exceedingly unlikely. However, Rowling’s ability to bring imagination and some interesting ideas to genre fiction has been fully proven, and her effort could indeed be refreshing for a form of fiction that has become rather dreary in recent years.

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