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Author: P. K. Abbot

P. K. Abbot writes character-rich thrillers. His Jersey Murder Series are exciting crime novels with very twisty endings. Before writing full time, he had a fascinating occupation. For twenty-five years he worked as a professional buyer in two different industries. In his career, he met hundreds of remarkable people and traveled to Europe and throughout the United States. On February 21, 2011, he experienced a life-changing event. On that day he went into V-fib — ventricular fibrillation. He would have died that afternoon, but his implanted defibrillator discharged seven times within two minutes that day. After the fourth intensive shock to his heart, he questioned if he would have the stamina to survive the ordeal, but survive he did. He spent the next thirteen days in cardiac intensive care in the hospital and the following four months in recovery at home. After that experience, he decided to devote himself to writing, and he has been writing full time ever since. He grew up around Trenton, New Jersey and attended high school and college in Philadelphia, where he studied writing, languages, and history. He also served for six years as a military policeman in the United States Army National Guard. Today he is the proud father of two talented young women, and he lives in a small town in southern New Jersey with his wife and dozens of imaginary characters.

People… not characters

Ernest Hemingway

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.

– Ernest Hemingway

Posted on March 4, 2021March 3, 2021Categories Reflections, WritingTags Hemingway, WritingLeave a comment on People… not characters

Hemingway’s Rules

Ernest Hemingway

There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it’s like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.

—Ernest Hemingway

Posted on March 3, 2021March 3, 2021Categories Reflections, WritingTags Hemingway, WritingLeave a comment on Hemingway’s Rules

Hemingway’s Golden Ratio…

Ernest hemingway
Ernest Hemingway

I write one page of masterpiece to ninety nine pages of shit. I try to put the shit in the waste-basket.

—Ernest Hemingway

Posted on March 2, 2021March 1, 2021Categories Reflections, WritingTags Hemingway, WritingLeave a comment on Hemingway’s Golden Ratio…

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Posted on March 1, 2021March 1, 2021Categories Crime thrillers, newsTags Crime Thriller Giveaway, free booksLeave a comment on Crime Thriller Giveaway

There’s always room…

J. K. Rowling

There’s always room for a story that can transport people to another place.

– J. K. Rowling

Posted on February 28, 2021February 22, 2021Categories Reflections, WritingTags Imagination, J. K. Rowling, reading, WritingLeave a comment on There’s always room…

The terrible thing…

James Baldwin on a New York street

The terrible thing about being a writer is that you don’t decide to become one, you discover that you are one.

—James Baldwin

Posted on February 27, 2021February 22, 2021Categories Reflections, WritingTags James baldwin, WritingLeave a comment on The terrible thing…

Study the master

William Faulkner

Read, read, read. Read everything – trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master.

—William Faulkner

Posted on February 26, 2021February 22, 2021Categories Reflections, WritingTags reading, Reading as a writer, William FaulknerLeave a comment on Study the master

The only thing…

Barbara Kingsolver

Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer.

—Barbara Kingsolver

Posted on February 25, 2021February 22, 2021Categories Reflections, WritingTags Barbara Kingsolver, originality, what you have to sayLeave a comment on The only thing…

You’re as good as…

Billy Wilder and marilyn Monroe

Remember, you’re as good as the best thing you’ve ever done.

—Billy Wilder

Posted on February 24, 2021February 22, 2021Categories ReflectionsTags Billy Wilder, confidence, Excellence, WorthLeave a comment on You’re as good as…

Fear

Eleanor Roosevelyt

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face.

—Eleanor Roosevelt

Posted on February 23, 2021February 22, 2021Categories ReflectionsTags courage, Eleanor Roosevely, FearLeave a comment on Fear

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