Notes From the Countryside -- Headed Off to New Zealand
Headed Off to New Zealand
I probably should start – I’m terrible at this marketing and promotion stuff – by telling you that my latest book, Vengeance, is free on Amazon this weekend (Feb 3, 4, 5) in E-book format. Download to your heart’s content. If you like it, please write me a review. And if you hate it, persuade people you don’t like to buy it, preferably the expensive paperback ($9.99) vs the E-book ($2.99) (:-).
But what I’m more interested in is the fact that I’m headed off to New Zealand next week. Three weeks in the land of the Lord of the Rings. Mountains, trout fishing, glaciers, penguins. And I’m really interested in how it will later appear in my writing.
As always, I’m working on my next book, this one also a Tip Tungate murder mystery, and I’m curious to know what subconscious images of New Zealand and things that happen there will bubble up. Which is kind of the way writing works at times. Images, especially of characters and settings and how they relate, appear spontaneously and drive action. Not always, of course. Once you get started on a story, you create some images. But it’s the ones that come of their own that haunt you, that drive you, that insist upon appearing on your page.
We’ll see. I’ll let you know. Sedalia, seat of Howarth County, Indiana, “not far north of the Ohio River” has its own charms, but no mountains, glaciers, trout, or penguins. But somewhere in the new book, somehow, something from New Zealand will pop up.
The new book, by the way, is currently titled Prophecy . I hope to release it in October.
William Crow Johnson
I probably should start – I’m terrible at this marketing and promotion stuff – by telling you that my latest book, Vengeance, is free on Amazon this weekend (Feb 3, 4, 5) in E-book format. Download to your heart’s content. If you like it, please write me a review. And if you hate it, persuade people you don’t like to buy it, preferably the expensive paperback ($9.99) vs the E-book ($2.99) (:-).
But what I’m more interested in is the fact that I’m headed off to New Zealand next week. Three weeks in the land of the Lord of the Rings. Mountains, trout fishing, glaciers, penguins. And I’m really interested in how it will later appear in my writing.
As always, I’m working on my next book, this one also a Tip Tungate murder mystery, and I’m curious to know what subconscious images of New Zealand and things that happen there will bubble up. Which is kind of the way writing works at times. Images, especially of characters and settings and how they relate, appear spontaneously and drive action. Not always, of course. Once you get started on a story, you create some images. But it’s the ones that come of their own that haunt you, that drive you, that insist upon appearing on your page.
We’ll see. I’ll let you know. Sedalia, seat of Howarth County, Indiana, “not far north of the Ohio River” has its own charms, but no mountains, glaciers, trout, or penguins. But somewhere in the new book, somehow, something from New Zealand will pop up.
The new book, by the way, is currently titled Prophecy . I hope to release it in October.
William Crow Johnson
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