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Screenwriter | Eurovision fanatic | Midwest booster

I don’t remember who recommended this on my discover feed but a big thank you, whoever you are. A sense of dread you can’t shake through the whole book, I couldn’t put it down.

A cover image, likely from the 70s or 80s, of the book The Auctioneer by Joan Samson, with a Times Blurb: “Explosive… Chilling… I challenge anyone to resist it after reading the first few pages” the title, in bold red lettering, is angled up a snowy driveway to a red truck next to a barn.

Writers based in LA:   If you or someone you know has been displaced due to the LA fires and have nowhere to go, or if you or someone you know needs dog or cat food or a temporary safe place for their pets, please email joey@roadmapwriters.com

For about ten years I've thought about what a Tom Waits TV Christmas special produced in the early 80s would have been like. It's almost real to me. The set is a Depression-era shack he built and a stream of celebrity hobos keep knocking on the door and Tom goes "I wOnDEr WHo tHaT cOuLd bE"

With every fertility setback I also get positive news about a creative endeavor and — I can’t emphasize this enough — these were not the terms of the Faustian Bargain I agreed to.