Ask the Author: Jack Getze
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Jack Getze
Hey Justin! In order: Arthur Conan Doyle, Somerset Maugham, Raymond Chandler, Dash Hammett, James Cain, and most on my writing, Elmore Leonard. His 10 rules are my bible.
Jack Getze
Love to hang with Sherlock Holmes in old London.
Jack Getze
Hey Jan! Sorry I missed this for 49 days. :)
Goodreads hasn't been as good to me as it used to be, plus I've 90% given up on marketing, as after ten years of it, I believe word of mouth is the only thing that sells books. Maybe big reviews. But I spend 99% of my time now trying to write a better book.
Very sorry about Charlie. Always hoped he'd rally.
What have you been up to?
Goodreads hasn't been as good to me as it used to be, plus I've 90% given up on marketing, as after ten years of it, I believe word of mouth is the only thing that sells books. Maybe big reviews. But I spend 99% of my time now trying to write a better book.
Very sorry about Charlie. Always hoped he'd rally.
What have you been up to?
Jack Getze
My bippy is smoking.
Jack Getze
Long ago, Ms. Upcoming Star Crime Novelist (NINE DAYS from St. Martin's this fall). About 15 years ago, my wife and I were out for dinner. Her fund raising business was booming while my stockbroker business had about run its course. I liked to fire clients who gave me too much crap. I had three left. So my wife says "I need a housewife" at that dinner I mentioned, and I jumped on it like a cat on a rat. "I'll be your housewife," I said. "It'll give me more time to write." Boy was I wrong, and it's a job I can't dump even past retirement age. Only five novels in the 15 years. I have to run now. The dishes are piling up.
Jack Getze
I might try the zoo. But that sounds like it might be math related. It gave me goosebumps.
Jack Getze
It's 1963. The young woman who will become Mama Bones Bonacelli is nineteen when her father dies, leaving her his bookmaking operation and a clue to the grisliest murder in Asbury Park history. Angelina will shoot her crazy mother, fall in love with a mobster, and outsmart the city's best detective before solving the crime.
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