My First Book

I apologize for the blog disruption, but I've spent the last three months co-writing a novel with my friend Keith. Writing a novel turned out to be an all-consuming venture. Not counting my day job and my night job, writing a novel took all of my time.

I was very surprised by this because writing a book hadn't always been so time-consuming for me. I suppose that's because I wrote non-fiction up until now. Well, that is to say, I've only written one book before now, and it was non-fiction. It was a history of the Second World War.

I was six years old. I was a World War II nut, and I knew everything there was to know about the war. No one knew as much about it as I did, so I thought I should write a book telling people all about it. After all, I loved reading books, so how hard could it be to write one?

I knew it would take a little time, maybe all evening, so I got my grandmother's “portable” Royal typewriter and put it in my room. I sat down to the typewriter and thought hard. There was no way to put the immense amount of knowledge I had into one book, so I would have to organize my thoughts and only give the most important information - things the reader really needed to know.

Herewith, the complete text of “World War II” by Jack Parker:

“This book will not be complete. It will, however, be accurate.”

It only took me a couple of hours. I still can't figure out why the novel took so long.

Jack “Count Leo” Parker