6/23/2023 0 Comments The Snake by John Godey![]() ![]() It won! Hurray!! Now all I had to do was write the rest of the book…įast forward nine months… and I’m almost there. I told everyone who’d listen it stood no chance, of course. But last year, I submitted the start of a novel I’d tentatively begun a few months earlier to the TLC Pen Factor Competition. ![]() I always sort of believed him, although it took a while for me to do anything about it. I got Godey, and what Godey whispered to me between every hip line of dialogue, every writhing New Yorker plugged full of snake venom, was: It seems not everyone can have a Golding, a Salinger, or a Lee to set them on their literary journey. And that time was one when genre fiction sold in millions, and horror/thriller literature was riding a wave it would never quite crest again. Being kind, I’d say it was a book of its time. Make no mistake, The Snake was far too adult for a 12-year-old to be reading. That being the 1970s-schlock-n-shock field. It was, I suppose, a classic… of its field. ![]()
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