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Der Spenser-Sound könnte mir mal wieder gut tun. 🤔

#RobertBParker #Krimi

Fellow fans of #RobertBParker are welcome to contribute to the discussion in my #Fans of Robert B. Parker public #Matrix room: https://chatterrific.blogspot.com/2023/11/fans-of-robert-b-parker-on-matrix.html

If you're a Parker fan or want to become one, feel free to join.

#Spenser #JesseStone #SunnyRandall

Fellow fans of #RobertBParker are welcome to contribute to the discussion in my #Fans of Robert B. Parker public #Matrix room: https://chatterrific.blogspot.com/2023/11/fans-of-robert-b-parker-on-matrix.html

If you're a Parker fan or want to become one, feel free to join.

#Spenser #JesseStone #SunnyRandall

#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 Dec 12: Do you have a favorite author? Is your style influenced by them?

#RobertBParker. I don't think my style is influenced so much as his style was closest to how I was already writing/what I appreciated about writing: brevity, eloquence, flow.

At times he repeated phrases, jokes, and themes. That influenced me not to repeat myself, but then he had thirty-eight years as a published author. There were bound to be some repeats.

#WritersCoffeeClub Aug 10: What's your favorite summer read for a getaway/holiday/vacation?

This Q takes me back to the summer of 1993, when I began #Reading #Novels w/ an eye toward writing one. I read #IanFleming's #JamesBond, Gregory Mcdonald's #Fletch, #RobertBParker's #Spenser...I can't pick one favorite book of all I read that summer.

#10Authors5BooksEach (10 #Authors you’ve read at least 5 #Books by)

#RaymondChandler #TomClancy #SueGrafton #SJRozan #PaulLevine #JeremiahHealy #RobertCrais #RobertBParker #GregoryMcdonald #IanFleming

If you know of any #Matrix rooms for #Fiction readers, I'm looking for recommendations. I started one for fans of #RobertBParker: https://matrix.to/#/#rbp-fans:matrix.org

#Spenser #SpenserForHire

Re #PennedPossibilities 233, #RobertBParker's #Spenser sees himself as virtuous and moral, tries to be virtuous and moral, and comes off a bit pretentious and full of himself. I want to avoid all that. If my characters act righteously and morally, I want readers to notice. I don't need the characters themselves or their friends to point it out as Parker often did. Perhaps Spenser failed in the past and was trying to make amends. That mitigates his moralizing.

#WordWeavers Feb. 26

#WordWeavers Feb. 26. Do you draw inspiration from other characters? What are your greatest influences?

I don't deliberately emulate other characters, but here's an example of their inspiration. In the #IndianaJones movies, Indy learns to fly but not land a plane. This was unfathomable to me, so I created a 1930s charter pilot.

#RobertBParker's #Spenser is a great influence on me, but again, in the sense I avoid making my characters like Spenser.

#WritersCoffeeClub Feb. 1: Intro update: Shameless Self Promotion. Tell us about yourself, published work, WIP or anything else people should know.

I'm a writer of poetry and short stories. I've also edited print poetry books and a weekly poetry site. Most recently I created a public room on #Matrix for Fans of #RobertBParker. Here's a link list from my blog: https://geraldso.blogspot.com/p/site.html

#WritersCoffeeClub Jan. 25: How do you feel about writers who write outside of their gender/sexuality/race etc?

It depends whether it's done well and to make a point or points.

e.g. #RobertBParker purposely wrote a Jewish Harvard PhD as love interest for his white male private eye #Spenser. He purposely wrote a black man as Spenser's best friend. He wanted to show the three could complement each other. He also included gay characters. (His sons are gay.) All fully realized characters.

#WritersCoffeeClub Jan. 25: How do you feel about writers who write outside of their gender/sexuality/race etc?

It depends whether it's done well and to make a point or points.

e.g. #RobertBParker purposely wrote a Jewish Harvard PhD as love interest for his white male private eye #Spenser. He purposely wrote a black man as Spenser's best friend. He wanted to show the three could complement each other. He also included gay characters. (His sons are gay.) All fully realized characters.

#WritersCoffeeClub Dec. 28 — What are your thoughts on using real brand names in your writing?

I'm fine w/ it. It helps bring characters into a specific place and time. #IanFleming used real brands. #RobertBParker did. OTOH, it's also fine to invent brands as #LawrenceBlock does. However, if there's no purpose using a brand name, it's not necessary.

I used a real type of jeep in my story "Fred" b/c I wanted readers to have a real point of reference:

https://www.mysterytribune.com/fred-private-eye-flash-fiction-by-gerald-so/

One of my favorite novel series, Robert B. Parker's Spenser, was praised b/c Parker included a prominent Jewish love interest, a Black best friend for Spenser, and several gay and lesbian characters. This was noteworthy, but Parker never wrote from a Jewish female, Black male, or homosexual POV. Maybe he felt it would've been an overstep.

#WordWeavers #RobertBParker #Spenser

#writephant #SelfPromo I recently created a public Fans of Robert B. Parker room on Matrix. I moderated a Parker Yahoo! Group for many years and am looking to pick up discussion as the Parker estate has continued his series since his death in 2010:

https://matrix.to/#/#rbp-fans:matrix.org

#RobertBParker #Spenser #Matrix

Related to the Dec. 1 #WritersCoffeeClub about poetry included in fiction, Robert B. Parker's poetry-quoting detective Spenser is a favorite of mine b/c of the series' mix of hardboiled sleuthing and literary allusion. Spenser is a well-rounded character in general: an ex-boxer, ex-cop, gourmand...The series is also noted for Spenser's three-dimensional love interest, Harvard-trained psychologist Susan Silverman.

#RobertBParker #Spenser #Poetry

What do #SirArthurConanDoyle, #JohnSteinbeck, #RobertBParker, #EdgarAllanPoe, #StephenKing, #CliveBarker, #JoeRLansdale, #IssacAsimov, #NeilGaiman, & #DanielKeyes have in common?

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