Blind Fool Running

ISBN: 0557052769

Author: Bugos, Jonco

Condition: New

Product Description Copyright 2009 by Michael Casher. First Edition published on March 1, 2009 by Lulu.com.Writing for the first time under a pen name, science fiction author Michael Casher creates his first literary novella. Jonco Bugos is the author of "Blind Fool Running", the story of a retired man who writes books that no one wants. But that does not stop him.Roger and Cat live together even though cat and man are considered to be natural born enemies in this part of Appalachia. As Roger begins his seventh book he begins to doubt whether or not he should continue. What makes a man begin a seventh novel when his first six books sit in boxes on the floor and make no difference in the lives of others? He needs to know before he can continue.Only Roger, himself, can answer his own question. But arriving at a solution to this dilemma will take some time and the journey will be an awakening he will never forget. In the process of discovery Roger confirms his commitment to exposing hidden truths about life on Earth. From the Author Back in December 2006 I suddenly got the urge to try my hand at literary fiction. I'd been on quite a roll for the past few years, writing full-length science fiction novels, and I was ready for a little diversion. My goal was to see if I could write a literary novel in the first person, present tense. I made it a "pet project" that I would pick up and work on when I got tired of writing science fiction. Since writing this novella was only a part-time job for me, it took me 25 months to complete it. In January 2009, Blind Fool Running was a finished manuscript. As the book reached novella length, I realized that the story was being told at novella length (17,500 to 39,999 words is the publishing industry's accepted range for a novella). Stretching it out to novel length would have done the story an injustice. As a novel, it would have been laborious and redundant for the reader. But, as a 31,000-word novella, it's a comfortable read. "Blind Fool Running" is my first very attempt at writing literary fiction and my debut as Jonco Bugos, my literary pen name and alter ego, so to speak. Joncomeans "John" in English and Jonco Bugos (pronounced YONK-oh BOO-gosh) was the Slovak name of my maternal grandfather, John Bugosh. Because of this book's metaphysical themes, experimental real-time story line, and the down-to-earth but philosophical personality of its main character," Blind Fool Running" was difficult to classify. It's definitely literary fiction but it also contains elements of science fiction. That's why Blind Fool Running, the literary novella by Jonco Bugos,became the seventh addition to the "Science Fiction for Thinkers" collection.  From the Back Cover Writing for the first time under a pen name, science fiction author Michael Casher creates his first literary novella. Jonco Bugos is the author of "Blind Fool Running", the story of a retired man who writes books that no one wants. But that does not stop him.Roger and Cat live together even though cat and man are considered to be natural born enemies in this part of Appalachia. As Roger begins his seventh book he begins to doubt whether or not he should continue. What makes a man begin a seventh novel when his first six books sit in boxes on the floor and make no difference in the lives of others? He needs to know before he can continue.Only Roger, himself, can answer his own question. But arriving at a solution to this dilemma will take some time and the journey will be an awakening he will never forget. In the process of discovery Roger confirms his commitment to exposing hidden truths about life on Earth.Written in the first person, present tense, "Blind Fool Running" is a powerful and often astonishing journey of personal discovery. Jonco Bugos has written an unconventional literary work with underlying metaphysical themes so compelling that Michael Casher offers this work as part of his "Science Fiction for Thinker