by Charles O'Donnell | Jan 10, 2013 | Excerpts
Gina’s face in the moonlight stirs a childhood memory for Matt.
by Charles O'Donnell | Jan 5, 2013 | Uncategorized
I love my family. They love me. They account for 90% of my book sales–so far. And they’ve written some awesome reviews of The Girlfriend Experience. Their praise is so effusive it turns my head. Of course, I think it’s well deserved. Our side...
by Charles O'Donnell | Jan 1, 2013 | Promotion
The guy who said build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door probably didn’t account for two million other people making mousetraps. Some of them really good traps. My first attempt at promotion was the “like swap.” And the...
by Charles O'Donnell | Dec 31, 2012 | Uncategorized
Which came first, the hooker or the spy? There are a lot of elements in The Girlfriend Experience, some peripheral and some central to the plot. The response from readers suggests that the technology dominates the story. That’s a little disappointing to me since...
by Charles O'Donnell | Dec 31, 2012 | Writing
I hear that real writers write five words for every one they keep. Or ten. I kept more than 50%, probably closer to 75%. Doing the math, that means somewhere between sixty and ninety percent of the book is crap. I’ll be darned if I can sort it out. It all looks good to me. Not being the creative type, I can’t just assume that because I wrote it, it has to be good.
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