3/18/2010 4:58 PM
Kyer wrote:
Dear Mr. Golemon: I eagerly began your novel "Event", but had to stop reading because of some racism I've come across. We are introduced to several characters but by page 29, you describe one as an "old Hispanic man" and page 30 there's a "black sergeant". We don't know the skin color nor ethnicity of the previous characters...only left to believe they are white. I'm not implying you are racist but the tone of your novel so far exhibits such. I find it difficult to continue reading when I come across this issue despite the superb quality of writing. Your novel(s) may take me on a wonderful and frightening and mysterious adventure, but I will never know. Reply to this
I am so very sorry you took offense to my description of minorities in EVENT. After considering how to introduce such characters in my story and not sound racist is a problem I have not had to deal with in my life. Being as half of my aunts (3) married black men, the natural course of having people of color in my family blocked my views on how to bring them up in a story, as I never even thought twice about it in my real life.
In Event I had discovered I wanted to empower blacks, women, and minorities into the stories of the Event Group, therefore I had to be able to describe them as such. For instance, one of my main characters is a black sergeant named Will Mendenhall, unlike most writers would have done by taking the easy way out and using a name that would have been synonymous with a black persons last name, I went the other route and used an old English name as his. Now this character has risen in the ranks to be a Lieutenant in the Event Group hierarchy and is the one character I get the most mail about, and its isn't for comic relief.
So I take exception to your charge, and hope that you would always give the story the full benefit of the doubt before you toss it away, and if you have another way of introducing characters into a story without the benefit of describing skin color, please feel free to tell me. I feel I am a victim of our times in the fact that it is a world that isn't fair, whereas I try to be as fair as possible and not avoid the subject. Most would just keep the issue of race one sided in novel form to be on the safe side, where I try to do my best to be as fair as possible in dealing out who is capable of being a hero---that being everyone of every race or gender.
Again, I'm sorry if I offended, and will make note of the rebuke, but honestly see no way to be a describer of scenes without describing. Since EVENT, as in real life is eighty percent white of character, I believe it is easier to say the five to six people of color is easier to describe to a vast audience, then that 80%. I would rather quit writing than have my best characters, the men and women of color, be just another bland building block without giving them their just due.
4/18/2010 8:16 AM
Kevin wrote:
Sorry but you are completely off base about racism. Seriously? Because he describes them as being "black" and "hispanic"? How else do you describe them? Do you do it in their language? Do you do it in their dress? Behavior? C'mon. Mr. Goleman is clearly trying to provide as complete a description of the characters as possible. Racism exists when people look for it in places it's not. If that is true, which I believe it to be, then who is the racist in this matter? Perhaps you need to look within before you start pointing fingers. Reply to this
3/19/2010 12:04 AM
TERRENCE GIBBONS wrote:
DAVID YOU ARE INDEED A SUPERB WRITER,AND AS FOR RACISM IN YOUR NOVELS, I HAVE TO SIDE ON YOUR BEHALF. WHEN I WAS IN MY FORMATIVE YEARS OUR FAMILY WENT WHERE MY FATHER COULD FIND WORK. (I WAS MUCH LIKE A MILITARY BRAT). WE WANDERED THROUGH MOST OF ALBERTA, BRITISH COLUMBIA & THE BORDER STATES. THIS WAS JUST AFTER THE END OF WW11. CANADA AND THE U.S WERE REBUILDING THEIR LIVES. THE VARIETY OF NATIONALITIES I ENCOUNTERED WAS TO A LARGE EXTENT IMMIGRANTS TO BOTH COUNTRIES. I REVELLED IN OUR DIFFERENCES & THE COMMON BONDS THAT WE SHARE IN BEING HUMAN. I LEARNED HOW YANKS & CANUCKS DIFFERED AND WHAT WE SHARED IN COMMON; THE CEREMONIAL WAYS OF THE JAPANESE AND THEIR TRADITIONS; THE WAYS OF HARD WORKING GERMAN PEOPLE; AND THE WINE MAKING ART OF ITALIANS. THE ONE THING IN COMMON WAS WE ALL HAD KILLED EACH OTHER IN HORRENDOUS WARS, YET IN PEACETIME HAD SO MUCH TO OFFER EACH OTHER. IN ELEMENTARY 1 ROOM SCHOOLS (GRADES I-5) AND JUNIOR & SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLS, I HAD FRIENDS OF JUST ABOUT EVERY NATIONALITY, RARELY WAS HEARD THE TERM "RACIAL INEQUALITY". I ALWAYS THOUGHT THAT WOMWEN WERE EQUAL WITH MEN, IN MY FAMILY, MATTERS WERE SOLVED BY DISCUSSION. WHEN I NEEDED SOMETHING I WOULD FIRST ASK MY FATHER, AND HE WOULD SAY CHECK WITH THE BOSS (MOM). IT WAS NOT UNTIL I WAS AN ADULT THAT I FIRST ENCOUNTERED INEQUALITY OF RACE OR GENDER, UP UNTIL THAT TIME I MUST HAVE VIEWED THE WORLD THROUGH ROSE COLOURED GLASSES. I WAS SHOCKED TO FIND OUT MY FATHER HAD A DISLIKE OF JEWS & BLACKS. WHEN I CONFRONTED HIM ABOUT THIS, HE REALLY COULDN'T DEFEND HIS REASONING, AND WHEN I ASKED HIM WHY I WAS ALLOWED TO PLAY WITH 3 BLACK CHILDREN DOWN THE STREET, HE REPLYED, THAT I WOULD FIGURE IT OUT FOR MYSELF. WHEN ASKED ABOUT THE JEWS AND THE FACT THAT AT WARS END AND HOUSING WAS IN SHORT SUPPLY, IT WAS A JEWISH FAMILY THAT GAVE US SHELTER, AND THAT WHEN THEIR YOUNG SON WHO LATER BECAME A LAWYER AND THEN RAN FOR POLITICAL OFFICE, HE HAD GONE CAMPAIGNING FOR HIM (HE DID WIN). MY FATHER SAID HE THOUGHT THAT HE WAS THE RIGHT PERSON FOR THE JOB. AFTER WATCHING "ROOTS", DAD SAID HE HAD LET A FEW BAD APPLES TO COLOUR HIS JUDGEMENT OF ALL FOREIGNERS. HE WAS JUST GLAD THAT HE HAD NOT PASSED IT ON TO US. SADLY THEY ARE GONE NOW; MOM & DAD AND MY YOUNGER BROTHER & SISTER. I AM THE LAST, AND JUST HOPE THAT I CAN FIGHT BIGOTRY AND RACISM BY SPEAKING OUT. SIGH, ONCE AGAIN, LONGWINDED TERRY. WIN). Reply to this
4/4/2010 8:15 PM
Iris Munoz wrote:
Mr. Golemon: I have read all of your novels about the Event Group, being the last one Ancients. I'm looking for to your next novel which comes out in July. I have ONE BIG CONCERN. Did Jack Collins really die in the earthquake? I can't believe you killed off your main character in this novel. Jack was my FAVORITE character and can't believe he won't be in the next.
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The suspense will only last for as long as it takes you to get LEVIATHAN, then all concerns and prayers just may be answered. Don't wait for Primeval though, you just may lose another character that you like, you never know!
5/8/2010 12:27 PM
Dustin Ledbetter wrote:
As im walking through barnes and noble i just so happened to come across a book titled ancients. I read the back of this book and was drawn into the story. But i cant just pick up in the middle of a series, i have to read from the beginning. I picked up event and was at first sceptical because it had to do with aliens, but im glad i made the choice to read your book. This has become one of my favorite series to date and im alraedy looking forward to the next book. Thanks again for your hard work. Authors, and you especially, take me to a work where i can get away and have some fun. And im also in the United States Navy. So its good to read some good old military adventures. Thanks again! Reply to this
5/30/2010 10:37 AM
Jake wrote:
Hello Mr. Golemon i absolutely love the series and i look forward to each book every year and i don't know if I'm not looking hard enough but i can not find a release date for Primeval on the website, unless there isn't one yet.However if there is a set date you would really make my day if you could let me know when it is. Thanks for writing you have an amazing way of telling a story and its such a great gift please don't stop with this series anytime soon. -Jake Reply to this
Thank you for your kind note and question. The premier of Primeval in all bookstores is on Tuesday, July 6th. And to let you know in advance, the manuscript for the sixth book in the Event Group series has been turned in, and LEGACY will be on the shelves approx. seven months from the release of PRIMEVAL. The paperback version of LEVIATHAN will be in stores on August sixth, and is being heralded as the number one book being released by Macmillan, St. Martin's Press and Thomas Dunne Books for the month of August, so that means the Event Group is finally getting its due respect at the publishing house.
5/30/2010 11:16 AM
Cherei wrote:
That's easy! Just go back in time.. after I buy a few copies! That would give me some reading material this weekend! lmao Reply to this
I just wanted to say a big Thank You for your wonderful Event Group series. You pulled me in with your fresh approach to the overworked Roswell story in "Event" and, as I write this note, have me waiting to see what's in store for us with "Primeval", which is due to arrive on my doorstep tomorrow.
