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Blog postPhantom pain following amputation.
I can attest to that reality! After my 2007 amputation of my left leg below the knee, I was so aware that my foot was still there. I often had pain in the "foot," in the same places I had gangrene from the infection due to peripheral artery disease. After about 5 years, an old prosthetist came along who argued with me that there was no such thing as phantom pain and claimed he had worked with a number of military who were amputees. I t -
Blog postAs a writer and an artist, I have often wondered where some of my ideas have originated. A few years ago, I sculpted from clay a figure of a woman. It was my first experience working with clay. As I built up and formed the clay, I found that it was almost as if the figure itself took on a life of her own and was guiding me. She is now cast in bronze, but I have to admit I liked her better in the clay form as she seemed more alive and vital. I would guess that many people yearn to be m
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The hands of Vinnie Ream, the young sculptor who did a marble bust of Lincoln and then after his death was awarded the commission to sculpt the statute of Lincoln which now stands in the Capitol Rotunda.
Although I had photographed the statue on a visit to the Capitol a few years ago, I did not know the history of the sculptor. And I was surprised to learn it was a very attractive young woman. At the time Lincoln sat for the bust Vinnie Ream sculpted, she was 18 year -
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“Make sure your dialogue is sharp, and real. If it is not, beef it up until you hear the voices singing. Be sure those characters talk like real people.
Are you satisfied that you have properly dimensioned each character? If you have villains in your story make sure you have made them powerful and resourceful, not reduced to the idiot level. In real life, the bad guys are highly formidable and dangerous individuals. Real life is full of gri -
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Excerpt from "The Metaphysics of the Novel, The Inner Workings of a Novel and a Novelist" by Don Pendleton.
It will be those chapter endings that will inspire the reader to turn the page. How many times have you heard, "I couldn't put the book down. Before I knew it was three o'clock in the morning!" So always give some extra thought to where you leave the reader at the chapter end. Implant in the reader's mind the need -
Blog postExcerpt from my Introduction to my book, KNOWING ABRAHAM LINCOLN, WRITINGS OF AND ABOUT OUR SIXTEENTH PRESIDENT.
The impact that Abraham Lincoln has had on our country for 150 years is quite incredible. What he stood for and how he got us through very difficult times is so much a part of our rich history, and the ever-evolving desires of most who want freedom and equality for all citizens of our country. We have come a long way, but still have a w -
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Blog postNow in audio books, the first three Executioner Novels by Don Pendleton.
Narrated by Shawn Compton, published by Tantor, Available at Audiobooks; Audible, and other retailers.
Book 4 coming September 29th and Book 5 October 20th.
Book 4 coming September 29th and Book 5 in mid-October.
Coming September 29th Miami Massacre
Coming October 20th Continental Contract
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Blog postJust released, Don Pendleton's War Against the Mafia, the first book in The Executioner, Mack Bolan Series, is now in audio. Narrated by Shawn Compton, published by Tantor Audio.
The first book in the classic vigilante action series from a “writer who spawned a genre” (The New York Times).
Four more Executioner novels coming, August, September, October.
Available at Amazon, Audible, Audiobooks.
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Blog postThe Metaphorical Viruses, by Linda Pendleton
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.”~ Albert Einstein
Dr. Jonas Salk giving his son, Peter, the first polio vaccine
Dr. Jonas Salk, the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants, and a world-renowned scientist and medical researcher, and developer of the polio vaccine, touched millions of lives. Today as we are facing another world pandemic, one cannot help but t -
Blog postThis is an excerpt from an exclusive interview I did with author Richard S. Prather, creator of the Shell Scott Mystery Series. The interview was in 2006, shortly before Prather died.
Linda: Richard, you and I have discussed the Amagical@aspect of writing when we tap into something beyond ourselves that ends up on our written pages. My husband, author Don Pendleton, often talked of that happening, and I have experienced it, also, as you have. I personally fi -
Blog postNew Nonfiction Book by Linda Pendleton,
James Martin Peebles, The Man, The Mystic, The Seeker of Truth. Historical Biography 1822-1922
“If I know my own heart, it beats in accord with the divine effort to better humanity, and throbs in tenderest love toward all races and the people of all lands.”~Dr. James Martin Peebles, Immortality, 1880
A compelling historical biography of an extraordinary man, James Martin Peebles, an intellectual, reformer, physician, -
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Blog postPublishing on the Moon:
On this day in 1994, Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com. As an author, publisher and disabled shopper, I thank him. I’ve been with Amazon for over 20 years now, and they reminded me of that with a gift recently. I recall my resistance to using my credit card online—but I believe in the beginning I could call and give my card over the phone. Jeff Bezos had said back then, he wanted the biggest bookstore in the world. It reminds me of the publishing con -
Blog post"Often while writing I haven't the faintest idea where a line came from, or a character, or an idea. Very often they come while I sleep, in the shower, while shaving, while hurtling along a crowded freeway in my car–and sometimes they come with such force that I am half-crazy until I can get somewhere and write them down. If you don't write them down quickly, you often lose them because they surface very briefly in the shifting seas of consciousness and then disappear back into the chaos.
