The paperback version will be available soon.
I’m very proud of this novel and would love for you to check it out. (Wait. Check it out is a library term.) I would love for you to BUY IT. If you’re a regular reader of this blog you know my writing, you know my style. This is me unleashed.
To further entice you, here are some blurbs:
“A brutally funny look at the television business from an Emmy-award winning writer/producer who has seen it all. MUST KILL TV rings so hilariously true that it makes me wonder how much of this story is actually fiction."
-- Lee Goldberg
Author of The Heist (with Janet Evanovich)
“Ken Levine proves himself as much a master of the novel as he is of TV writing and blogging. MUST KILL TV is the 21st Century answer to NETWORK – a blistering and hilarious satire of the television business as it is now. Part thriller, part comedy, it could only have been written by someone who knows this world as well as Mr. Levine. What more, the author pulls off the impossible – he makes a network executive a sympathetic character. Read it; after all, there’s nothing on TV tonight.”
--Phoef Sutton
Writer/producer Cheers, Boston Legal, author of Fifteen Minutes to Live
"Everyone who works in television has wanted to commit murder from time to time. Ken Levine has managed to make that murder funny -- which is not surprising considering his years in the broadcast comedy trenches"
-- Bill Prady
Co-creator of The Big Bang Theory
Again, it’s only $2.99. You can download yours here. Thanks. And by the way, it makes for the perfect Halloween gift.
19 comments :
I look forward to the paperback...when it's released in Ireland...it might be a while before I read your book Ken!
But I will read it. Best of luck with it.
Congrats on the new book! I look forward to reading it.
(Ken, I've been lurking here since this blog started, and have seldom commented.) Just installed the Kindle app on my Android and bought your book - my first Kindle purchase!
I do this in solidarity with the Lavine/Levine clan, and because I need a laugh today. Love your writing.
I got your last book autographed in Seattle. When do you come out to NYC so I can get this one signed?
I'll order a paperback copy as soon as it's available!
Comedy Writers seem to love to write about murders that happen in the industry. Laura Levine comes to mind. Charlie Hauck's "Artistic Differences" was a great fun book about murder and a difficult female star of a sitcom.
Hey Ken, first time commenter five year reader. First off, I'm going to be buying a paperback as soon as it's available.
Secondly, (and no my promise of buying your book wasn't just to butter you up), I've got a Friday question.
I'm writing a spec script for Parenthood and I want to know what the consensus is on naming a song in a script. That show is so known for how it uses music to convey emotion over a silent scene, and I've found a song that fits the style of the show and has the right lyrics, but how amateurish is it to put the song in the script? The spec is really just intended to send to contests, fellowships, etc.
I'd love to hear what you think about this.
Done.
I love murder mysteries set in show business - Ken, if you haven't read them, you should look at Simon Brett's Charles Paris series, which are about a seedy struggling actor navigating the British scene - like his real-life counterparts he does anything that's going (film, TV, radio, stage...). There was just a new one a couple of months ago after a hiatus of some years.
Meanwhile, I will look forward to yours when it comes out in paperback. We Don't Do Kindle (or any ebook format that has DRM.
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Can't wait to read it - I'll buy it today. Hope it's as good as your last book. Btw, here is the best Cheers inspired costume ever. www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/28/cheers-halloween-costume_n_4169894.html
There will be a paperback version out soon. Thanks.
I'll glom onto a copy the moment the paperbacks are available. I look forward to reading it. I would, even without the blurbs.
Ken -- what's the economics of Kindle reading library to the author? Do you get paid comparably to buying the e-book outright?
It's on my Kindle as of yesterday. I've been a serious mystery fan and reader since 1979 and have had two of my mysteries published. The idea of marrying a mystery with your sense of humor is enticing.
Well, I just bought it. A Spanish reader in London getting a novel from an American. Globalisation they call it....
Bought! I hope there's sex in it.
Congratulations, Ken. I'll also pick up my paperback version as soon as it's available.
Hey! There IS sex in it! Right in the first chapter, too.
Hi Ken! Friday Question: What differences did you find in the writing process between creating a novel and creating a screenplay or TV script (if any)? Thanks!
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