In two days I get to be a novelist.
It’s been my lifelong ambition, to be a novelist. When I was five I wanted to be a cowboy. Soon after, and until the age of around 15 or 16, I wanted to be the shortstop for the Chicago Cubs. It was about that same time I decided I wanted to be, that I needed to be, a novelist.
It’s finally going to happen. On May 8th my publisher, Light Messages, will officially release my first novel, The 53rd Parallel, the first of The River of Lakes Trilogy, and I will toast myself and call myself a novelist.
And yes, I still want to be a cowboy. And oh my, what a great novel it would make when the 62 year old man goes to Spring Training in Arizona with the Cubs and shows he can still scoop the hard hit grounder deep in the hole and make the throw to first.
“The most solid advice…for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell, and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You’ll be dead soon enough.”
William Saroyan
Eamon
May 9, 2014 at 10:46 amCongratulations Carl,
I hope you had a wonderful day with your family and friends yesterday. You can fill me in over the coming weeks.
Now I would like a copy of The 53rd Parallel signed by the Author. Can you arrange that ? Then we can talk to Elizabeth about having a group visit the scenes from the book in Connemara with the author. Well done and have a great weekend.
Slainte mhaith
Eamon.