![]() I had, in fact, spent 20+ years trying not to write fiction, what with being a journalist and all. ![]() I hadn’t the vaguest wisp of a story in mind, but I had the tone down, I tell you, down: This was to be an antic, dark comedy, because … well, it sounded like fun. ![]() My Big Idea started out as No Idea At All.įour years ago I left my job as Books editor and columnist for the San Diego Union-Tribune and sat down to write a novel. How to do that? By treating the main character Max - and the readers - in a certain way. ![]() After years of reviewing and talking about books, Arthur’s gone to the other side and written Anyway*, a coming-of-age tale that’s getting some lovely reviews ( Publishers Weekly calls it “sweetly comic”) and aims to capture the essence of being twelve. This is a Big Idea whose author I have a great deal of pleasure introducing to you, because the debut novelist you are about to meet, Arthur Salm, is a dear friend of mine - the book editor at the San Diego Tribune back when I was an but an intern there, more than two decades ago (the paper later merged to become the San Diego Union Tribune, where Arthur continued in that role). ![]()
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