A Certain Point of View: Writing, Film and Stuff

(C) 2018 Alex Diaz-Granados and CreateSpace (an Amazon company) Q.: Now that the story has been on Amazon for 10 days or so and has gotten good reviews - one reader wrote, "I really enjoyed reading this story. The author's descriptive writing brought me back to high school.    Really made me think about the 'what ifs' in life." - what are your plans for Reunion ? Will you expand it into a novel? Will there be a sequel?  A.: Before I decided to go ahead and publish Reunion: A Story "as is," I considered expanding it into a longer book, perhaps a novella at the very least. After all, the story expanded outward from one short scene into a fully-fledged short story once, so why not try expanding it further. There are a lot of references in the backstory - Jim's breakup with his first girlfriend, for instance, or maybe the whole business with Jim asking Marty to sing a duet with him at the (sadly) canceled Spring Concert - that could have been expl...

Stephen King's Misery focuses on Paul Sheldon, a writer who has made a comfortable living for himself by writing a series of Harlequin-type historical romances featuring a gorgeous English woman named Misery Chastain. For millions of his mostly-female readers, the romantic adventures of Misery are as riveting as, say, the mayhem endured by Jack Bauer on 24 , and although Paul was willing to write more books in the series to get those royalty checks, he is now growing weary of his character and her non-contemporary world. And, like many novelists, he wants to get on with the business of writing a serious work that might place him on the same literary level as Faulkner, Steinbeck and Hemingway Giving in to his heart’s desire, he does what his legions of fans and his agent least expect him to do: he kills off Misery Chastain. Unfortunately, when Paul is involved in a one-car accident out in the middle of nowhere, he’s saved from certain death by Annie Wilkes, a former nurse who...