Part 28 is the final chapter for "What Would Dogs Do" and hopefully you find the ending satisfying or at least credible.
My cuz had some influence on the way the book went although it wasn't deliberate. She had said maybe there's a future in writing children's books as we would talk about a great many things when I saw on her own time. I thought about it later and decided I don't want to write fookin' children's books. That's when the rest of "What Would Dogs Do" started writing itself.
The book will go out to iTunes on December 11. Now that OS X Mavericks provides iBooks for laptop and desktop computers, it will be interesting to see if that affects sales.
So two books came out of the Galactic Peace Tour - European Version. That's not something I had predicted but it's, erm, novel to see it now that it has. Now it becomes something like one of those logic questions you get in school: if you have these three shapes then what is the most likely shape to come next in the series. I have a poetry book, a travel book, and a fiction novel so ... the next one has to be a cookbook, right?
No.
In a flash it comes: "The Biography of a Texas Singer" and it's about Sonya Jevette. She has no idea I am thinking of this as the idea only just came to me. If she were willing, it wouldn't be hard to write as I would only have to ask her to tell me stories about her life and I could then weave them together to make the portrait. Sonya is not a star but she works incredibly hard on her craft, just the same. She's not at all old but she's definitely past any chance of the story being one of a high-school kid making good. The story is not that she is a music star but rather that she isn't. Many musicians, me among them, are in that situation and can readily identify with it plus with the way she continues no matter what. The question to any of us is valid in why the hell do you keep knocking yourself out to do this and such a book might give quite a good accounting of that.
(Ed: What about a biography of Cat?)
We have talked about her writing one as she has some blindingly funny stories of her adventures. There was one she told of a trip to Italy that went on for quite a while and in part there were tears in my eyes just the same as there were in the taxi driver's eyes when he said he wanted to adopt her because she was in such a hell of a situation. It's not at all just a sad story as there are many funny parts and she has an excellent way of telling it. She doesn't appreciate her talents as a storyteller but she's damn good at it.
My cuz had some influence on the way the book went although it wasn't deliberate. She had said maybe there's a future in writing children's books as we would talk about a great many things when I saw on her own time. I thought about it later and decided I don't want to write fookin' children's books. That's when the rest of "What Would Dogs Do" started writing itself.
The book will go out to iTunes on December 11. Now that OS X Mavericks provides iBooks for laptop and desktop computers, it will be interesting to see if that affects sales.
So two books came out of the Galactic Peace Tour - European Version. That's not something I had predicted but it's, erm, novel to see it now that it has. Now it becomes something like one of those logic questions you get in school: if you have these three shapes then what is the most likely shape to come next in the series. I have a poetry book, a travel book, and a fiction novel so ... the next one has to be a cookbook, right?
No.
In a flash it comes: "The Biography of a Texas Singer" and it's about Sonya Jevette. She has no idea I am thinking of this as the idea only just came to me. If she were willing, it wouldn't be hard to write as I would only have to ask her to tell me stories about her life and I could then weave them together to make the portrait. Sonya is not a star but she works incredibly hard on her craft, just the same. She's not at all old but she's definitely past any chance of the story being one of a high-school kid making good. The story is not that she is a music star but rather that she isn't. Many musicians, me among them, are in that situation and can readily identify with it plus with the way she continues no matter what. The question to any of us is valid in why the hell do you keep knocking yourself out to do this and such a book might give quite a good accounting of that.
(Ed: What about a biography of Cat?)
We have talked about her writing one as she has some blindingly funny stories of her adventures. There was one she told of a trip to Italy that went on for quite a while and in part there were tears in my eyes just the same as there were in the taxi driver's eyes when he said he wanted to adopt her because she was in such a hell of a situation. It's not at all just a sad story as there are many funny parts and she has an excellent way of telling it. She doesn't appreciate her talents as a storyteller but she's damn good at it.
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