by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
There are a lot of reasons to give up when it comes to this novel. It’s shaping up to be a little long relative to the 100,000 sweetspot. I’m too big a kook. No one –especially literary types — takes me seriously.
And, yet, I continue to believe this novel is existential for my mental well being. So, I continue to believe. I continue to rewrite things. It will be interesting to see how all of this will work out.
I have high hopes for it all, but, then I had high hopes for the version completed version of this novel and that was a complete disaster. But I’m hoping this version, because it’s a traditional “murder in a small town” will be more engaging to the average reader.
I say the first completed version of the novel was a “complete disaster” because I gave it to a few people — including a male relative to reads a lot of thrillers — and I was told it sucked. My relative said it was too spicy. Meanwhile, there was a would-be beta reader who pretty much was aghast that I would write such a novel in the first place.
I will admit that the novel — even this new version of it — is kind of spicy, but it’s not smut. It’s just, for some reason, I thought up a lot of — what I think are — interesting sex scenes that move the plot along.
Anyway.
