by the time you read this it will be too late

I will be 32.

Overly dramatic? Perhaps.

the world is a vampire

Billy Corgan and the boys nailed it. This world is a vampire with sharp teeth. It can suck the little life you have left completely out of you if you let it.
War
Money
Crime
Violent storms
Tsunamis
Tornadoes
Earthquakes
Disease
Hunger
The Elite
Republicans...oops I said that already.
Stress
Less Money
Rainforests
Extinction
Animals
Serial killers
Stalkers
Rapists
Molesters
Thugs
Guns
Bullets
Traffic accidents
Choking hazards
Airplane crashes


Jesus Christ...it's amazing I have lived this long.

vodka and tonic please

I write to you from a "bar and grill". The staple of the midwest. Crossroads in Maineville, Ohio, USA. Right next to Paramounts Kings Island...a big amusement park here in suburban Cincinnati.

Why am I writing you from a bar?

1) Haven't written in two days and was feeling guilty.

2) Vodka and tonic makes you do funny things...


AMAZON.COM: nothing yet. Will update here the second it's online.

when the sunlight disappears at dusk

Sunday night...again. Though I do really enjoy my job I dread sunday nights. The end of the weekend. Lost is the ability to sleep in. Found is the hot and heavy pace of a work week in America.

And for what? A new car? A new suit? A new toy? I don't know how our society became this fucking race of keeping up with the Jones', but I am sick of it. And tomorrow I will get up, and start the work week I so dread.

If only people could make this world make sense to me....but then it would be a boring, worthless existence.



As if that's really any different at all than what we have now?

Ej wasson

Creative.....or commercial

How typical this problem is, I don't know. I am constantly faced with the following:

OK, I have a kick ass story...but it will never be picked up by a traditional publisher, but I have several very commercial fiction ideas sitting in my PC.

So which do I spend my time on?

And as the battle inside that debate continues...my keyboard collects dust.

Ej wasson

tired....

Sorry for the short post, but my Pistons kept me up too late.

Game 7's are so intense. I can't wait.

ATWSN has a new cover which will be used for all online purchases from amazon. A walk starts with a single step...

I stepped.
Ej wasson

moving up in the publishing world....

In about two months from now...let's call it September 1 to be safe, ATWSN will be available online at major bookstores. Amazon, barnes and noble, and books a million.

Its an exciting time in the ejw camp.

Recd an email from someone in nyc. They are a part of my street team and have put cards throughout the MTA subway system. Thanks Steve B!!!!

More cards are available for street team use. Info@ejwasson.com for more information.

travesty

The USGP has come and gone. Thank god.

I hope people will research the truth and think about the consequences before they dismiss the entire sport.

Today is the saddest day in motorsports. At least for the casual fans...

Nothing is worse than Imola in 1994.

Ayrton, we still miss you eleven years later.

Ej wasson

USGP INDY

This weekend is the Formula 1 one and only visit to the United States. It happens at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway...roughly two hours from here.

It's also fathers day weekend. Therefore I have to skip the race. But I will dvr the whole weekend, watch it from the confines of my own home, and save me a lot of money by not going.

Who am I kidding, I would die to be there...next year.

Go Fernando Alonso!

life is a decision...

Success is many things. Hard to achieve, an accomplishment, recognition for a job done well.

These represent what success is but more importantly than all of this is this fundamental fact:

Success is a decision.

You want to achieve great heights in your career, your sales numbers, your writing style, your parenting, your friendship...everything in this list is an amiable and admirable goal.

But how do I get there.

Actually it is quite easy...

Success in anything is never more than a decision away.

Once you decide to succeed at -------


You have won.
Here's to us both winning.

I have decided.


Ej wasson

Parental Advisory- explicit content

I wonder...often...what the fuck is wrong with people who write?

Almost every author I have heard of is a little fucked in the head. I used to think that only my writing was therapeutic. I don't think so anymore.

Also, is there any group of artists (if I may call us that) that is more fucking conceited?

Look at what we do. Create something, in my case mildly disturbing...and hopefully a little thought provoking if you will just look past the gore, and then we want everyone to read it.

Almost everyone writes everyday of their life. What is so different about what thoughts I put into words and words into sentences and sentences into paragraphs and those same paragraphs into chapters and those chapters into a novel?

What makes us different?

Our drive, determination, and a fucking lot of hard work.

Does that make me more special than anyone else?

Fuck no!

Hard work is the key. You want to write a novel? You want to ask me for help on things???

Please do.

Hardly does the world need another author...but they have been saying that forever. You want it bad enough, its yours.

NEVER GIVE UP.

Is this journal entry for your reading pleasure? Or mine.


Ej wasson

a tragedy....

The justice system has once again failed to provide the very thing it is named for.

Justice

The courts have been moonwalked on once again.

The hill gets steeper.......

Ej wasson

GUERILLA WARFARE

Whoever came up with that phrase should be congratulated.

I have recd some business cards and have begun my own guerilla warfare.

I am putting them everywhere I am.

Today:
Three in grocery store inside alcoholic drink containers.

One in a restaurant restroom.

One in a laundromat on the corkboard.

If you would like to help...email me at info@ejwasson to join the EJ Wasson street team.

