Daniel Lewis
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Shawn Inmon:
In Aiden Anderson you bring up the ability to use future hits. This is at least the 2nd time you have mentioned that. Does that mean in one of your lives you became a huge rock-star using future hits but then felt guilty? Maybe one of the songs you got the release date wrong and the real writer also released it but came out like a week after yours so they thought he was the one plagiarizing?
Shawn Inmon
Unfortunately, all my musical talent resides in my golden ears. I can't play an instrument or sing at all. =)
You are picking up on something that is really part of my writing process. Sometimes I will come up with a question, in this case "what would the ethics be of using foreknowledge to create something that was already created?"
Sometimes that question will occur to me in the midst of a book where it can't really be fully answered. So I tuck it away in my mental file cabinet to be answered in full in a later book.
So it was with Aiden and the idea of "borrowing" a popular song. That question provided the entire framework of the movie "Yesterday," but I wanted to use it to show how Aiden's mind - and character - worked.
Cheers!
You are picking up on something that is really part of my writing process. Sometimes I will come up with a question, in this case "what would the ethics be of using foreknowledge to create something that was already created?"
Sometimes that question will occur to me in the midst of a book where it can't really be fully answered. So I tuck it away in my mental file cabinet to be answered in full in a later book.
So it was with Aiden and the idea of "borrowing" a popular song. That question provided the entire framework of the movie "Yesterday," but I wanted to use it to show how Aiden's mind - and character - worked.
Cheers!
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Shawn Inmon:
I see that you have The Regretful life of Richard Bell coming in November. Maybe I just have missed them but it seems in the past they get announced and then bam they are out. Are you having the audiobook getting ready so that they come out at the same time? I know you have said in the past you do not like to do that, I can certainly see however how that could be very beneficial for pre-orders and first day sales.
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