Not awake, Not Asleep
Tuesday, June 10th, 2003Caught in the in-between time, where everything flows as designed, the humble author attempts a pause, and it manifests in a format more friendly to that of my VCR than my DVD player. Less crisp, slightly malformed, but readable.
If I can achieve this in my novel, I think all will be well. Lack of consistent sleep has been an itch I’m unable to scratch. New users and the uninitiated will ask themselves What Novel? Has Jimmy lost it? Of course he has, he lost it years ago.
Trying to recapture ‘it’, or whatever that former thing is I called myself, is part of the pains I’m finding in writing the novel. Here’s the Skinny:
Title Playing In The Pool
Author: James Broniec
Publisher: TBD.. I’ve got a publicist who claims to be talking to Doubleday and Penguin. The funny thing is, when she said Penguin I immediately thought of Linux. The roots run too deep every now and then.
Okay, so it’s a novel. I can tell you that fair readers. It’s what I hope will become a substancial piece of Commercial Fiction. I take that back - that’s what my publicist woman said. I wish she was single, and I hope she doesn’t read this.
I’ll post some chapters after I finish my first re-write. Based on how long it takes me to post to this site you can rest assured it’ll be awhile.
I’m shelving the writing until I get my certifications done. Did I mention I hope my publicist isn’t reading this? For those of you who think this is Jimmy playing a joke, he’s not. Her name is Colleen, and she lives in NYC… but don’t try to find her - she moves around a lot. Ha!
I’ll keep everyone guessing for a while, I suppose. I must mention here though, that one of my uncle’s said for most of his life that he was writing a book - while he never did that, or had a real job, for that matter - he did manage to piss off the relatives whenever he changed who he was dedicating this ‘book’ of his.
So Jimmy gets razzed by his family, who in fits of paranoia make the synapsal jump from book author in family to failed uncle. They assume I’ll throw away my life and try his on for a while.
People are so funny. Brains are funny. Radiohead’s new album got released today. To quote my boss, “I’m not one of those run out to the store and buy an album kind of people.” He also claims to never have gotten around to purchasing a CD that he meant to whilst embarking on a voyage to the local record store.
About the book - A bunch of co-workers win a lottery pool. That’s about all I can say right now.
If my publicist can’t ink a deal, I may self publish.
In closing, remember to keep your VCR on pause and your MP3 collection in your DVD player whilst travelling these funny roads of 2003. -Jimmy