Ask the Author: Jeff Johnson
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Jeff Johnson
He found a chicken in the graveyard that winter, a hen with webbed toes and a short black beak, and her one eye was as red as the sunset over a house fire. When she finally laid an egg, it was perfectly round and oddly scaly, but he cracked it over the old cast iron skillet because he was hungry and curious and wired wrong in that way, and that's how he died- a one man audience to a show that never should have been dropped on a hot stage, or any stage at all.
Jeff Johnson
That's a great question! To the New Crobuzon of Perdido Street Station, to do some archeology? Maybe.
Jeff Johnson
Deadbomb Bingo Ray is about a Vegas fixer who relocated to Philadelphia. He runs complex burns, and the new one involves fleecing a hedge fund accountant who is recovering from a carefully engineered nervous breakdown. Many of the crimes I developed for Everything Under the Moon didn't fit with that novel, but one of them was so sweet I couldn't pass it up. The idea grew. I wanted to write something with Philadelphia as the stage before I left. Pretty much came together for me.
Jeff Johnson
Usually I get inspired to make things because I need money, but there are other reasons. Take today. On the subway this morning I was reading The Name of the Game is Death by Dan J. Marlowe. That old paperback even smelled good. Got me in just the right mood.
Jeff Johnson
Deadbomb Bingo Ray.
Jeff Johnson
No matter who you are, you'll always have a few voices in your choir telling you to give it up. If you listen to them, that voice is yours. Keep on keeping on. Read as much as you can (ALL writers love books) and write every day. It will add up! Your voice will develop! Listen to other people's stories, too.
Jeff Johnson
The best thing about being a writer is that it makes you a better reader.
Jeff Johnson
Never follow my advice is the first thing I say to this, but... Switch gears. Work on something else for a few days. For me, the way out of anything always hits me in the first fifteen minutes of the day.
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