Happy, happy Friday. I hope everyone's having a happy and blessed one. Welcome to the daily with Sillstein here on anchor. And as I mentioned to you guys on Wednesday's show, I said that we would be doing a new format of the daily with Sillstein.
I want to start off with the author's corner. And I mentioned a lot of books on the first try. So I want to focus on just an individual book or books today. I want to send a big shout out to an author named Lindsay Taylor.
She I work with her through the through the copy house writers and she wrote a book called the novel within. And our name is Lindsay Taylor, shout out to her. And I hope you'll check out her book. She's an indie author, I believe, and she wrote this amazing book.
And if you have the time, please check out her book. It's by Lindsey Taylor, and it's called the novel within. So I hope you'll check it out. And I also hope you take the time to check out the books by Chrissy Parker.
As I mentioned before, she's an author from the UK, Devon in the UK, a wonderful friend. I met her through Melissa Foster and Melissa's awesome support team. I'm sure you all know who Melissa Foster is. But if you don't, please check out Melissa Foster and her awesome, actually, her awesome books.
And she's written so many great books and romance and everything. Just check out Melissa Foster, best-selling author. Also another author, you should be checking out is Emerald Barnes. I also met her through Melissa's awesome support team.
She's written a lot of amazing books. And if you would take the time to check them out, she has different ones. And I'm sure you will enjoy them. And I just wanted to send a big shout out to all of them today.
Lindsey Taylor, the novel within Chrissy Parker from the Devon in the UK. She's written the latest book is Wind Across the Nile. But she has other several books she should be checking out. Of course, Melissa Foster, best-selling author.
She has so many wonderful books out there. And Emerald Barnes. I hope you'll check out her books among the books that Emerald Barnes has. I will name a few here real quick.
Is the Huntit, which is a young adult paranormal fantasy. But it starts with a Mark Knight's Academy One. And then the Huntit, that's her latest one. But she also has the books, Entertaining Angels, Book One, and so many other amazing books by Emerald Barnes.
So I hope you'll check those out. And of course, Chrissy Parker has a lot of books that you should be reading. Let's see here. I should have all this ready.
And I did it. Okay, among the olive groves, Wind Across the Nile, among the olive groves, I'm sorry, groves. And then Wind Across the Nile is her latest. She also has Integrate, Temperance, and The Secrets, a collection of poems and short stories.
And the Integrate and Temperance are the moon series. And there's a set of two books. And she has Among the Olive Groves. And of course, her latest Wind Across the Nile.
Please check those out. And of course, best-selling author, Melissa Foster. She has so many amazing books out and a shout out to her. And for always being really good to authors, Paving it forward.
This is how I got to meet the amazing Chrissy Parker, Emerald Barnes, and so many other wonderful authors that I didn't mention, but they know who they are. So we're moving on from the author's corner to author news, and we'll be right back. And welcome back to part two of The Daily with Stilstein here on Anchor. Welcome back.
Goodness. I always have some type of stumbling on my words today. Happy, Happy Friday. I hope everyone's had their coffee already.
I know I had my cup in the morning, which already 12 now. So Happy Friday and Good afternoon. I hope everyone's having a wonderful day. But anyway, so now we're moving to author news.
And my author news is today I'm going to read a little bit more about Battered Mine, which is what I've been working on with poor you guys here on, and I have not read an excerpt that I want you to learn about. I hope you'll like what I have to read. And this is from my soon-to-be-thriller coming out next year called Battered Mine. Listen.
As I sit here and wonder about my life and what has led to this moment, I can still recall all the wonderful things that I was able to achieve. I attended law school. I mean, I attended law school at John Marshall in Atlanta. It was where my father attended school.
This is what he wanted for me all my life to follow in his footsteps. I come from a good family. I came from a good family. My father being the best criminal lawyer in all of Atlanta and my mother, one of the most known and most well respected women with all her embalments and her charity work with the women of Atlanta, and which handled all causes related to the Atlanta Children's Hospitals.
So you may be wondering, what is this also supposed to be easy for me? And was I going to achieve all of the dreams and attend law school and then become a very successful district attorney and eventually find that right person to settle down and have a family? Well, that didn't happen. I find myself in the situation I am now.
How, you may ask? Easy. I chose to be smitten by a man I thought was my soulmate. He consumed all of me.
He was a devil in disguise and I gave into his muscular body and enchanting brown eyes. Let's face it. He had me from the very start and I loved him every part of him. I loved when he came around.
I forgot all about my responsibilities and I could be as free as I pleased. However, this relationship has begun to begin to feel more like an addiction. And then I forgot what I wanted to achieve. I only thought of pleasing him.
I decided when we got married that I was not going to finish law school law school, but stay home to raise a family. I really believe that is what Dante wanted for me. He always said family was everything. Then I realized his love was unkind and became the person I most feared.
He began to come home later and later. I knew that being a lawyer was demanded but he started demanding but he started to become abusive verbally and then physically. He was impossible to live with. I did not know how to get out.
I didn't know how to get out of the situation. So one day I snapped. He was going to come after me anyways. He was not who I thought he was.