7/17/2010 11:30 PM
TERRENCE GIBBONS wrote:
HI DAVID; JUST FINISHED "PRIMEVAL". IT WAS WELL RESEARCHED, PLOTTED AND WRITTEN... I THOROUGHLY ENJOYED IT. GIGANTICUS PYHTICUS...WHO'D OF THOUGHT. IT BROUGHT BACK A LOT OF MEMORIES OF MY CHILDHOOD. YOU CONTINUE TO DO AN EXCELLANT JOB IN FLESHING OUT ALL OF THE EVENT GROUP PERSONNEL. AS IT STANDS NOW, I HAVE NO CLEAR IMAGE OF ANY OF THE CAST IF ANYONE OF YOUR BOOKS WERE MADE INTO A FILM. I LIKE THE USE OF UNKNOWNS BEING CAST IN PIVOTAL ROLES, WITH KNOWNS AS GUEST STARS. UNLIKE YOUR COMPETITION, ANDY MCDERMOTT AND HIS EVENT LIKE GROUP RUN BY THE UNITED NATIONS. HE THINKS THAT PURE ACTION TELLS A BETTER STORY (WHICH IT DOESN'T), AND WRITES LIKE HE IS SETTING UP FOR A FILM. HIS SECONDARY CHARACTER, AS DESCRIBED IN HIS BOOKS (EDDIE)COULD BE PORTRAYED BY JASON STATHAM FROM THE "THE TRANSPORTER" & "CRANK" FILMS. YOU, ON THE OTHER HAND MAKE READING A PLEASURE WITHOUT OVERDOING THE ACTION, BUT ALWAYS ENHANSING THE PLOT. I HOPE YOU HAVE A LARGE "IDEAS" JAR. NICE OF YOU TO MENTION CSIS. BACK IN THE DAY IT WAS JUST RCMP "SPECIAL BRANCH". I DO LISTEN TO THE MUSIC IN EVERY NOVEL. THIS TIME OUT "CRIMSON & CLOVER" PLAYED OVER IN MY MIND FOR AN ENTIRE DAY AND OF COURSE ALL OF THE OTHER MUSIC OF THAT ERA. MY PERSONAL FAVOURITES RANGE FROM THE 40'S, 50'S, 60'S AND SOME 70'S & 80'S. I HAVE AN EXTENSIVE MUSIC LIBRARY. SOME 45'3 LP,S, TAPES AND CD'S, I STILL MAINTAIN A STEREO RECORD PLAYER. NOW I CAN JUST BUY & BURN ONLINE. I NOTICED THAT YOU DIDN'T LEAVE A HINT FOR YOUR NEXT NOVEL. DO YOU HAVE A NEW WORK IN PROGRESS OR ARE YOU GOING TO TAKE A WELL NEEDED REST?. WHAT EVER THE CASE MAYBE, I WILL BE WAITING. BEFORE I FORGET, I LIKED THE SPIN ON THE CZAR NICHOLAS AND ANASTASIA MYSTERY. THERE IS ONE THING THAT WOULD MAKE YOUR NOVELS COMPLETE. AT THE END OF A STORYLINE HAVE A FACT FROM FICTION LOG. I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO SEE AN EXTENDED "ABOUT THE AUTHOR", BECAUSE YOUR STORIES SAY A LOT ABOUT YOUR LIFE. I HAVE A VORACIOUS APETITE FOR KNOWLEDGE, A LOT GAINED FROM PERSONAL EXPERIENCE, THE REST FROM RESEARCH. I AM CURRENTLY READING 2 NON FICTION BOOKS, THEY ARE "2012": FACT FROM FICTION, AND THE "ENTITY"...ABOUT THE MOST DEADLY AND EFFECTIVE SPY AGENCY IN THE WORLD...THE HOLY ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH, WHICH AUTHOR CHELSEA QUINN YARBO QUOTED AT THE BEGINNING OF ONE HER NOVELS: IS NOT HOLY, NOR ROMAN, NOR UNIVERSAL. DO NOT TAKE THIS THE WRONG WAY...IT IS NOT ABOUT THE RELIGION. IT IS ABOUT THE MEN OF THE CHURCH AND THEIR ONGOING LUST FOR CONTROL. I AM GLAD TO BE LIVING IN TODAY'S WORLD, IF IT WERE ANYTIME IN THE PAST, LET'S JUST SAY, I DOUBT I WOULD BE AROUND. IN ENDING I WOULD LIKE TO TELL YOU TO KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK, BUT THAT IS WHAT YOU DO. A CONTINUING FAN, TERRY Reply to this
7/21/2010 3:00 PM
Gary wrote:
Hello, I would fire who ever does your proof reading or editing, I have never seen so many errors in Legend in anyone book, like saying Jacks instead of Jenks or of instead of off but these are just minor to all the errors. I like your stories they are very good. I am a big reader of James Rollins and Preston & Child books. I have bought the first 4 Event Books and would like themmore if the proof reading had been done. Thanks, Gary King in Burns,Or. Reply to this
Thank you for your letter. As for the proof readers for my first three novels, I'm afraid they have gone the way of all bad proofers, they are no more. I hope you like the editing in the next five.
7/23/2010 1:13 AM
Jim M Gau wrote:
Dear David:
Talk about ventricle-palpitating, pulse-pounding, suspense-filled thrill-a-minute occurances....I'm not talking about your latest heart-in-the-throat episode of the Event Group (well, not exactly); I'm talking about how I am leaving for a week's vacation in beautiful Wisconsin tomorrow, and I was getting worried that my special order of "Primeval" at my local bookstore would not get here in time to take with me on my trip! Talk about being fearful of being lost in the wilderness! Fortunately, though, the book arrived yesterday, and I picked it up today. Thank goodness I won't have to cancel my vacation after all for lack of something grand to read! However, if the book is overly long, I just might have to extend my vacation a few days to be sure I get time to read & thoroughly appreciate every wonderful crossed "i" and dotted "t"! Oh, the dangers we face....!
Keep up the top-notch writing, David. Your wonderful novels absolutely are a true "Event"!
Sincerly yours,
Jim M. Gau
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8/16/2010 1:21 PM
David Lynn Golemon wrote:
Well Andrew, without giving away the whole storyline, LEGACY is about the discovery on the moon's surface of a 275 million year old skeleton of a human being. The site where it is found is littered with elements from this ancient being's civilization and that starts the race back to the moon by many nations of the Earth. Howeever there is one thing these countries never realized in their zeal to get to the moon for the technology---they failed to realize that the body was found in a detroyed settlement, a settlement that had been oblitereated from the surface of the moon by someone who didn't want them there.
