Been lurking a while, probably will lurk more than post as
I'm not as well-read as most of the posters. I have a good
excuse though-- I'm young.
I love Raymond Chandler and he's the main reason I got into
hardboiled and/or crime noir writing. In fact, I use "The Big
Sleep" and "Lady in the Lake" in classes I teach. I'm an
alternative/adult high school teacher of English and History,
and have been since I finally got Eastern Michigan U. to
release it's hold on my wallet and let me graduate.
As a lurker and fan of hardboiled crime noir, I'm finding my
membership in this group to be exceptionally educational. I
only wish I had more time to spend reading even just some of
the books and authors recommended and discussed. Since I like
to think I write something akin to hardboiled crime noir, I
think anything I learn can only improve my writing.
I'm a big fan of hardboiled chicks, but find so few of them
in writing. I'm still on my quest to find a modern female
version of Phillip Marlowe (more or less, as there really is
only one Phillip Marlowe.) I haven't found this leading dame,
yet, but I have written a number of stories with my own
female lead. She's Bo Fexler-- a sexy, smart, modern private
eye with cell phone, internet and music by Garbage. I'll put
a shameless plug for my site www.bofexler.blogspot.com and
encourage any interested readers that way. I have links to
most of Bo's thirty-some published stories.
That's me in a nut shell. A large nut shell, since I'm not
real good at brevity.
Signed-- Clair Dickson
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