Kanan Gill Instagram – ARCs of my first novel! (Cover is a placeholder).
Tl;dr : Book out in January, the first of many.
I decided to be a writer when I was 12, and finished my first novel at 30. The intervening years have been spent greying prematurely and talking ideas off of ledges.
I have seen my ideas flash, sputter and die in pages documents, note files, workbooks (unruled), paper napkins, hotel stationary, whiteboards, soap bars, steamy windows, meeting rooms, conference calls, foreign bars, second acts, vim editor and workbooks(ruled).
There are ideas so big they block your arteries, ideas that go thud in the night, ideas that cast clawed shadows in dark alleys, ideas that speak in tongues and burst in moonlight, ideas that collapse under their own weight, ideas that are dropped due to poor reception —please rate the quality of your call— and bad ideas that wear leather jackets and skip school.
Some ideas need a stent to flow through your heart, some dreams need to be negotiated with and some ambitions are defanged by new personal philosophies presenting the inevitable conclusion that before your desires, you are so very, very small.
But if you are ever so lucky and foolish and persistent and patient, you may discover your own tether to magic and make the tight rope walk across the chasm between you and your wishes.
Acts of God will forever be a memory of the time I found courage enough to square with a dream so big it scared me, and found in it, a friend.
Then that’s all, how r u? | Posted on 10/Nov/2023 17:48:02
