Darden North, MD

www.dardennorth.com Gets a Re-do To celebrate the June 2013 release of my fourth novel WIGGLE ROOM from publisher Sartoris Literary Group, my website received a long-awaited update.   With the help of Denton Gibbes and Craig West, Creative Director at the Gibbes Company, the site has been expanded to include the new novel. We kept the general format of the site which has worked well since my first thriller HOUSE CALL was released in 2005. Clicking the image of each novel on the Home page provides a link to that book’s dedicated page. A synopsis appears with each novel as well as related information or promotional pieces. WIGGLE ROOM, also available in print and eBook, is unique in that its page features much-appreciated blurbs from advance-reader authors. I used this revision to incorporate improvements suggested by a website reviewer and to add features that I liked from other websites. These changes included using a lighter background shade, shorter copy for the boo...

Sartoris Literary Group Announces the Upcoming Release of Wiggle Room by Dr. Darden North: A tense and terrifying contemporary thriller set against the backdrop of the Iraqi war and the Deep South, Wiggle Room will be available nationwide on June 1, 2013   JACKSON, Mississippi – Sartoris Literary Group announces the upcoming release of Wiggle Room by Dr. Darden North.   Wiggle Room (ISBN: 978-0-9889474-7-4, Trade Paper, 266 pages, $19.95) will be available wherever fine books are sold on June 1, 2013. Wiggle Room will also be available in an eBook edition ($8.95)   Written by award-winning novelist Dr. Darden North, Wiggle Room has garnered high advance praise, including:   “A rollercoaster ride of murder, intrigue, and plot twists. Wiggle Room keeps you turning the pages to the final, climactic finish.” — Robert Dugoni, New York Times best-selling author of The Conviction   “An action-packed, edge-of-the-seat thriller.” — Carolyn Hain...

Steven Babitsky, Esq., president of SEAK, presents a writing award to me during the 2012 SEAK Fiction Writing Conference for Physicians and Lawyers in Hyannis, Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Approximately 140 participants were in attendance.

Steven Babitsky presents Darden North a writing award during the 2012 Fiction Writing Conference for Physicians and Lawyers in Hyannis, Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Approximately 140 participants were in attendance.

Skin Deep by Gary Braver I found SKIN DEEP by Gary Braver a rapid 400+ page read over a week-long vacation, but a disturbing piece of fiction. Braver is able to hide the real killer from the reader until about 3/4 of the way through and handles the disguise in a clever way. He convolutes the ending to break the predictable "cops to the rescue just in the nick-of-time" climax but spoils it somewhat with wordy backstory in the last few pages. I recommend this novel to thriller fans. View all my reviews

Originally published as a simultaneuous review of both books on March 19, 2011, by Dew on the Kudzu. The review is reproduced below but the link to the website review is: http://dewbookreviews.blogspot.com/2011_03_01_archive.html As reviewed by Dew on the Kudzu ( dewonthekudzu.com ): Darden North Medical Thrillers Saturday, March 19, 2011 Points of Origin and Fresh Frozen Author: Darden North      Publisher: Ponder House Press Darden North is a Mississippi author who also happens to be a practicing MD, which leads to a true sense of realism in his books. His writing has been described : "Finally a doctor whose writing you can read." This is true. The writing is straight forward, containing healthcare issues, but not so filled with the jargon that you lose interest after trying to decipher the medical jargon.   The plot of Points of Origin centers around Sher Foxworth, a young man who has every intention of becoming a doctor until...

Sometimes we mix fact with fiction in pursuing our careers. If, like I, you're writing medical thrillers and murder mysteries while still practicing medicine fulltime, it's certainly important to keep the two separate. In an interview article in the April 2011  E-Blizzard published by District VII of the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, I candidly answer questions about my work in the ob/gyn field as it relates to my literary career. Here is a link to the article; however, with permission from the author, the text is reproduced below the link: http://www.acog.org/departments/dept_notice.cfm?recno=51&bulletin=5562 From medical practice to medical thrillers: The E-Blizzard interviews novelist Dr. Darden H. North When attempting to become a novelist, it is said: “Write what you know.” For Darden H. North, MD, of Jackson, MS, that meant reaching beyond 24 years of general ob-gyn practice to delve into cut-throat medica...