Tag: Bookwriting
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Art Informs Writing
On a recent afternoon, I enjoyed Mindful Monday: Cultivating Empathy and Connectedness, presented online by the Education Department of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). The exhibition explored, with mindful meditation briefly at the start, Light, Space, Surface: Selections from LACMA’s Collection, the art of Light and Space and related works with highly polished…
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Progress, Progress
Currently, I am writing a Romantic Novel (bisexual) called THE THIRTEENTH STEP, about couples entangled in relationships in and outside 12-Step Programs. The 13th Step, you might guess, is verboten because it interferes with physical and mental sobriety. The step suggests Adam and Eve taking a bite out of that apple. You know what happened!
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Three Mass Murders, Two Book Releases
I cannot help but comment on the recent mass shootings that took place in California. That they are tragic and appalling seems obvious. That the massacre in Monterey Park occurred at the beginning of the Chinese New Year appears ironic and disheartening. Contrast the Shakespearean horror of 11 dead, and others hospitalized with gunshot injuries,…
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Come Into My Bookstore! Here’s a Book Sample.
Soon I am starting a bookstore online to sell my celebrated volumes and hope you will visit it in November! I am also offering today a sample of my Romantic Novel, “Drumbeats.” The bookstore will be in addition to Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble and other fine bookstores, so that you have many choices.…
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What Goes Into a Good Review? Revisited.
We hope you enjoyed my recent film review of “All the Old Knives.” Let’s talk about reviews, in general. Having reviewed theater, opera, and film for The Baltimore Morning Sun for ten years (and the Annapolis Evening Capital before that), I hope I learned something about constructing what might be considered a “good review,” or…
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Favorable Review from Abroad Revisited
Worth reading 😎 Know David Kearse, actor, screenwriter, and journalist, from this personally written memoir SYNOPSIS Having survived alcohol addiction and been in recovery for 52 years, this writer studied with some of the greatest names in entertainment. He shares what he learned about it in “his long life.” He began in journalism on…
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Richard Roller — A Renaissance Man and Writer
If things go well for Richard Roller, he and his proposed company of writers could soon hit the national cultural scene. “I love to write!” Richard adds that he also intends to turn his attention to the business aspects of “show business” as he works with a prominent law firm to gain representation for himself…
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All About Improv and Alan Arkin
At the suggestion of a member of my Marketing group, this week I am offering a selection from “Blessed By The Best, A Memoir By David Kearse, Surviving Addiction: A Spiritual Journey.” The book is available on Amazon in audiobook, eBook, hard cover and paperback. It chronicles my life growing up marginalized in the 1950s…
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What if…nothing seems to work?
You’ve tried everything – and your books still do not sell. They’re not flying off the bookshelves as you had imagined they should. What‘s wrong? I keep asking myself, for I have had the same problem. I wish I knew the answer, and my tomes could join the ranks of best sellers, but alas.…
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Starting a Third Book , Based On a Screenplay
Mount Vesuvius in the distance At present, I am very pleased to look at two published books in front of me on this table. One, my first, in hardcover and paperback, the other, my newest, in paperback only. The first, “Blessed By the Best,” a memoir, took more than a year to produce, largely…
By David Kearse 