Rick Maydak's Blog
July 6, 2018
NEW BOOK FINALLY
So....only took 8 years. But I have another book coming out. Look for (soon) "Caskets Full" from Dreaming Big Publications....
January 24, 2010
Writers Block destroyed
So my first novel met with very mixed reviews. Seemed to polarize folks. Either folks liked it or hated it. Very few said it was just ok....
Now, I'm faced with a decision. Press on, write another novel, or call it quits and focus on my day job....Finance. Ugh. Actually Finance isn't that bad. Beats picking up trash or mowing lawns for a living....my father always thought I should mow lawns for a living..not sure why. For some reason he thought there was a lot of money in it....I suppose if I opened my own landscaping company?
Regardless I have been faced with a writers block situation. A wall towering so high that it rivals the tower of babel itself....with a three year old that demands all my attention, a sixteen month old attached to my legs, a job that has an hour commute twice a day, my excuses are enormous not to write.
I said I'd take a year off. Then I started thinking, maybe I'll just wait until the kids are older....
But then..just as all hope was lost, something happened. It started flowing. Seven chapters wrote themselves. Better than anything I've ever done, or so I hope, so I pray, so I think anyway.....
I pledge not to repeat the mistakes of the past. This one will be better. It may still polarize folks though. I just can't write anything purely mainstream. And, I can't stand vampire stories. There are billions of 'em....
So, stay tuned, but another wild, demented story is coming. Hopefully, with all the shortcomings of the first one addressed as I continue to hone this hobby that God willing will one day be my craft..
Now, I'm faced with a decision. Press on, write another novel, or call it quits and focus on my day job....Finance. Ugh. Actually Finance isn't that bad. Beats picking up trash or mowing lawns for a living....my father always thought I should mow lawns for a living..not sure why. For some reason he thought there was a lot of money in it....I suppose if I opened my own landscaping company?
Regardless I have been faced with a writers block situation. A wall towering so high that it rivals the tower of babel itself....with a three year old that demands all my attention, a sixteen month old attached to my legs, a job that has an hour commute twice a day, my excuses are enormous not to write.
I said I'd take a year off. Then I started thinking, maybe I'll just wait until the kids are older....
But then..just as all hope was lost, something happened. It started flowing. Seven chapters wrote themselves. Better than anything I've ever done, or so I hope, so I pray, so I think anyway.....
I pledge not to repeat the mistakes of the past. This one will be better. It may still polarize folks though. I just can't write anything purely mainstream. And, I can't stand vampire stories. There are billions of 'em....
So, stay tuned, but another wild, demented story is coming. Hopefully, with all the shortcomings of the first one addressed as I continue to hone this hobby that God willing will one day be my craft..
June 3, 2009
Signed Books
For anyone who is interested my publisher, Leucrota Press, is sending me copies to sign that we'll put up for sale either on Leucrota's website or on rickmaydak.com. Stay tuned.
May 26, 2009
May 18, 2009
Article in the Sun Chronicle
For those of you in the Massachusetts area, the Sun Chronicle, a newspaper that services eleven communities around Foxboro (where the patriots play) will be doing a Q&A article on the book and my thoughts towards specific issues, etc....the article will run on May 25th.
May 17, 2009
For sale! a dream come true.....
The book is for sale, pre order, on Barnes and Noble.com and on Amazon....for some reason not yet on Borders. Pretty surreal to be honest....never thought I'd see the day. I'd crack open a cold one to celebrate if I wasn't sick as a dog right now.....
April 29, 2009
I never thought I'd blog. But what the hell. Let's do it.
I'll start with a favorite quote:
"And the people in houses... went to the university...they all got put in boxes and they all came out the same. There's doctors and lawyers....business executives! They all look like ticky tacky...AND THEY ALL COME OUT THE SAME!"
(But not me....at least that is what I tell myself).
My debut novel is being published by the good folks at Leucrota Press on May 29th. If you like gritty, dark, horror/sci fi reads please give it shot I'd love to hear what you think.
"And the people in houses... went to the university...they all got put in boxes and they all came out the same. There's doctors and lawyers....business executives! They all look like ticky tacky...AND THEY ALL COME OUT THE SAME!"
(But not me....at least that is what I tell myself).
My debut novel is being published by the good folks at Leucrota Press on May 29th. If you like gritty, dark, horror/sci fi reads please give it shot I'd love to hear what you think.
