Another Free One
Here's your chance to catch up with emotionally constipated sad sack Paul Tatum (Ray's cousin) for free. Hardly an invitation you'll get every day.The electronic version of True Cross will be available on Amazon this coming Sunday, September 1st at no charge. Happy end of summer.
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Thanks, Bill, but I don't play golf. I used to play a little when you could walk the courses, but now I just do the walking.
As my grandfather would have said, "at a price like that a fella oughta get two or three." I absolutely love True Cross; the relationship between Paul and Mona which is too complex and hilarious to sum up in a brief comment like this, and the haircuts of the week from the local hair academy. The funniest book I've ever read about an accountant.
May I use "The funniest book I've ever read about an accountant" on the poster? I believe I'm going to have to sit down and read this novel because all of the details you mention have left my head, and it does sound funny the way you tell it.
I'm glad to know you enjoyed it. I hope several thousand people pick up free copies and get even half as much from it.
Thanks, Steven.
Technically, I think he's a bookkeeper and not an accountant. (I could be wrong -- I haven't memorized the whole book for crying out loud.) But my line seemed funnier with "accountant." You SHOULD read it. It's hilarious. That TR Pearson guy, you'll love him. I don't know how he does it, maybe you can figure it out. Tell me the word "effusive" isn't funny in this sentence: "Mona’s nightie was one of those items no female has the body to wear, the sort of brief and gauzy negligee that ought to be sold packaged with both an effusive apology and an airbrush." Although, taken in isolation like that, and if you read it with the proper voice in your head, it sounds like something Sam Spade might say. If Same Spade knew about airbrushing, which seems doubtful.
Good sentence. Wish I could remember writing it. Whenever I go back and look at old books of mine, I just want to rewrite them. That usually keeps me facing in the proper direction.I'm glad for your report, though, because I honestly don't remember much about this novel except for trying to create a semi-likable character with a stick up his ass. KInd of a heavy lift.
Melville probably looked back at Moby Dick and thought, "Man, there's a whole lot of stuff in here about whales ... maybe I should have left some of that out and put in a love subplot instead … maybe a blonde..."
Thank you so much for continuing to write. I have followed some of your publishing struggles. I have also published a couple small non-fiction books myself. Everyone thinks I'm getting rich. I'm not. But I did have enough to take my wife out to dinner. Anyway, having lived in Churchville, VA you characters and their way of thinking and talking and being are real authentic and fresh.
(I once asked a woman lived in Churchville her entire life if her whole family lived nearby. She waited. Thought. Said, "No my sister lives down in Greenville." What is that ten miles away...
Thank you for persevering. Thank you for sharing your craft and your gift with the world. I will keep buying your books as long as you keeping writing them.
Thanks, Paul. I appreciate your encouragement. At this point, I doubt I'm fit for much else, so I'll keep grinding away.Thanks for checking in.
I’m reading The Last of How It Was for about the 4th time, having to stop and laugh out loud at the same spots that I have laughed at every time before.We’ve read most all of your books, have bought and given away many, and look forward to more.
I grew up in Roanoke and ended up inLexington, Ga., pop. 239 (altho we think they missed 3 or 4), a town very like Neely.
You have given me and my whole family countless hours of pleasure. There was a time when I, my wife and our 2 children all sat on a beach reading your books, laughing, reading passages aloud.
Thanks.
David
Hi David,You're clearly a better man than I am if you can wade through that dense novel four times. Yikes. I'm delighted, though, that it brings you pleasure and very much appreciate your support through my long, bumpy career.
Please pass along my regards to your family, and thanks for finding me here.
Happy Reading.
The forest is dense only if you're in a hurry to get through it, not if you're there to enjoy the beauty of the trees.
Or if you're finding out you planted all the trees in the wrong places.
Need golf balls? Be glad to send you some if you want.
Bill