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Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Why I Write – Suki van Djik. January 13, 2015. I write because I don’t have any choice not to. When I’m sad, when I’m overwhelmed, when I need to make sense of the world – it leads me straight to the page. I started by playing town in grade school, writing scenes for a collection of invented characters, moved on to horribly overwrought poetry in middle school and have written novels since high school. Http:/ sukisaysso.blogspot.com.
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Swithin Central: Necessary roughness?
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Sunday, September 14, 2014. Yesterday, the Rye Garnets met the Harrison Huskies for the 84th time in the annual football game that's been described as Westchester county's "premier high school rivalry." (Rye beat Harrison 24-13, thanks for asking.). The game was played at Rye High School's Nugent stadium, with the visiting Harrison supporters wisely directed to stands on the opposite side of the field from the home team's noisy fans (myself and Tertius included). From an earlier year, the Garnets celebra...
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Swithin Central: Big Brother is bothering me.
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Tuesday, October 28, 2014. Big Brother is bothering me. Phone rings. Long Island number. I pick up and mutter a "hello." Long pause and fuzzy background. Then a distant, accented voice says its "hello," as if it hadn't heard me. I snap, now completely convinced that this is an illicit marketing call - I am firmly on the Do Not Call. Register and these scofflaws piss me off. This is Winston Smith, may I speak to the homeowner? Makes me wonder now what he was trying to sell me. Surveillance cameras? An Emb...
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Swithin Central: Dark side? What dark side?
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Thursday, August 28, 2014. My late mother always told me not to show off. So having posted a set of glowing reviews of This Private Plot. Yesterday, I'm now required by upbringing, personality, culture, and nationality to appease the universe by trashing myself. The only trouble is (he said cautiously, fearing the lightning strike from beyond), the reviews have been pretty exclusively, uh, positive. What do to then to be gloomy and British and self-deprecating? Laura Hartman for Oswego Patch. Meredith wa...
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Swithin Central: September 2014
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Monday, September 15, 2014. What makes you think I live for these moments? A riveting and entertaining read by a master of the mystery genre. Alan Beechey's "This Private Plot" is highly recommended . . ." (Julie Summers, Midwest Book Review). Wow Okay, that's gotta be my title from now on. I'm off to get new business cards printed. Links to this post. Sunday, September 14, 2014. Well, not quite. A few Harrison kids in the faraway stands didn't seem to get the message, keeping up the pre-game whoops&...
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Swithin Central: April 2014
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Friday, April 25, 2014. Joltin Joe has left and gone away, and I know how he feels. Startling realization of the week. That Mrs. Robinson is now too young for me. Links to this post. Thursday, April 17, 2014. Isn't this the plot of that new Johnny Depp movie? I step into my bedroom/office, where Tertius is sitting at my desk, fiddling with his iPod. Now I know where you are," he exclaims cheerfully, showing me the screen. It displays a map that is somehow tracking the location of my. Links to this post.
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Swithin Central: February 2015
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Tuesday, February 10, 2015. Not what it seems. Read on. This year, we're celebrating the 150th anniversary of the publication of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. I love Lewis Carroll. My first published mystery opens in the middle of a Snark Hunt. This Private Plot. Uses both "Tweedledum and Tweedledee" and the Hatter's rendition of "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" as clues. I composed a setting of "The Walrus and the Carpenter," and as a student, I adapted and acted in Alice's Adventures. Google "Lewis Ca...
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Swithin Central: Lewis and me.
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Tuesday, February 10, 2015. Not what it seems. Read on. This year, we're celebrating the 150th anniversary of the publication of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. I love Lewis Carroll. My first published mystery opens in the middle of a Snark Hunt. This Private Plot. Uses both "Tweedledum and Tweedledee" and the Hatter's rendition of "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" as clues. I composed a setting of "The Walrus and the Carpenter," and as a student, I adapted and acted in Alice's Adventures. Google "Lewis Ca...
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Swithin Central: June 2014
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Monday, June 23, 2014. If Agatha Christie and P.G. Wodehouse had a child, he'd have written this book.". Okay, if you know me by now (get to know me! You'll know that's probably the best imaginable headline for a review of one of my books, ever. (Well, maybe "Spielberg offers half a billion for movie rights to mystery series" might just cap it.). So special thanks to Laura Hartman, reviewer for Patch in the Oswego area, for all her enthusiasm. And for a magnificent piece of wordplay. For several recordin...
