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A confession: I've been bad. Despite the queries many of you have sent and the generous encouragement, I've yet to finish another Burns brothers' novel or complete my nonfiction book, MADNESS. I needed a break from writing (and the brothers needed a break from all the torture I've inflicted upon them). Too much time alone dreaming up stories led to too little living getting done, I'm afraid. I began to feel disconnected from what was going on in the world outside my head. About a year and a half ago I was compelled to return to my former job as a criminal prosecutor, where I could again become a part of real-life stories of heroes and villains, outrageous courage and pathetic cowardice, justice and injustice, and all kinds of good deeds and bad. I
expected to be able to write a lot on the side, intending to do so every
night. But the peace So in an effort to make things right (and motivate me to finally finish the Arctic book and return to the Burns brothers), I'm going to start posting MADNESS on my website. Take a look if you're interested. I will try to throw up a chapter a week. A disclaimer though: it will be entirely unedited, so you can expect errors, poor grammar, incomplete data, and perhaps a somewhat disjointed narrative at this point. If you do check it out, feel free to send me any thought or comments you might have. Just please understand if it takes me a while to respond (for all the aforementioned reasons). A very HAPPY NEW YEAR to you. I hope you, too, will be able hunt down and "kill" all your elusive projects. Thanks
to all for your friendship and support. - Clinton Link
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