Creating letters to use as a plot vehicle

The Juno Letters uses two conventions throughout the stories - letters and journals. These are the text-messages and voice-mail of the era. People wrote often and kept these life chronicles safely away. They are the true "stuff" of history. Creating them for your story, however, is frustratingly difficult.

Over the years I have developed my own strategy. In the new story, The Last Speech, I have a series of letters that move the story forward. The second of the group is used to try and determine who 'the bother' is and the context behind the letters. To meet the intent of the story, the language needs to be obscure but clues have to live buried within. Here is letter #2 -

10 Sept 1947

My Dear Brother,



I regret I have not written these many months. I have been able to send this letter through a British friend and escape the eyes of the prison censors.



The trial has been exhausting. For three weeks we faced our accusers whose pretense was finally revealed. Several charges have been dropped but I fear more prison time awaits.



I have not been able to correspond with my brother to ask him about the girl. I believe father arranged her departure. I think Mother knows of this, however she refuses to talk to about that time. Perhaps the truth may be told one day.

For now, expect little correspondence as long as I am in prison.



Obediently yours,

Otto

This is the fourth iteration of the letter. As I write the story based on this the content of the letter changes - I obscure more and more detail as Monique works to unravel the hidden nuances. By working backwards from what I originally wrote (what contained too much information) I am able to fit the letter snugly into the mystery. Likely I will eliminate references to prison, censors, etc., and find other means to obscure the facts but plant clues to find. This is part of the fun.

Watch the story develop at The Last Speech.

Good Reading!

I Love a Conspiracy - The Last Speech

Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati, we skeptics owe you an apology. You were right ... the world is a rigged game.

- Matt Taibbi

Ah, for the love of a good conspiracy. If you follow The Juno Letters series you have found a thread that winds itself through the complex maze of my stories - the conspiracy theory. Historians have long known how easy it is to create a conspiracy backwards. Events do have a chain that links them together from finish to start, no matter how ludicrous or incredible. Creating that chain forward is a far more difficult matter. People and events tend to happen with random or unexpected twists and turns making actually accomplishing the objective of a conspiracy nearly impossible - even if one attempts to.

At least that is my objective world view, for what it is worth. However, for writing nothing beats a great conspiracy. I like to debunk the popular conspiracies in The Juno Letters stories, only to leave the reader with the unmistakable impression that the writer of the stories has in reality uncovered one deeper and darker than what was imagined, often unknowingly.

Book 9 - now in development - revolves around one of the great conspiracies of the 20th Century - the demise (or not) of Adolf Hitler. I am not going to give away details, but I wanted to let you know that I will be posting the chapters as they unfold on The Juno Letters website so you can watch the story evolve.

The first installment is online at The Last Speech book page. Have a look, and while you are there sign up for free versions of the entire story draft when it is ready.

And remember - when the "other guy" makes the big score and not you, it just might be what journalist Matt Taibbi called "a rigged game."

Good Reading

SMASHWORDS Summer Sale Results

The 2016 SMASHWORDS promotion is ending in a few hours and once again it has been a big success. The trend this year was for readers to download the other books in the series besides book 1 - The Juno Letters - an indication there were a lot of return readers. I was especially pleased with the results for the last published book, The Shadow's Speed. It was the most downloaded book of the series for the month of July.

Concurrent with the SMASHWORDS promo was the release of the working draft of The Bishop's Ring. Fifty-four readers opted to take a look at this work in progress in July - up considerably from the draft for Shadow when I first started offering this version. I have had a lot of helpful comments and a couple of "What the heck?" questions. I will be posting the next upgrade hopefully by the first week of August and will continue to offer First Look options on future works.

Thanks to all of you who jumped on either one of these offers. You referrals to family and friends form the background of The Juno Letter's success in the crowded e-book marketplace.

Story Draft Update - The Bishop's Ring v4

I have uploaded a major rework of the story draft of The Bishop's Ring. If you have delved into the meat of the story, some of the changes are:

• The clerk has the seal;
• Lowe does not sell one of the jade pieces in Menen;
• Only two pieces enter the story, streamlining the conclusion

If you haven't read that far, no harm, no foul.

From here on in most of the inconsistencies and mistakes will be minor ones - I hope. I will begin revamping some dialog in preparation for the final draft that goes to my editor. Feel free to get the newest version, and check back often - I make incremental upgrades all the time.

