Ashleigh wrote:

A book on Forensic Psychology for writers.

This sounds very provacative. What is the name of it? Can I ask you why you choose it?

The title is The Criminal Mind: A Writer's Guide to Forensic Psyhcology by Katherine Ramsland

I chose it because I thought it might give me some aid in some aspects of my crime novels, mainly it is helping with my bad guy and his supposed mental state - he is very scary! Well, at least the guy in books 1 - 3. I still need to work out the bad guys in 4 and 5 but it will help there too!

Hello Ashleigh:

So you are a writer of crime novels, very exciting. I am always interested in members who are authors. Do you have anything published?

I applaud you for doing research, sounds like you are giving your "bad guys" some depth.

Good luck to you!

Yes I do write Crime, and no, nothing published yet, but my project is in the drafting stages and I hope it will get published.

I enjoy doing the research - granted the policing stuff is mainly from watching crime shows at the moment, but that is just mainly to get how to write an interview; I can access the legal info I need through legal databases and such for Australia, which helps.

And thank you - I need it cause book three is giving me a hell of a time! I can't work out what to write next!

Currently I'm reading Diary by Chuck Palahniuk because my cousin recommended it to me and also Socrates in Love: Philosophy for a Die-Hard Romantic by Christopher Phillips to help with English 101.

I just finished an incredibly pleasant and charming book; "I Capture the Castle" by Dodie Smith. It was written in 1948 and tells the story of a very poor family living in an abandoned castle in England. The narration is superb, the heroine a 17 year old girl.

Enid Blyton the Biography by Barbara Stoney. I went to a lot of trouble to get this book!

Trying to get thoroughly into William Faulkner. I thought about reading him again because I'd read a few by Cormac McCarthy, who is sometimes compared to Faulkner (that's some company). Faulkner is known for being intimidating, but this is not a deserved reputation even though his writing can make heavy demands on the reader's attention. That must be why I mainly avoided him for so many years. I'm usually in awe of his power as a writer, how deeply he can penetrate with seeming effortlessness. I'm reading three short novels now, one of which is "The Bear." The only other one of his I've read is Light in August, which I'll re-read. If anyone else is interested in reading Faulkner, too, just let me know.

I'm re-reading Heidi now. Going through a major kids lit phase at the moment, even though my thesis focus is the Famous Five, I'm devouring as much kids lit as possible. *Desperately wants Inkspell!*

DWill:

If you're interested in Faulkner, I'd recommend As I Lay Dying.

Haven't read any of his other work, so would be interested in how the short stories are.