Editing Can Kill An Idiot: A Short Memoir

by Michael Kroft

Told with humorous candor and enough self-defecation to require a double flush, Michael Kroft utilizes 28,000 words to quickly detail his five days leading up to the heart of the story, his then first-time ten-day stay in a hospital. With the actual situations almost too surreal to be called non-fiction, the memoir’s many anecdotes are presented in such an easy-to-read manner and with such a Devil-may-care attitude that it can only be told by a man so humbled by his years that he is forthcoming regarding his ignorance.

From first noticing a pain in his neck and as it grows, denying its dangerous potential and then trying to ignore it as he performs his final edit on his second novel while not being able to physically swallow and almost not being able to speak, Kroft walks us through his sometimes broken reasoning, his first aborted attempt at the Emergency Department, his first night at the hospital under the care of the nurse from Hell, the language tension lingering between a semi-monolingual Anglophone within a primarily Francophone hospital, waking up during his surgery, being hit on by an attractive female patient who just so happens to be..., and much more. The story will entertain, educate and perhaps even frighten.

Bob S. -Kroft’s best friend.

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First published February 13, 2015

About the author

Michael Kroft is a Nova Scotian Haligonian and writes fun, easy-to-read character-driven novels about the relationships between complex and mostly lovable characters that are as important to the story as the plot itself. Having completed his first four-book series, Herring Cove Road, where each novel in the unique series is not like the others, he's now working on his next series, The Lovelys' Family Tree.

Michael Kroft's Current Works:

The Four-Volume Not-So-Nuclear Family Saga Series, Herring Cove Road:

●On Herring Cove Road: Mr. Rosen and His 43Lb Anxiety

●Still on Herring Cove Road: Hickory, Dickory, Death

●Off Herring Cove Road: The Problem Being Blue

●Before Herring Cove Road: Ruth Goldman and the Nincompoop


The Family Saga Series, The Lovelys' Family Tree:

●Indentured Bonds: The First Generation, Circa 1715



Michael Kroft's website: michaelkroft.com
Michael Kroft's Twitter: @michaelkroft

Reviews

[Deborah Mitton · Rating 5 out of 5]

I enjoyed this little book by Michael Kroft. It's told in the author's own voice in a chatty tone. It felt like I was sitting across a table at the local coffee shop with Mike and his best friend Bob relating the horrors he encountered while editing one of his previous novels, with Bob interjecting missing bit and pieces.

It was sad in parts and humorous in others and I feel I know a little more about Mike that only a good friend should know, but that is how you feel when you are reading this - you are a buddy.