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David Henry Sterry
Author of fifteen books from memoir to YA to sports to how to

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The Art of the Novel

Apr.26.2013

The Art of the Novel

Limited to 25 writers - Advanced registration recommended.

It’s the greatest time to be a novelist. Learn the ins and outs of writing and selling your novel from the panel of novelists and agents that novelist David Sterry has assembled. Writers will present their pitch/query, which the panelists will critique. This is a great chance to kickstart your writing career!

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PUBLISHED: Apr.10.2011

The Essential Guide to Getting Your Book Published

It's the greatest time in history to be a writer! Find out why in this book. Demystifying the publishing process, this tome takes you through the entire process, from finding the right idea, to writing your book, to finding an agent and/or publisher (or self-publishing), to promoting and marketing, to finding your audience through social media, to e-books, soup-to-nuts, the only...

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PUBLISHED: Jul.26.2010

The Glorious World Cup: A Fanatics Guide

The Glorious World Cup: A Fanatic's Guide by Alan Black & David Henry Sterry This dynamic duo of die hard soccer fanatics break down the biggest sporting event in the world: the divas and the divers, the winners and the whiners, the myths and the madness. World Cup South Africa 2010, Alan Black & David Henry Sterry style - for those who like their soccer with a side...

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PUBLISHED: Jun.29.2009

Hos, Hookers, Call Girls, & Rent Boys: Professionals Writing on Life, Love, Money, & Sex by David Henry Sterry & RJ Martin

Hos, Hookers, Call Girls, and Rent Boys is a collection of short memoirs, rants, confessions, nightmares, journalism, and poetry covering life, work, family, and yes, sex. The editors gather pieces from the world of industrial sex, including contributions from art-porn priestess Annie Sprinkle, author and LGBT activist Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, sex educator/movie star Nina...

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PUBLISHED: Jan.08.2008

Master of Ceremonies: A True Story of Sex, Drugs, Rollerskates & Chippendales

1985. It was raining men and girls just wanted to have fun on Ladies Night. That's when I came to New York City, to become a star. When I was hired to be the MC at Chippendales—my first big job--it was the hottest show in the Big Apple, and I was at the epicenter of it all, in tuxedo, top hats and roller skates. This book is about a city that never sleeps in the middle of a...

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PUBLISHED: Feb.05.2002

PUTTING YOUR PASSION INTO PRINT

You have an idea for a book. A great idea. Now what? Learn the secrets of turning your personal passion into a book. From choosing the right idea, to putting a perfect proposal together, to finding a great agent, to pinpointing a publisher, to pitching and publicizing, to designing stellar events that suit you to a t, to locating and reaching your audience, the process of making...

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PUBLISHED: Dec.02.2001

CHICKEN: SELF-PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG MAN FOR RENT

Chicken (ReganBooks/HarperCollins, 2002) is the funny, touching story of a sweet, wide-eyed son of Seventies Suburbia who spends a year as a teenage sex worker servicing rich, lonely women in Beverly Hills. After being sexually assaulted his first night in Hollywood, David meets Sunny, the manager of Hollywood Fried Chicken, who teaches him all about chicken: how to fry one, and...

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PUBLISHED: May.22.2001

Satchel Sez: The Wit, Wisdom, and World of Leroy "Satchel" Paige

“Much of what we know about Satchel Paige . . . is undoubtedly true, some of it is probably apocryphal, all of it contributed to his legend as a ballplayer and one-of-a-kind personality.”— From the foreword by Bob Costas Satchel Paige’s witty quips and savvy observations — on everything from health to wealth, from race relations to baseball— are an enduring part of American...

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PUBLISHED: Apr.16.2013

Johns, Marks, Tricks and Chickenhawks: Professionals & Their Clients Writing about Each Other

Johns, Marks, Tricks & Chickenhawks: Professionals & Their Clients Writing about Each Other is the follow-up to Hos, Hookers, Call Girls and Rent Boys, the groundbreaking anthology that appeared on the cover of the New York Times Book Review. "Eye-opening, astonishing, brutally honest and frequently funny... unpretentious and riveting — graphic, politically incorrect...

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PUBLISHED: Feb.14.2013

Mort Morte

On my third birthday, my father, in an attempt to get me to stop sucking my thumb, gave me a gun. “Today son, you are a man,” he said, snatching the little blue binky from my little pink hand. So I shot him. So begins Mort Morte, a macabre, coming-of-age story full of butchered butchers, badly used Boy Scouts, blown-up Englishman, virginity-plucking cheerleaders, and...

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PUBLISHED: Nov.14.2011

Confessions of a Sex Maniac

Confessions of a Sex Maniac, Henry Miller Award Finalist, is old-school, hard-boiled, new millennium noir. A low-level bagman sex maniac hunts the ravenous and deadly Snow Leopard deep into the seedy groin of San Francisco's Tenderloin, where he has to choose. Sex or death? If Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, James Ellroy had a three-way, Confessions of a Sex...

