Comments on: One Cherie Priest Forgot http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/2007/09/08/one-cherie-priest-forgot/ writing, reading, eating, drinking, sport Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:42:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Stevo http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/2007/09/08/one-cherie-priest-forgot/comment-page-1/#comment-56210 Stevo Mon, 10 Sep 2007 17:02:03 +0000 http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/?p=782#comment-56210 So who do I have to kill to get published? :) So who do I have to kill to get published? :)

]]> By: janet http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/2007/09/08/one-cherie-priest-forgot/comment-page-1/#comment-56118 janet Sun, 09 Sep 2007 07:14:01 +0000 http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/?p=782#comment-56118 After I wrote my comment above, I remembered that I once heard an interview with Sue Grafton in which she told how her first mystery novel came about: she was going through a nasty divorce and had thought up a great way to kill her ex-husband, but instead she wrote a mystery novel using the method. (If you've read the novel, you know: oleander poisoning.) I think that's what is technically known as sublimation. After I wrote my comment above, I remembered that I once heard an interview with Sue Grafton in which she told how her first mystery novel came about: she was going through a nasty divorce and had thought up a great way to kill her ex-husband, but instead she wrote a mystery novel using the method. (If you’ve read the novel, you know: oleander poisoning.) I think that’s what is technically known as sublimation.

]]> By: vicky http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/2007/09/08/one-cherie-priest-forgot/comment-page-1/#comment-56117 vicky Sun, 09 Sep 2007 06:04:22 +0000 http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/?p=782#comment-56117 ...actually, i think it was more the fact that he was silly enough to write a book about it. not the fact that he killed someone. sorry about the double comment. …actually, i think it was more the fact that he was silly enough to write a book about it. not the fact that he killed someone.

sorry about the double comment.

]]> By: vicky http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/2007/09/08/one-cherie-priest-forgot/comment-page-1/#comment-56116 vicky Sun, 09 Sep 2007 06:01:45 +0000 http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/?p=782#comment-56116 ...i laughed a little when i read this. i don't know why. it's not the killing part that was funny to me, but... crap. what does that say about me? …i laughed a little when i read this. i don’t know why. it’s not the killing part that was funny to me, but…

crap. what does that say about me?

]]> By: Robert Legault http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/2007/09/08/one-cherie-priest-forgot/comment-page-1/#comment-56095 Robert Legault Sat, 08 Sep 2007 22:31:23 +0000 http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/?p=782#comment-56095 Well, Ann Perry got convicted, did her time, and then started writing. But see also the case of the late Jack Unterweger (a pretty solid bio is out soon from FSG): http://www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk/famous_criminal/25/home/1/Jack_Unterweger_Poet_of_Death.htm Well, Ann Perry got convicted, did her time, and then started writing.

But see also the case of the late Jack Unterweger (a pretty solid bio is out soon from FSG):

http://www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk/famous_criminal/25/home/1/Jack_Unterweger_Poet_of_Death.htm

]]> By: janet http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/2007/09/08/one-cherie-priest-forgot/comment-page-1/#comment-56079 janet Sat, 08 Sep 2007 16:57:24 +0000 http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/?p=782#comment-56079 See also Anne Perry. Though I don't think that any of her novels depict anything like the murder she helped commit. See also Anne Perry. Though I don’t think that any of her novels depict anything like the murder she helped commit.

]]> By: Katie http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/2007/09/08/one-cherie-priest-forgot/comment-page-1/#comment-56078 Katie Sat, 08 Sep 2007 16:31:43 +0000 http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/?p=782#comment-56078 deborahb, i'm sure it will be fascinating! deborahb, i’m sure it will be fascinating!

]]> By: Ariel Cooke http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/2007/09/08/one-cherie-priest-forgot/comment-page-1/#comment-56076 Ariel Cooke Sat, 08 Sep 2007 14:46:35 +0000 http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/?p=782#comment-56076 better joke phrasing: did you hear the one about the polish mystery writer on trial for murder? he heard you have to write what you know. better joke phrasing:

did you hear the one about the polish mystery writer on trial for murder? he heard you have to write what you know.

]]> By: Ariel Cooke http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/2007/09/08/one-cherie-priest-forgot/comment-page-1/#comment-56075 Ariel Cooke Sat, 08 Sep 2007 14:44:55 +0000 http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/?p=782#comment-56075 It reminds me of those Polish jokes. "Did you hear the one about the Polish murder mystery writer? He thought you had to write what you know. Now he's on trial for murder." It seems to me that the biggest thing they have on him is about the cell phone being sold from his internet account. everything else is circumstantial. unless there are details of the crime in the book that were not generally known. It reminds me of those Polish jokes. “Did you hear the one about the Polish murder mystery writer? He thought you had to write what you know. Now he’s on trial for murder.” It seems to me that the biggest thing they have on him is about the cell phone being sold from his internet account.
everything else is circumstantial. unless there are details of the crime in the book that were not generally known.

