tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73154900895447768862024-03-05T19:14:44.275-08:00Robert's Blogkjzdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08584502040579024052noreply@blogger.comBlogger62125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315490089544776886.post-12657295710852569552013-05-26T13:16:00.000-07:002013-05-26T13:19:44.975-07:00You Can't Make a Writer HappyJust got a fine review from The Indiscriminate Critic, a pretty influential blogger, although clearly favoring books of the literary persuasion. No complaints, I've always fallen somewhere in between literary and genre - one of my "favorite" reviews was a standalone short in the NY Times saying I was such a good writer it was rather sad that I chose to spend my time in the genre gutter. Uh... robert ferrignohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02392650756692865856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315490089544776886.post-37307008821876415872013-05-18T09:00:00.000-07:002013-05-18T09:07:01.408-07:00HOW TO HANDLE A LIVE RADIO INTERVIEW, FOR WRITERS AND NORMAL PEOPLE
I recently did Hugh Hewitt's live national radio show to
promote The Girl Who Cried Wolf and listening to it afterwards – the host
archives his shows – I realized, after thirteen book tours and a lot of radio
interviews, I had learned some things. I hope the following tips helps other
authors facing the microphone and praying that they don’t projectile vomit.
Live radio interviews are robert ferrignohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02392650756692865856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315490089544776886.post-38621276475480072302013-04-14T13:36:00.001-07:002013-04-14T13:36:46.310-07:00Great review in the Sunday Seattle TimesEbooks are great because their existence can be spread virally, the ultimate word-of-mouth, but they are near-impossible to get reviewed in traditional news outlets. There are just too many printed books coming out, all eager for attention, and many of them worthy of that attention. So it's a big deal personally for THE GIRL WHO CRIED WOLF to get reviewed in the Seattle Times, let alone a robert ferrignohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02392650756692865856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315490089544776886.post-37043493794781398332013-04-12T07:39:00.000-07:002013-05-25T12:38:57.911-07:00We are not the people we used to bePopular culture, which is all about eyeballs and asses in seats, is more reliable than any survey to determine who we are at this moment. A glimpse at a shard of popular culture from the past is a snapshot of who we were at that moment. Sometimes, the disparity isn't pretty.
I was flipping through the channels at 4 a.m. yesterday, putting off getting to work, when I saw a very young Humphrey robert ferrignohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02392650756692865856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315490089544776886.post-21027959928505855272013-04-10T09:19:00.000-07:002013-04-10T09:19:12.526-07:00PRICE REDUCTION!The Girl Who Cried Wolf is now $2.99 wherever fine books are downloaded. Tell your friends.
To read the prologue
Enjoy!
robert ferrignohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02392650756692865856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315490089544776886.post-35090639476320113382013-03-19T07:04:00.001-07:002013-03-19T16:58:34.619-07:00National Review Online podcast
The podcast of my discussion with John J. Miller at National Review Online was posted today. I hate my voice.robert ferrignohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02392650756692865856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315490089544776886.post-34591106205262263982013-03-12T20:35:00.000-07:002013-03-12T20:35:34.761-07:00Fiction rules!
A pal of mine is an investigative reporter at the local daily newspaper; guy won a Pulitzer and is the real deal - sent me a note about The Girl Who Cried Wolf. He liked it a lot, particularly the portrayal of the radical Green movement in the Pacific NW, but his point was that he and a colleague had talked about writing a non-fiction account of the Greens, but game it up because they couldn't robert ferrignohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02392650756692865856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315490089544776886.post-30690361635802485352013-03-03T11:19:00.002-08:002013-03-04T07:16:35.238-08:00Lawrence Tierney and the art of self-delusionMy favorite character in my favorite Tarantino movie is Joe Cabot, the old, bald-headed tough guy who sets up the robbery that goes so very, very bad and runs the criminal crew. It's Tierney hunched over the table at the diner, his voice sounding like he gargles with razor blades, who insists that Steve Buscemi will keep the nickname "Mr. Pink" and like it. Case closed. Lawrence Tierneyrobert ferrignohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02392650756692865856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315490089544776886.post-63070294487058945582013-02-21T18:50:00.001-08:002013-02-22T01:04:39.722-08:00Talking with the Catskill Review of Books
I was interviewed for a half-hour at dawn this morning by Ian Williams for the Catskill Review of Books. Ian broadcasts from one of those small states in the North East, and I could practically hear the snow piling up outside the recording studio and the cold wind rattling the birches.