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PUBLISHED: Oct.27.2008

national public radio personal essay

Here's a copy of my personal essay that was broadcast on National Public Radio's KQED today. http://www.kqed.org/epArchive/R810270737

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PUBLISHED: Oct.25.2008

deja vu all over again

I am happy and proud to announce I have been published on the huffington post. here's my take on the current calamitastrophe that's threatening to burn the house down. please check it out. and if you feel like it, click the button that turns you into a fan. Apparently that's how they judge the success of the piece. thanks, D http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-henry-sterry/dj-vu...

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PUBLISHED: Aug.14.2008

Master of Ceremonies: A True Story

The year was 1985. Smack dab in the middle of the cash happy/coke crazy, when it was raining men and girls just wanted to have fun on ladies night, that’s when David Henry Sterry became the Master of Ceremonies at Chippendales, the hottest show in the city that never sleeps. And he did it all in tuxedo, top hats and roller skates. He was the only one fully clothed in the show,...

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PUBLISHED: Aug.14.2008

Master of Ceremonies: A True Story

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PUBLISHED: Mar.02.2008

TRAVIS & FREDDY'S ADVENTURES IN VEGAS (AS HENRY JOHNSON)

Travis is a maniac with a million-dollar smile. Freddy is a brainiac with a million-dollar brain. In Travis & Freddy’s Adventures in Vegas (Dutton Children’s Books; Hardcover; On Sale April 2006; 176 pgs; $15.99; Ages 10 and up), these two buddies—one the coolest kid and the other the biggest nerd at Walla Walla Junior High—set out to save Travis’s dad from disaster by winning...

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David's Latest Blogs

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Apr.29.2013 - 7:41 pm

National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) Founder Chris Baty on Writing, Writers, Doing & Dreaming

We first met Chris Baty about a decade ago, when Arielle agented his book No Plot, No Problem: A Low-Stress, High-Velocity Guide to Writing a Novel in 30 Days. We watched as he...

Apr.09.2013 - 1:20 pm

Gayle Shanks of Changing Hands Bookstore on How Writers Can Work with Booksellers to Achieve Success

Huffington Post interview: http://huff.to/Xqfxc6 The Book Doctors have helped dozens and dozens of amateur writers become professionally published authors. They edit and develop...

Mar.29.2013 - 11:12 am

The 7 Minute Rule for Social Media

How to build your social network/platform without getting lost in the time suck http://bit.ly/10jygVk

Mar.29.2013 - 11:03 am

How to Not Pitch a Book

http://youtu.be/lFGXanoYQGc

Comments from David

Feb.21.2013 - 1:28 pm

In response to: Confessions of a Sex Maniac Audio Book

thanx!

mucho appreciato!

May.25.2012 - 11:20 am

In response to: Ginormous List Of Online Self-Published Book Reviewers

dead link?

can't seem to open the link

Jul.30.2010 - 7:55 am

In response to: My Earliest Memory: Being Shot out of My Father's Penis

hey ho indeed

www.davidhenrysterry.com that's what i always think when i remember all the fucked up shit i did & was done unto me

Jul.30.2010 - 7:45 am

In response to: My Earliest Memory: Being Shot out of My Father's Penis

www.davidhenrysterry.com

www.davidhenrysterry.com indeed. & how fucked DO you have to be to get kicked out of a big band?

Jul.30.2010 - 7:20 am

In response to: My Earliest Memory: Being Shot out of My Father's Penis

chicken

www.davidhenrysterry.com did u know my first book was a memoir called chicken?

Writing

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Article: The Next Great Noir Crime Boss: Tywin Lannister, Lord of Casterly Rock

Article: How Writing a book Led to the Love of My Life

Short Story: David Henry Sterry in eFiction: Laura Finally Talks About it

Published Reviews

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Master of Ceremonies: A True Story

Published by NPR

The BEST book I've read  this year is David Henry Sterry's Master of Ceremonies. Sterry was the Master  of Ceremonies of Chippendale's (the male strip club) in the mid '80s. This...

Audio & Video

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Video: How Not to Pitch a Book

Video: Who Buys & Sells Sex: Johns Marks Tricks & Chickenhawks

Video: Mort Morte Movie: A Dangerous Boy Who Really Loves his Mother

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This is how I made a bunch of money with Pixar. http://t.co/sOuUi4CsY2 — 1 week 9 hours ago

Sterry writes with comic brio… [he] honed a vibrant outrageous writing style and turned out this studiously wild souvenir of a checkered past. Stunning… Sterry's prose fizzes like fireworks. Every page crackles… Very easy and exciting to read--as laconic as Dashiell Hammett, as viscerally hallucinogenic as Hunter S Thompson. Sex, violence, drugs, love, hate, and great writing all within a single wrapper. What more could you possibly ask for? ”

—Janet Maslin, The New York Times, Maurice Newman, Irish Times

About David

David Henry Sterry is a best-selling author, award winning performer, book doctor, activist and muckraker. His newest book is Mort Morte, an illustrated novella. He is a also a Book Doctor who co-authored The Essential Guide to Getting Your Book Published....

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Causes David Sterry Supports

Sex Worker Rights

David’s Favorite Books

Clockwork Orange, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, LA Confidential, Noir of the Century, The Marriage Plot, Telltale Heart,