Thank you--great to hear you enjoyed it!! We had a lot of fun
with the epigraphs. We took some stylistic bits from our solo
novels and applied them to BUST...for example, the epigraphs
are an "homage" to Ken and at one point we couldn't resist
having a Bruen-like list....we couldn't resist referencing
other books, etc--even our own books...in your other post you
mention "twisted city" and there were other ones as
well...for example at one point we needed a back story for
Dillon's character and I told Ken we have to have made him
kill a tinker...a ref to Ken's book The Killing of the
Tinker...Nice catch on the Halle Berry!...regarding the
mystery writer who gave the Down Syndrome pin to Clinton,
this is semi-fictionalized....Dillon is original to this
story--his full name is Thomas Dillon, fitting since Dillon
is a "failed poet"...we didn't write the book by doing
separate chapters...I don't think there's a section of the
book that we worked on independently and sometimes, looking
back, we can't even remember who wrote what...a lot of the
time, Ken would immitate my style, and I'd immitate Ken... By
the way, we're planning to do a sequel to BUST for Hard
Case... Thanks again!!! J www.jasonstarr.com
>
> I just finished BUST and enjoyed it very
much--congratulations on
it, and
> I hope it does well. I'm trying to alternate
non-fiction with
fiction in
> my reading, but I had to violate the rule when BUST
arrived. I was
due
> for non-fiction but I couldn't pass up a Starr/Bruen
combo.
>
> The epigraphs were a kick, and I got some inside
jokes like
the "Maureen
> O'Hara is no Halle Berry" (Halle Berry being, as I
understand it,
Bruen's
> nickname for you because of the screenplay you wrote
for her).
And ...
> wait, don't you yourself get mentioned in the book?
Good Lord, I
should
> have written it down, because I was reading that bit
this afternoon
and
> I've already forgotten. Who's the writer who gave
the Down
Syndrome pin
> to Clinton? I did a quick search of the web but
didn't find the
name. Is
> it a true story? And Dillon--is he a character from
another Bruen
novel?
>
> While I was reading I'd try to guess which was a
Bruen section and
which
> was a Starr section, but I was probably wrong about
a lot of it.
It was
> fun guessing, though, and it was certainly fun
reading.
>
> Bill
> --
> William Denton : Toronto, Canada :
www.miskatonic.org : www.frbr.org
>
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