I will send a supply of business cards for you to get out to the public. Be creative, and let me know via email where you have done it so I can keep track of it here.

Thanks for your help.

EJ Wasson
6.12.05

pit problems and padmes

Well. I feel I have stooped. To a new level of a new me. I have seen Star Wars III. I enjoyed it and my interest has been piqued to see more of them. I have seen the booksheves. The original.... And the last one, which is technically episodes 3 and 4. It was not as bad as I though it would be. I tend to steer clear of anything that has a tractor beam...but this was worth the hype.

In Other News:
Tomas scheckter wins the IRL race at Texas! Danica Patrick had a few pit problems, and had said the track was too much for her car setup. She said it was loose the whole way around. Loose in any racecar isn't good. It bastically means that your car wants to lose traction and spin off the track. In IndyCars, that means hitting a wall. Danica will be fine. Give her time guys and gals. She is still a rookie.

Lastly,

I had a brainstorming session regarding the move of ATWSN from dead media to living media. It was insightful and exciting. The excitement is spreading.


Ej wasson

successful return

After a hiatus, I decided I would make a stop in at Wendy's. I am pleased to say it was completely a fingerless experience.

Enjoy the weekend.
Danica Patrick races tonight at Texas Motorspeedway. She qualified third.

Get em Danica!

Ej wasson
06/11/2005

more interest ......

The book business. It is bizzare. Tons of no/not interested/too violent/too controversial/not our style/ all followed by good luck.

Days weeks months of wondering if it is worth it. (For a better understanding of that, read "the pen was the sword", an ej wasson short story available at www
.LuLu.com/ejwasson)


And then three days in a row filled with contacts from people who are interested...who said yes... And don't have the fear to stir things up like the rest of the mainstream publishers out there.

Good things, at least good progress towards the ultimate goal of all this energy I have spent: breaking out.

still amazed

Well guys. I am laying down and trying to figure out how to best hold this blackberry when I type. It isn't easy. Man oh man its hot. I mean if I say man oh man you gotta believe me. Absolutely zero accomplished the past few days regarding my new novel. I was contacted by a pr person talking to me today about ATWSN becoming a movie. Apparently he knows this guy real well who has made a couple of movies about serial killers and even starred cuba gooding jr. If anything, I have learned that you gotta watch out in this business. People come out of the woodwork trying to get between me and you all. I have to be careful. I promise more progress soon. And a title.

Ej wasson

the world as i know it......

Has changed.

This is from my blackberry which sadly means for you there is now no escape from the thoughts inside my head.

I like technology.

Birthdays....

In a few short weeks I will be celebrating another year of my life. I will be finishing my 31st trip around the galaxy and looking for at least 31 more. I hope to see many more.

Life is an amazing thing. Fragile yet strong, unpredictable yet boring as hell.

I have been reflecting. It is a good thing to do once in a while.

The world around us continues to collapse:
murders, kidnappings, sex offenders, the religious right, the diminishing of people to do and say what they want because of the conservative slant in this country. You know what's funny....Republicans always talk to me about how the Democrats want to take care of everybody...make sure everyone is taken care of...and they have a problem with that. Yet those same people are the ones who go around telling me what I can read, or buy, or listen to , or watch in the privacy of my own home.

Why dont you all shut up and go back inside of your glass house.


HYPOCRISY is more of a threat to our national heritage than ever before. Dont preach to me about what is right. Walk the Talk. Live your life that way and a helluva lot more people will be willing to come along.


I am a liberal, a democrat, and an American. And fucking proud of it.

ej wasson
6.8.05

Game 7

My Detroit Pistons move on to the NBA Finals.

GO PISTONS!

Decent day of working on the new novel yesterday. More mental work than physical.

One follows the other. Some great imagery created for you to find towards the end of the novel. Seems to work best sometimes if I work from the back to the front. In the early stages it is always easy for me to create the now....but how it all impacts the end is what is really important.

More so in this one than before. This ending, this content, this story line matter. You'll see.

......

no thoughts are gathering for this post, but I am here anyway. Like writing a novel if you sit and start typing good things will come. Eventually.

This past weekend I was thinking about my novel. The one already available. The one we know as anD thE world sAid noTHing. I am thinking about how to get it into more of the peoples hands that would "enjoy" it. I am going to ask you for your help.

If you like Edgar and his world. Tell someone you know. For a small time author to break into mainstream media it takes more than a blog, and more than a website.

Word of mouth is the best advertising in the world. In fact, word of mouth is how I have found out about most things I enjoy the most.

I appreciate your help in spreading the word regarding this novel.

Edgar has more to say.....you will see.

it has started

The new novel is under way.

My attention has been refocused on one item. The others will wait...

Good things so far..stay tuned for snapshots of my newest work.

I am going to let the title come to me as I work through it.

June 1 2005

Summer is under way. Weather has turned for the better. It is sunny and people are out and about. I am in my cave digging deep. I feel good about some things going on, and not so good about others. Everyday is about half happiness and half disappointment. The roller coaster of emotions I am on is a good thing for my creativity. Gearing up...once it starts I won't be able to slow it down until it's natural completion.