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CAROLE MONTGOMERY's avatar

This isn't a book, this is a movie! Part 2 asap.

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Glenn Cook's avatar

Glad you enjoyed it!

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Steve Goldberg's avatar

I hope there’s a part 2 coming soon! What a cliffhanger! I love the way you combine memoir with the history of your childhood city. It’s truly seamless and gives me a vivid portrait of what your young life must have been to experience.

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Glenn Cook's avatar

Thanks Steve! Appreciate it.

Part 2, yet to be fully written, starts this way: “Mom was, understandably, pissed.”

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Steve Goldberg's avatar

I think you could write this story as a screenplay and sell it to, say, Richard Linklater (he's the only Texas filmmaker that comes to mind). It all felt like a movie, reading it.

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Glenn Cook's avatar

The best piece of professional advice I ever received came, ironically, from another reporter at my small hometown newspaper. He was a former Marine from Pittsburgh who had a long scraggly beard and had freelanced porn to make ends meet. I was 18 and was in awe of his ability to crank out beautiful news and feature stories on an old IBM Selectric on deadline.

The advice: Write visually.

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Rosemary Mock's avatar

Adventure after midnight! What a multi level experience, Glenn!😊😯🤩

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Glenn Cook's avatar

It was indeed that!

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