Cover Art by Cody Andreasen
"If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about about it."-W.C Fields
My grandfather used to describe the quality of perseverance--in his self-effacing, backhanded compliment kind of way--as just being too dumb to know when to quit.
This is my too dumb to know when to quit project. I began penning the first draft in an incredibly dull History of Modern Art class at the University of Calgary so many moons ago that it doesn't bear contemplating. The story has gone through countless iterations since then. The manuscript has sat abandoned wholesale for years at a time only to be woken from its slumber at intervals as I rearranged, rewrote, and then re-relegated it to the obscurity of my many, many unfinished projects. The characters have deepened, growing more complex and colourful with each draft. Even when I determined to finish it last summer, it dragged its feet to near comedic levels of finicky difficulty. It has exhausted even my superhuman tolerance for incompletion. But I introduce you at long last to my newest (and oldest) novel, Letters to Disappointment, now available in all Amazon marketplaces and elsewhere.
"'Begin at the beginning,' the king said very gravely, 'then go on till you come to the end: then stop.'"-Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland)
