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FXXK WRITING: THE BIG DAY Jason S. Ridler
When this column started, I had given up on writing novels. Now?
The debut novel of my first series is HERE!
Behold, HEX-RATED: A BRIMSTONE FILES NOVEL is now released from Night Shade Press!
Publisher’s Weekly: “Steeped in the style of 1970s pulp detective fiction . . . Brimstone is cut from the cloth of the classic wisecracking detective, and Ridler peppers the text with perfectly pitched hard-boiled vernacular. The novel’s wild mix of comedy and supernatural perils bodes well for its detective’s future adventures.”
And the great Brian Keene called it, “Deliciously uncomfortable, wonderfully gritty, and a worthy successor to the occult detectives of old.”
I’m a legit author.
Published from New York to Cali and all points in between. Positive reviews and endorsements, from my command of plot to characters.
So the big question is . . .
… how the hell did it happen?
We will return next month to get the final installment of The Gutters, which will explore the years Before Brimstone, when I paid my dues in massive amounts of failure, broken dreams, and stupidity. When I stopped worshipping success and had to survive. Because in a strange way, when I gave up on dreams, better things than dreams happened.
Things like reality, in the form of a debut novel.
Now, please, go forth and make me the raging success you WANT me to be!
ONWARD!
© Jason S. Ridler
Meet the Author
Jason S. Ridler
Jason S. Ridler is a writer, historian, and actor. He is the author of The Brimstone Files, and his latest historical work Mavericks of War was called a “visceral read that is also an important piece of scholarship” by Pulitzer-Prize winner Richard Rhodes. He is a Teaching Fellow at Johns Hopkins University and teaches creative writing at Google, Youtube, and for private clients.
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