Vince is back with our Weekly Picks just in time for your weekend reading!
Featuring:
📖 Slaughterhouse-Five by #KurtVonnegutJr
📖 The Gales of November by #JohnUBacon
📖 The Ranger by #AceAtkins
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#WritersCoffeeClub Dec 13: Which novel to TV or movie adaptation was the most disappointing and why?
Tying into my Dec 12 reply mentioning #RobertBParker as my favorite author, I was most disappointed in the 2020 #Netflix movie #Spenser Confidential. Very loosely based on #AceAtkins' continuation novel Wonderland, the movie changed Spenser into an ex-con to suit producer-star #MarkWahlberg. Terrible. Atkins' novels did no such thing.
#WritersCoffeeClub Apr 1: What's your favorite easter egg in your own work and/or another work of fiction?
I don't place much value on easter eggs relative to command of language, compelling characters, and similar concrete measures of writing, but in general I like brief character mentions or cameos like when #RobertCrais's #ElvisCole waves to his neighbor #MichaelConnelly's #HarryBosch or when #AceAtkins had #Spenser in Los Angeles on a case see Crais's #JoePike jogging.
I review Ace Atkins' upcoming suspense thriller DON'T LET THE DEVIL RIDE: https://chatterrific.blogspot.com/2024/02/dont-let-devil-ride-by-ace-atkins.html
#AceAtkins #Books #DontLetTheDevilRide #NetGalley #WilliamMorrow #Suspense
Ace Atkins' 30th novel is coming June 4, 2024, Don't Let the Devil Ride: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/dont-let-the-devil-ride-ace-atkins?variant=41105432870946
I've revised this #Blog post a few times trying to offer something in my 50-year Spenser retrospective that you won't get anywhere else: https://geraldso.blogspot.com/2023/09/fifty-years-of-spenser.html
#Spenser #RobertBParker #AceAtkins #MikeLupica #SpenserForHire #TV #Fiction #Mystery #Books #50thAnniversary
I've added more to this #Blog post than I thought I would, hopefully all the more apropos of fifty years of #Spenser. How's it read? https://geraldso.blogspot.com/2023/09/fifty-years-of-spenser.html
#RobertBParker #AceAtkins #MikeLupica #SpenserForHire #TV #Fiction #Mystery #Books
#AceAtkins won a competition to write #Spenser w/ 50 sample pages. The first #JesseStone continuation author, #MichaelBrandman, got that job b/c he'd worked on the #TomSelleck Jesse Stone #Movies. #RobertKnott likewise got the job to continue #RobertBParker's Cole & Hitch #Novels b/c he'd co-written the movie adaptation of #Appaloosa.
Synopsis for the next #Spenser continuation #Novel #RobertBParkersBrokenTrust as #MikeLupica takes over from #AceAtkins: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/710343/robert-b-parkers-broken-trust-by-mike-lupica/ #RobertBParker
The 2020 #Netflix #movie #Spenser Confidential with #MarkWahlberg is an egregious misrepresentation of #AceAtkins' fine second continuation novel #Wonderland.
