The re-release of my third book Everyone Loves A Scandal

Now Avaiable from Aspen Mountain Press:

Everyone Loves a Scandal

Author: Justin Murphy
Artist: Nikita Gordyn

ISBN: 978-1-60168-006-8
Genre: Contemporary
Publisher: Aspen Mountain Press
Publication Date: August 2006
Sexual Content: None

Price: $2.29
Product Options: Format Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) HTML (.exe) HTML (.zip)

Product Code: 978-1-60168-006-8





Synopsis:

In the small, town of Dothan, Alabama there’s a clear definition between right and wrong. But reality has a funny way of twisting perceptions.

The battle between good and evil has never been cut and dry or as black and white as the populous of Dothan likes to believe. When the seller of adult materials comes to town to set up shop the line between right and wrong is drawn. Everyone is dragged into the fray; photographers, reporters, church members, attorneys, pastors. What’s the truth and what’s a lie? Whose values are right?

Reverend Peter Jacobs knows.

So does Charlie Sanders.

The truth is about to be unveiled.

Only a jury of twelve of Dothan’s citizens will decide and they know Everyone Loves a Scandal.

http://www.aspenmountainpress.com/new-releases/everyone-loves-a-scandal/prod_12.html

Aspen Mountain Press

I've signed a three book deal with an upstart publisher which will be launching soon called Aspen Mountain Press. I'll be re-releasing my previous books Dothan and Everyone Loves A Scandal with them as well as my collection of short stories under the title The Young South.

The publisher's website can be found here:

http://aspenmountainbooks.com

The rise of Web 2.0

We all know the World Wide Web was around for years being used by office personnel and computer hackers throughout the 1980's and the beginning of the 1990's before it was released to the public in 1993 which started to flourish by late 1994, and by late 1996 the dot com bubble took off.

Now 10 years later, you have sites such as Google, Blogger, and MySpace which were developing during the first incarnation, and started to hit their stride around 2003-2004. These sites have been flourishing ever since, and is it possible by late 2006 a second dot com bubble will be taking off? Could this cycle be repeating itself a decade later?

I wanna hear everyone's thoughts..........

BIG NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've adapted my long standing wrestling/soap concept into a full length screenplay entitled Rekindled Flames about a wrestling promoter and a soap opera writer rekindling an old love affair. And I've joined The MySpace Filmmaking Community to increase my chances of selling my screenplay to right filmmakers/producers.

Here's the page I made for the MySpace filmmaking community:

http://myspace.com/thescreenwritersjourney

Justin

1stchapters.com

A few of my short stories are being showcased on the new website 1stchapters.com titled The Young South under the pen name Albert Lee (which they recommended) in hopes of getting agent or getting my short story collection published, and get me a 4th book out there, now that my first three are almost out of print.

You can read the material here:

http://1stchapters.com/pop%20up%20menus/bookcase%20files/Albert%20Lee/Albert%20Lee.htm

Justin

Comedy and Tragedy in Storytelling

Readers and fellow writers alike have told me my recent short stories (which can be read here at http://collectionofshortstories.blogspot.com) mix comedy and tragedy. I've been learning about how, and I discovered it depends on the external structure of a story.

In story, you have the inciting incident which is followed by the first major turning point in the beginning, followed by a small pinch reminding of what the story's about. Then the midpoint, another small pinch, followed by a major turning point towards the end, and wrap it up with a big showdown.

In the modern era, we're raised to believe comedy has to be hilarious and tragedy has to be something horrible. To understand comedy and tragedy at its fullest and undertand how and why its needed in storytelling, we need to go back to the Ancient Greek definition.

In Ancient Greece, tragedy is just a dramatic moment which builds up tension while comedy serves to relieve the tension. So in essence, all the major turning points are a three act tragedy while the small pinches serve as a two act comedy in between. The inciting incident and the big showdown are opposite ends the big picture or photograph which captures everything in the story.

For those young writers who wish to learn the internal structure of writing a scene, there's an awesome 80 page guide called The Elements of Style written by William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White which has been considered by many to be the bible for writing stories for the past 70 years, even Stephen King recommends it!

In The Elements of Style, writers'll discover the concepts of usage, composition, form, mistakes to avoid, and of course how to use styles in a story.

It can be purchased here:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/020530902X/qid=1140915383/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/102-1235126-9605720?s=books&v=glance&n=283155

First Ever Blook Tour Launches January 30th

I along with many other eBook authors and bloggers will be engaging in an online book tour that will be held on various blogs starting Jan 30th.

For information go to:

http://www.dothillpress.com

http://blog.tomevslin.com

http://www.hackoff.com