The Mob – HackWerker.com

We’ve been reading posts from a few wise asses on social media that Los Angeles in ALWAYS this hot in October. Well, Van Nuys was 84° for the last three years in a row on this date and today it’s 101°. So close your mouths and get me a cold lemonade.

Romantic Tragedy

Hack saw his friend, actor Eddie Frierson, onstage in a delightful romantic comedy and was so charmed by the experience that he decided to write a novel in the genre. Unfortunately, his own disastrous romantic history came back to him as he was penning the book, and he got so embittered that he had the mobster Big Tim gun down the lovers in the final chapter.

The Quest for The MacGuffin

We know this probably seems a little self-indulgent, but Jonny’s been really depressed this week, so Hack wrote this to cheer him up. It turned out to be one of his best books ever.

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.