From Author Marshall Karp
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 Several times while she was reading The Rabbit Factory, my wife stopped and said me, “how did you ever come up with that?”
And my answer would be I didn’t. Mike Lomax thought of it. Or Terry Biggs came up with that one. All I did was type.
If you’ve ever invented a character – even if you were a kid, and you had an imaginary friend – you know that the more three-dimensional they become, the more likely they are to speak for themselves.
As a writer, there’s no better feeling than to watch the characters breathe their own lives into the book.
Big Jim is far and away the best at doing that. I can’t tell you how many times I’d yell out to my wife, “you won’t believe what Big Jim just said.” Jim’s personality is as big as he is, and there are times when he doesn’t need my imagination. Just my typing fingers.
But what happens when the author steps away from the reverie of a novel and into the reality of a website?
- Here’s Mr. Karp’s bio
- Here’s Mr. Karp’s public appearance schedule.
- Here’s a list of Mr. Karp’s favorite ice cream flavors.
It can get real boring real fast.
So this website is not Mr.Karp.com. It’s LomaxAndBiggs.com. The characters, whose lives are much more fascinating than mine, now have a chance to come alive on the web, as well as on the page.
Obviously, I plan to be part of the process. You’ll get my bio, you’ll get my event schedule, and if you must know, it’s Rocky Road.
But for the most part, LomaxAndBiggs.com will be run by Detectives Mike Lomax and Terry Biggs.
They’ll each have a blog; they’ll answer questions from readers; they’ll give you hints about our next book; they’ll even connect you to Big Jim, Muller, Diana or any of the other characters you want to know more about.
About the only thing they won’t do is type. |
Monday: Taking Attendance