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Blog postThe beginning of adventure novels for men—1901-1920 period. A few months ago, I wrote an article for Paperback Parade about Steward Edward White, an early 20th century writer of popular adventure, Westerns, and nonfiction about birds and nature. He was a conservationist, naturalist, and big game hunter, and his love for nature, conservation, and adventure were to become very much a part of his literary works over his long career. He enjoyed writing about pioneers,
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Blog postDon Pendleton Creates Mack Bolan
50 Years Ago, Don Pendleton envisioned a fictional character that would soon become a literary bestseller and a phenomenon through which the new action/adventure genre emerged. Mack Bolan, a professional soldier, highly trained and skilled in the use of military tactics and weapons makes a life-altering decision after the tragic death of his family—his war is at home, not in the bloody fields of Vietnam. Mack Bolan takes on a one-man war agains -
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“Hollywood is glitter and gutter. Some make it to the top and stay there, basking in the splendor of it, while others hit bottom and are engulfed by the ugliness of it.” ~Catherine Winter, Private Investigator
Three Catherine Winter MysteriesShattered LensFractured ImageShifting Focus
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Blog postExcerpt from Don Pendleton's "The Metaphysics of the Novel, The Inner workings of a Novel and a Novelist." "To get way down deep, though, the novel provides the deepest and most lasting insights, those movements of mind that come closest to defining the human reality. I also write books of non-fiction and these allow me to grapple with concepts and realities which may lose a bit of credibility in a fictional format, so I am fortunate that my fiction has opened other pub
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Blog postWilling to Kill—
"From first word to last, Don Pendleton is in pure form—as is his creation: The Executioner!"~Jon Guenther, Author
At the beginning of his impossible war, Mack Bolan had not envisioned himself as the arch-foe of the Mafia world. He had simply reacted to a terribly disheartening situation—in the same way in which any man of like talents and ideals would have done—without knowing that soon he would become the mo -
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Blog postI'm pleased to interview novelist John L. Davis IV, author of the "American Revenant Series," and his latest suspense thriller, "Average Joe."
Linda: John, in our previous correspondence when you did an interview with me regarding my late husband, Don Pendleton's, The Executioner: Mack Bolan Series, you had indicated that a Mack Bolan novel, "Tuscany Terror," written by Stephen Mertz, not only had introduced you to Don's Executioner Series, but to readi -
Blog postAuthor Robert W. Walker challenged me to write 5 helpful tips for authors. Here they are.
1. Write, write, write! We write because we have to. We have to allow our creativity the avenue to find its proper place–expressed on the written page.
2. Unless you're under contract to produce a certain book and don't have the freedom to write the book you want, write what you desire, and in the genre you want. As the late, great, Joseph Campbell state -
Blog postMy new book, The Bold Trail, A Samuel Garrison Western, will also be in audio in a few weeks--and it will be in German Translation soon. I just signed a contract with a German publisher for this book and a number of other novels to be translated.
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The Bold TrailA Samuel Garrison Western
In 1851, in the Sierra Nevada mountains of Northern California, gold hunters search for their riches, but Samuel Garrison is on an even more intense search. He is on the trail of a dangerous and evil man, and he carries .44 caliber bullets in his Colt Dragoon with the man's name on them. In Columbia Township, Ohio, Garrison left behind a busy life as a farmer and horse rancher, and at times, he wishes he was still in Ohio, rathe -
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Blog postMy article, "A Meeting of the Minds: Don and Linda Pendleton," is published in the latest issue, #101 of Paperback Parade, which just came out by Gryphon Books, Gary Lovisi. I write about my late husband's long writing career, our books, our writing, paperback covers and lots more.
A short look at author, Don Pendleton:
"Fifty years ago, in 1968, The Executioner, Mack Bolan was conceived in the mind of Don Pendleton. It was an unsettli -
Blog postMy article, "Inherit the Genes," was published today in the first issue of Head West! Western Magazine, published in print by Piccadilly Publishing. It is available in print at Lulu and I believe soon at Amazon. The magazine for Western Fans Everywhere. Piccadilly is the publisher of numerous Western Series and is bringing back into ebooks some of the most popular and best-loved Western and action-adventure series fiction of the last forty years.
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