Interview with Digital Book Today
Including…
Did certain parts of the book make you uncomfortable? If so, why did you feel that way? Did this lead to a new understanding or awareness of some aspect of your life you might not have thought about before?
None of the writing in the book makes me uncomfortable; I know where the story is headed after all. But there are certainly sequences that are designed to make the reader feel tense – and those were perhaps my favorite sections to write (the Burning Club Incident is my personal top pick). Having said that, in early drafts I wrote about more than a few private moments from the relationship I was in that broke apart and motivated me to begin working on this book. Doing so was uncomfortable. Wisely, I think, I omitted those passages from the final text.
To answer the third part of the question, I firmly believe writing This Book Does Not Exist allowed me to come to terms with the end of my relationship, with a woman I considered to be the love of my life. It would not be an exaggeration to say that writing this book saved my life… which you can interpret as you wish.
You can read the entire interview here.
As a bonus, the ebook edition of my novel This Book Does Not Exist is free through Sunday on Amazon.
