Harmonica and Gig Blog Tour
A little about RJ Astruc:
I'm an Irish/African speculative fiction writer currently based in Australia. Most of my writing concerns issues of race, gender, politics, and how freaking awesome it would be if the world worked exactly how I wanted it to. I have a long-suffering second husband and no pets.
17. What is the best writing or publishing advice you've ever received?
Stephen King did a great thing in his On Writing book where he cuts words out of sentences so that the end product is really short and snappy. I hate reading description, so the idea that you could just leave the bare bones of a story or a sentence was great.
18. Do you have a role model? Who?
I don't really have a writing role model, but if I could even have a pinch of Stanley Elkin's ability... wow. I'd like that.
Info:
Click to viewBlurb: "The rules of the qverse don't apply when you're dicing with its queen...."
Felix "Gig" McGuiggen is having one hell of a week. Arnold Lee, a mid-level programmer and all-around nobody, stabbed himself to death while jacked in to the virtual reality known as the "qverse." Viger Singer, Lee's employer, has offered Gig a million dollars to prove it was a suicide and not the first-ever murder by brain hack.
From the moment Gig said yes, he's been harassed, stalked, bugged, lied to, kidnapped, and nearly blown to smithereens. And that's just outside the qverse.
On the upside, his partner in crime solving is his idol, the mysterious hack known only as "Harmonica." But when Gig meets the legend at last, he isn't the crusty old dinosaur Gig expectedóin fact, he's a she, and she's the woman of his most intricately detailed, impossible fantasies.
On the downside, Gig might not live long enough to do anything about it.
Tomorrow's Blog Tour Stop: Lilley Press's MySpace page: www.myspace.com/lilleypress
Talk to RJ Astruc! RJ Astruc will be chatting in the Lilley Press chat room on August 15th at 9pm EST! www.lilleypress.com/chat