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Deadshot
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Re: Couple of Questions
Posted: 21 Mar 06 6:16 AM Modified By Deadshot  on 3/25/2006 8:08:09 AM)

Shadow:
I hope he will stay around, Dean that is.  Heck when we first started reading the Series it was all about him & boot camp & fitting in being the new guy.  And where Dean goes, so follows my buddy Claypoole.  Plus, Dean has all the makings of an officer.  Hmmm...is that where he's going?

Dan & David:
The beating of Kennedy by Summers w/ a cane...the History Teacher in me is thinking that comes from somewhere historical in American History.  Care to elaborate gentlemen?

Deadshot


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Deadshot
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Re: Couple of Questions
Posted: 31 Mar 06 6:26 AM

Luec:  Ok buddy, I didn't see you post under "Introductions."  Tell us a little bit about yourself my friend.  After that, slip on over to Favorite Character thread under General Starfist Forum.  In the immortal words of Bruce Willis:  "Welcome to the party pal!"

Deadshot


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Shmerlin
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Re: Couple of Questions
Posted: 06 Apr 06 8:10 PM

I had a question about the latest book, was it just me or did it seem like some of the chapters were out of order?  It was a great read, but a couple of the "Staff meetings" were out of sink w/ the rest of the book.  If I'm off my rocker just let me know. 

Also, like I tell all the authors that I read, you write to slow, or I read to fast so one these need to change :)

Finucane
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Re: Couple of Questions
Posted: 07 Apr 06 6:26 AM
Shmerlin:  what you have to try to envison is two authors writing scenes for the same book, and they're separated by about a thousand miles and share their writing via email.  In the case of FLASHFIRE I tried to put the chapters in order and sent David an outline and working from that he switched them around to fit into what we thought was a logical sequence.   We could easily mess up but if we did it got through our editor and copy editor and they're pretty thorough.  But...wouldn't be the first time.

We really apprecite the compliment and will try to write faster for you in the future.

Dan
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Re: Couple of Questions
Posted: 07 Apr 06 6:39 AM
Deadders:

Well, now, you meddling history buff, you may be on to something, now I think of it.  Lessee, it is coming to me!  Yes, there was a Preston Smith Brooks, a senator from South Carolina who assaulted abolitionist Senator Charles Sumner of  Massachussets with his cane during Sumner's "Crime Against Kansas" speech in the Senate on May 19, 1856.  The SC delegation afterward presented Books with a cane engraved "Hit Him Again!"  Yes, it all comes back to me now.  But this incident had no influence whatsoever on me, none at all, when I wrote the Preston Summers scene.  Are you satisifed now, Deadshot?  Huh?

Dan
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