What's New - the link to the story draft.

Good reading.

The Bishop's Ring - Story Draft

Well, it's been a wee bit since I posted anything here - I've been consumed with writing book #8 - The Bishop's Ring. It has been a tough one to say the least. Sometimes things come easily, sometimes not - this one has taken so many twists and turns as I struggled with just how to develop the story that I must have rewritten the entire story line a half-dozen times.

But it is done - the story draft anyway. And you can download it in ePub or Kindle versions from What's New.

The story draft is the first entire story line - with the caveat that a LOT of editing remains. I post each new revision as they are completed. This allows my readers to follow the progress of the final drafts. Sometimes I get feedback, but I am not after free editors. So feel free to take a look - understand that things will change. You can share this link with friends, and if you are on my email list (go to the website - junoletters.com) you will get the final version for free when it is published.

This will be the last of The Juno Letters series per se, but The Bishop's Ring sets the stage for the next series - new characters, a heroine instead of me as the main character, and some new twists and turns. So good reading!

L.W. Hewitt

The Shadow's Speed - Story Draft 2

DOWNLOAD the new version at junoletters.com/whats_new.php

Thanks to all of you that downloaded the first story draft. You may have noticed some odd things if you read through the entire story. I warned you ... here are some of the Round 2 updates:

Armin/Ambrose Ziegler-Shaffer-Keller
This character mysteriously morphed into several names as the story progressed. This actually happens often as I write in small "snippets" that are not necessarily connected and not sequential. Seldom does a character have as many names as poor Armin, but he is much better now. Even though he is dead.

The Red Circle Climax
If you managed to read through to the near-end, the sequence at the Red Circle in Munich has undergone some consistency changes - both in the lead up and the execution of the journal drop. It will go through another integration starting today. It uses what I have seen called the "Texas Two-Step" or the "Double Shuffle" technique - a series of rapid-fire sequences, mostly dialogue, that make a climax event move very quickly. It is a challenge to get the sequence right with so little space allocated for each one. It is not quite right, yet.

The Cover
This version has both the preliminary chapter quotes and a temporary cover. The cover is under design and this is a placeholder, but it will give you an idea of what the final product may look like.

Typoes and othr crazzy ishoes

I caught the majority of the typos and edits in this iteration. Thanks to all of you that refrained from scolding me too much ... the story draft is not meant for prime time. I run through a whole list of standard edits: "all of" to "all"; eliminating overuse of "that"; catching phases used too many times; and of course simple typos and errors. The free-writing process results in a pretty messy document but it does come together in time.

The Shadow's Speed is on track for its debut in February. Thanks for all your comments, and have a Happy Holiday!

Larry

Story Draft - The Shadow's Speed

The Shadow's Speed - book 7 of The Juno Letters series - is now available for readers to download. This is the STORY DRAFT - the first time the entire story is compiled. It is not yet edited - that process has begun and will continue for the next two months. The finished book is scheduled for release February 1, 2016.

You are welcome to download either an ePUB or a Kindle version in it entirety; or you can simply preview the Prologue and Chapter 1. In either case just go to What's New on the Junoletters site and click the appropriate link.

One quick note - I am NOT looking for free editors. You are welcome to send me your thoughts, but we will be examining everything in the coming weeks. Like I said, this is a draft.

I hope you have a wonderful holiday with family and friends, and hope to hear from you sometime.

Happy Holidays,

L.W. Hewitt

Building Toward a Mobile Future

I uploaded the dedicated Juno Letters mobile site today. While my basic web design works fine on tablets, and was acceptable on my iPhone despite its truncated size, it is clear that mobile sites and apps are beginning to play a bigger role in the ebook business. There are fundamental differences in the approach to mobile sites. While the main Juno web site has lots of special features, samples, even a video, the mobile version is slimmed down and simple - present the premise for the series, show the books, provide the sales links to all of the major resellers, and provide a way to communicate with me through a secure form.

One of the things I did was build a routine where if you come to The Juno Letters with a mobile device the browser automatically redirects to go the mobile version. That's not all that difficult. But what if you want more of the full features in the main site and do not want to wait to get on board with a full-screen computer? Thanks to the programming magic of Php I built a routine that lets you choose to go from MOBILE to FULL-SCREEN with a mobile device. The system remembers that's what you wanted to do until you select a home screen button that takes you back to mobile.

