​     I want to talk a little about the novel I consider to be my masterpiece, the one I wrote on for a solid decade, ​​Cold-Blooded World. I know that the last thing any artist can do is be objective about their own work, but I really do believe that it's one of the best novels ever written at any time for any reason, even though there are large chunks of it that are as vulgar as a fart with hair on it. I worked on it daily for ten years while holding down a full-time job and everything else, and I spent every moment of that time doing my best to produce the very best work I could. In my private imaginative universe, a movie has already been made of Cold-Blooded World, for which Tom Cruise won an Oscar, at last, for playing the lead character, Jimmy Lomax. Had it up on my website for a good 5-6 years. How many people have read it? No idea. Where is it now? I've got it saved on a Lexor. I don't really even consider it mine, anymore. The female protagonist in the novel, and the novel's heart, Timmy, is based on a woman I know, only Timmy is, like, a cartoonish, exaggerated caricature of this three-dimensional, in every way exceptional person. She had every right be insulted by my fictional portrayal of her, yet, in fact, she read the novel and loved it. More to the point, she got it. Her reaction to ​Cold-Blooded World came to me after my writing fiction for some forty years, and she was the first person, in all that time, to ever compliment me on my work. As far as I'm concerned, the novel is hers to do with as she wishes. 

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