John Searles
John Searles
John Searles is an American writer and book critic. He is the author of three novels, the bestselling Boy Still Missing, Strange But Trueand Help For The Haunted, published in September 2013. His essays have appeared in national magazines and newspapers, and he contributes frequently to morning television shows as a book critic. He is based in New York City...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
CountryUnited States of America
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All my friends are female, I've edited for a magazine for young girls for 15 years, I relate to women, and I'm very, very close to my younger sister.
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I stayed at 'Cosmo' well beyond my internship, moving up the ranks over some 15 years to become books editor, then brand director, then editor-at-large - editing everything from an excerpt of Gore Vidal's memoir to writing some of those juicy cover lines myself.
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I usually don't write at night, but there are times where I wake up at 3 in the morning and write all night.
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I've gone to readings to see authors after meeting them on Twitter. And while there, I've found myself sitting next to still more writers who I met on Twitter, too.
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My writing is sort of Sidney Sheldon meets Anne Tyler.
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My dad was a cross-country truck driver.
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My first day as an intern in the books department at Cosmopolitan also happened to be the day the O.J. Simpson verdict was announced.
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Everyone has a ghost story, or at least thats how it has always seemed to me.
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When I first came to New York, I would scream like a girl and run to the other side of the street if there was a pigeon. Now I can face off with a pigeon.
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A lot of people are afraid of dolls - everybody remembers Chucky.