Okay, enough of the Robert Frost routine. Ian and I talked about The Girl Who Cried Wolf and some of my robert ferrignohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02392650756692865856noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315490089544776886.post-46358528976027889482013-02-20T19:53:00.001-08:002013-02-22T01:03:19.848-08:00Why Somebody Named Steve Dies in All My BooksThe Girl Who Cried Wolf is dedicated to my close friend, Steve Plesa, who checked out of the Hotel Flesh way too soon. We worked together at The Register, a daily newspaper in Southern California, where I got to write about anything I wanted, usually beach culture, fast cars, gun nuts, and petty crooks, and Steve stayed in the office and edited them. Everybody liked Steve and nobody liked robert ferrignohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02392650756692865856noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315490089544776886.post-89929884678619833852013-02-20T08:37:00.002-08:002013-02-22T00:16:15.656-08:00Quote of the day
"I made it, Ma, top 'a the world!"
-James Cagney, WHITE HEATrobert ferrignohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02392650756692865856noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315490089544776886.post-12333847028467017972013-02-19T18:26:00.001-08:002013-02-22T00:16:35.943-08:00National Review podcast coming soonGood news. John Miller will be interviewing me for a Between the Covers podcast on National Review Online. I'll post when it's available and and give the link. I'll try to be vaguely coherent. If I'm not, John will cover for me.
And you might check out Pundit from Another Planet for additional fun and games. This site is hosted by a son of East Texas, a ferocious cartoonist, and myrobert ferrignohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02392650756692865856noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315490089544776886.post-91327653743017603952013-02-19T17:55:00.001-08:002013-02-22T00:16:53.461-08:00ReleasedGot notice at 12:01 that The Girl Who Cried Wolf was released. Released. It sounds like the book was batting its snout against the bars of a cage, slavering fangs bared. Actually, I like that image.
The Girl Who Cried Wolf, Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/The-Girl-Cried-Wolf-ebook/dp/B00BHLO8JA
The Girl Who Cried Wolf, B&N: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/robert ferrignohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02392650756692865856noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315490089544776886.post-62089510146248715772013-02-17T14:27:00.000-08:002013-02-22T00:17:20.165-08:00Day of the Dogs or My Writing Method
One of the regular questions I get asked is what is your usual writing day like? So here we go...
I usually get up at 4 a.m., no alarm clock, just wake up and go downstairs, slam down a cup of microwaved coffee from the day before while I make a fresh pot. Then I hang out with the dogs. This one pictured is Olive, our weimeraner. She's seventy pounds of determination, very fast, very much in robert ferrignohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02392650756692865856noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315490089544776886.post-5820434206423573712013-02-14T20:06:00.000-08:002013-02-22T00:17:56.308-08:00Tick Tock to Launch
Launch date, five days and counting. Tuesday, February 19, my new novel, The Girl Who Cried Wolf will launch as an ebook-only. Color me happy. I've been working on the book for several years while also working as a narrative designer in the video game business. (means I write the game story arc and the characters and can actually tell my wife while I'm screaming at the giant scorpions robert ferrignohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02392650756692865856noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315490089544776886.post-77155976333577135282010-05-22T10:55:00.000-07:002010-05-22T11:02:18.686-07:00I curtsey for praise Just found out that a short story I wrote for the collection THRILLER 2, was nominated for a Silver Dagger by the Crime Writers Association, the largest British crime fiction group. The story, "Can You Help Me Out Here?", is based on a dirty joke I heard in 3rd Grade and didn't understand until years later. The CWA judges described the nomination:Robert Ferrigno has showcased an ability to mix robert ferrignohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02392650756692865856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315490089544776886.post-5445283170051074532010-01-06T14:34:00.001-08:002010-01-06T14:43:34.092-08:00Bo