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Invisible Ink is a helpful, accessible guide to the essential elements of the best storytelling by award-winning writer/director/producer Brian McDonald. Readers learn techniques for building a compelling story around a theme, engaging audiences with writing, creating appealing characters, and much more.



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Brian McDonald

Once upon a time, there was a famous restaurant called Elaine's. For forty years or so, Elaine's was the beating heart--and crusted liver--of Manhattan's literary scene. As a bartender there for over a decade, I had a front row seat to watch some of the greatest novelists and non-fiction writers of the 20th Century in their most contemplative moments. I once saw Hunter S. Thompson set himself on fire drinking flaming shots of 151-proof Bacardi rum. We had to smother him with a tablecloth. Perhaps it was that night, or one like it, when I began to believe that maybe I too could become a writer. Since that impertinent beginning, I've been able to assemble a modest body of work that includes the memoirs Last Call at Elaine's: a Journey From One Side of the Bar to the Other (St. Martin's Press 2008) ; and My Father's Gun: One Family, Three Badges, One Hundred Years in the NYPD (Dutton 1999) . "My Father's Gun" was made into an award-winning feature-length documentary aired on the History Channel (click arrow above for preview) . More recently, I've ghostwritten or acted as a book doctor on a half dozen successfully published memoirs and collaborated with Malachy McCourt on the just released: Death Need Not Be Fatal (Hachette, May 2017) , a humorous and poignant memoir of facing the Great Hereafter.



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