by D.B. Smyth | @DB_Smyth | Oct 28, 2015 | Behind the Scenes, Excerpts
Four lanes separated Heath from life and death—two each direction. On one side, endless streams of people flowed beneath bright street lamps, their heels clicking against the pavement as they scuttled to the next bar or dance club. On the wrong side—his side—the...
by D.B. Smyth | @DB_Smyth | Oct 7, 2015 | Behind the Scenes
Behind every good book is a cutting room floor littered with the carcasses of words, paragraphs and even whole chapters that didn’t work for your novel. In the writing world, we call it “killing your darlings.” At some point, no matter how much you...
by D.B. Smyth | @DB_Smyth | Jan 21, 2011 | Behind the Scenes, The Writing Life
So the title was HELLFIRE AND DAMNATION and now it’s ATONEMENTS and it will probably change a hundred more times between now and when I actually finish the novel. Good times. The following is my submission to Lydia Sharp’s contest, with comments. One...
