★•**•.★ #eNovAaW Guys and Gals of Murder, Mayhem and Mystery & #Giveaway ★•**•.★ Featured Author: David Wind Also on the tour: Stephen Hazlett, R.P. Dahlke, Abby L. Vandiver, and Kerry J. Donovan Hosted by: Book Partners In Crime Promotions Enter the Giveaway: rafflecopter/rafl/display/7996b6c570/? Meet today’s featured author: David Wind I live and write in a small village about thirty miles upstate of NYC, and share my home with my wife, Bonnie and our dog Alfie, an apricot poodle. When I began writing in 1980, I had no idea where I was headed. Since then, Ive published thirty-five novels, thirty-three of them with traditional publishers, but I decided I wanted more freedom than the traditional publishers would allow and began a new phase in my life as an Independent Author. My first Independent novel Angels In Mourning, was my homage to the old time private detective books of the late 40s, 50s and 60s. I used to love to sneak them from my parents’ night-tables and read them as a young boy. Angels, is a modern day take on the old style hardboiled detective. Angels In Mourning won the Amazon Book of the Month Readers Choice Award shortly after it was published. My most current thriller, The Cured, was written with Terese Ramin.The idea for this Medical Thriller came shortly after the death of a close friend. I couldnt help but wonder about the medication.... My previous suspense thrillers are The Hyte Maneuver, (a Literary guild alternate selection); As Peace Lay Dying, Conspiracy of Mirrors, And Down will Come Baby, Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep, and Shadows. Read David Wind’s Guest Post: My favorite (novel) thriller hero to movie thriller hero Being both a thriller and a science fiction writer, this was a big quandary for me: which level of thriller, of mystery, of suspense did I want to look at? I thought about Blade Runner, (Philip Dick’s Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep) The pressured against his will Detective Deker, played by Harrison Ford, was great, the movie, not terrible but…. Then I thought of someone else and the answer was easy. The first Robert Ludlum book I read—too many years ago—was The Chancellor Manuscript and it made me a lifelong fan and reader of Ludlum. The book blew me away on two levels; as a reader, and as a writer. There were things Ludlum put into this book that made me, as a writer, sit up and take notice. But translating mystery and thriller novel protagonists to the screen never quite seems to work as well as an original screenplay. Yet, when I saw Ludlum’s The Bourne Identity, I knew they’d hit it right, as far as the part Matt Damon played. While almost everything about the movie was different from the book, (in fact only the first half hour, the ship’s doctor and the names Jason Bourne and Marie were the same as the book) it made no difference as far as enjoying the movie and being inside Jason Bourne’s head. For me, that was unusual because if I loved the book, I wanted the movie to have as much semblance to the book as possible. There is no way to properly translate the Bourne Series to the screen the way it was written, but watching Matt Damon play Jason Bourne was a treat. While Damon is younger than the Bourne was in the book and the time period was changed as well it didn’t matter. If it’s truly possible for an actor to nail a fictional hero, then Damon did just that. He did what Ludlum did, suspended the disbelief and sucked you right into the story. He showed his angst, his confusion, the need to get to the bottom of, not just who her was, but how he got there and why. Ludlum puts levels and levels of misdirection into his stories to keep you on the edge of your chair. The movie wasnt as highly structured as a Ludlum novel, Damon put those levels into himself, and made you sit on the edge of your seat while you watched him go through his changes. Damon played the part with every ounce of his talent and only when the movie ended, was the audience able to catch their breath. That’s what I like in a movie made from a book, the same thing I get when I read and when I write. Having the experience of living within the words, of seeing and hearing and breathing what happens on the pages and becoming part of the world I hold in my hands. David Wind’s Social Links: Facebook: facebook/davidwindauthor Twitter: https://twitter/david_wind Google +: https://plus.google/+DavidWind/posts Amazon: amazon/David-Wind/e/B002BMBUDG/ Goodreads: https://goodreads/author/show/541561.David_Wind Website: davidwind/ Email: [email protected] Buy David Wind’s Feature Books: The Cured by David Wind & Terese Ramin Amazon US: bit.ly/TheCuredNovel Amazon UK: goo.gl/kAzFWo Amazon AU: goo.gl/blVRA0 Amazon CA: goo.gl/vUG4PT Angels in Mourning by David Wind Amazon US: amzn.to/1JD19nP Amazon UK: goo.gl/eh805Q Amazon AU: goo.gl/dQc5fd Amazon CA: goo.gl/AUJIQY Buy the other books on the tour: City Different by Stephen Hazlett Amazon US: amzn.to/1FKIk2G Amazon UK: amzn.to/1FKInvn Amazon AU: bit.ly/1FKIpDx Amazon CA: amzn.to/1FKIqHF Barnes & Noble: bit.ly/1FKIuHq Nina’s Time by Stephen Hazlett Amazon US: amzn.to/1FKISFJ Amazon UK: amzn.to/1FKIV4u Amazon AU: bit.ly/1FKIW8w Amazon CA: amzn.to/1FKJ3km Barnes & Noble: bit.ly/1FKJ8Vd A Dead Red Cadillac by RP Dahlke Amazon US: amzn.to/17z5mKO Amazon UK: amzn.to/17z5sC1 Amazon AU: bit.ly/17z5Ikv Amazon CA: amzn.to/17z5DgO A Dead Red Heart by RP Dahlke Amazon US: amzn.to/17z4dTp Amazon UK: amzn.to/17z4B4p Amazon AU: bit.ly/17z50nk Amazon CA: amzn.to/17z4MNc In the Beginning by Abby L. Vandiver Amazon US: amzn.to/17z7S3N Amazon UK: amzn.to/17z7Ybr Amazon AU: bit.ly/17z83vN Amazon CA: amzn.to/17z8ciL Barnes & Noble: bit.ly/17z7kuA Kobo: bit.ly/17z7vpL Smashwords: bit.ly/17z7Kky At the end Of the Line by Kathryn Longino (AKA Abby L. Vandiver) Amazon US: amzn.to/17z8sOK Amazon UK: amzn.to/17z8ypM Amazon AU: bit.ly/17z8A0N Amazon CA: amzn.to/17z8FBz The Transition of Johnny Swift by Kerry J. Dovan Amazon US: hyperurl.co/6uo7q0 Amazon UK: hyperurl.co/6uo7q0 Amazon AU: hyperurl.co/6uo7q0 Amazon CA: hyperurl.co/6uo7q0 The DCI Jones Casebook: Ellis Flynn by Kerry J. Donovan Amazon US: hyperurl.co/upau69 Amazon UK: hyperurl.co/upau69 Amazon AU: hyperurl.co/upau69 Amazon CA: hyperurl.co/upau69
Posted on: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 05:00:02 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015