Ask Me Wednesday - if you've got a question about my work, writing process, voice, style, reading habits, emotional ambivalence and indifference to just about everything these days, or anything else within reason (ah ha, there's the codicil), fire away and I'll answer right here within a day or two.
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Ha! Love Gorshin. "Riddle me this."
Ok. How did you come to be represented by David Hale Smith, an agent who does not accept queries? A referral? Or you were already established and repped by another agent, like J. D. Rhoades was?
W.H. Auden commented on how crime fiction follows a familiar pattern:
1) First there is peace
2) Peace is shattered
3) Search for wrongdoer
4) Apprehension
5) Punishment
6) Restored Peace
Your crime novels are anything but formulatic (with the execption of the theme of revenge) and I was wondering if you can contribute your success to not following this or other established patterns in your mass market crime fiction. Are you a blank slate for every novel?
Also, do you prefer white or red clam sauce with linquine. And if you might, could you explain why.
Thanks Tom.
Ttzuma
Tom,
Okay, as you know I'm a pretty big fan of your fiction and I've read just about everything of yours that's in print. And I've noticed in your novels the running themes of automobiles and dreams.
So my question is, what's the deal with muscle cars and hanging with dead folks in your novels? Are you a gearhead? Do you have a vivid dream life that carries over into your writing life?
Thanks for your time,
Keith Rawson
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