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What are the dates you began writing Blues in the Dark and when you completely finished Blues in the Dark? Blues in the Dark was written in 2017, between March and September. The publisher (Arcade Crimewise an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing) did the editorial work in early 2019, so perhaps one could say it truly wasn’t finished until then… but the work I turned in to the publisher was finished in September 2017.
Where did you do most of your writing for this fiction work? And please describe in detail. And can you please include a photo? I work in my home office. Location research was performed in the summer of 2017 in Los Angeles for a little over a week.
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 work directly on the computer in Word. I always outline my books. This is 15-20 pages, a single-spaced prose treatment broken out with block paragraphs (each representing a chapter in the book) that describes the plot points necessary per chapter.
Please include just one excerpt and include page numbers as references. This one excerpt can be as short or as long as you prefer.
Karissa arrived at the house on Harvard Boulevard at dusk and pulled into the garage. It had been a productive day, but still a frustrating one. She and Marcello still didn’t seem any closer to resolving what direction they should take. Part of her wanted to drop the idea of doing a film about Blair Kendrick because it seemed so fraught with problems, not to mention the threats to her career and personal life. On the other hand, she was determined to forge ahead and stand up to the bullies who thought they could dictate what her company could make or not. Some intangible force was pushing her toward uncovering Blair’s story and the truth about what had happened to her and Hank Marley.
She entered her home, put her purse on the kitchen counter, and walked through to the foyer. The mail had already been dropped on the floor through the slot. Still, she had gotten into the habit of peering out the door to check the front of the house. Opening the front door, she stepped onto the porch, and her eyes caught a splash of color over by the swing.
A vase containing a bouquet of flowers sat on the seat.
“What in the world?” she said aloud.
She walked to the swing and saw a little white envelope addressed to “Blair” attached to the vase with tape. The flowers were peonies, carnations, and roses. Very pretty.
If this is from Willy, trying to get in good graces with me again . . .
Karissa took the envelope in hand and opened it. She removed the card and discovered that nothing was written on it. The front and inside were blank.
“What the—?”
The bullet struck the front of the house before she heard the retort of the gunshot in the street. It took a full second or two to realize what had just occurred. By then, another round thudded into the front door as she instinctively jumped backward and leaped to the floor of the stucco porch. The scream came next as she rolled.
Panicking, Karissa started to crawl to the door, but stopped when she saw that would break what cover she had. Instead, she slithered closer to the protection of the short wall that ran along the edge of the porch. Could a bullet go through the stucco? It wasn’t very thick.
She reached for her phone—but gasped when she remembered that she’d left her purse in the house. She was helpless.
The sound of a car revving its engine broke through her thoughts. Wheels screeched on the road and the automobile took off. Karissa raised her head above the wall and saw a black sedan speeding away. It had happened too quickly for her to get a good look at it.
Breathing heavily, she got back on her feet, gazed into the yard and street, and figured she was safe. Her heart was pounding in her chest like a drum. Her legs shook as she struggled to keep from collapsing.
Was it Barry Doon’s car? The BMW?
She couldn’t swear to it.
Karissa bolted for the front door and went inside, leaving the flowers on the porch. She ran back to the kitchen, found the phone in her purse, and dialed 911.
The police had come and taken her statement. A forensics team arrived a little later and pulled the two rounds out of the front of the house, bagging them as evidence. Now there were two ugly holes, one in the exterior wall and another in the door. The cops had also taken the vase of flowers and the card. Karissa assumed they’d check for fingerprints.
Curious neighbors had come out of their houses to investigate why police cars were congregated in front of the mansion. Nothing to see here, folks, move along . . . ! She was embarrassed and mortified that she would be the subject of gossip and mistrust in the neighborhood. Whatever goodwill she had hoped to establish with her neighbors after moving in was now dashed.
A plainclothes officer who introduced himself as Detective Madison interviewed her after he arrived on the scene a couple of hours after the incident. He seemed weary and disinterested, as if a drive-by shooting was nothing new. Karissa told him her suspicions.
“Let me get this straight,” he said. “You think this was done by an executive at Ultimate Pictures in an attempt at stopping you from making a movie?”
“I know it sounds incredible, but, yeah, that’s what I think.”
He looked at his notes. “And you think the shooter’s name is . . . Barry Doon?”
“That’s right.”
“You sure about that?”
“No, I’m not sure at all. I didn’t see him. I just know that he’s verbally threatened me and my business partner, and we’ve caught him stalking us.”
“He said he was going to kill you?”
She shook her head. “No, he didn’t say that exactly. He just—”
“How did he threaten you?”
Karissa was tired and annoyed with the man’s line of questioning. “It was more like intimidation. He told me not to continue my research.”
“Or else what?”
“Or else . . . he didn’t say. It was an implied threat.”
The man looked skeptical. “Uh huh.” He wrote something down and reread his notes. “These flowers that were delivered, you don’t know who sent them?”
“No.”
“Ex-boyfriend? Ex-husband?”
“Like I told the other officers, I’m in the process of a divorce. My ex-husband is an actor, Willy Puma.”
“Willy Puma? The guy from Meat Grinder?”
“That’s him.”
“Huh. I like those movies.” He wrote it down. “You think he might have done this?”
“Honestly? No.”
“Well, we’ll see if he has an alibi. You have his contact information?”
