Deathload
By Cy
Young
Genre: Thriller
When his Marine son is killed by friendly fire
in Desert Storm, ex-CIA agent and truck tycoon Vincent Fazio constructs two
trucks and out of revenge, sends them on a destructive rampage across the
country blowing up air force bases.
Tracking the behemoths is Phoenix P.D. detective and karate champion
Manny Breen. Breen teams up with Phoenix
P.D. chopper pilot Sharon Kramer.
Together they follow the trucks and end up at the White House for a
powerful ending.
What do you find most challenging about the writing process, and how do you deal with it?
Most challenging: striving for a schedule
needed consistent with the amount of writing I’ve taken on. Writing is the
fun part; finding the time when there are family obligations that often take
precedence is sometimes like threading a needle. But the desire to write
always prevails and the time needed magically appears. How do I deal with
it? Through patience, planning, and improvisation.
When and where do you do your writing?
My favorite time to write is early a.m.; however, this has become increasingly impossible; therefore I grab hours when I can. I write in my office; I have a desk that surrounds me making it possible to see different projects right at hand.
What have you learned about promoting your books?
The necessity of riding the Learning Curve as quickly as possible. Amazon/Bookbub ads demand a knowledge of bidding, CPR, CPM, joggling images, A and B ads to determine which one works; gathering key words; constant revisiting of ads to determine their effectiveness; seeking out promotional sites and using as many of them as possible. I need a website which I’ll have in a few weeks; and I have to grow my subscriber list. Also I’m writing a trilogy, soon to finish the second book.
What are you most proud of as a writer?
I try to stay away from pride. I’m grateful that in writing for many, many years in many different mediums, I’ve learned how different genres interconnect; this helps my writing in terms of tying ideas into comprehensive concepts. My basic goal as a writer: to create order out of chaos.
If you could have dinner with any writer, living or dead, who
would it be and what would you talk about?
Paul: his conversion on the Road to Damascus.
About the Author
Cy Young performed as a dancer/singer on
Broadway and co-starred at the Globe Theater in London in Divorce Me
Darling. He worked with Howard Keel (On
A Clear Day) and Buster Keaton (Once Upon A Mattress) as a featured player with
great reviews. Young has many recordings
on the Painted Smiles Records, performed a night club act at New York's famous
Number One Fifth Avenue, and has done numerous commercials and voice
overs. Also a writer, Cy has written
three published (French) plays, three musicals, and has a song on the Streisand
Third album, Draw Me A Circle, which Barbra used to open one of her early TV
Specials. Cy's short story, The Schitzle
Connection, has been published by Twit Publishing (Winter/Spring. 2011 edition)
and won Best Short Story in an Oklahoma City Writer's Group contest.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/indie.lector
Twitter: https://twitter.com/CyrilCCC.
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Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1209374.Cy_Young
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Deathload-Highway-Destruction-Cy-Young-ebook/dp/B07R1RDYHS
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