Ah, the curse of programming. My twenty-some years in technology sometimes creeps back in and ruins my day. Tomorrow I go back to writing book 7. I will build functionality as I see the need in the mobile site, however. Those of us in this business who don't respect the changing landscape will run the risk of being left sitting alongside the margin.

Let me know what you think about the mobile site. Just go to "junoletters.com" with an iPhone or other smart phone and let the site do the work. If you discover any bugs, break out there "Raid" and drop me a line with the contact form, or at junoletters@icloud.com. I hope to get the video up - still having issues getting the permission to use the music.

Good reading.

Last call for SMASHWORDS and kudos to Google Earth

This is the last call for the SMASHWORDS promo - visit junoletters.com/smashwords.php for details.

I write about the great wars of the twentieth century - a rich playground of drama. It is not hard to find micro-events to weave a new story around. In 1943 the Americans launched the Alsos Mission - a vintage version of "Mission Impossible" to locate information on secret Nazi weapons (specifically the atom bomb), capture Nazi scientists, and prevent the Soviets from beating them to the punch. The story of Alsos is full of intrigue, and great twists and turns.

Look for a treatment of this clandestine operation in my new book - still untitled. One of the plot vehicles I use is to find small stories and insert my characters as players within them - blurring the boundary between history and fiction. This looks like a good one.

To make this plausible I use a lot of technology to build an accurate context for the story. One of the most useful resources is Google Earth. While I have travelled through Europe, you simply could never visit enough locations within a lifetime to flush out the details of a series of novels. Instead, I walk the streets of villages and cities using Street View and use real buildings, real cafes, real streets, real vistas ... a sort of fictional travelogue. I receive email from people who have either visited or plan to visit these locations, and even had one reader give a copy of The Clan of the Black Sun to the owner of Le Cafe Reuban Vert in Paris - my private haunt in the series.

I will post updates about Book 7 as the story progresses. And as usual, I always like to hear your story ideas and suggestions.

Good reading ... L.W. Hewitt

From my Oly Club office ...

We made it back! After a series of scans and tests we got the OK to go home. It was a long and challenging time but successful. I want to thank all who have sent their best wishes for our boy. He still has years of tests to go to make certain the cancer stays clear, but we are very optimistic.

I am sitting at my table in the Olympic Club for the first time in almost eight months - it is very cathartic. The work of the pub goes on all around me and I get to dissolve into its familiarity. Occasionally I even get a coffee poured ... by someone else! I was warned not to get used to that. It is good to be back. The Oly Club is recreated in my books as Le Cafe Reuban Vert (a real cafe) in Paris.

Now, to business. The Madonna Rosa went live on July 1 as planned and was included along with the rest of The Juno Letters series in the SMASHWORDS July Summer/Winter sale - the annual event which is the only time I offer production versions of my books for free. To celebrate going home I put the entire series up and the response has been great this first few days. I'll be connecting back with my publisher (California Times) and audio narrator (Gary Regal) to let them know I am now back in the game.

I am working on book 7 - and tossing ideas around to see how they interplay. Still no working title, but I have some great ideas to exploit. Something about stone age caves and "Die Glocke" - look it up and figure that one out!

For those of you who use the iPhone, the new iOS 8.4 supports the iBook version of ebooks through the iBooks app on the iPad, iMac, and iPhone. I make a version with iBooks Author and just tested it. Without a doubt it is the best ebook experience out there. If you have purchased (or downloaded) any copy in The Juno Letters series and want the iBook version, just drop me an email at junoletters@icloud.com and I'll send you a link to get a free upgrade.

I'm going to play with book 7 and just try to get adjusted to normal life. Stay tuned to the blog and have a wonderful summer.

Just around the corner

Book 6 is done. The Madonna Rosa will be released July 1 through the SMASHWORDS Summer Sale event. It was conceived, written, edited, and published from this kitchen table at Ronald McDonald House and the cafeteria at Seattle Children's Hospital.

This week we undergo our last in-patient chemo therapy. Our remarkable little boy has grown into a young man here at Seattle Children's Hospital and RMCH. He has known almost nothing of America since he arrived last September except this bubble that extends from Ronald McDonald House on NE 40th Street across Sand Point Way to the hospital. Yet at the same time he has experienced the very best of what we all stand for. The commitment of the people who have cared for our boy these past eight months, the generosity of the volunteers here who have welcomed him into their hearts, and the friends we have made here at "the house" show just who we all can be when times are difficult.

