To start, I'm stoked that after eight years of researching, writing, and editing that I completed my first novel, "The PriVILEged," about a CIA assassin in drag who avenges the Catholic Church by killing the top five most costly pedophilic priests. The idea being that if the pedophiles were murdered then the lawsuits against the church would be eradicated. It's a really good story filled with all the elements of any good mystery including surprising twists, paralyzing fears at every turn, and my favorite, the unplanned ending that truthfully took me years to plan!
The part where I get unique on you is when I introduce the Knight's Tour, which any chess fan will immediately recognize, but I combine it with a Mensa-like crossword puzzle that took me a year to design. As you can imagine, it would be unrealistic to write this story inside three months. Instead, I had to slow down my ambitions and my dreams and focus on getting it right.
In other words, to bring this story to you, I had to do the work that was required of me and not what I thought was required for it to be a success. My favorite writer, Thomas Harris, often took eight years between writing and publishing his books, but that was between the late seventies and early nineties. There were no blogs, twitter, and facebook and no getting to know your authors before buying their work. It was all about the story then as it is for me now.
I'm old school in the fact that I' m also about the story and new school in that I want you to get to know me and what's inside my mind as I become more brutally honest with my thoughts, my characters, and my books as time goes by. So, please, come on in and enjoy my head because I would like to get to know you, too, as we make this journey together.
My best,
JW
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