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by Thomas Burchfield
September 27th, 2011, 9:53 pm
Forum: Social Media and Book Promotion
Topic: Do you have a new blog post?
Replies: 2655
Views: 818636

Re: Do you have a new blog post?

"But as for playing a man with his mitts on the levers of power; who can move others to corruption, murder and mayhem, with equal parts charm and menace . . . well, as one Buscemi fan put it to me, he is so not that guy . He is not Nucky Thompson. He's Nucky's expendable sidekick. The kind of l...
by Thomas Burchfield
August 15th, 2011, 6:09 pm
Forum: Social Media and Book Promotion
Topic: Do you have a new blog post?
Replies: 2655
Views: 818636

Re: Do you have a new blog post?

Two Things this week. First, an essay on Great Screen Draculas, namely Bela Lugosi: http://tbdeluxe.blogspot.com/2011/08/great-film-draculas-bela-greatest.html AND my novel Dragon's Ark received its first 5-star review on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0615385478/ref=dp_olp_new?ie=UT...
by Thomas Burchfield
August 10th, 2011, 5:15 pm
Forum: Social Media and Book Promotion
Topic: Do you have a new blog post?
Replies: 2655
Views: 818636

Re: Do you have a new blog post?

"I named my imprint Ambler House Publishing, both after the pioneering genre writer Eric Ambler, and because the name evokes the era of publishing before conglomeration, when Alfred E. Knopf was an actual person who loved books more than he did a 15-percent profit margin. (That era may be retur...
by Thomas Burchfield
August 1st, 2011, 8:13 pm
Forum: Social Media and Book Promotion
Topic: Do you have a new blog post?
Replies: 2655
Views: 818636

Re: Do you have a new blog post?

Greetings: This week, a two-parter about my promotional "book tour" for my novel ZDragon's Ark . Part 1: http://tbdeluxe.blogspot.com/2011/07/unfinished-business-9-dragons-ark-diy.html Part 2: http://tbdeluxe.blogspot.com/2011/07/unfinished-business-10-dragons-ark-diy.html Also, my comedy ...
by Thomas Burchfield
July 18th, 2011, 2:11 pm
Forum: Social Media and Book Promotion
Topic: Do you have a new blog post?
Replies: 2655
Views: 818636

Re: Do you have a new blog post?

"Watching Nosferatu is like struggling to remember a dream upon awakening: It’s a montage of fairy-tale fragments, starting from the moment that Max Schreck as Orlock creeps like a spider from his burrow across his castle courtyard to welcome the fly into his parlor ." An essay on Great Fi...
by Thomas Burchfield
July 2nd, 2011, 3:26 pm
Forum: Social Media and Book Promotion
Topic: Do you have a new blog post?
Replies: 2655
Views: 818636

Re: Do you have a new blog post?

Think of it this way: James Bond represents the kind of man many of us might like to be. The Eric Ambler hero is the man most of us are. At the very least, this raises this stakes, heightens the danger. On my web page this week, a review of Judgment on Deltchev by Eric Ambler, his first Cold War th...
by Thomas Burchfield
June 17th, 2011, 5:41 pm
Forum: Finding An Agent
Topic: (Humor)The Agent Pitch: 10 Responses You Don't Want to Hear
Replies: 16
Views: 11220

Re: (Humor)The Agent Pitch: 10 Responses You Don't Want to Hear

"What if they were vampires? No, wait. No, wait, if they were zombies? No wait. What if they were vampires AND zombies! And there's a teenage girl detective with a drinking problem! No, wait . . . ."
by Thomas Burchfield
June 17th, 2011, 5:34 pm
Forum: Social Media and Book Promotion
Topic: Do you have a new blog post?
Replies: 2655
Views: 818636

Re: Do you have a new blog post?

"Bay Area author Matt Stewart has turned loose a bright, peppery, infectious, debut novel, The French Revolution, an irreverent literacy farce that entertains for most of its cheerfully eccentric path. It’s fresh, funny, and bright, qualities seldom found in our overly earnest literature, when ...
by Thomas Burchfield
June 7th, 2011, 7:51 pm
Forum: Social Media and Book Promotion
Topic: Do you have a new blog post?
Replies: 2655
Views: 818636

Re: Do you have a new blog post?

Greetings:

“Can’t kill my boss . . . but I can portray him as a monster!”

This week, part 2 of my review of Dracula by Bram Stoker.

http://tbdeluxe.blogspot.com/2011/06/my ... -2-of.html

Thanks for reading!

Thomas
by Thomas Burchfield
June 1st, 2011, 5:38 pm
Forum: Social Media and Book Promotion
Topic: Do you have a new blog post?
Replies: 2655
Views: 818636

Re: Do you have a new blog post?

This time, a response to the Red Room's request for "memories" of World War II: I was a strapping, manly six year old when I shipped out for World War II. With only a few scenes of basic training under my belt, I was sent straight into battle, inside the glowing blue foxhole of my family’s...
by Thomas Burchfield
May 29th, 2011, 12:02 pm
Forum: Social Media and Book Promotion
Topic: Do you have a new blog post?
Replies: 2655
Views: 818636

Re: Do you have a new blog post?

"Over the years, I've grown fond of describing Dracula by Bram Stoker as “'the greatest novel ever written by a hack.'” At my webpage "A Curious man.": http://tbdeluxe.blogspot.com/2011/05/my-dark-muse-reading-dracula-part-1-of.html Thanks for reading! Thomas Burchfield Thomas Burchfi...
by Thomas Burchfield
May 18th, 2011, 1:08 pm
Forum: Social Media and Book Promotion
Topic: Do you have a new blog post?
Replies: 2655
Views: 818636

Re: Do you have a new blog post?

Indeed indeed, I do. This time, I review Bleak House by Charles Dickens at my webpage "A Curious Man": http://tbdeluxe.blogspot.com/2011/05/blinded-by-tears-and-time.html On my page, you'll also find opportunities to purchase the e-book edition of my contemporary Dracula novel, Dragon's Ar...
by Thomas Burchfield
May 10th, 2011, 7:19 pm
Forum: Social Media and Book Promotion
Topic: Do you have a new blog post?
Replies: 2655
Views: 818636

Re: Do you have a new blog post?

And what do you, John, the Internet Reader, give me in return? Oh, you may leave one or two comments on my webpage per week; you may “like” me on Facebook (or do you really only “pity” me? There’s an idea for ya: a “pity” button on Facebook); Last week, the Red Room website for Writers, where I mai...
by Thomas Burchfield
May 7th, 2011, 11:55 am
Forum: Social Media and Book Promotion
Topic: Do you have a new blog post?
Replies: 2655
Views: 818636

Re: Do you have a new blog post?

"Maybe he thought his mass army would raise itself, or the Hand of Allah would wave it into existence, a fundamentalist child’s notion of God, much too popular and inefficient at best." Plus other thoughts on the violent transit of Osama bin Laden.: http://tbdeluxe.blogspot.com/2011/05/mad...
by Thomas Burchfield
April 25th, 2011, 7:56 pm
Forum: Social Media and Book Promotion
Topic: Do you have a new blog post?
Replies: 2655
Views: 818636

I Once Considered Buying Every Edition of "Dracula"

. . . but I restrained myself . . . lest you think you think I am a mad man! That and other tales about my relationship with the one of the strangest novels in the history of western literature at my web page, "A Curious Man.": http://tbdeluxe.blogspot.com/2011/04/my-dark-muse2-dracula-in-...