I saw that Peter Chung who was here from Korea left me a comment a while back - January, actually. Time kinda flows in its own space right now, and I am sorry I did not see it earlier. Peter - I wish you and your family good health. They specifically selected Children's Hospital from among a list of hospitals around the world to care for their child. I enjoyed our talks in the kitchen.

The odd thing about living here is that people just disappear. You come back from clinic or an in-patient stay and things have changed. People are gone. New families are here. Children you have seen with feeding tubes, scars from heart transplants, bald heads from the effects of chemo - they have gone home to restart their lives. The reality is when you get the OK to go, you go.

That day is approaching for us. We hope to be home by July 4, but planning is at best precarious. So today the tasks are the same - scrub the bathroom for the weekly room check, mix the high-calorie shake in the morning to try and keep the weight up, blood draw at 10:00, monthly visit from the case worker. Our friends from Symmetra are fixing dinner. Just another day to keep our boy cold- and infection-free before this last chemo, fretting over every cough you hear, every sneeze, wondering when the person who just offered you their hand last washed them.

We found out that little "Dallas" who was moved to House B - the seclusion apartments - was just pronounced cancer free and will get to go home soon. What a joy! Another family who was on what they call comfort care also left. That makes number four since we have been here.

I want to go home.

Seclusion is Inspirational ... whoever said that ...

Many of you already know that I have spent the last several weeks, since before Thanksgiving, in relative seclusion in Seattle living for the most part at Children's Hospital. We are the guests of Monsieur R. McDonald and House, just across the street from the hospital, and will be here until at least July. One of my foster boys is fighting cancer, and I have taken on the role as his in-home caregiver. My wife Rhonda has our other four foster boys at home, and is taking on the duties of that monstrous house by herself. Plus holding down her new job. She is amazing.

I am keeping up my writing schedule as best I can. Most of book 6 is being composed in the cafeteria at Children's and the communal kitchen at Ronald McDonald House at odd hours of the day. I suspect this book will be a little late, but that cannot be helped.

This forced seclusion is an interesting conundrum. There are times when the sheer amount of unoccupied time is more overwhelming than inspiring; while the chaos of the doctor visits, labs, chemo, and surgery rooms inspires me with new ideas. Getting them down amidst all that is a challenge.

What is even more challenging is the realization that there are people here - children and their parents, some not much more than children themselves - who are facing some of the most horrendous difficulties you can imagine. I have been moved by their courage and resilience, and humbled by their generosity.

When at some point in your life you may find yourself wondering who to donate funds to, where to create an endowment, or where to volunteer your time, please consider one of the many cancer-care alliances throughout the country or the Ronald McDonald Charities. Something as simple as volunteering your company to prepare dinner for the families does more to fight the void than you can possibly imagine.

Thanks for reading ...

A Sad Day ...

The Paris neighborhood that inspired me to write The Juno Letters came under a heinous attack yesterday. To my friends join Paris and throughout France I extend my hand in sadness and in hope that you will stand tall and not be afraid. To the victims, their families and friends, the American people will stand beside you, and share your sorrow. I cry today for my beloved Paris.

The Ethical Authors Pledge

All self-pubished authors are encouraged to endorse the Ethical Authors pledge from the Alliance of Independent Authors. Follow them on Twitter at #ethicalauthor.

The Juno Letters was recently featured on DBR Book News Weekly - the review from Susan Keefe of Audiobook Monthly. Good to see Juno in print across the globe! A special thanks to Susan for all her hard work promoting The Juno Letters.

I will be spending the next seven months at Children's Hospital in Seattle with one of my foster boys who will be undergoing cancer treatment. I will try to keep up with everything, including publishing book 5 - The Scavengers of Graveny Marsh, now in pre-release at SMASHWORDS for free. I want to thank everyone who has already sent good wishes - sorry, I have to keep the boy's name private. We are all praying for a complete recovery.

Mobile Reading Trends: How solid is the Kindle's position?

The title of this blog is actually an article that came out of the Frankfurt book fair - Mobile Reading Trends: How solid is the Kindle's position? (http://personanondata.blogspot.co.uk) by Michael Cairns. He makes an interesting point. The rise of the iPhone as an eBook reading device and iBooks as the default reader of choice threatens Amazon's hegemony - already slipping in percentage share and topping out in total sales and profits.

