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Christopher Meeks
Short Fiction Writer and Novelist

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The "eFuse" Articles - Creative Writing Advice is Back

Dec.10.2012

The "eFuse" Articles - Creative Writing Advice is Back

Christopher Meeks wrote a series of articles for eFuse on creative writing. They are on his blog. Go to his blog or click below for one:

POETIC SENSE: Sound and Imagery

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PUBLISHED: Jun.01.2013

Blood Drama

THE SETUP: Everyone has a bad day. Graduate student Ian Nash has lost his girlfriend in addition to being dropped from a Ph.D. program in theatre at a Southern California university. When he stops at a local coffee shop in the lobby of a bank to apply for a job, the proverbial organic matter hits the fan. A gang of four robs the bank, and things get bloody. Ian is taken...

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Kindle and Nook available now; print available September 17

PUBLISHED: Sep.17.2011

Love At Absolute Zero

Book of the Year Finalist at ForeWord Reviews, Love at Absolute Zero is a comic romance about Gunnar Gunderson, a 32-year-old star physicist at the University of Wisconsin. The moment he's given tenure at the university, he can think of only one thing: finding a wife. His research falters into what happens to matter near absolute zero (−459.67 °F), but he has an instant new...

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PUBLISHED: Mar.07.2009

The Brightest Moon of the Century

In Christopher Meeks's new book, The Brightest Moon of the Century, Edward, a young Minnesotan, is blessed with an abundance of "experience"--first when his mother dies and next when his father, an encyclopedia salesman, shoehorns Edward into a private boys school where he's tortured and groomed. Edward needs a place in the universe, but he wants an understanding of women...

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PUBLISHED: Jun.13.2008

Months and Seasons

Months and Seasons is the follow-up story collection to Christopher Meeks's award-winning The Middle-Aged Man and the Sea. With a combination of main characters from young to old and with drama and humor, the tales pursue such people as a supermodel who awakens after open-heart surgery, a famous playwright who faces a firestorm consuming the landscape, a reluctant man who attends a...

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PUBLISHED: Mar.01.2006

Who Lives? (A Play)

A drama that's in line with Reginald Rose's "12 Angry Men," this play is inspired by a true event and has a group of people who need to decide who lives. In the early 1960s, an anonymous committee of ordinary citizens in Seattle had to select people for an experiment that might save their lives. The newly perfected kidney dialysis machine might save a small number of...

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PUBLISHED: Jan.01.2006

The Middle-Aged Man and the Sea

Love, death, humor, and the glue called family are the elements of this sometimes intense, often funny collection of short stories. As novelist David Scott Milton explains, "In this collection, Christopher Meeks examines the small heartbreaks of quiet despair that are so much a part of all our lives. He does it in language that is resonant, poetic, and precise.... If you like...

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Christopher's Latest Blogs

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Jun.07.2013 - 12:21 pm

Omnimystery News Interview

As I mentioned last week, I've given a number of interviews recently in connection with the release of my new novel, Blood Drama, a crossover thriller. Having been a journalist...

May.29.2013 - 11:02 am

On the Edge of the Ice: On Being Interviewed

From photographs, I’ve seen the immense beauty of Alaska’s Glacier Bay, where mountain walls of ice meet water. From this comes the image I have of giving and being interviewed....

May.13.2013 - 7:01 am

STYLE as Substance (Part Two)

A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the...

May.12.2013 - 11:27 am

STYLE as Substance (Part One)

Why is it that some books have you eagerly turning the pages after your bedtime and other books work like sleeping pills? Partly, it’s style. Why is William Faulkner revered by...

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Jan.21.2013 - 10:22 am

In response to: 10 SWEET TIME-SUCKING THINGS TO SAVE YOU FROM WRITING

Twitter!

Kate, thank you for your comment. Twitter helps drive readers to my Red Room blog, so I'm glad it found you. Twitter is...

Jan.02.2013 - 9:12 pm

In response to: READING AS A WRITER

World record

Carolyn, You set a new landspeed record. I posted this at 8:03 and you wrote about it at 8:06. This is what I love...

Dec.26.2012 - 8:59 am

In response to: Stephen and Tabitha King: The Prince and Princess of Maine, The King and Queen of New England

A great post--good research

Jennifer, I hadn't read any of King's novels until the recent "11/22/1963," which I found gripping and well-written. It...

Nov.30.2012 - 9:14 am

In response to: The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Changing too

Robert, I'm a fan of McCarthy, too, in particular No Country for Old Men, which, I suppose, could also be the subtitle...

Nov.23.2012 - 11:52 am

In response to: A QUARTER MILLION ON RED ROOM—AND LIFE SWIRLS ON

Science and Women

Arabella, thanks for your note and desire to read Love At Absolute Zero. I've heard back mostly from female readers,...

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Article: One Writer's Process: Christopher Meeks

Article: On Lorrie Moore's Profound Humor

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Jun.07.2013

Blood Drama

Published by Literary Aficionado

I've read and reviewed every book and play written by the gifted Christopher Meeks, so it was with some trepidation to pick up a novel with a title BLOOD DRAMA, packaged by a...

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Video: THREE SUREFIRE TIPS TO BE A GREAT WRITER (A Video)

Video: Excerpt from "Dracula Slinks Into the Night"

Video: The Middle-Aged Man and the Sea: Truths About Manhood

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"10 Simple Things for Becoming Rich-Rich-Rich in Self-Publishing"--it's one way to see things. http://t.co/UEVZLpjozr #writetip #writing — 1 week 9 hours ago

'Love At Absolute Zero' is a gift--and one of the many that continue to emerge from the pen and mind and brilliant trait for finding the humor in life that makes him so genuinely fine a writer.”

—Critic Grady Harp, Top-Ten Amazon reviewer

About Christopher

Christopher Meeks writes short fiction and novels. His book of short stories, The Middle-Aged Man and the Sea earned great reviews including the Los Angeles Times ("poignant and wise") and a blurb in Entertainment Weekly that said, "A...

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