Quiet Desperation by Greg Herren

Author:Greg Herren [Herren, Greg]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Goodreads: 39363906
Publisher: Greg Herren
Published: 2018-03-22T00:00:00+00:00

I can find someone to finish it rankled.

Why would Lester ever consider asking ME to do it?

Because Hunter was the only person who ever believed in you.

That was the moment I decided that I was going to revise Fireflies in Hunter’s style and send it to Lester.

Fuck you very much, Lester.

Because even after all this time, after so many times…it still stung to be dismissed like that.

If I hadn’t lost that ghostwriting gig. If the short story hadn’t been pulled. If Lester hadn’t been such a dick in his email to me.

If, if, if.

I pulled up the old manuscript and started reading.

I spent the day reading the electronic file, making notes. Fireflies was a much better book than I remembered… some of the rejections it got it had been pretty so nasty.

And undeserved.

It would be so easy to make it look like Hunter wrote it.

I shut down my computer and went to bed, completely believing I would wake up the next morning and change my mind.

But the next morning…I shouldn’t have done it, I told myself not to do it, but I opened Lester’s email again and read those words one more time as I drank coffee and ate my morning oatmeal. There was a dull throbbing behind my eyes.

I was going to teach Lester a lesson.

I was going to teach the whole goddamned industry a lesson.

And so, I started revising the manuscript, refreshing Hunter’s writing style in my mind by thumbing through his books. It was particularly galling to realize our styles—the style I’d always wanted to use—was actually very similar to Hunter’s.

Hunter had hand-delivered Fireflies to Lester twenty years ago, and told me later that night over a joint, “I told him he could thank me later for giving him his next big star.”

He’d turned it down, of course.

Lester wouldn’t remember it, not after twenty years.

After about a week of non-stop work, I was nearly finished. And I got another email from Lester.

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