Coming from a technical background I have always kept up with the important readings of my industry. Publishing is no different. Too often we get stuck in the trenches and fail to see the business world around us changing. This may be one of those moments.

I have posted in previous blogs about my distaste for the eBook format - frankly, it makes books ugly. The lack of satisfaction in the reading experience is not going away just because Amazon built an early lead in its sales. Quite the opposite - Amazon is being challenged daily, and I am not talking about the lame excuses of Hatchett in trying to defend its antiquated power position eroded by the new technology.

I don't have the answers, but I encourage you to read this article. One thing is certain - look at where we are in the eBook market today - tomorrow will be different.

Thank God.

The State(lessness) of the eBook Market

Books used to be works of art. Typesetting was to the printed page what good lighting and backgrounds were to photography. You learned the craft from the masters, and the writer seldom if ever violated that sacred space. Not any more. The e-book has destroyed the art of book-making, at least temporarily.

The e-book is an oddity. It is a child of a general technology revolution that attacks the pillars of traditionalism with nary a plan to follow its invasion. Back when the “point and click” interface first turned the computing world upside down, the first victim was design in the revolution called desktop publishing. It turned that world inside out, and the result was a surge of very bad product - stuff that your middle school child would produce in their first newsletter class.

Other traditional markets soon felt the assault. Video production, music production, music retailing ... these and others fell victim to the emerging prowess of the software and hardware armies marching through complacent corporations on their way to world domination.

Then came the e-book. (If this were a video blog, you could hear the sigh ... just use your imagination - heresy in the tech world, I know, but there you go). Easy to create, easy to publish, easy to price cheaply. A revolution - followed by a surge of poorly written works masquerading as books. That is not necessarily a bad thing. I am a believer in the leveling effects of the marketplace to weed out bad writers. Like any product, to remain a writer and prosper, you need to write well. Bad product will disappear by itself. But that is not the entire issue.

E-book readers are at once helping establish the new market and contributing to its failure to embrace the art of the book. Scholarly studies are now being published that study e-book reader behavior relative to product and electronic reading devices. Shin (2010) describes the relationships between perceptions of quality both in terms of product and delivery on a function he calls confirmation - a key to gratification and therefore continued purchasing of e-books and e-book devices (274). While not specifically calling out the current state of the mobi or epub file formats, Shin acknowledges that users “continue to favour [sic] some characteristics of paper books” and that “some emotional factors are missing from the e-book experience” (261).

Quality of product is one of the core components of the gratification process (274). It is here that e-books fall way short of their potential even within the ability of current technology. The rudimentary appearance of the typical e-book lacks the aesthetic qualities of print that enhance a reader’s experience. Proprietary approaches to e-books and their reading devices contribute to this problem - both in terms of delivery and quality.

Amazon’s Kindle gives the appearance it can only read files purchased from Amazon’s e-book retail store - which is not entirely true technically, but from a user’s perspective true enough. The mobi file format is a poor representation of the art of a book while at the same time makes vast amounts of electronic books available. Amazon’s market clout means that to many users, the Kindle and its rudimentary product appearance represents the state of the e-book product. Once comfortable with this marginal level of product, few readers will show a willingness to explore other options (Shin, 261).

Apple has their own proprietary response in the iBookAuthor program and what I call an “enhanced e-book.” A producer can format a book exactly as a print publisher would, with strict control over typography, format, media, and interaction when displayed in landscape mode. It then allows for free-flowing text and font resizing in portrait mode. The product, however, can only be read on an iBook platform - iMac, iPad, and iPhone. In addition, if you plan to sell the enhanced product, it can only be sold through iTunes. Given that the software and its processing back end is available for free, I cannot fault Apple for wanting to control sales to recoup its investment, but limiting a product to a single sales channel is somewhat self-defeating.

Smashwords takes a broader approach to distribution by acting as a distributor to an ever-growing array of retailers, including iTunes, Barnes & Noble, Nook, Sony, and the new subscription services. At the same time, the product is the low-end epub format - less restrictive than Amazon’s mobi file but no more of a platform for producing a quality artistic product.

In the push to gain market share and become key players in the e-book marketplace, companies have taken fairly short-sighted approaches to the e-book product itself. At the same time, production and delivery capabilities have improved - further facilitating the proliferation of a sellable but substandard product that fails to satisfy what e-book readers are seeking.

