Post #217103 by AquaZombie on Fri, Feb 24, 2006 3:13 PM

Thanks for checking it out. There's a complex back story both to the origins of the novel and the reasons I decided to dig it out of my closet and resurrect it in cyberspace. Basically and briefly, I updated an old piece from 1992 with some current touchstones, including tiki stuff (I was just getting into it back in '92), and replacing references to topical things like Rodney King race riots with Al Queda, etc., because a friend of mine who's read all of my many unpublished novels liked this one in particular. Initially he talked me into self-publishing it at lulu.com but to be honest, I didn't feel it was worth the effort, so I just threw it up on my own web site, so to speak. (This was after I already commissioned a cover by Rich Black, who does some of my Thrillville posters as well.) So much creative stuff is communicated and distributed and even enjoyed via the internet nowadays - movies, music, why not books? It's the cyberculture we live in, may as well adjust to the times. The good thing about having it online is I can instantly edit mistakes. For instance, there are some weird typos mainly resulting from the digital scan of the original typewritten manuscript, many of which I've corrected already. The main character in DADA, Helen, is based loosely on a cousin of mine I've never met, but who used to write me these really wild letters from prison. I haven't heard from her in a long while and sometimes worry if she access to a computer in the clink....stylistically it's inspired somewhat by Miami crime writers Carl Hiassen and Charles Willeford.
Anyway, there it is. Aloha.