Jack: PLANTER’S PUNCH?
JA: Jack Daniels again, a novella I wrote with Tom Schreck.
Jack: You’re really milking this Jack Daniels thing. Is she in SUCKERS too?
JA: I wrote SUCKERS with Jeff Strand. Jack isn’t in it, but one of her series regulars, Harry McGlade, is the hero. It’s funny, and pretty sick.
Jack: Finally, you got this poetry collection called DIRTY JOKES & VULGAR POEMS for only eighty cents. Does it suck?
JA: I’d have to say that’s the greatest thing I’ve ever written. Some of the jokes and poems are so disgusting, so bad, so totally wrong, that I expect it will someday become a TV series.
Jack: Poetry is stupid.
JA: This isn’t like the crap you had to read in school. This is funny stuff.
Jack: For eighty cents, maybe I’ll try it. So are you working on another Jack Daniels novel?
JA: It’s called SHAKEN. There’s an excerpt in PLANTER’S PUNCH. What are you working on now?
Jack: Another in-your-face technohorror novel.
JA: Go figure. Should we discuss what it was like working together on writing TRUCK STOP?
Jack: Why? You think anyone is actually still reading this?
JA: It’s possible.
Jack: Working with you was fine. No problems. Except for that dumb pun you wanted to keep in the story.
JA: At the end, I wanted Latham to say to Jack, “First you hit that pimp with the salt shaker, then you threw salt in Taylor’s face. So, technically, you asalted two men.”
Jack: Yeah. That pun. There’s something wrong with you.
JA: I like it. Maybe I’ll stick it back in the story.
Jack: So, we done here?
JA: I think so.
Jack: Good. This was getting kind of long. Besides, I’ve got plans later that involve sleeping with your wife. I think she likes me more than you.
JA: I think you’re right…
Jack Kilborn is the author of the technohorror novel AFRAID, already released by Headline Books in the UK, and Grand Central in the US. Visit him at www.jackkilborn.com.
JA Konrath is the author of the Lt. Jack Daniels thrillers. His sixth, CHERRY BOMB, was just released in hardcover by Hyperion. Visit him at www.jakonrath.com.
All of Jack’s and JA’s books are available as ebooks, and as audiobooks from Brilliance Audio. And if you haven’t figured it out yet, JA Konrath and Jack Kilborn are the same person. Ask their wife.
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