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Read my one-scene play "Settling Up" at Scene4

The theatre magazine Scene4 published my one-scene play "Settling Up" this morning, and you can read it at the link below.

It's five pages of dialogue and probably a three-minute read.

A one-scene play is a terrific discipline, because you still have to tell a complete story from start to finish.

https://www.scene4.com/0621/vincentoneil0621.html

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DEATH TROUPE gets its first official review!

The Midwest Book Review’s excellent review of DEATH TROUPE:


It's quite annoying when fiction becomes reality. More so when your fiction is murder. "Death Troupe" follows the theatre group known as the Jerome Barron players who have earned the nickname Death Troupe, surrounding their practice of doing murder mystery plays. But when their  Read More 
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Getting It Write: When your main character is a writer



In my new novel Death Troupe, the main character is a playwright. Creating such a role was a new experience for me, and I was surprised by how much work it turned out to be. I’ve read many novels in which the protagonist was some kind of writer (Stephen King’s The Shining,  Read More 
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Murder, Romance, Suspense, and Theater: My new novel Death Troupe

Now available on Amazon:

DEATH TROUPE by Vincent H. O’Neil (394 pages)

The Jerome Barron Players have a problem. Their writer, Ryan Betancourt, has killed himself under mysterious circumstances and they need a replacement right away. The Players, unofficially known as Death Troupe, come together once a year to perform a high-end murder mystery  Read More 
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