Dwight Holing Dwight Holing’s career as an author had a pretty unpromising start. Asked to write this essay during the third grade, he handed this story in called “Bloody Murder” and he used red ink for the title. Clever, if not a snare, yeah? Well, his teacher didn’t agree, and gave it an F. Not all was lost, though. He learned his very first lesson about irony: she used a red pen as well.
He spent his summers in college working at the salmon fishery in Alaska. By the end of the season, he explored the backcountry before he returned to school. It whetted his appetite for outdoor adventure. After he earned his journalism degree from the University of Oregon, he became a freelance travel writer for magazines and newspapers. Assignments took …show more content…
This became the focus of his writing. He covered the fight to save gray whales threatened by this proposed salt factory in Mexico, the race to protect endangered species from extinction, the illegal orangutan trade in Indonesia, and loss of rainforests from slash and burn practices.
Feature articles in magazines led to him writing and editing books on wildlife and wild places all around the world. His publishers included Animal Planet, Smithsonian Books, and Time-Life.
It is no mystery that he eventually turned to fiction. Storytelling is baked deep into his DNA. His grandpa wrote romantic comedies and serial mysteries for the Saturday Evening Post back when weekly print magazines were as eagerly devoured as bingeworthy TV series that stream today. Paramount hired him to turn his stories into screenplays and he worked alongside Raymond Chandler and Billy …show more content…
He picked up awards along the way, including the Arts & Letters Prize for Fiction. Two short story collections later, he moved on to writing novels. For this, he reached back to his reporting on the environment and outdoor adventure days. Weather, wildlife, and landscape each play their own integral roles in the arcs of his novels. It’s especially true of his Nick Drake mysteries.
Dwight’s of the belief that “whydunits” can be just as entertaining and thrilling as “whodunits”. Characters are the main drive of his books. Revealing their traits, deeds, loves, and hates over the course of a book builds suspense and drives the action. When it comes to one of his series, he makes sure the recurring characters continue to grow from one book to the next. Their journeys make for a richer and deeper reading experience, while every book provides readers with more than just the exhilaration of a chase. They also give them something new to learn about human behavior and the natural world.
“Bad Karma” is the second novel in the “Jack McCoul Caper” series and was released in 2015. Jack McCoul isn’t your typical private
He spent his summers in college working at the salmon fishery in Alaska. By the end of the season, he explored the backcountry before he returned to school. It whetted his appetite for outdoor adventure. After he earned his journalism degree from the University of Oregon, he became a freelance travel writer for magazines and newspapers. Assignments took …show more content…
This became the focus of his writing. He covered the fight to save gray whales threatened by this proposed salt factory in Mexico, the race to protect endangered species from extinction, the illegal orangutan trade in Indonesia, and loss of rainforests from slash and burn practices.
Feature articles in magazines led to him writing and editing books on wildlife and wild places all around the world. His publishers included Animal Planet, Smithsonian Books, and Time-Life.
It is no mystery that he eventually turned to fiction. Storytelling is baked deep into his DNA. His grandpa wrote romantic comedies and serial mysteries for the Saturday Evening Post back when weekly print magazines were as eagerly devoured as bingeworthy TV series that stream today. Paramount hired him to turn his stories into screenplays and he worked alongside Raymond Chandler and Billy …show more content…
He picked up awards along the way, including the Arts & Letters Prize for Fiction. Two short story collections later, he moved on to writing novels. For this, he reached back to his reporting on the environment and outdoor adventure days. Weather, wildlife, and landscape each play their own integral roles in the arcs of his novels. It’s especially true of his Nick Drake mysteries.
Dwight’s of the belief that “whydunits” can be just as entertaining and thrilling as “whodunits”. Characters are the main drive of his books. Revealing their traits, deeds, loves, and hates over the course of a book builds suspense and drives the action. When it comes to one of his series, he makes sure the recurring characters continue to grow from one book to the next. Their journeys make for a richer and deeper reading experience, while every book provides readers with more than just the exhilaration of a chase. They also give them something new to learn about human behavior and the natural world.
“Bad Karma” is the second novel in the “Jack McCoul Caper” series and was released in 2015. Jack McCoul isn’t your typical private