Ask the Author: C.G. Bauer
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C.G. Bauer
Ira Glass quote: “Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.”
C.G. Bauer
The news. So much gun violence. My protagonist in the thriller AMERICA IS A GUN is a fugitive recovery agent (aka bounty hunter) who put in his twenty with the Marines before hanging his out his own shingle. He likes guns, supports the Second Amendment, but he doesn't like how so much lethal firepower is available to so many people. He wants change, wrestles with how to go about making it. AMERICA IS A GUN shows one gun owner's response to arriving at more responsible gun ownership. A big task, but he's up to it, needing to grapple with his concerns while getting pulled into an assassination attempt on a political figure.
C.G. Bauer
I love creating unique characters and their voices. Plus I'm always chasing the "aha" moments of a story; I so hope that a reader gets jolted by a twist or a reveal or two, or a surprise ending. It's because I'm most appreciative of those moments in the novels I read.
C.G. Bauer
The third novel in the Judge Drury fugitive recovery agent series, AMERICA IS A GUN. Judge and his K9 partners take on a gun rights group and stumble into the assassination attempt of a political figure.
C.G. Bauer
I'll instead answer the question "How DID I get inspired to write," because now I can't ever see myself NOT writing. "I can do this" became my mantra after reading a few Sci-fi short stories while in my twenties (decades ago) . So I wrote a short story longhand, typed it on a typewriter, did nothing with it. In my forties I began a novel about how a corporate takeover affected a young family. I was going through a difficult time at one company. It took ten years to finish it. I'm still quite enamored with it -- it was cathartic -- but it will never see an agent's inbox. The sequel to it, however, did get published. SCARS ON THE FACE OF GOD: THE DEVIL'S BIBLE was pubbed by a small press, received some recognition (EPIC Awards runner-up for best in 2010 eBook horror; received some nice blurbs). A horror novel, so that should give a tiny insight into the inner workings of the corporate takeover I used as the underpinnings of the first novel.
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