Another Late Update!

Last Updated on Tuesday, 18 November 2008 09:20

HEY FANS!

Just want to share this email with you. It came in from Great Britain:

Just wanted to say what a breath of fresh air your novels are.

I'm subscribed through podiobooks and have listened to Dunkin the vampire slayer, am up to date on Dunkin 2 and in the meantime am listening to Devlin and the Hell Hermit. I tend to listen in car on the way to work and am getting strange looks from other drivers as I sit laughing out loud while stuck in traffic. They must think I'm mad. I've also caught myself using Devlin's expression HAR! again people think I'm mad.

Anyway I just wanted to thank you for brighting up my day with a little humour and mayhem.

thanks

A....

Folks, words are inadequate to express my appreciation for all your great emails. They raise my spirits. Drive my fingers to type yet more, and more, and even more—nonsense. Thanks to all of you unbalanced humanoids. Har!

Also:

I'm recording Bluetooth Bayou. The Sneak-Squeaks are on the front page.

I’m also writing. And, putting some final revisions on Crusade... for my big-time, Big Apple agent! It appears I had a sentence fragment problem when I wrote Crusade.

Ya see. I was drinking, carousing, causing trouble. When all the sudden I had this harebrained idea to write a homage to Hunter S. Thompson. I’d been re-reading all his work during sober moments. Watching ‘Fear and Loathing in Las vegas’ with Depp and Del Toro— again. Drinkiing. Did I mention drinking? And other stuff I won’t mention because of the NSA.

So I wrote this book, Crusade. Took me two months! I didn’t want to blatantly rip-off Thompson’s style. So I gave Gabe a style all his own. That style is unique. It’s a stream-of-consciousness, cognitive heirarchical, chronological delivery. It mimics a real-life thought process when communicating. He delivers a valid sentence outlining some thought. Then, reinforces it with declarative, terse statements. So I’m not gonna admit to the sentence fragment argument. I prefer ‘declarative fragment’. I think many of those fragments are possibly ‘independent clauses’, or whatever term professors of grammar use. I’m no grammar expert. I study words. Their rhythm. Their cadence. Their structure. How they sound when strung together. So, my nonsense is not always grammatically correct. No! Let me amend that: it’s rarely grammatically correct. What my writing represents, is an accurate assembly of dialogue. Conversations that ring true for the reader, or listener who has no preconceived bias against form over rigid grammatical structure.

I mention this because I am writing Crusade II: Crusodomy. And the whole revision process caused me pause. So I studied. I read Fear and Loathing—again! Thompson used fragments. But not nearly as many as I do.

Unfortunately, 465 five-star reviews on respected writing sites: top ten placement on a site with 280+ novels: forty-thousand downloads of the audio version in four months: two-hundred and eighty paid purchases of books and downloads from this chickenshit website in three months: and a massive number of uproarious emails from fans who enjoyed, Crusade—make me lean toward the theory that I’ve written something entertaining.

So Crusade II will read the same way. Dunkin III will read completely different. Devlin II is just fucking hilarious.

I’m going to try and get it recorded and available soon. Before I embark on my annual holiday inebriation spree.