He was a lion as whose sole purpose was to destroy me. He came at me one night so I had to do what was best for not only me but also my infant little girl. So you all want to know what happened on the night of May 27, 2010 will come and take a walk with me. And that is my exert for battered mind.
It's a rough rough draft as you can see but I hope you enjoyed listening to battered mind by me. So be a Stein coming out next year 20 April of 2018 hopefully and you'll have this driller and I hope that you enjoyed listening to it. We'll be right back. And welcome back to the Daily with Silverstein here on Anchor.
Happy, Happy Friday. And now we've done Author Corner for the Daily with Silverstein author news with Silverstein here on the Daily with Silverstein. And now we're moving on to Stephen King on writing, writing tips. This is the last segment and we're going to focus a lot on this.
And then I'll do the wrap up. So here we go with I wanted to go back to page 147 and read all that section because I noticed there was a very annoying noise on my last segment of the show. So I do apologize to all those listeners who had to listen to that horrible noise in the background. I could barely hear myself on it.
It says let's go to page 147. He says on Stephen King on writing a memoir of the craft. So we read to experience the mediocre and the outright rotten. Such experience helps us to recognize those things when they begin to creep into our own work and to steer steer clear of them.
We also read in order to measure ourselves against the good and the great to get a sense of all that can be done. We read in order to experience different styles. You may find yourself adopting a style you'll find particularly exciting. And there's nothing wrong with that.
When I read Ray Bradbury as a kid, I wrote like Ray Bradbury. Everything green and wondrous and seen through a lens smeared with a grease of nostalgia. When I read James M. Kane, everything I wrote came out clipped and stripped and hard-boiled.
When I read Lovecraft, my prose became luxurious and Byzantine. I wrote stories in my teenage years where all these styles merged, creating a kind of hilarious stew. This sort of stylistic blending is a necessary part of developing one's own style. But it doesn't occur in a vacuum.
You have to read widely, constantly refining and redefining your own work as you do so. It's hard for me to believe that people who read very little or not at all in some cases should presume to write and expect people to like what they have written. But I know it's true. If I had a nickel for every person whoever told me here she wanted to become a writer but didn't have time to read, I could buy myself a pretty good steak dinner.
Can I be blunt on this subject? If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write. Simple as that. Reading is the creative center of a writer's life.
I take a book with me everywhere I go. I find there are all sorts of opportunities to dip in. The trick is to reach yourself to read in small sips as well as in long swallows. Waiting rooms were made for books, of course, but so are theater lobbies before the show, long and boring checkout lines.
And everyone's favorite, the John. You can even read while you're driving. Thanks to the audiobook revolution. Of the books I read each year, anywhere from six to a dozen are on tape.
As for all the wonderful radio, you'll be missing. Come on. How many times can you listen to Deep Purple saying, Highway Star. Reading at Meals is considered root in polite society, but if you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second to least of your concerns, he says.
The least of all should be polite society and what it expects. You intend to write as truthfully as you can. Your days as a member of polite society are numbered anyway, and we'll be right back with more on writing tips here on the Daily Whistles sign on anchor. Thank you.
And welcome back to the Daily here on anchor and we're back with writing tips with a book by Stephen King on writing a memoir of the craft and we're on page 148. I started and I had said 143 and it's actually page 147 that's where I started and continuing on now on page 148. So he said about being a member of polite society are numbered anyway and then he says, where else can you read? There's always the treadmill or whatever you use down at the local health club to get aerobic.
I tried to spend an hour doing that every day and I think I'd go mad without a good novel to keep me company. Most exercise facilities at home as well as outside it are now equipped with TVs, but TV while working out or anywhere else really is about the aspiring writer needs. You feel you must have the news analyst blow hearts on CNN while you exercise or the stock market blow hearts on MSNBC or the sports blow hearts on ESPN. It's time for you to quest in how serious you really are about becoming a writer.
You must be prepared to do some serious turning inward toward the life of the imagination. And that means I'm afraid that Geraldo and Jay Leno must go reading takes time in the class and the class takes too much of it. Once weaned from the ephemeral craving for TV, most people will find they enjoy the time they spend reading. I'd like to suggest that turning off that endlessly quacking box is apt to improve the quality of your life as well as the quality of your writing and how much of a sacrifice are we talking about here?
How many phrases and ER reruns does it take to make one American life complete? How many Richard Simmons infomercials? How many uh beltway insiders on CNN? Oh man, don't get me started.
Jerry Springer, Dr. Dre, Judge Judy, Jerry Falwell, Donnie and Marie, I rest my case. When my own son Owen was seven, he says, or so he fell in love with Bruce Springsteen's history band, particularly with Clarence Clemens. The band's uh Burley sex player.
Owen decided he wanted to learn to play like Clarence. My wife and I were amused and delighted by this ambition. We were also hopeful as any pairing would be that our kid would turn out to be talented, perhaps even some sort of prodigy. We got Owen a tenor saxophone for Christmas and lessons with Gordon Bowie, one of the local music men.
