Busy, busy, busy, but not writing!
Okay, need to make this quick, because the wife’s family has been visiting for two weeks from Los Angeles and my time is not my own these past days! In fact, in two weeks I’ve written one and half pages on my sequel!
I did get to read from “Car Wash Blues” during the literary event (the only one) of Hemingway Days here in the Keys and met Gary Quinn for the Irish Times. His first trip here. Now, that was fun. Got to take Brian Gordon Sinclair, the Irish-Canadian actor/playwright to the Smokin Tuna Saloon for the Friday night, North of Havana, Cigar Club Social. Brian has written several one-act plays about Hemingway’s life and performed them during Hemingway Days in Key West, as well as in Havana and Europe.Comin’ to town? Think about stopping by the Tuna on any Friday, 5 – 7 pm.
I did manage to have the wife’s family attend the past two Fridays, so I didn’t miss my cigar and drink! Some things are worth fighting for.
I send my hardy congratulation to Christine Kling, but you’ll have to read her blog to know why.
I become a writer again on Tuesday. Celine goes back to work and her brother Vincent and his family go back to Los Angeles. Then it will only be China, the dog, Ninja, the cat, Mrs. Harvey, the rabbit and the mailman (the delivery person here, there are two, are both men, so I hope mailman is PC) to distract me from writing.
I’ve actually got more than 100 pages done and edited. Nadja will edit as I go, and that way I hope to have the book available no later than Dec. (Ok wise guy, Dec. 2012, if you need exact dates). Same characters, but a lot darker and opens outside Key West, so the cover designer, Jen Musselman, can’t work on the cover until I get Murphy back to Key West. In the page and a half I’ve written in two weeks, Murphy is in Baton Rouge with Norm and Pauly and a Mexican drug lord.
Oh, least I forget, a Key West singer-songwriter, Joey Philpott, has written a song about Mad Mick Murphy. I hope to get his quickie recording of it on my website this week, so check it out! The Ballad of Mick Murphy! Now, will someone make a movie from the books? Please?
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