My first novel is a reluctant hero adventure titled Bad Coffee, a Nicky BladeAdventure. Bad Coffee’s first pass is complete and I’m shopping for an agent or publisher.
My inspiration for the book sprung from someone my friend and I invented for him to hang out with since his wife doesn’t like any of his friends or me. She thinks I’m a bad influence.
“Wow, is it really 2 am? I let Nicky drive to Average Joes but he wouldn’t bring me home. Plus he borrowed $500 dollars. Honey, you know how he is.”
Nicky’s sort of a cross between a Jimmy Buffet lifestyle and Jack Bauer of TV’s 24. I’m currently expanding the climax, tinkering with weaving a Dead Sea Scrolls subplot thread throughout the adventure and building more detail about the attack on the US financial system. No, it’s not the intrigue of a runaway Cash for Clunkers program, nor a sub-prime securities meltdown set off by Islamic fundamentalists defaulting on jumbo home loans nor a rogue Prime Minister watching Premier League Soccer instead of dealing with the Northern Rock failure.
November 4, 2009 at 11:20 PM |
Great start. Can’t wait to see how it develops. I look forward to reading at least some excerpts from the book!