Move Over, Walter White...and Beth Dutton...and...

There's a new kid on the block. And his name is JR Johnson.

He's pictured here, after he got beat up, but before he got his nose broken by the Russian with the crowbar.

I thought about what I had written on this very blog a couple weeks ago. How I mentioned Breaking Bad, The Americans, Longmire, Occupied, Bosch, Person of Interest and some others.

Guess what? None of the above are novels!

When you learn at an advanced age to write a novel there's no shortage of advice. Some of it is contradictory. Self proclaimed experts don't even agree on what the definition of a novel is.

The Hero's Journey. Save the Cat. The Nutshell Technique, The Anatomy of Genres, The Story Grid. I could go on, but I won't. Let's just say I have more than enough plot structure ammunition to defend myself in case I get stuck in a Boredom Competition on an airplane seated next to the librarian who wants to tell me all about the Dewey Decimal System. 

I could drone on about this stuff long enough to have the Dewey Decimal woman begging the flight attendant to change her seat.

I was getting down to the end of my latest story and realized: It doesn't end here! It's not a novel. It's a long form tv show.

So--I've decided: I'm a storyteller. And I'm going to present this story structured like a long form tv show.

What does that mean to the reader?

The first book is just about ready. The new title of the first book: Dead Men Don't Write Checks.

The first book is going to be shorter than the previous novels; more like one season of a long form tv show. 

And there's going to be an audiobook version.
​And at least two sequels.

Know anybody at Netflix, Amazon Prime, Paramount Plus?
​I've got a pitch for them.

Comments or questions:

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