Recent content by KayEn78

Wow! This is awesome news! I would LOVE to read your book, but since I am legally blind, I do not read eBooks very well and a paperback copy would take me ages to complete. So, I do best with audio versions of books these days. I hope an audio version will be released one day...

Started a blog called Kristi's Writing Desk. https://kristiswritingdesk.blogspot.com/2021/05/the-first-post.html

No, I have not. The only mystery-type stories I have written, have been the Dragnet ones. Even that was a surprise a few years ago when I began to write them. I had never written a mystery/crime-drama before then. The only writing I have actually had published in a magazine was my article...

I really don't think my writing can be as good as Ellroy's, but I'll think about it (changing the names, tactics, yet still keeping it Dragnet-influenced). It's interesting at what does get published. Someone wrote these Johnny Dollar books (I guess that wasn't under copyright) and you can buy...

So, you didn't like my story? :) I would have to change quite a bit because people would recognize Dragnet right away. I know someone who self-published her police drama stories and the main characters are name Jim and Pete. It screams Adam-12. I've thought about changing the names and...

Working on the final chapter of my Dragnet 1948 story, The Big Witness. https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12862499/1/The-Big-Witness

Working on the final chapter of my Dragnet 1948 story, The Big Witness.

I have finally gotten back into writing after a four-year lull (partly due to divorce, moving, a severe blood clot (which resulted in a hospital stay), and back surgery (another hospital stay). I began, what I call my Dragnet 1948 story, The Big Witness back in 2017 and only now have posted...

I've seen rotary dial phones and have one from the '60s (non-working) displayed in my living room, but have never used one. Having only used push-button phones and now cell phones--I just thought "dialing a number" was pressing (or for an iPhone "tapping") the numbers to make your call. It...

Thanks, LizzieMaine! Yes, they are definitely still around. In the past they used to publish more frequently, but now they have issues each year. I had a subscription back in the '90s when I was in high school. Bought six copies this weekend and passed them out to family members. :)

Recently, an article I wrote for The Nostalgia Digest Magazine has been published in the Spring, 2017 issue with William Powell & Myrna Loy on the cover. This magazine with my piece, And Me, Harlow Wilcox, can be found at the above link or the magazine rack of your local Barnes & Noble bookstore.

I've officially been published! "And Me, Harlow Wilcox" by Kristi Zanker Nostalgia Digest Magazine, Spring, 2017 pp: 18-21

And Me, Harlow Wilcox by Kristi Zanker

I saw the film 36 Hours with James Garner awhile back. Thought it was a fascinating plot. I'll have to dig that one out and watch it again soon. I did see the 1979 made-for-TV movie, All Quiet on the Western Front (with Richard Thomas) and thought it was odd that the Germans spoke perfect...

It's interesting. Years ago, I read the 1961 book, Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates. There was swearing in it--mostly g.d. and other milder curse words. However, there was one use of the "F" word. In the 2008 movie of the same name, there are about 8 to 10 "F" words splattered throughout...