Ask the Author: Joe Chacko

“Thanks to lockdown #3, I'll be answering questions any old time you care to ask them. Shoot.” Joe Chacko

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Joe Chacko Who stole my green rubbish bin?
Joe Chacko Sitting down and powering on the PC. The challenge is the first bit.
Joe Chacko Freedom. To think in different ways. To write what you think. To delete it if it's rubbish. Editing a book is a lot about editing yourself.
Joe Chacko Lankhmar of Fritz Leiber's Fafrhd and The Grey Mouser.
I'd try to get into The Thieves Guild but probably fail and end up selling sourdough buns on a smelly street corner.
Joe Chacko By ignoring it. It's a perfectly valid and widely used way of dealing with problems. Some problems, I should add.
Joe Chacko Have a look at my first blog post. It says it better than I could ever say here.
Joe Chacko A gritty, dark, hospital based crime thriller.
Joe Chacko Persevere. It's craft.
Would you expect to become a brain surgeon just after you've learned how to hold the scalpel?
Learn to make the wounds well, first, before you learn to close them.
Try, fail, reflect, improve.
Practice.
Persevere.
Joe Chacko The first rays of a gentle sun heralded the end of his sleepless night and the beginning of his last day on earth.
He was out of coffee.

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