> miker wrote:
>
> Heck with cell phones. Let's talk about your new
book.
>
> Checked out your web page and read the two excerpts
from your
> LITTLE MEXICO novel. The two sections felt and read
slightly
> different. Taking an uneducated guess, I would say
your wife
> wrote the Claudette part and you wrote the second
part with
> Bruno working.
>
> Looks like a good book. Congratulations.
>
> miker
Thanks for the compliment, miker.
Cathie and I intentionally wrote the two sections to feel and
read differently, so that Claudette's part would feel more
feminine and Bruno's more masculine. But actually, we hashed
out the scenes together, sitting in front of the computer, as
we do to write all our novels.
In fact, as I recall, a lot of Claudette's musings as she
stared out the window of her room in the bordello, waiting
for her next customer, came out of my head. It was Cathie's
idea for Bruno to stuff a wad of cement in
"Dandy" Charlie's mouth to shut him up. My wife's not as
sweet as she looks.
LITTLE MEXICO was published in 2000. If you're interested,
the sequel IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER will be out in a couple
of weeks.
The story takes place in the 1940s when the closest thing to
a cell phone was Dick Tracy's radio wristwatch.
--John Celestri the male half of Cathie John
ccpub@worldnet.att.net http://www.cathiejohn.com
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