]]> By: Justine http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/2007/09/08/one-cherie-priest-forgot/comment-page-1/#comment-56069 Justine Sat, 08 Sep 2007 12:48:34 +0000 http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/?p=782#comment-56069 Yuppers. There are so many ways in which "write what you know" is <i>terrible</i> advice. Yuppers. There are so many ways in which “write what you know” is terrible advice.

]]> By: Karen http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/2007/09/08/one-cherie-priest-forgot/comment-page-1/#comment-56068 Karen Sat, 08 Sep 2007 12:46:25 +0000 http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/?p=782#comment-56068 "Write what you know" becomes so much less appealing when applied to sociopaths. “Write what you know” becomes so much less appealing when applied to sociopaths.

]]> By: Justine http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/2007/09/08/one-cherie-priest-forgot/comment-page-1/#comment-56066 Justine Sat, 08 Sep 2007 12:17:37 +0000 http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/?p=782#comment-56066 Hillary!: I believe I was very clear: killing people is wrong. Ted: There's a chance that he's innocent . . . Deborahb: I'm wondering if <i>Amok</i> will/has been translated. Malcolm: I'm not implying anything about Cherie. Though I'm sure if she committed murder---not that she would---that she'd be much more crafty about it. Cherie is dead smart. Hillary!: I believe I was very clear: killing people is wrong.

Ted: There’s a chance that he’s innocent . . .

Deborahb: I’m wondering if Amok will/has been translated.

Malcolm: I’m not implying anything about Cherie. Though I’m sure if she committed murder—not that she would—that she’d be much more crafty about it. Cherie is dead smart.

]]> By: Malcolm Tredinnick http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/2007/09/08/one-cherie-priest-forgot/comment-page-1/#comment-56055 Malcolm Tredinnick Sat, 08 Sep 2007 07:31:00 +0000 http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/?p=782#comment-56055 To be fair to Cherie, she was noting things she had learnt from her own experiences of being published. Can we give her the benefit of the doubt and assume she doesn't have experience in this particular area? Whilst Cherie's livejournal user profile does say "naked and killing people", I suspect she's taking some artistic license there, rather than advertising her other day job (although, imagine the news story when she's caught). To be fair to Cherie, she was noting things she had learnt from her own experiences of being published. Can we give her the benefit of the doubt and assume she doesn’t have experience in this particular area?

Whilst Cherie’s livejournal user profile does say “naked and killing people”, I suspect she’s taking some artistic license there, rather than advertising her other day job (although, imagine the news story when she’s caught).

]]> By: Rebecca http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/2007/09/08/one-cherie-priest-forgot/comment-page-1/#comment-56049 Rebecca Sat, 08 Sep 2007 07:17:58 +0000 http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/?p=782#comment-56049 holy....crap. holy….crap.

]]> By: deborahb http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/2007/09/08/one-cherie-priest-forgot/comment-page-1/#comment-56038 deborahb Sat, 08 Sep 2007 06:12:40 +0000 http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/?p=782#comment-56038 I just read that story in the paper. Brilliant! I can't wait for his thinly disguised prison 'fiction'. I just read that story in the paper. Brilliant! I can’t wait for his thinly disguised prison ‘fiction’.

]]> By: Ted Lemon http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/2007/09/08/one-cherie-priest-forgot/comment-page-1/#comment-56035 Ted Lemon Sat, 08 Sep 2007 04:57:25 +0000 http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/?p=782#comment-56035 God, what does that say? I stopped reading Patricia Cornwall because it just seemed unseemly to depict the killer's state of mind so gleefully. There's something a little bit frightening in the idea that people are that into reading a true-to-life account of a brutal murder. God, what does that say? I stopped reading Patricia Cornwall because it just seemed unseemly to depict the killer’s state of mind so gleefully. There’s something a little bit frightening in the idea that people are that into reading a true-to-life account of a brutal murder.

]]> By: hillary! http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/2007/09/08/one-cherie-priest-forgot/comment-page-1/#comment-56034 hillary! Sat, 08 Sep 2007 04:55:35 +0000 http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/?p=782#comment-56034 Soooo, you're saying it might be OK if you can get a bestseller out of it? tsk tsk tsk...I thought that you were a better person than that! HAHAHA! Soooo, you’re saying it might be OK if you can get a bestseller out of it? tsk tsk tsk…I thought that you were a better person than that! HAHAHA!

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