My New Book
The Back
Nine
By
C. Neuroticus Absolutus
Wow!
I’ve done it again. Published another book on Amazon.com. The Back Nine is a sequel to Kill
Me Once Again and features the main characters from Kill Me Once Again. When you spend a year writing a book, the
characters become your best friends, or enemies. But you should have killed off
the enemies if you really didn’t like them—unless you’re Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
and your favorite bad guy is the über-nemesis of Sherlock Holmes, the Professor Moriarty.
It
takes a lot of time to create a character, to put a grin or a scowl on his/her face.
It takes a lot of time and love to describe the sweetness of your female character’s
personality, or conversely her bitchiness and the coarse physicality of her
emotions. You didn’t give birth to your protagonist just to make him a dull everyman
wannabe. No, you made him physically strong, mentally sharp, with an indomitable
spirit.
You
can’t just dump these characters into some array of bits and bytes on a flash
drive where they’ll never see the light of day again. They still have enough
life in them for another performance, another peek from loyal fans worldwide (I’m
certain), to bring another tear or smile into their lives.
You
see, a sequel is really born from the author’s inability to say goodbye to characters
from his past—characters that are still alive and well in his brain and
fingertips as a few loving keystrokes brings them to life once again.
So
it is with The Back Nine. I couldn’t
say good-bye to Major Scott Wilson, Detective Bubba Rogers, Director of the FBI
Computer Operations Center Walter Ellis, motherly Mary O’Donnell and the
vivacious Dr. Sunny Baker and I hope you agree and join me in unravelling the mystery
in the thriller The Back Nine.
See
ya in Myrtle Beach.
