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Hold My Calls

6/23/2015

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I made an announcement a few days ago that Deputy Ricos Tale 5, “A Reasonable Explanation,” will be released in August. Somebody asked what happened to “The Hardest Word.” Good question. That was a working title and in the end it didn’t make sense for this novel. My publisher liked the title and so did I, but I can’t write to fit a title. It doesn’t work like that.

“A Reasonable Explanation” is the same novel I started, but it didn’t go where I thought it was going because Deputy Ricos kept taking it other places. The plot I had in mind would have made sense for the former title, but it wasn’t to be. One thing is clear to me: the deputy no longer cares what I think.

The imagination that brings forth fictional works also brings all the bugaboos you can imagine. As I write on  Tale 6, I’m sometimes gripped by panic. What if my readers don’t like the new novel? What if I never finish another one? What if? What if?

“So what if they don’t like it?” counters Deputy Ricos with a lot of attitude for a woman I could erase with a tap on the delete key.

The problem is that I won’t/can’t erase her and she knows it. She is in me and I am in her. If she and I never wrote another tale, she’d still be with me as long as I live.

I think I struggled to write about 80,000 words on Tale 5 before my character yanked it away from me. “Good grief,” I could just hear her say, “You have no idea what you’re doing. Go read or something. I’ve got this.”

It’s with you, Deputy Ricos. Please hold my calls. 


14 Comments
Nancy Robertson
6/23/2015 12:57:17 am

I LOVE this! And I LOVE your books! Your alter-ego seems to have things well under control....way to go, girl!~

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Beth
6/23/2015 01:15:21 am

Thank you, Nancy!

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b condra
6/23/2015 01:35:24 am

You need an intervention. Perhaps a vacation in....Terlingua!!! <3

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Beth
6/23/2015 03:47:42 am

I think you're right!

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Jan Campbell Unger
6/23/2015 01:36:17 am

You are SO funny, Ms. Beth! Alright, already! Let Deputy Ricos have her way! I can't wait to see what she has cooked up!

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Beth
6/23/2015 03:48:31 am

No telling what trouble she's getting into while I'm online!

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CHUCK MUNDY
6/23/2015 02:05:38 am

Well that Bitch! Telling you what and how to do your job - loving her more each passing page as there are so many who have tried and failed in telling you how things are suppose to be done. Don't forget, she's packing!

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Beth
6/23/2015 03:49:58 am

She also knows self-defense, Chuck. She gets her way!

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CHUCK MUNDY
6/23/2015 06:29:50 am

Also has a Taser & pepper spray, & don't forget Barney!

Tommye
6/23/2015 04:31:08 am

All is as it should be. Love your work.

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Beth
6/23/2015 07:05:49 am

Thank you, Tommye!

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Tim McKenna
6/23/2015 09:30:11 am

All is perfection. The second law of thermodynamics is at play.

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Mary Dutchover (Lucy)
6/23/2015 08:32:47 pm

I am haunting the bookstores with the same question, "is Beth Garcia's book out yet?"

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Beth
6/24/2015 01:13:06 am

Ha ha! Not yet, but soon, Lucy.

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