Well, I think that's about as far as this tease will go. I hope it was enough to grab your interest.
7/26/2010 8:55 AM
Greg wrote:
Mr. Golemon, I just finished Primeval. Great stuff. As i've come to expect and anticipate. One of ym favorite legends brought to life for me on the written page. The action was crisp and non-stop. The characters are fascinating, both the good ones and the bad ones. I enjoyed this book and finished it in one day. Thank you for another great Collins and company adventure. All i can really ask is, "what's next?" Are you currently working on another book? Reply to this
8/4/2010 8:56 PM
Rob wrote:
I have just finished reading Primevil and it just keeps getting better and better. The characters are great and the story just keeps you entangled. I have read all of The Event Group series now and was waiting for Barnes and Nobles to get Primevil in and now even have all the guys and some women at work reading all of them. These are very hard to put down once you start reading but the hardest part is waiting for the next one to appear on bookstore shelves. Thanks for the great stories but please hurry and keep writing. Thanks again!!! Reply to this
8/9/2010 11:38 PM
Kevin from Kansas wrote:
Kyre: think before you write and fight the good fight where racism truly is. It's not here.
Mr. Golemon, I just finished Primeval and it was awesome! I'm just sad we have to wait for the next book! How's the next book looking? Reply to this
Thank you for the letter and the comments on racism, it just sad that people find smoke where there never was a fire (at least as far as this authors family is concerned)
The next book, LEGACY is already in the publsihers hands and will begin the editing process very soon.
8/11/2010 4:12 AM
Diane Hood wrote:
I am totaly hooked! I am now waiting to get a hold of Primevil. I was a little concerned when I first started reading "Event" that you would get so technical in writing about the military aspect that I would lose interest, or not be able to keep up. Not so! I find the action believeable and almost heart stopping at times. Your ideas are great and I will be telling all my friends (male and female) that they can't go wrong with one of your books. If there is one complaint its that I am staying up to late just to read one more chapter. Thanks for the great read! Reply to this
Thanbk you for the note and for your appreciation for the Event Group novels. I try and keep the military rheoric to a minimum, as a lot of authors love to place standard military stuff in their stories to impress, when most of them have never been close enough to the military to shake their hands.
I hope you enjoy Primeval, thus far the votes are in favor of it being the funnest story yet for the Event group. And LEGACY is complete and ready for the Spring.
8/11/2010 6:02 PM
Erin wrote:
This book is everything a book of this genre should be............I had SO MUCH FUN, reading Primeval!! Primeval, was probably the best book I have read all year. It was like reading an adventure letter from one of my best friends, or, watching a new episode of the original Star Trek series, if that makes any sense. Loved the character development, and the sense of humor. I could see my dad's sense of humor, I laughed out loud, several times, and I'm sure he would have loved it, too. Right down my alley, I'm sorry I finished reading it so soon!........can't wait for the next one! Reply to this
Thank you for your letter. I really thought Primeval was fun. Because of Legacy (Spring of 2011) being so hard and dark, I thought I better forward that novel with one that was more on a lighter note, and that was Primeval.
8/13/2010 9:33 PM
Kurt Schulze wrote:
Mr. Golemon,
Thanks for this super series of books. Great stories, wonderful characters and its fantastic the way you blend history and fiction. I've read all 5 books. Can't wait for Legacy. I almost wish the books would come more frequently but I wouldn't want to see the quality suffer. Keep up the great work.
I really could, and would, put ot more Event Group novels if I coud. The stories are there, but because of market shares and deals with book stores, I'm limited to one hardback and one paperback a year. Although I am trying hard, we only managed to get a hardback released every 9-10 months, at least thats two in a calendar year, thats a start.
8/16/2010 1:07 PM
Kevin wrote:
Oooo! I can't wait for Legacy! I'm curious, have you seen the new adverts for "Event" on NBC? I saw that and was wondering if there were any connections. Reply to this
Thank you for your letter. As to yoiur question, NO, the series on NBC is not part of the Event Group, but this is an attempt for that network to take advantage of EVENT's popularity in the literary world, and that is the reason for their ambiguity in theit commercials.
Believe me when I do allow the Event Group stories to go to film (which may be sooner than anyone thinks) you will know the difference in marketing, the Group will be done with class and quality.
9/1/2010 11:45 PM
sharon wrote:
just finished reading Primeval and loved it as much as your previous books. My only complaint is the terrible proofreading. I am not a perfectionest by any means but this book had so many mistakes it almost took away the joy of reading it. From simple punctuation errors to mispelled words there was hardly a page without a problem. I almost started rereading the book with a yellow highlighter in hand to highlight all the mistakes and then send it to the publisher for an explanation for how this could happen. I do not blame you for the mistakes,so perhaps a word from you could prevent this from happening to your future novels.Anything that takes away from the great storyline,wonderful characters,and anticipation for the next page is so unfair to your great books.My criticism is sent with respect and great affection to the event group. Reply to this
Dear Mr. Golemon: I eagerly began your novel "Event", but had to stop reading because of some racism I've come across. We are introduced to several characters but by page 29, you describe one as an "old Hispanic man" and page 30 there's a "black sergeant". We don't know the skin color nor ethnicity of the previous characters...only left to believe they are white. I'm not implying you are racist but the tone of your novel so far exhibits such. I find it difficult to continue reading when I come across this issue despite the superb quality of writing. Your novel(s) may take me on a wonderful and frightening and mysterious adventure, but I will never know.
