Creative people who have internal lives are seldom bored and rarely boring. The fear of being alone with nothing to do is a fate worse than death.
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LITERARY QUOTATIONS: GENRE is a compilation of informative and entertaining quotes by writers, editors, critics, journalists, and literary agents on the subject of literary genre. The quotes also touch on the subjects of craft, creativity, publishing, and the writing life.
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- Jim Fisher Official Site
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- Murder for Hire: An Overview
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- The Ghosts of Hopewell: Setting the Record Straight in the Lindbergh Case (Southern Illinois, 1999 )
- Crimson Stain: The Shocking True Story of the Only Amish Man Ever Convicted of Homicide (Berkley True Crime, 2000)
- Ten Percent of Nothing: The Case of the Literary Agent from Hell (Southern Illinois, 2004)
- Bookslut Interview with JF on Ten Percent Book
- The Writer's Quotebook: 500 Authors on Creativity, Craft, and the Writing Life (Rutgers, 2006)
- Forensics under Fire: Are Bad Science and Dueling Experts Corrupting Criminal Justice? (Rutgers, 2008)
- Swat Madness and the Militarization of the American Police: A National Dilemma (Praeger, 2010)
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- Thornton P. Knowles On The Power Of Nostalgia
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- Is the Death Penalty Fairly Administered?
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- "Outlaw" Versus "Scofflaw"
- The Confidence Game Victim
- The Era of the Memoir
- Thornton P. Knowles On Literary Honesty
- Religious Scam Artists
- How Not to Cross-Examine a Forensic Pathologist
- The Dangerous Hospital Patient
- The Great NYC Toll Thief
- Spoiled Kids Become Troubled Adults
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- Thornton P. Knowles On Getting To The Hospital Safely
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- The Unsolved Mystery of Human Behavior
- Serial Killer Robert Hansen
- The Brilliant Bureaucrat
- Four-Year-Old Distributes Heroin at Day Care
- Who Cares About Black Murderers?
- The Sleeping Burglar
- Signs of Lying Versus Indicators of Truth
- The Execution Of Arnold Prieto
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- A graduate of Westminster College (Pennsylvania) and Vanderbilt University Law School, I am the author of twelve non-fiction books on crime, criminal investigation, forensic science, policing, and writing. I have been nominated twice for the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Allen Poe Award in the Best Fact Crime Category. As a former FBI agent, criminal investigator, author, and professor of criminal justice at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, I have been interviewed numerous times on television and radio and for the print media. For more information about me, please visit my web site at http://jimfisher.edinboro.edu.
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