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The first novel I'd ever written was about a collapsing building in New York City. 9-11 happened about a week after I finished the novel and I remember tossing the novel in a trunk saying, 'So much for that book.' I didn't even bother querying it.
Grr.
My next book was about a levee breaking in New Orleans. Enter Katrina. I stopped writing after the hurricane struck and tossed the still kicking and screaming corpse of a novel into the same trunk, saying 'So much for THAT book.'
Grrr!
My next novel was about the end of the world brought on by oil wars and a mortgage crisis. I wrote this paragraph in September 2005:
[FONT="]"As best I understood, the end of the world, both in my kitchen and the financial hubs of the world, had something to do with a man named Jeb Wolfe and something called the zero down mortgage. Both had a lot to promise and sounded so good to so many people, it was inevitable two things would happen; first, Jeb would become President of the United States; second, someone would eventually come looking for all that borrowed money."
GRRRR!
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If you're curious, this book ends with the Chinese taking over Japanese Oil platforms in the East China Sea and an invasion of Russia and Russia nuking the United States out of spite.
The book I just finished is about scientologists taking over the world, so we might be safe for a while.
Grr.
My next book was about a levee breaking in New Orleans. Enter Katrina. I stopped writing after the hurricane struck and tossed the still kicking and screaming corpse of a novel into the same trunk, saying 'So much for THAT book.'
Grrr!
My next novel was about the end of the world brought on by oil wars and a mortgage crisis. I wrote this paragraph in September 2005:
[FONT="]"As best I understood, the end of the world, both in my kitchen and the financial hubs of the world, had something to do with a man named Jeb Wolfe and something called the zero down mortgage. Both had a lot to promise and sounded so good to so many people, it was inevitable two things would happen; first, Jeb would become President of the United States; second, someone would eventually come looking for all that borrowed money."
GRRRR!
[/FONT]
If you're curious, this book ends with the Chinese taking over Japanese Oil platforms in the East China Sea and an invasion of Russia and Russia nuking the United States out of spite.
The book I just finished is about scientologists taking over the world, so we might be safe for a while.