Then we crossed our fingers and hoped for the best. Seven months later, I suggested to my wife that it was time to discontinue the sax lessons. Boing concurred, Owen did, and with palpable relief. He hadn't wanted to say it himself, especially not after taking asking for the sax in the first place, but seven months had been long enough for him to realize that while he might love Clarence Clemens big sound, the saxophone was simply not for him.
God had not given him that particular talent. I knew not because Owen stopped practicing, but because he was practicing only during the periods Mr. Bowie had set for him. Happen hour after school four days a week, plus an hour on the weekends.
Owen mastered the scales and the notes. Nothing wrong with his memory, his lungs, or his eye-hand coordination, but we never heard him taking off, surprising himself with something new, blessing himself out. As soon as his practice time was over, it was back into the case with a horn and there it stayed until the next lesson or practice time. So we'll be right back.
And now we're back with Stephen King on writing a memoir of the craft, and now we're finishing up on page 150. What this suggested to me was that when it came to the sax in my son, there was never going to be any real playtime. It was all going to be rehearsal. That's no good.
There's no joy in it. It's just no good. It's best to go on to some other area where the deposits, deposits of talent may be richer and the fun quotient higher. Talent renders the whole idea of rehearsal meaningless.
When you find something at which you are talented, you do it whatever it is until your fingers bleed or your eyes are ready to fall out of your head. Even when no one is listening or reading or watching, every outing is a bravura performance because you as the creator are happy, perhaps even ecstatic. That goes for reading and writing as well as for playing a musical instrument, hitting a baseball or running the 440. The sort of strenuous reading and writing program I advocate four to six hours a day every day will not seem strenuous.
You really enjoy doing these things and have an aptitude for them. In fact, you may be following such a program already. You feel you need permission to do all the reading and writing. Your little heart desires, however, consider it hereby granted by yours truly.
And while I say this, I want to send a big shout out to my boss and friend and awesome editor and team advertiser, Caitlyn Haynes. Caitlyn, you just got permission to read as much as you want for your writing. You know that. So I thought this was something you should listen to and I want to make sure to send you a big shout out to you for the coffee house writers.
It's an amazing and talented person, writer, and boss and everything. Shout out to you, Caitlyn Haynes, just out of you when I was reading this. So I thought I'd say that. And continuing on, the real importance of reading is that it creates an each an intimacy with the process of writing when comes to the country of the writer with one paper with one's papers, an identification pretty much in order.
Constant reading will pull you into a place, a mindset if you like the phrase where you can write eagerly and without self-consciousness. It also offers you a constant growing knowledge of what has been done and what hasn't. What is tried and what is fresh, what works and what just lies there dying or dead on the page. The more you read the less app you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.
And we'll be right back with Stephen King on writing a memoir of the craft or the book of Stephen King on writing a memoir of the craft here on the daily with Sillstein in the segment writing tips. And we're back to the daily with Sillstein here on anchor and we were doing writing tips a segment of Stephen King on writing and we're going to have leave it at where I left left off on page which was on page one. I think it was one second here. Got a little bit out of character here because I was moving everything on page 150 and now we're going to do the wrap up of today's show.
I want to say thank you for tuning in to this new segment of the daily with Sillstein here on anchor and I really enjoyed covering Stephen King on writing a memoir of the craft because I believe this book has a lot to offer and we're going to dive more deep into it. Hopefully Monday's show and try to do another show on Wednesday or maybe Tuesday but at least we're doing a couple of shows and hopefully moving back to three shows like we were doing before. But I want to say I hope you enjoyed the daily segment of the author's corner which we talk about books or authors you should be learning about. Then of course on my author news and hopefully the writing tips segment which which is the main segment of the daily with Sillstein and then the wrap up where I go over recap what we did.
But I also hope to bring more one-on-one interviews interviews here on the daily with Sillstein and hopefully start on the editors on editing in November. So I hope to bring all that to you and I hope you enjoyed the daily with Sillstein and I hope you'll either call in, tell us what you thought of the show, give a review or tell me what you thought of the show and then you can also email me at Sillwriter, S-Y-L-W-R-I-T-E-R-0-7 at gmail.com. So I hope you all have a blessed and awesome Friday. Happy, happy Friday and thank you for joining us.
We'll be back with more Stephen King on writing a memoir of the craft more author news for myself and give you more excerpts on my new thriller battered mind which I read an excerpt of and then author news or authors corner where I give a shout out to all these authors and their books Lindsey Taylor, Chrissy Parker, Emerald Barnes and the awesome Melissa Foster awesome shout out to her and also to Caitlyn Haynes who loves reading and does a blog that she's doing that is very you know that y'all should be checking out her reviews. I hope you'll check out and I won't give too much detail on that because I would like for her to come and speak about it but she does have a very interesting blog where she gives a review give me a second here sorry me a second it's called Functionally Fictional and she read you know you check it out on Twitter and hopefully I'll have her here speaking more about it. I do appreciate your time thank you for joining us here on the daily or joining me here on the Daily Whistles Sign Year on Anchor. I hope y'all have a magnificent and wonderful day.
Have a good one. Bye-bye.