![]() “By then I had months and months of work into this so I pressed on and well a year into it, I knew it wasn’t going to work.”ĭescribing himself as a “hope and grope” author since he prefers to come up with the story as he goes versus outlining the entire book, Hart said the reason the novel didn’t work is because “the fundamental flaw I found was that I wasn’t writing about the right person.” He expanded by saying that in his past novels, he always knew who he was writing about. ![]() “I wrote the first 50 pages and it wasn’t working and then I got to 150 pages and it still wasn’t working,” Hart said. He also began writing what he thought would be his fifth book, calling his publisher a year into the project and telling them that he was going to scrap it. “I came back with the intention of being more available to them so I decided to take six months off.” I was in Austria and touring,” Hart said during a phone interview. ![]() “What happened was we moved and I was in the midst of a book tour for my fourth book (‘Iron Horse’). However, six months turned into five years for the New York Times bestselling author who comes to visit Schuler Books Friday, May 20. John Hart’s intention was only to take a short break from writing to help his family get acclimated to their new home in Virginia. ![]() John Hart comes to Schuler Books Friday, May 20. ![]()
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