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The Lineup: The World's Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their Greatest DetectivesI began working on my Nobel acceptance speech. TheyБЂ™d never chosen a thirty-year-old before, butБЂ¦ So IБЂ™d written the first of my literary works, the start of my oeuvre. While I waited for the publishing world to discover Sunburn, I wanted to keep the creative flame burning, so I quit my daytime job (always a bad idea) at Guitar Player magazine and immediately began another novel, Liner Notes, about some of my experiences in the music and performing world. Flush with confidence, enamored of my own first-person writerБЂ™s voice, I produced this six-hundred-plus-page tome in four or five months and started sending it out to the same literary agents who, much to my surprise, had been turning down Sunburn with a frustrating regularity. My prizewinning literary book, they said, was not БЂњcommercial.БЂ« And neither, by the way, was Liner Notes. Well, what did they know? Great writers have always had to suffer for their art. This would be yet another life experience that would only enrich my later work. My critics would be sorry ...» |
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