Topic: Skeleton Run
New interview and review of Skeleton Run today at www.thereadingcafe.com. Events like this are what's kept me AWOL from this site lately. But I'll be back soon to catch up on my reviews - and post another chapter of my WIP!
- jack the knife
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Thanks, guys! Yeah, Dags, it was a little personal, but I stayed away from having it get too personal, didn't I? 
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Interesting is in the eye of the beholder. From what you've revealed in your posts over the years, I think your life has certainly not been bland, by any means! 
BTW, I shared some more personal stuff in my guest post for Big Al's Books and Pals today: http://booksandpals.blogspot.com/
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Sometimes that's what you have to do - make it up as you go. I had to establish my goal pretty early in life - high school - because of the nature of the prerequisites for the career I chose. Incidentally, Rand Paul didn't have to finish undergrad school to get into med school and then an ophthalmology residency, because there are so few of them that you have to get your place early. A classmate of mine had his ophtalmology residency slot sewn up after his first year in med school. Anyway, that's what I'm doing now - making it up as I go in the brave new world of book writing and promotion. Another thread in the forums concerns predesination. There's no way I would ever have thought I would be writing novels now. Was it fate? Nah! I needed something to do in my retirement, and house chores aren't fulfilling!
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I forgot to comment on your collector's item, Dags. Maybe someday, when future archaelogogists are sifting through the rubble in Lubbock, they will stumble upon your rodent-eaten book of mine and wonder why it meant something to its owner. Perhaps the author's name would still be legible, and they would scratch their heads in puzzlement, not recognizing it. But they'd be foolish to cast it aside, because it would definitely be a collectible, by definition. Ah, what dreams are made of. And then, in what they deem to be a storage room of some sort, they come upon numerous volumes of a book whose title and author they do recognize, since it was required reading in the Ancient Texts part of their high school English class. It would be like coming upon copies of The Catcher in the Rye, if they had known about that book. But a selkie murderess - yes, they would know that story!
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I read your interview. Overall you controlled it by answering what you wanted and avoiding questions that TMI. Good interviewl sounds like you are a very interesting gentleman. Didn't know you had six books on Amazon. Very impressive. I'm still trying to finish one. Keep on keepin on
Mike
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jack the knife wrote:
New interview and review of Skeleton Run today at www.thereadingcafe.com. Events like this are what's kept me AWOL from this site lately. But I'll be back soon to catch up on my reviews - and post another chapter of my WIP!
Much preferred that writing is keeping you from writing and nothing else! Now all we still need to find out is your shoe size and whether you're left or right handed, and all the personal stuff would be taken care of! 
You're taking this in your stride, Jack, keep it up!
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Mike, thanks for taking the time to check out the interview. I've done a few of these interviews, and I've noticed a trend toward personal questions, rather than the usual writing-process stuff. Bloggers like to generate publicity for their sites, too!
I'm right-handed, Janet. And you know what they say about shoe size, so that would be TMI.
Dags, maybe we could get together on a book about fictional femme fatales. My Laura and your Mariah would certainly be included.