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Dear Kyer--
I am so very sorry you took offense to my description of minorities in EVENT. After considering how to introduce such characters in my story and not sound racist is a problem I have not had to deal with in my life. Being as half of my aunts (3) married black men, the natural course of having people of color in my family blocked my views on how to bring them up in a story, as I never even thought twice about it in my real life.
In Event I had discovered I wanted to empower blacks, women, and minorities into the stories of the Event Group, therefore I had to be able to describe them as such. For instance, one of my main characters is a black sergeant named Will Mendenhall, unlike most writers would have done by taking the easy way out and using a name that would have been synonymous with a black persons last name, I went the other route and used an old English name as his. Now this character has risen in the ranks to be a Lieutenant in the Event Group hierarchy and is the one character I get the most mail about, and its isn't for comic relief.
So I take exception to your charge, and hope that you would always give the story the full benefit of the doubt before you toss it away, and if you have another way of introducing characters into a story without the benefit of describing skin color, please feel free to tell me. I feel I am a victim of our times in the fact that it is a world that isn't fair, whereas I try to be as fair as possible and not avoid the subject. Most would just keep the issue of race one sided in novel form to be on the safe side, where I try to do my best to be as fair as possible in dealing out who is capable of being a hero---that being everyone of every race or gender.
Again, I'm sorry if I offended, and will make note of the rebuke, but honestly see no way to be a describer of scenes without describing. Since EVENT, as in real life is eighty percent white of character, I believe it is easier to say the five to six people of color is easier to describe to a vast audience, then that 80%. I would rather quit writing than have my best characters, the men and women of color, be just another bland building block without giving them their just due.
David Lynn Golemon
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Sorry but you are completely off base about racism. Seriously? Because he describes them as being "black" and "hispanic"? How else do you describe them? Do you do it in their language? Do you do it in their dress? Behavior? C'mon. Mr. Goleman is clearly trying to provide as complete a description of the characters as possible. Racism exists when people look for it in places it's not. If that is true, which I believe it to be, then who is the racist in this matter? Perhaps you need to look within before you start pointing fingers.
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DAVID YOU ARE INDEED A SUPERB WRITER,AND AS FOR RACISM IN YOUR NOVELS, I HAVE TO SIDE ON YOUR BEHALF. WHEN I WAS IN MY FORMATIVE YEARS OUR FAMILY WENT WHERE MY FATHER COULD FIND WORK. (I WAS MUCH LIKE A MILITARY BRAT). WE WANDERED THROUGH MOST OF ALBERTA, BRITISH COLUMBIA & THE BORDER STATES. THIS WAS JUST AFTER THE END OF WW11. CANADA AND THE U.S WERE REBUILDING THEIR LIVES. THE VARIETY OF NATIONALITIES I ENCOUNTERED WAS TO A LARGE EXTENT IMMIGRANTS TO BOTH COUNTRIES. I REVELLED IN OUR DIFFERENCES & THE COMMON BONDS THAT WE SHARE IN BEING HUMAN. I LEARNED HOW YANKS & CANUCKS DIFFERED AND WHAT WE SHARED IN COMMON; THE CEREMONIAL WAYS OF THE JAPANESE AND THEIR TRADITIONS; THE WAYS OF HARD WORKING GERMAN PEOPLE; AND THE WINE MAKING ART OF ITALIANS. THE ONE THING IN COMMON WAS WE ALL HAD KILLED EACH OTHER IN HORRENDOUS WARS, YET IN PEACETIME HAD SO MUCH TO OFFER EACH OTHER. IN ELEMENTARY 1 ROOM SCHOOLS (GRADES I-5) AND JUNIOR & SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLS, I HAD FRIENDS OF JUST ABOUT EVERY NATIONALITY, RARELY WAS HEARD THE TERM "RACIAL INEQUALITY". I ALWAYS THOUGHT THAT WOMWEN WERE EQUAL WITH MEN, IN MY FAMILY, MATTERS WERE SOLVED BY DISCUSSION. WHEN I NEEDED SOMETHING I WOULD FIRST ASK MY FATHER, AND HE WOULD SAY CHECK WITH THE BOSS (MOM). IT WAS NOT UNTIL I WAS AN ADULT THAT I FIRST ENCOUNTERED INEQUALITY OF RACE OR GENDER, UP UNTIL THAT TIME I MUST HAVE VIEWED THE WORLD THROUGH ROSE COLOURED GLASSES. I WAS SHOCKED TO FIND OUT MY FATHER HAD A DISLIKE OF JEWS & BLACKS. WHEN I CONFRONTED HIM ABOUT THIS, HE REALLY COULDN'T DEFEND HIS REASONING, AND WHEN I ASKED HIM WHY I WAS ALLOWED TO PLAY WITH 3 BLACK CHILDREN DOWN THE STREET, HE REPLYED, THAT I WOULD FIGURE IT OUT FOR MYSELF. WHEN ASKED ABOUT THE JEWS AND THE FACT THAT AT WARS END AND HOUSING WAS IN SHORT SUPPLY, IT WAS A JEWISH FAMILY THAT GAVE US SHELTER, AND THAT WHEN THEIR YOUNG SON WHO LATER BECAME A LAWYER AND THEN RAN FOR POLITICAL OFFICE, HE HAD GONE CAMPAIGNING FOR HIM (HE DID WIN). MY FATHER SAID HE THOUGHT THAT HE WAS THE RIGHT PERSON FOR THE JOB. AFTER WATCHING "ROOTS", DAD SAID HE HAD LET A FEW BAD APPLES TO COLOUR HIS JUDGEMENT OF ALL FOREIGNERS. HE WAS JUST GLAD THAT HE HAD NOT PASSED IT ON TO US. SADLY THEY ARE GONE NOW; MOM & DAD AND MY YOUNGER BROTHER & SISTER. I AM THE LAST, AND JUST HOPE THAT I CAN FIGHT BIGOTRY AND RACISM BY SPEAKING OUT. SIGH, ONCE AGAIN, LONGWINDED TERRY. WIN).
