Jon D. Zimmer Guest Post
We’ve got Jon D. Zimmer here today, and he’s going to tell us about why he writes. He’s doing a blog tour to celebrate the release of his new novel … The Narcissist: A Dark Journey
Take it away, Jon!
Thanks, Bart!
When I started college I majored in English. I wanted to be a writer. I had written several short stories when I was eighteen, and felt like I was about to join the hallowed halls of Shakespeare and Hemingway, but reality seems to have a way of trumping fantasy. I got married, changed my major to business, and had a successful career. However, I didn’t like the cold world of profits at all cost, particularly the human cost.
As soon as I was able I retired, left that dispassionate world, and began to write. To me, writing was a pathway of expression, of sharing the ideas and emotions that we all feel, of creating characters and events that the reader can relate to. And I didn’t limit myself to any particular genre. I wrote The Trinity Pact, a spiritual book; The Cozy Place, a murder mystery; An American Dynasty, historical; The Secret Invasion: Book One of the God Chronicles, a fantasy; and my latest novel, The Narcissist: A Dark Journey, a psychological thriller.
Though they were different genres, I was able to express the human condition at its best, and at its worst. In The Cozy Place, a consuming love begets a serial killer, exemplifying love at its worst, however, we all sometimes show our love in a less than a loving way. We abuse, physically and psychologically, we deceive, and we lie to those we love, and when we do it, we wish we hadn’t, as sometimes it takes more than a lifetime to make it up.
In An American Dynasty I took an American family through four generations of American history to depict the absolute role that politics and wealth plays in the lives that we lead. Throughout history, wealth has been able to control, and in many instances, enslave populations. It could happen here and now, to us. I love politics.
My latest novel, The Narcissist: A Dark Journey, is a psychological trip through the psyche of one Charlotte Prentice. She literally has everything: beauty, intellect, wealth–and yet she is a very dangerous person. She is someone we all know, or know of, and in ourselves. She and her ilk are dispassionately driven to success, and are our scourge, but in this novel I have left any judgement of guilt up to the reader. How would you judge Charlotte?
I am almost finished with Book Two of the God Chronicles, a fantasy in the event humankind continues after this life. In this new life, I have tried to remove all of the reasons for our really bad, nasty habits. There is no requirement for sustenance, there is no celebrity, no gender, no sickness, but I am really challenged, even with all of those things that cause us to do naughty, bad things, to eliminate the nature of humanity. But I think I have. That’s the beauty of writing.
Our thanks to Jon for sharing with us. We’ll be posting a little bit more Jon and his new book later on today.
Until then, here are the links…
Grab a copy on Amazon here:
https://www.amazon.com/Narcissist-Journey-Jon-D-Zimmer/dp/1535050128
Social Media Links:
Blog: jondzimmerauthor.com
Facebook Author Page: https://wwwfacebook.com/jonzimmer.75
Twitter: https://twitter.com/JonDZimmer
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/list6618235.Jon_D_Zimmer
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jon-zimmer
