I planned to have "The Trust" out by Halloween, but I was terminated, and because of the aftermath, my book was put on hold. I am happy to announce, however, that I am more than halfway finished, and I've shifted the book's central thread to put more emphasis on corporate fraud and deep-rooted corruption than planned. I think I'm making headway on the main events now. I'll find out once it's sold and the reviews return. I'm pretty darn sure it will be a hit. Too many folks like me have uncovered things they maybe should have left buried, but then again, why own a shovel if you're not going to dig something up? I own a few garden tools, but my keyboard does most of the heavy lifting.
I am halfway through the book; I've incorporated the names of a few old favorites from my other Nick Posh books. Josh Davis returns; the bounty hunter from Stratford. Colonel Kolby Dickerson returns, and very sternly. It's too bad I couldn't bring back a few others I truly trusted before, but I have since realized that my gracious act of including them in my art was met with sad, disruptive behavior. No, I won't go into it, but it makes me sad to think they could have been included from now until the Rapture - but no. Not now. Only friends will be mentioned. Traitors will be dealt with at the Bema.
I am halfway through, and maybe a little more. I have 47,000 words written, so if I usually stop around 83,000, I am somewhere around the 56% mark, if I did my math correctly. Believe me when I tell you that Math is not my best subject. Writing is by far my strength. I've adopted Gemini to help me with the more colorful parts; I can't take credit, and I won't. I always give whomever or whatever needs to be credited their due. I write a chapter, upload it to Gemini, and ask it to rewrite it with flair and color, or maybe I'll say, "make it pop," and let the machine do its best.
Sometimes I'm happy with what it writes, and other times I scrap it and write it out myself. I like writing; it's fun and therapeutic. I can do anything I want to someone I despise, and if I don't want them to blame me for being mean, nasty, vindictive, or cruel, I change their name. I change the city, the time period, whatever, but I have at least gotten out of my head and spirit what I want to say. I find it refreshing to know I can erase, rewrite, destroy, rebuild, and redo anything I damn well need to, over and over, if I damn well feel like it.
I'm retired, I think. I'm not sure. I may go back to work, but right now I'm focused on the legal actions I'm taking, and the writing I'm producing. Both have been eye-opening, rewarding, and informative. I'm learning more about things I never knew, and it gives me fodder to write about. I can research a matter and have Nick Posh or Ralph Ferguson root it out in the book. I can stumble into a situation and ask Chief Ian Moore to arrest someone, or have him lock up the bastard overnight without light, food, or a blanket. Moore owes me. I saved his life in another book.
"The Trust" is about a land grab organization that turns ugly. It grows out of itself and into something uncontrollable. The monster is bigger than its maker, a Frankenstein of sorts, and like the early twentieth-century monster we remember, The Trust must be stopped before it destroys more in its path of lies and deception. One of the book's key themes is simple: the good guys win. They go through hell to do it, but they do win. The ride is the fun part to write. It's never that much fun to live, and I know it. I've been through it.
The book was going to be about the twisted roller coaster ride I went through trying to buy my house in the country, but it's organically turned itself into that and more. I have now added corporate connections, conflicts of interest, fraud, murder, and a seemingly endless swarm of miscreants whose greed and power struggles leave everyone in their wake injured. It's up to me, the author, to create a stronger force to stand up to their evil, and I have done just that. I like this book. I'm enjoying every bit of it.
I think it will be finished by the end of the week. I'll read through it this weekend, and maybe send it up for publishing next week. I'll come back to it in 10 days, go through it again for final proofs, and who knows, maybe by my birthday, it will be published, November 22. A good day to fight your enemies with the strongest weapons on the planet - words.
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