Will there be more about Phil Were and his PI business? I set this up as potentially the first novel of a series, but whether I write another depends on two things: the success of the first novel, and a genius idea. If WereWoman catches on, someone makes a movie of it, and millions (well, okay, thousands) of fans are clamoring for more, then yes, I will consider obliging them. A novelist is the Incubus/Succuba of his readers, ready to cater shamelessly to their naughty secret desires. But I would still need a notion. What would be worthy of Phil Were’s effort? Maybe in real life he would be eking out a living with penny-ante chores, snapping provocative pictures for a divorce settlement, getting the dirt on a politician’s competition, and similar dullness. But I’d want something bigger than that, more dramatic, world shaking, something to refurbish my fame as a writer and make the novel a household word. What would that be? I have no idea.
I normally have some passing comment on my life at the time I write a particular novel. This won’t take long this time, because it’s dull. About the only unusual thing was that as I was making notes for the novel, I had serious dental surgery, and I wrote the whole of it during my recovery from that. I take good care of my teeth, but they disintegrate anyway. So this time I got two tooth implants (I have an imaginary trio of full-bosomed young women who find my reference to implants hilarious, just as they find my long hair and ponytail amusing) and a bone graft setting up for a third implant. I have had four implants before, and they have served me well; they don’t decay or crack or shatter the way my natural teeth do. They’re hideously expensive, and I wince at the cost as well as the infernal Soft Diet I’m on while my mouth slowly heals. I have to fight to avoid losing weight, because I try to keep my weight at my college level, neither more nor less, and I exercise seriously to stay healthy (apart from my teeth). Once I have my new teeth I know I’ll have to fight to avoid gaining weight because of more efficient chewing. In addition, I’ll be most annoyed if I don’t get at least a decade’s use out of them; what’s the point in spending all that money if I’m just going to croak soon anyway? So it’s a nuisance. And, as I warned, dull. I don’t live any celebrity existence; my wife and I live on our small tree farm with the deer and the gopher tortoises and the mosquitoes. During this novel we celebrated our 57th wedding anniversary by having some cheesecake. That’s our idea of excitement. Maybe when you’re 78 years old, pushing 79, as I am, you’ll understand. Assuming you can even chew cheesecake when you’re senescent.
This novel was proofread by Scott M. Ryan, who caught about 23 errors I had missed. My standard comment is that typos grow on the pages after the editing.
Anyone interested in tracking me in more detail can do so by checking my web site, www.hipiers.com, where I have a monthly blog-type column to vent my opinionations, news of my publications, and an ongoing survey of electronic publishers and related services, complete with candid feedback from anonymous writers, there to help aspiring writers find publishers for their works of genius. Publishing is no longer a closed shop that excludes newcomers.
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2014 by Piers Anthony
ISBN: 978-1-4976-6282-7
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