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On 9/24/218, the Lawrence Kelter-edited The Black Car Business, Vol 2 was released from Down and Out Books. The anthology contains my story, “Details in Black.” It’s a story of transferred obsession, our parents, our partners, and the importance of details…
My dad is a big-time car enthusiast, and he served as technical advisor on this story, as the main character restores his deceased father’s classic car, much to the chagrin of his girlfriend.
When I showed Dad the final draft, he pointed out an error in which the protagonist opens the hood to show the engine and props it up on a hood stand. “This model had hood springs,” he told me. Grateful for the fix (another little detail), I revised and sent the new draft to Larry Kelter.
Due to the length of the the contributed stories, D&O elected to break the anthology into two volumes. “Details in Black” was placed in the second volume. Somewhere in the shuffle, the draft that was included in Volume Two was the one with the hood stand instead of the springs. I didn’t discover this until about ten or twelve days before publication, when I was reviewing the Kindle version. Mostly, I was just looking to see how it appeared on the screen — the picture of the thing, so to speak. But I caught the error and made a note to let D&O know in the morning.
Then I started reading more closely, just in case it wasn’t the second to last draft that made it in, but maybe an even earlier one. Luckily, it wasn’t, but what I did discover was even worse — a massive continuity error that I missed during the writing, revision, and review of the story. Not only that, all my beta readers missed it, Larry missed it, and D&O missed it. Then I missed it again when they sent a final proof for review.
Let me tell you, that was not a good feeling. Especially in a story where the theme is about how details matter!
Luckily, I was able to rectify the continuity error with a couple of short lines, and when I emailed D&O, they were on top of it immediately. The digital version was fixed and they made the cut off for the print version.
Phew!
How bad was it? Well, I don’t want to spoil it for you, so I’ll give you a similar type error for comparison…not exactly the same, but close enough in severity to give you an idea of why my stomach fell when I spotted it…again, in a story with the theme of “details matter.”
Let’s say the protagonist is in a car that is almost out of gas. As it uses up the last of its fumes and the engine dies, he manages to coast into a convenience store lot, and he comes to a stop at the pump. He goes inside to pay for the gas. On a whim, he decides to rob the place. A fight ensues. Blood is spilled. It is intense. He is wounded, grabs the money in his bloody hands, runs from the store, hops in the car, and escapes by tearing out of the lot and driving away.
See the problem? Now, my mistake wasn’t quite as glaring as this, but it was still there. And now that I’ve given you this example, you’ll probably be able to extrapolate what my actual error was when you read “Details in Black.”
At least, I dare you. 🙂
On October 1, my novel Closing the Circle was released from Down and Out Books. This is book #3 in the Ania series, which I wrote with Jim Wilsky. What’s it about?
John Pearse is a loss recovery agent for an insurance agency. When a set of crown jewels that his company paid out on resurface in the middle of a Russian/Polish mafia war in Chicago, Pearse is sent in to find and recover the diamonds. Standing in his ways are gangsters, grifters, and cops, but the biggest obstacle will be the sexy Ania, who has managed to stay one step of everyone else…until now.
Andros Krol is muscle for the Polish mafia in Chicago, tasked by his boss to bring back more than just the diamonds. Strong and cunning, Krol is after the money Ania took, but his biggest priority is to deliver brutal justice and a final day of reckoning for Ania.
Pearse and Krol are locked into a race against time and each other as they pursue the wily Ania.
The circle is closing on all of them.
So the real question is, will the sly siren get away again? You’ll have to read it to find out.
If Closing the Circle and the end of the Ania saga doesn’t whet your appetite for Ania, you’re in luck. December will see the release of a prequel, Harbinger, which is an origin story. Find out how Ania became Ania… but more on that in a couple of months.
Meanwhile, enjoy some black car business and/or some noir in the vineyards…
Source: All The Madness In My Soul
