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January 21, 2014

Every Chapter, A New Idea - The Watchman's Rattle

Convos with Costa

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I'm the first to admit, and then I was reminded by my agent when I first went to meet him. He said, "This is too ambitious [of] a book for a first time writer." And I looked at him and I said, "You're telling me?"

When I sat down to write this book, I decided that every single chapter had to have a new idea. It's a really dense book because of that and so people show up sometimes and they have 8,000 post-its in there. And those are the people I take no questions from.  They're sitting in the front row of the audience and I go, "You people in the front row that have all those post its and have written in your books, no questions from you" because they know the book better than I do. Right? I mean I've moved on to the second book and I'm working on a second book. Now I have a lot of people that are being introduced to me, being introduced the book - for the first time and because of that, they have lots of questions. I think it's very rich in content but it's easy to read. Right? So you gotta give the first two chapters a little room because I'm trying to explain a brand new theory. But as soon as you get through with that second chapter, it's bam bam bam bam bam. People say they've read it in one night.

You can, it's a kind of science biology book that you're surprised by, because you wind up taking it to the beach and then you wind up talking about it.  So I'm glad I was able to write a significant book in a conversational style that people can read.



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