Well, yeah. But I have these days, these awful days, when I just know that every word I put down on paper is shit. Hell, every word I have ever put down on paper looks like shit on these days. It's a simple choice to walk away from the keyboard on days like today.
Walk away. Watch a movie. Read a book written by someone who isn't shit. Stare at your half-empty cup of coffee and listen to the Decemberists until you pass out.
Those are all viable options on days like today. Everything makes sense except for the writing...
Maybe that's why it's so important to write on days like this. Trudge, stomp, fight, kick, cuss, murder your way through every single word you can squeeze out of your brain meat. When I accomplish something on a day like today, I know it was worth it.
Speaking of worth it...
About BABYSITTING MONEY
Gavin English isn't in Chicago searching for an unfaithful woman's wedding ring out of the goodness of his heart. He's doing it for the fifty thousand dollar check the unfaithful woman gave him. All he has to do is track down the pretty boy who stole it—in one of the biggest cities in the country.
Lucky for Gavin, ex-police Lieutenant Jack Daniels knows her way around the city—her city—and she's agreed to set aside her mommy duties for a few days, so that she can babysit him and his assistant while they're in town.
But somewhere between Gavin's visit to the busted-down crackhouse and their stop at a low-rent donut shop, Jack's peaceful babysitting gig turns deadly and the bullets start flying.
BABYSITTING MONEY brings together Ken Lindsey's heavy drinking, hard-boiled PI (TO THE BONE, ON THE EDGE) and J.A. Konrath's retired hero cop/brand-new mommy (WHISKEY SOUR, SHAKEN) for an intense, laugh-out-loud thriller.
On a brighter note, this is happening any minute! I've collaborated with J. A. Konrath to write this fun, short thriller, BABYSITTING MONEY. It's been kind of a dream, because Konrath is one of my favorite writers (who has sold somewhere around two-million ebooks and has an incredibly popular blog about the publishing world) and he just happens to be a lot of fun to work with.
BABYSITTING MONEY should be released on most popular platforms any day now, and it's only going to be $0.99. Another piece of awesome news on this front is that Joe Konrath and I will be putting out a follow up full-length novel, which will also feature Gavin English, Jack Daniels, and a bunch more characters from each of our worlds. I have two other manuscripts I'm working on right now that I need to finish up before that happens, but I'm thrilled and can't wait to get started.
I think that's it for now,
thanks for reading,
buh bye then
Urgh...I hate days like that - and I've had my fair share of them just recently :/
ReplyDeleteIt happens to all of us, I just think the most important thing is that you keep on going.
DeleteLike Maya Angelou said: "What I try to do is write. I may write for two weeks 'the cat sat on the mat, that is that, not a rat.' And it might be just the most boring and awful stuff. But I try. When I'm writing, I write. And then it's as if the muse is convinced that I'm serious and says, 'Okay. Okay. I'll come.'
Congrats on the cover - and story! This is going to be a fun ride!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Garth! I absolutely agree, can't wait to see where it goes.
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