Barks at BIG JOURNALISMI started a regular feature today, the Bo Chronicles, at Andrew Brietbart's Big Journalism site. The series will catalogue life with President Obama, as told from the viewpoint of his dog, Bo, the smartest pooch in the world, and a secret conservative. Fun ensues.Here's the start... Bow-wow. You can call me Bo. I’m President Shoutout’s family mutt, a Portuguese water dog with curly black hair. Myrobert ferrignohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02392650756692865856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315490089544776886.post-53730587951583356042010-01-06T10:20:00.001-08:002010-01-06T10:22:01.705-08:00Enjoy!robert ferrignohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02392650756692865856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315490089544776886.post-5905138094603739932009-11-04T17:13:00.000-08:002009-11-04T17:19:01.968-08:00Another Hollywood HeroBy Ben ChildThe Guardian10/3/2009Islam's holiest site … Muslims circle the Kaaba inside the Grand Mosque in Mecca during the hajj pilgrimage. Photograph: Ali Jarekji/ReutersHe blew up the Empire State Building and the White House in Independence Day, sent a giant monster careering through the heart of Manhattan in Godzilla and destroyed the famous Hollywood sign in The Day After Tomorrow. But it robert ferrignohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02392650756692865856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315490089544776886.post-9121859703602835942009-10-22T20:10:00.001-07:002009-10-22T20:26:03.341-07:00Mark Steyn Tempts the Thought PoliceThe last time author and media powerhouse Mark Steyn reviewed one of the Assassin books in MACLEANS magazine he got hauled before the Canadian Human Rights Commission, their version of the Black Robes. In his 2003 review of Prayers for the Assassin, Steyn talked about its depiction of an Islamic SuperBowl with sword-swinging male cheerleaders, and of an American Islamic state that punished Jews, robert ferrignohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02392650756692865856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315490089544776886.post-46024809532873559422009-09-03T15:31:00.000-07:002009-09-03T15:50:09.206-07:00Second PrintingYEA! Just found out that Heart of the Assassin has gone to a second printing, less than three weeks after pub date. Thanks to all of you who have bought a book. And double-thanks to those of you who bought a book and told somebody else about it. And uber-thanks... you get the idea.robert ferrignohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02392650756692865856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315490089544776886.post-12385017727112475112009-08-28T09:42:00.000-07:002009-08-28T09:47:53.521-07:00The Daily Beast Roars for Heart of the AssassinDavid J. Mongomery, Mystery and Thrillers critic for the Daily Beast gave a great review to Heart of the Assassin this morning. I'm particularly pleased that he noted the human and family aspect of this final volume.Robert Ferrigno brings his “Assassin” trilogy to a close with Heart of the Assassin, the final chapter in what has become an ingenious look at what the United States might be like if robert ferrignohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02392650756692865856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315490089544776886.post-27044452010355749142009-08-24T14:05:00.001-07:002009-08-24T14:59:06.872-07:00Ferrigno on Jim Pfaff's radio showDid a full hour on Jim Pfaff's radio show, which is broadcast out of Denver. I thought it went well. (Our gurantee, no more than five uhhs per sentence!)link 1link2link3link4robert ferrignohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02392650756692865856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315490089544776886.post-57268024005281796632009-08-12T10:08:00.000-07:002009-08-24T14:32:05.644-07:00Best Tweet EVERReader Kevin A has been spreading the word about Heart of the Assassin. He just sent me this visual tweet whcih knocked me out. Enjoy.robert ferrignohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02392650756692865856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315490089544776886.post-66607523915517082082009-08-11T09:14:00.000-07:002009-08-11T09:20:07.647-07:00National Review Online podcastI was interviewed a few days ago by John J. Miller of National Review Online. The podcast has just been posted.robert ferrignohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02392650756692865856noreply@blogger.com