IN NEED OF A LITTLE REVENGE? THEN GET YOUR GRUDGE ON WITH THIS!

FREE BOOK GIVEAWAY

 

 

http://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/65936-ultraviolence-a-love-story?utm_medium=email&utm_source=giveaway_approved

 

 

 

 

And be sure to check out my other revenge novel

 

 

 

DO I REALLY HAVE TO BLOG TO SELL BOOKS?

Serving up a Dish of Self-Absorbed Bloviating

 

Why, oh why, must I tweet, Facebook, email and blog in order to sell a few books?  Why can't I just have a publishing house who'll do all the grandstanding for me?  I understand that when you're an indie author a bit of boastful advertising is a necessary evil, but I find habitual blogging about what I'm doing or thinking as a writer to be an absolute bore. I guess that's why months pass between my blogs which are never more than meager posts guaranteed to garner little attention. I suppose my apathy toward self-promotion is also the reason I had very little success in finding an editor back when I penned my first novel.  Maybe "Wrote a book.  Wanna read it?" wasn't exactly the best query for an unknown author to use.

 

Now, don't get me wrong.  I love to write...and I do have very strong opinions, but so does everyone else.  And thanks to social media they're here to tell you, me, and everybody else about it!  Which isn't necessarily a bad thing...BUT...as we all know, some folks just do their prattling much better than others, galloping through the blogosphere shrewdly commenting on everything from politics to recipes and amassing huge numbers of followers with their wit and wisdom.  Gosh, I wish I had the time and talent to be one of those people!  But I don't.  And since that is the case, I will quit blogging about not having the enthusiasm or conviction to blog and get on with this post.

 

As my scads of followers (hi Mom) may remember, I was asked by a producer (who miraculously discovered my revenge novel, ROCKING HORSES PAINTED RED) to turn one of his similar screenplays into a book.  Well, I did it.  And ULTRAVIOLENCE: A LOVE STORY is available now at Amazon.com with a book giveaway to begin on Goodreads September 20th. 

 

 

As the title suggests, when ULTRAVIOLENCE begins shooting next year, it will be an exploitation film in the same vein as Kill Bill or Sin City.  Hey!...maybe I'll write more on that the next time I'm feeling a little oomph!

 

http://www.amazon.com/ULTRAVIOLENCE-Love-Story-Terry-Lovett/dp/149093250X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1379493596&sr=8-1&keywords=ultraviolence+a+love+story



 

Revenge Gets A Makeover!

ROCKING HORSES PAINTED RED GETS A MUCH NEEDED FACELIFT!

 

After a year of being an ugly duckling, the cover of RHPR has finally morphed into a beautiful swan.  Check out the new image below...and watch for my upcoming novel, ULTRAVIOLENCE: A LOVE STORY available this week (more about that later!)

 

 

FREE AUTOGRAPHED BOOK GIVEAWAY

Thanks to everyone who participated in my last Goodreads book giveaway - we ended up with almost 700 requests.  If you're interested in winning NOT 1, BUT 2 free autographed novels follow the link below or go to Goodreads' Book Giveaway page - but hurry, entries end on December 15th!

http://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/37043-inamorata-s-passagehttp://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/37043-inamorata-s-passage

HALFWAY THERE - BOOK GIVEAWAY!

Goodreads Book Giveaway

Rocking Horses Painted Red

by Terry Lovett

Released July 06 2012

Giveaway ends in 15 days (October 31, 2012)
5 copies available, 248 people requesting
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GOODREADS BOOK GIVEAWAY BEGINS OCTOBER 1st!

Goodreads Book Giveaway

Rocking Horses Painted Red

by Terry Lovett

Released July 06 2012

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WRITING IN REVERSE or FROM SCREENPLAY TO NOVEL

A few months ago, I had a movie producer (who'd read ROCKING HORSES PAINTED RED and liked my occasionally humorous/often macabre writing style) contact me to see if I'd be interested in turning several of his screenplays into novels.  He explained that movies actually do better when there is a novel tied to it.  Who knew.  Anyway, after careful consideration (about 2 seconds) I said YES!

The first screenplay arrived a few weeks later and I began reading.  It had been a long time since I'd seen one of these, and I'd forgotten just how bare bones they can be.  Screenplays are very cut and dry when it comes to describing the feelings/motivation that accompany its action and dialogue. Since the director will use his actors to visually create the world in which these characters-on-paper inhabit, there is very little emotion (or backstory) in the screenplay itself.

Although shooting for this picture will begin in October (& will be filmed as per the original screenplay,) I was still given the liberty to tweek the characters/dialogue as I saw fit.  So, two weeks ago, I settled in and went to work - literally taking a skeleton and adding the muscle, tissue, and organs to cover its naked carcass.  And although I had originally felt some reluctance about simply expanding on a storyline not of my own creation,  I found that I enjoyed playing Dr. Frankenstien.  By the time I finished Chapter 4, I was beginning to feel that these were my characters - albeit in a surrogate sort of way.

So far, this writing-in-reverse has been a  pretty fun trip.  I've enjoyed getting to play mad scientist, taking someone else's handiwork and morphing it into the monster I wish it to be.