wishful thinking
Today’s publishing landscape is both convoluted and shifting. The advent of the e-book and the corresponding explosion of self-publishing have in one sense democratized a process formerly reserved for the few. These developments have, at the same time, both flooded and muddied a literary pool in which the traditional filters have been breached.
In case we haven’t met, my name is Charles Joseph Greaves, and I’m a novelist.
Such was not always the case. If you’d asked me in junior high, I’d have told you that my goal in life was to play guard for the Knicks. By high school, I’d lowered my sights to brain surgery. This I’d actually pursued, until I encountered a pre-med college course called Inorganic Chemistry. By the time I’d hit graduate school, it was law, not medicine, that glowed like a new dawn on my life’s horizon.
Welcome to my periodic musings, on topics ranging from the writing process to books and authors I admire to whatever else might spark my interest and imagination. I hope that through these posts you’ll get to know me, and that from your comments, I’ll get to know you. I’ve begun, by way of introduction, by recounting my unlikely journey from L.A. trial lawyer to published novelist.
If anything tickles your fancy, feel free to share it. You have my permission.