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The Fontella Jones Chronicles are in ebook form. There’s 14 of ‘em so far; some done; some near done; some I pulled back in to redo; and some are almost full-term in my brain and fixin’ to spill out. They'll all be out there soon; hold your water for a bit.
If you need to know what’s holdin’ things up, well sometimes it’s me. If I get bored or stuck, what they call a mental block, I move on to another chronicle. And sometimes, like I said, I don’t like what I’ve put out there and I pull it back in to rework it. And there’s times it’s cause there’s this little geriatric (think old Yoda) who’s helpin’ me with these books; correctin’ my spelling, droppin’ in commas and such, puttin’ shit where it belongs and tryin’ to edit my rants down to size and keep them to a minimum…but he’s not havin’ a lotta luck with that last part.
He ain’t perfect, age is getting’ to be a problem for him, and his mind is always losin’ track of shit and he has to start all over again from the beginning. But his heart’s in the right place and I kinda find it a little amusin’ when he gets lost. So does he. If you can’t laugh at yourself in this world—then you’re just part of its fuckin’ problems.
So why keep him around? You could say his encouragin’ me to keep writin’ is the reason for my existence. Plus, he knows a little bit. When he was a young man he wrote a trilogy. He sent his manuscripts out to publishers and all they did was steal his shit. Cause that’s all they do is steal your shit and pass it on to a lot of fucks with "original thought" impairment. But at least the old dude got his feet wet, which is more than I can say.
Why am I puttin’ ‘em out there myself? Anybody, regardless of gender, who’s ever written anything, knows that unless you know some asshole, male or female, in the industry that you can get down on your knees and perform oral sex on, you ain’t gonna get published. Fact of life.
I know they’re just stories, my blurred line between truth and fiction, but they’re really good stories…and Fontella Jones’ voice could stand bein’ heard with all the shit goin’ on in today’s world. If you like ‘em, read 'em, in order, cause that’s how Telly evolved. If you don’t like ‘em…well if you read this far, you know what I'm gonna tell you to do.
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