Apple has shown that a quality artistic e-book is technically possible given the current state of technology. Smashwords has shown that expanding distribution is a viable business model. Amazon has shown that large volumes of sales are possible. Yet none of these major players get it right - at least for now.

The questions facing the e-book community are daunting. How can we make e-books ubiquitous without destroying the artistic quality of a book users still demand? How can we expand distribution opportunities to facilitate readers’ buying patterns and make e-reader devices capable over a broad spectrum of product offerings? How can we avoid domination by a single player, thus destroying competition and innovation?

Graphic design/desktop publishing is no longer the ugly ducking it once was - professionals embraced the technology and an entire industry was rejuvenated. Your middle school newsletter may still look like it was created by middle school students - go figure - but the design industry was taken back and improved upon by professionals armed with the new technology.

As writers and publishers, we need to demand that same dynamic. We need to demand that e-books become a quality artistic product, not just a free-flow of ugly text. The book as an art form can survive in an electronic world. We have to demand it, and show our readers we understand they are dissatisfied with the current product. It can happen.

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Shin, D-H. (2010). Understanding e-book users: Uses and gratification expectancy model New Media and Society. Retrieved from http://nms.sagepub.com/content/13/2/260

Free copy - As Angels Weep, v2

The SMASHWORDS sale is over, and because of the late posting I had only a week of the month-long sale to put the new Juno Letters book - As Angels Weep - out for review. So I have decided to offer an ebook version for the months of August on my website and through this blog as I do the final revisions and edits.

If you are interested, go to: As Angels Weep - Bookcard and simply follow the directions.

The ebook is available in all popular formats - but only through August.

Book 5 is in full swing and I am developing a whole new spate of characters I think you will enjoy, as well as a twisting plot. You can read a teaser of The Scavengers of Graveny Marsh at this link.

Good reading this summer!

As Angels Weep - at SMASHWORDS

"As Angels Weep" is now available at SMASHWORDS in all popular ebook formats. It will be FREE as a part of the SMASHWORDS SUMMER-WINTER SALE (don't ask my what the name is about - I never could figure it out) until July 31. The Print-on-Demand version through CreateSpace is in review, and barring any missteps on my part should be ready in a few days.

Finally publishing a new novel is one of the great joys of writing. It takes over four months to create one of these masterpieces (my review - might not be supported by peer review). I will be passing the completed manuscript to California Times Publishing next week for inclusion in the Amazon catalog.

In the meantime, Kindle users can download a version for their reader from SMASHWORDS, as well as iBook users (the epub version). The enhanced iBook version will be ready by the end of August.

For you audiobook fanatics - my most favorite readers - Gary Regal has promised me he can start working on "As Angels Weep" right after school starts.

In the meantime, I have started Book 5 of The Juno Letters series - The Scavengers of Graveny Marsh. You can read a teaser online at THIS LINK.

A quick note ...

I have finally completed "As Angels Weep" - book 4 of The Juno Letters series. Now the task of publishing rears its ugly head ... or spine, depending on your preference of format. Look for an announcement of the published product by the end of the month.

I have begun to write Book 5, and have outlined a basic story. The tentative title is "The Scavengers" (aka, The Market Lady). There has always been a lot of speculation that General George Patton was assassinated - conspiracy theorists love that one. But did you know there was a plot to assassinate him right before D-Day? No? Can't find it in the history books? Maybe because you will only find it here, at The Juno Letters! More to come.

Wish I Was Here - a film by Zach Braff

The Indie movement needs to support its own, and we have a great opportunity to send a clear message to the status quo in the movie industry. Zach Braff has produced and directed a crowd-funded movie called "Wish I Was Here" - a comedy drama. In the great tradition of Star Wars, Jaws, and Star Trek the studio executives rejected the movie. It took a crowd-funding effort to raise the $2M to begin the project - a feat accomplished in only 48 hours.

Regardless of its eventual commercial success, "Wish I Was Here" sends a message to the film and publishing establishments - your business models are broken. The power is shifting to the creative people, and you'd better change or ... . Well, maybe that's a little too "social media" but you get the point.

Go see it when it hits the move theaters and celebrate a victory of Indie over The Black Death. (I may have had too much coffee this morning.)

More information online at: Wish I Was Here