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Dear Terrance--
Thank you for the support on this issue. It's just too bad people go out of their way to look for things like that. It's a shame.
David Lynn Golemon
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Mr. Golemon: I have read all of your novels about the Event Group, being the last one Ancients. I'm looking for to your next novel which comes out in July. I have ONE BIG CONCERN. Did Jack Collins really die in the earthquake? I can't believe you killed off your main character in this novel. Jack was my FAVORITE character and can't believe he won't be in the next.
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Dear Iris--
The suspense will only last for as long as it takes you to get LEVIATHAN, then all concerns and prayers just may be answered. Don't wait for Primeval though, you just may lose another character that you like, you never know!
David Lynn Golemon
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As im walking through barnes and noble i just so happened to come across a book titled ancients. I read the back of this book and was drawn into the story. But i cant just pick up in the middle of a series, i have to read from the beginning. I picked up event and was at first sceptical because it had to do with aliens, but im glad i made the choice to read your book. This has become one of my favorite series to date and im alraedy looking forward to the next book. Thanks again for your hard work. Authors, and you especially, take me to a work where i can get away and have some fun. And im also in the United States Navy. So its good to read some good old military adventures. Thanks again!
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Hello Mr. Golemon i absolutely love the series and i look forward to each book every year and i don't know if I'm not looking hard enough but i can not find a release date for Primeval on the website, unless there isn't one yet.However if there is a set date you would really make my day if you could let me know when it is. Thanks for writing you have an amazing way of telling a story and its such a great gift please don't stop with this series anytime soon. -Jake
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Dear Jake--
Thank you for your kind note and question. The premier of Primeval in all bookstores is on Tuesday, July 6th. And to let you know in advance, the manuscript for the sixth book in the Event Group series has been turned in, and LEGACY will be on the shelves approx. seven months from the release of PRIMEVAL. The paperback version of LEVIATHAN will be in stores on August sixth, and is being heralded as the number one book being released by Macmillan, St. Martin's Press and Thomas Dunne Books for the month of August, so that means the Event Group is finally getting its due respect at the publishing house.
Thanks again,
DLG
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OMG!!!! This is wonderful news! Now.. can you speed up time.. and make tomorrow July 6th?? Grrrrrrin!
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Dear Cherei---
Believe me, at my age, the last thuing I want to do is speed up time!
Thanks Cherei, its always nice to hear from you!
DLG
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That is so very awesome thank you very much for the good news.
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That's easy! Just go back in time.. after I buy a few copies! That would give me some reading material this weekend! lmao
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Hello,
I just wanted to say a big Thank You for your wonderful Event Group series. You pulled me in with your fresh approach to the overworked Roswell story in "Event" and, as I write this note, have me waiting to see what's in store for us with "Primeval", which is due to arrive on my doorstep tomorrow.
Thanks Again!!
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Dear Tony--
Thank you for your very kind compliment, believe me, I like all I can get!
DLG
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When can I expect to see primevil in bookshelves?
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Dear Connor--
Primeval went on sale Tuesday the 6th at any Barnes & Noble, Borders, Tower, ect.
DLG
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thank you david I love your books keep 'em comin!
