Boris The White

When Hack’s publisher John Kane heard the news reports about the death of Boris, he ran to the van that Hack lives in that’s parked in the parking lot of the North Hollywood Shakey’s, certain that it would mean the end of the Jonny & Boris saga. Hack told him to calm down, took the dog-eared copy of The Two Towers from under the passenger seat, and told him to come bac tomorrow.

The next day, Hack had this manuscript waiting for him. To everyone’s astonishment, it’s freakin’ awesome.

The Pug Trap

When Hack was contemplating writing a rip-off of Agatha Christie’s long-running play The Mousetrap, he learned that his cover artist Jonny M. had once played Christopher Wren in a successful production of the show. So, he based the thinly veiled imitation of the Wren character on Jonny and included thinly veiled imitations of the other personalities in Christie’s script. The only original character was a ditzy blonde nymphomaniac who stood out like a sore thumb from everything else in the book, but it was the only way Hack could keep himself interested.

Happy heavenly birthday to Agatha Christie!