There, but for Grace…

So as I mentioned, the publisher wants to change the name of my book. I really like the title The Painted Man. Honestly, I think it is the best title for the story I have written. But the publisher’s point, which I will concede, if not like, is that the title is a marketing tool [...]

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This Book is Going to be Five Million Pages

Fucking Jardir.I’m hard at work on the sequel to The Painted Man (soon to be named something else), and it keeps growing. Even as the first book sells all over the Western world, there is universal agreement on one thing: It is a fucking brick. 565 double-spaced pages in MS Word.Your average novel by a [...]

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