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HI DAVID; JUST FINISHED "PRIMEVAL". IT WAS WELL RESEARCHED, PLOTTED AND WRITTEN... I THOROUGHLY ENJOYED IT. GIGANTICUS PYHTICUS...WHO'D OF THOUGHT. IT BROUGHT BACK A LOT OF MEMORIES OF MY CHILDHOOD. YOU CONTINUE TO DO AN EXCELLANT JOB IN FLESHING OUT ALL OF THE EVENT GROUP PERSONNEL. AS IT STANDS NOW, I HAVE NO CLEAR IMAGE OF ANY OF THE CAST IF ANYONE OF YOUR BOOKS WERE MADE INTO A FILM. I LIKE THE USE OF UNKNOWNS BEING CAST IN PIVOTAL ROLES, WITH KNOWNS AS GUEST STARS. UNLIKE YOUR COMPETITION, ANDY MCDERMOTT AND HIS EVENT LIKE GROUP RUN BY THE UNITED NATIONS. HE THINKS THAT PURE ACTION TELLS A BETTER STORY (WHICH IT DOESN'T), AND WRITES LIKE HE IS SETTING UP FOR A FILM. HIS SECONDARY CHARACTER, AS DESCRIBED IN HIS BOOKS (EDDIE)COULD BE PORTRAYED BY JASON STATHAM FROM THE "THE TRANSPORTER" & "CRANK" FILMS. YOU, ON THE OTHER HAND MAKE READING A PLEASURE WITHOUT OVERDOING THE ACTION, BUT ALWAYS ENHANSING THE PLOT. I HOPE YOU HAVE A LARGE "IDEAS" JAR. NICE OF YOU TO MENTION CSIS. BACK IN THE DAY IT WAS JUST RCMP "SPECIAL BRANCH". I DO LISTEN TO THE MUSIC IN EVERY NOVEL. THIS TIME OUT "CRIMSON & CLOVER" PLAYED OVER IN MY MIND FOR AN ENTIRE DAY AND OF COURSE ALL OF THE OTHER MUSIC OF THAT ERA. MY PERSONAL FAVOURITES RANGE FROM THE 40'S, 50'S, 60'S AND SOME 70'S & 80'S. I HAVE AN EXTENSIVE MUSIC LIBRARY. SOME 45'3 LP,S, TAPES AND CD'S, I STILL MAINTAIN A STEREO RECORD PLAYER. NOW I CAN JUST BUY & BURN ONLINE. I NOTICED THAT YOU DIDN'T LEAVE A HINT FOR YOUR NEXT NOVEL. DO YOU HAVE A NEW WORK IN PROGRESS OR ARE YOU GOING TO TAKE A WELL NEEDED REST?. WHAT EVER THE CASE MAYBE, I WILL BE WAITING. BEFORE I FORGET, I LIKED THE SPIN ON THE CZAR NICHOLAS AND ANASTASIA MYSTERY. THERE IS ONE THING THAT WOULD MAKE YOUR NOVELS COMPLETE. AT THE END OF A STORYLINE HAVE A FACT FROM FICTION LOG. I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO SEE AN EXTENDED "ABOUT THE AUTHOR", BECAUSE YOUR STORIES SAY A LOT ABOUT YOUR LIFE. I HAVE A VORACIOUS APETITE FOR KNOWLEDGE, A LOT GAINED FROM PERSONAL EXPERIENCE, THE REST FROM RESEARCH. I AM CURRENTLY READING 2 NON FICTION BOOKS, THEY ARE "2012": FACT FROM FICTION, AND THE "ENTITY"...ABOUT THE MOST DEADLY AND EFFECTIVE SPY AGENCY IN THE WORLD...THE HOLY ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH, WHICH AUTHOR CHELSEA QUINN YARBO QUOTED AT THE BEGINNING OF ONE HER NOVELS: IS NOT HOLY, NOR ROMAN, NOR UNIVERSAL. DO NOT TAKE THIS THE WRONG WAY...IT IS NOT ABOUT THE RELIGION. IT IS ABOUT THE MEN OF THE CHURCH AND THEIR ONGOING LUST FOR CONTROL. I AM GLAD TO BE LIVING IN TODAY'S WORLD, IF IT WERE ANYTIME IN THE PAST, LET'S JUST SAY, I DOUBT I WOULD BE AROUND. IN ENDING I WOULD LIKE TO TELL YOU TO KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK, BUT THAT IS WHAT YOU DO. A CONTINUING FAN, TERRY
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Dear Terry--
Thank you for your observations, they are always welcome at the Event group Files. I appreciate your view on things.
DLG
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Hello, I would fire who ever does your proof reading or editing, I have never seen so many errors in Legend in anyone book, like saying Jacks instead of Jenks or of instead of off but these are just minor to all the errors. I like your stories they are very good. I am a big reader of James Rollins and Preston & Child books. I have bought the first 4 Event Books and would like themmore if the proof reading had been done. Thanks, Gary King in Burns,Or.
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Dear gary--
Thank you for your letter. As for the proof readers for my first three novels, I'm afraid they have gone the way of all bad proofers, they are no more. I hope you like the editing in the next five.
DLG
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Dear David:
Talk about ventricle-palpitating, pulse-pounding, suspense-filled thrill-a-minute occurances....I'm not talking about your latest heart-in-the-throat episode of the Event Group (well, not exactly); I'm talking about how I am leaving for a week's vacation in beautiful Wisconsin tomorrow, and I was getting worried that my special order of "Primeval" at my local bookstore would not get here in time to take with me on my trip! Talk about being fearful of being lost in the wilderness! Fortunately, though, the book arrived yesterday, and I picked it up today. Thank goodness I won't have to cancel my vacation after all for lack of something grand to read! However, if the book is overly long, I just might have to extend my vacation a few days to be sure I get time to read & thoroughly appreciate every wonderful crossed "i" and dotted "t"! Oh, the dangers we face....!
Keep up the top-notch writing, David. Your wonderful novels absolutely are a true "Event"!
Sincerly yours,
Jim M. Gau
Hancock, Michigan
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Any hints as to what this one is about?
