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Name of fiction work? And were there other names you considered that you would like to share with us? The Desire Card. At the very beginning it was called Fat Cats but only for a minute because that title was terrible.
Has this been published? If yes, what publisher and what publication date? Yes, published by Fahrenheit Press, February 2019. http://www.fahrenheit-press.com/
What is the date you began writing this
piece of fiction and the date when you completely finished the piece of
fiction? I started it about seven years ago.
It’s been through many drafts. Since it’s the first book in a series, I wrote
later books and went back to make edits on this one.
Where did you do most of your writing
for this fiction work? And please describe in detail. Central
Park. I have a favorite tree.
What were your writing habits while writing this work- did you drink something as you wrote, listen to music, write in pen and paper, directly on laptop; specific time of day? I lot of the first draft of this was written in Central Park during a mild winter. I bundled up in an overcoat and wrote on a bench with gloves. I’ll never write in the winter again, but somehow it worked for this book.
What is the summary of this specific fiction work? Any wish fulfilled for the right price. That's
the promise the organization behind The Desire Card gives to its elite clients
- but sometimes the price may be more menacing than anyone could ever imagine.
Harrison Stockton has lived an adult life of privilege and excess: a
high-powered job on Wall Street fuels his fondness for alcohol and pills at the
expense of a family he has no time for. Quite suddenly all of this comes
crashing to a halt when he loses his job and at the same time discovers he
almost certainly has only months left to live. Desperate, and with seemingly
nowhere else left to turn, Harrison activates his Desire Card. What follows is
a gritty and gripping quest that takes him from New York City to the slums of
Mumbai and forces him to take chances, and make decisions, he never thought
he'd ever have to face. When his moral descent threatens his wife and children,
Harrison must decide whether to save himself at any cost, or do what's right
and break his bargain with the mysterious group behind The Desire Card.
What were your writing habits while writing this work- did you drink something as you wrote, listen to music, write in pen and paper, directly on laptop; specific time of day? I lot of the first draft of this was written in Central Park during a mild winter. I bundled up in an overcoat and wrote on a bench with gloves. I’ll never write in the winter again, but somehow it worked for this book.
The Desire Card is a taut
fast-paced thriller, from internationally acclaimed author Lee Matthew
Goldberg, that explores what a man will do to survive when money isn't always
enough to get everything he desires.
Page
1 from the book:
HARRISON
STUMBLED INTO CENTRAL PARK CLUTCHING THE SILVER BRIEFCASE, HIS BODY SHAKING
FROM BEING HUNTED. Clouds clogged the sky. The trees seemed like creatures
towering over him. He turned around to see the man in the Humphrey Bogart mask
running toward the entrance, a gun bulging from the guy’s inside pocket. The man’s
cold eyes scanned the park, zeroing in. Harrison took off down a dirt path
until he was alone with only the wind ringing in his ears.
He wanted to collapse; he begged himself
to just give in. Nature would destroy him soon anyway, and his shins were
starting to feel like they’d been repeatedly stabbed. He coughed up an excess
of blood and mucus that spilled down a rock. Now he’d gone so far down the
trail that he couldn’t see where he entered. The sound of footsteps came from
all directions. A distorted laugh caused all the nearby pigeons to shoot toward
the sky. The laugh was followed by an eerie whistle that became louder and
louder as he spun around expecting to see his pursuer.
A shadow passed behind a tree, bigger than
any animal. He propped himself up against a rock, too exhausted to move any
farther, closing his eyes and waiting to die. He could see tomorrow’s headlines
declaring his death as a mugging gone wrong.
“Gracie,” he cried, trembling. “Brent, my
boy…oh God.”
He had pissed himself now, the urine hot
and sticky as it trickled down his pants leg. He still held the silver
briefcase close to his chest, resolving not to let it go without a fight.
The
man in the Bogart mask emerged from behind a tree holding a gun.
“Just hand it over, Mr. Stockton,” the man
said. The voice box attached to his mouth made him sound robotic, weirdly calm.
“You don’t want this to get any more complicated than it already has.”
Why is this excerpt so emotional for you as a
writer to write? And can you describe your own emotional experience of writing
this specific excerpt? It
pulls you into the story with present action. Most of the book takes place in
the past.
Were there any deletions from this excerpt that you can share with us? No, it always began that way.
Anything you would like to add? Thank you for the interview. It was a pleasure to do.
Were there any deletions from this excerpt that you can share with us? No, it always began that way.
Anything you would like to add? Thank you for the interview. It was a pleasure to do.
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THE DESIRE CARD
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/08/74-inside-emotion-of-fictions-desire.html
Suspense Thriller
THE DESIRE CARD
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/08/74-inside-emotion-of-fictions-desire.html