She gave him Willy’s address and phone number. “Look, Detective, those flowers were placed on the swing so I would be forced to walk over and stand in a spot that made me a target. Whoever had the gun was waiting for me to do that.”
“Good thing he missed,” the man said.
Duh. Karissa wanted to shake him.
The detective eyed the distance between the bullet holes and where she had been standing. “If you ask me, whoever it was is a lousy shot. Or he intentionally missed you.”
It was nearly eleven o’clock when Detective Madison finally gave her his card, gathered his things, and departed, saying, “If you have any more trouble, don’t hesitate to call.”
Oh, thanks, that’s very helpful.
When she was alone in the house, Karissa texted Marcello and asked him to call her if he was still up. It seemed he wasn’t.
She was starving but was too exhausted and wired to do anything elaborate for a late dinner. Instead, she had a bowl of cereal and four glasses of wine.
It was pathetic.
When she was finished, Karissa sat in Blair Kendrick’s easy chair near the grand piano in the parlor. Photos of the movie star were all around. The actress in them stared at her, all smiles and bright eyes.
Halfway drunk, she asked aloud, “Is it worth my life to make a movie about you? Why should I? What happened to you and Hank Marley? What happened in that studio office when Eldon Hirsch was killed? Did you really have a baby? Who the fuck were you?”
Karissa wondered if the now-familiar ghosts lingering in the expansive ballroom of the old house would answer her questions, but the room around her remained silent.
Were there any deletions from this excerpt that you can share with us? And can you please include a photo of your marked-up rough drafts of this excerpt. Hmm, no, I really don’t want to dig out drafts and supply that. I feel that working drafts, especially with an editor’s markups, is personal to an author and just between the author and the editor. Thanks for asking, though!
Anything you would like to add? A new novella will be published in September or October 2020 entitled Hotel Destiny—A Ghost Noir.
Raymond Benson is the author of approximately 40 published books, the most recent being BLUES IN THE DARK (Oct. 2019), IN THE HUSH OF THE NIGHT (May 2018), and THE SECRETS ON CHICORY LANE (October 2017).
He is mostly known for being the third–and first American–writer to be commissioned by the James Bond literary copyright holders between 1996-2002 to take over writing the 007 novels.
In total, he penned and published worldwide six original 007 novels, three film novelizations, and three short stories. An anthology of his 007 work, THE UNION TRILOGY, was published in the fall of 2008, and a second anthology, CHOICE OF WEAPONS, appeared summer 2010. His book THE JAMES BOND BEDSIDE COMPANION, an encyclopedic work on the 007 phenomenon, was first published in 1984 and was nominated for an Edgar Allan Poe Award by Mystery Writers of America for Best Biographical/Critical Work.
In total, he penned and published worldwide six original 007 novels, three film novelizations, and three short stories. An anthology of his 007 work, THE UNION TRILOGY, was published in the fall of 2008, and a second anthology, CHOICE OF WEAPONS, appeared summer 2010. His book THE JAMES BOND BEDSIDE COMPANION, an encyclopedic work on the 007 phenomenon, was first published in 1984 and was nominated for an Edgar Allan Poe Award by Mystery Writers of America for Best Biographical/Critical Work.
Raymond’s original suspense novels include EVIL HOURS, FACE BLIND, SWEETIE’S DIAMONDS (which won the Readers’ Choice Award for Best Thriller of 2006 at the Love is Murder Conference for Authors, Readers and Publishers), TORMENT, and ARTIFACT OF EVIL.
A HARD DAY’S DEATH, a “rock ‘n’ roll thrillers,” was published in 2008, and its sequel, DARK SIDE OF THE MORGUE, published in March 2009 and nominated for a Shamus Award for Best Paperback Original P.I. Novel.
Also published in 2008 was the novelization of the popular videogame, METAL GEAR SOLID; its sequel, METAL GEAR SOLID 2—SONS OF LIBERTY, was published in the fall of 2009.
With John Milius, Raymond penned HOMEFRONT: THE VOICE OF FREEDOM (2011). HITMAN: DAMNATION was published in 2012. DYING LIGHT–NIGHTMARE ROW, the tie-in prequel to Techland’s videogame “Dying Light,” was published in Polish in 2015 and in English in 2016.
With John Milius, Raymond penned HOMEFRONT: THE VOICE OF FREEDOM (2011). HITMAN: DAMNATION was published in 2012. DYING LIGHT–NIGHTMARE ROW, the tie-in prequel to Techland’s videogame “Dying Light,” was published in Polish in 2015 and in English in 2016.
Raymond also spent over a decade in New York City, directing numerous stage productions off-off-Broadway and composing music for many other shows. Raymond has taught courses in film genres and history at New York’s New School for Social Research, Harper College in Palatine, Illinois, College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, and currently presents Film Studies lectures with Daily Herald movie critic Dann Gire. Raymond was honored in Naoshima, Japan, with the erection of a museum dedicated to one of his novels, and he was also an Ambassador for Japan’s Kagawa Prefecture between 2006-2018.
An accomplished pianist, Raymond regularly performs solo at various local venues. Based in the Chicago area, Raymond is an active member of International Thriller Writers Inc., Mystery Writers of America, the International Association of Media Tie-In Writers, a full member of ASCAP, and served on the Board of Directors of The Ian Fleming Foundation for sixteen years.
https://www.facebook.com/raymondbenson1
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