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Well Andrew, without giving away the whole storyline, LEGACY is about the discovery on the moon's surface of a 275 million year old skeleton of a human being. The site where it is found is littered with elements from this ancient being's civilization and that starts the race back to the moon by many nations of the Earth. Howeever there is one thing these countries never realized in their zeal to get to the moon for the technology---they failed to realize that the body was found in a detroyed settlement, a settlement that had been oblitereated from the surface of the moon by someone who didn't want them there.
Well, I think that's about as far as this tease will go. I hope it was enough to grab your interest.
DLG
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Mr. Golemon, I just finished Primeval. Great stuff. As i've come to expect and anticipate. One of ym favorite legends brought to life for me on the written page. The action was crisp and non-stop. The characters are fascinating, both the good ones and the bad ones. I enjoyed this book and finished it in one day. Thank you for another great Collins and company adventure. All i can really ask is, "what's next?" Are you currently working on another book?
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Dear Greg--
You bet there is another book in the works. LEGACY will be out in April next year, and this is a big one!
DLG
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I have just finished reading Primevil and it just keeps getting better and better. The characters are great and the story just keeps you entangled. I have read all of The Event Group series now and was waiting for Barnes and Nobles to get Primevil in and now even have all the guys and some women at work reading all of them. These are very hard to put down once you start reading but the hardest part is waiting for the next one to appear on bookstore shelves. Thanks for the great stories but please hurry and keep writing. Thanks again!!!
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Kyre: think before you write and fight the good fight where racism truly is. It's not here.
Mr. Golemon, I just finished Primeval and it was awesome! I'm just sad we have to wait for the next book! How's the next book looking?
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Hello Kevin--
Thank you for the letter and the comments on racism, it just sad that people find smoke where there never was a fire (at least as far as this authors family is concerned)
The next book, LEGACY is already in the publsihers hands and will begin the editing process very soon.
DLG
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I am totaly hooked! I am now waiting to get a hold of Primevil. I was a little concerned when I first started reading "Event" that you would get so technical in writing about the military aspect that I would lose interest, or not be able to keep up. Not so! I find the action believeable and almost heart stopping at times. Your ideas are great and I will be telling all my friends (male and female) that they can't go wrong with one of your books. If there is one complaint its that I am staying up to late just to read one more chapter. Thanks for the great read!
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Dear Diane--
Thanbk you for the note and for your appreciation for the Event Group novels. I try and keep the military rheoric to a minimum, as a lot of authors love to place standard military stuff in their stories to impress, when most of them have never been close enough to the military to shake their hands.
I hope you enjoy Primeval, thus far the votes are in favor of it being the funnest story yet for the Event group. And LEGACY is complete and ready for the Spring.
Thanks again,
DLG
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This book is everything a book of this genre should be............I had SO MUCH FUN, reading Primeval!! Primeval, was probably the best book I have read all year. It was like reading an adventure letter from one of my best friends, or, watching a new episode of the original Star Trek series, if that makes any sense. Loved the character development, and the sense of humor. I could see my dad's sense of humor, I laughed out loud, several times, and I'm sure he would have loved it, too. Right down my alley, I'm sorry I finished reading it so soon!........can't wait for the next one!
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Dear Erin--
Thank you for your letter. I really thought Primeval was fun. Because of Legacy (Spring of 2011) being so hard and dark, I thought I better forward that novel with one that was more on a lighter note, and that was Primeval.
Thanks again Erin for your note.
DLG
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Mr. Golemon,
Thanks for this super series of books. Great stories, wonderful characters and its fantastic the way you blend history and fiction. I've read all 5 books. Can't wait for Legacy. I almost wish the books would come more frequently but I wouldn't want to see the quality suffer. Keep up the great work.
Your fan,
Kurt
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Dear Kurt-
Thank you for your query and compliment.
I really could, and would, put ot more Event Group novels if I coud. The stories are there, but because of market shares and deals with book stores, I'm limited to one hardback and one paperback a year. Although I am trying hard, we only managed to get a hardback released every 9-10 months, at least thats two in a calendar year, thats a start.
Thanks again,
DLG
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Oooo! I can't wait for Legacy! I'm curious, have you seen the new adverts for "Event" on NBC? I saw that and was wondering if there were any connections.
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Dear Kevin--
Thank you for your letter. As to yoiur question, NO, the series on NBC is not part of the Event Group, but this is an attempt for that network to take advantage of EVENT's popularity in the literary world, and that is the reason for their ambiguity in theit commercials.
Believe me when I do allow the Event Group stories to go to film (which may be sooner than anyone thinks) you will know the difference in marketing, the Group will be done with class and quality.
Thanbks again Kevin,
DLG
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just finished reading Primeval and loved it as much as your previous books. My only complaint is the terrible proofreading. I am not a perfectionest by any means but this book had so many mistakes it almost took away the joy of reading it. From simple punctuation errors to mispelled words there was hardly a page without a problem. I almost started rereading the book with a yellow highlighter in hand to highlight all the mistakes and then send it to the publisher for an explanation for how this could happen. I do not blame you for the mistakes,so perhaps a word from you could prevent this from happening to your future novels.Anything that takes away from the great storyline,wonderful characters,and anticipation for the next page is so unfair to your great books.My criticism is sent with respect and great affection to the event group.
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