Dear Mouse: A Tale of Love, Murder and Movie-Making in the Carolina Mountains - Softcover

Kaufman, Schuyler

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0971304521 ISBN 13: 9780971304529

Publisher: Ingalls Pub Group, 2001

Synopsis

Fallen movie idol Matt Logan writes his journal as secret letters to Michaella, the child he has lost. Ruthless Starlett Crystal Beller sells them to the tabloids. Crystal turns up dead in Matt's dressing room closet, dressed for the shower scene. Is Matt the only victim of the blackmailing actress?

About this title

From the Publisher:

Good mysteries are intriguing puzzles. Great mysteries give you the puzzles and introduce you to characters that live with you after the book is finished. Schuyler Kaufman's characters stick around like old friends.

From the Author:

For me, the secret to finishing a full-length novel lies not in discipline ("you MUST produce ## pages today!"), but in treating the project like a secret little sin that can only be indulged after all the day's work is done. This way, I accomplished both the work (in quick time) and the writing.

The many advantages of being a writer include being able to write anywhere, anytime that your mind is underoccupied. While you are standing in line, working in the factory, trying to get back to sleep, you can make up your story. You can refine it, play with it, go back and change the clumsy bits, get a tad crazy over it.

Then, once you have the actual tools of writing within reach, you write down all that stuff you made up inside your head when you had nothing else to do.

Nothing says that you even have to start at the beginning: the first scene I wrote in DEAR MOUSE ... was the audition scene, when Halla McKee hauls off with a roundhouse wallop that sends Matt Logan careening down the porch steps. In these days of electronic word processing, you can write whichever scene you feel like writing: the wedding scene today, the chase scene tomorrow, the confrontation the day before yesterday. You can put the scenes in order any time they fit together.

Writing need not be a chore. Enjoy it as a secret indulgence, and you'll be astonished at what you can accomplish.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ingalls Pub Group
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0971304521
• ISBN 13: 9780971304529
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 244