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About Me

SMUGGLED ROSE from Cerridwen Press available now at Amazon.com and http://www.cerridwenpress.com. I BID ONE AMERICAN is available NOW from The Wild Rose Press, Amazon's KINDLE store and wherever e-books are sold.Amy Corwin...The May 2007 issue of MORE Magazine, http://www.more.com, featured me as my alter ego--Amy Padgett--in an article about Creative Careers. Thanks MORE! I really appreciate it.So anyway, about me: By day as I work as a computer specialist/Enterprise Administrator, but at night I howl as a writer. My first novel, Smuggled Rose, is out now and my second novel, I Bid One American has just been contracted by The Wild Rose Press at http://www.thewildrosepress.com.I write Regencies and Regency Mystery-Romance and for those interested, my website is: http://www.amycorwin.com

My Interests

Myspace Layouts Writing, history, mysteries, science fiction, chocolate labs, gardening and particularly Old Garden Roses, birding, biology, and science.

I'd like to meet:

Writers, readers, gardeners, computer nerds, whoever or whatever is out there...

Music:

Mostly alternative stuff and classical. Love Gilbert and Sullivan Operas. Strauss waltzes. Sheryl Crow, Cake, Alanis Morrisette, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, classic Rock...

Movies:

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Myspace Layouts Hopelessly addicted to horror movies, film Noir, detective/mystery movies, and action movies. Alien, Terminator, Escape from New York (anything done by John Carpenter or Hammer Studio in England). Love anything with Cary Grant in it or Fred Astaire.

Television:

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Myspace Layouts Cold Case Files, Cops (for sheer disbelief), Forensic Files, old shows like Columbo, Murder She Wrote, the Rockford Files: adore James Garner.

Books:

The Haunting of Hill House--adore Shirley Jackson. Love horror, particularly haunted house stories. Love mysteries including those by: Lindsey Davis (Falco mysteries), Elizabeth Eyre, Sue Grafton (the alphabet mysteries...), Jonathan Gash (Lovejoy mysteries), old Mary Stewart, Barbara Michaels, Victoria Holt, Georgette Heyer, Charles Todd (Inspector Ian Rutledge mysteries), Jane Austen, Stiff (a book about...well..stiffs), John Brunner (science fiction), Gibson's Burning Chrome, Saki/H.H. Munro short stories...

Heroes:

Never been much into hero worship...

My Blog

A Bit of This and That

First the good news: I only have a month to go before "I Bid One American" is released in paperback! Whoopee! Although for the impatient, it is out as an e-book from just about any e...
Posted by Amy Corwin on Wed, 08 Oct 2008 05:41:00 PST

Present Tense--ARGH!

So last night I climbed into bed with a brand, spanking new book, from an author unknown to me, totally anticipating a few minutes of reading pleasure. Not. It started out great. The prologue wa...
Posted by Amy Corwin on Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:11:00 PST

Great new book

Just finished reading a popular science book about poisons--and it brought home to me how important it is for writers to read books outside their normal areas of interest. I'm not sure this book ...
Posted by Amy Corwin on Thu, 25 Sep 2008 06:08:00 PST

Random Writing Thoughts

Just finished reading a crime novel that I enjoyed, but made me think about how easy it is to read a book, internalize it, and then duplicate elements in it without realizing it. Or at least I'm...
Posted by Amy Corwin on Wed, 17 Sep 2008 06:54:00 PST

Writing as a Career

Writing is such a strange career: I almost never meet writers who are "comfortable" with where they are. In my day job, I'm a computer specialist, specifically an Enterprise Administrators manag...
Posted by Amy Corwin on Wed, 10 Sep 2008 06:55:00 PST

Nostalgia

It's birthday time for all of us Virgo folks and despite my best efforts to dissuade people from even mentioning it, I was lucky this year. My husband got me a sewing machine because my old Pfaf...
Posted by Amy Corwin on Wed, 27 Aug 2008 05:22:00 PST

Pleasant Surprises

Despite all the overtime and aggravation at my "regular job" this week has held some really nice goodies for me. My lovely and talented editor, Nicola, has created the cover for my new short sto...
Posted by Amy Corwin on Wed, 20 Aug 2008 04:51:00 PST

Technology and the writer

Finally got my cute little eeePC and I'm using it right now to write this blog. It is going to take some getting used to, especially the keyboard. While the keyboard is 95% of the size of ...
Posted by Amy Corwin on Wed, 13 Aug 2008 06:36:00 PST

Character Layers

Characterization and writing style completely obsess me both as a reader and a writer. Like an English Bulldog with its jaws locked on its master's trouser cuff, I just can't let it go. Rec...
Posted by Amy Corwin on Wed, 06 Aug 2008 06:05:00 PST

Guest blogger: Nancy Hunter, author of Taste of Liberty

Sometimes it's fun to "cross-pollinate" with other writers and give folks a chance to read ramblings from a slightly different, albeit still twisted, mind. (All writers have twisted minds--...
Posted by Amy Corwin on Sat, 02 Aug 2008 07:01:00 PST