Ghostwriter Circus: The Paul Eckert Website

For an author website, I devote relatively little space to talking about myself. I'm not a famous writer, but there may be someone who read one my stories and fell helplessly in love with me and costantly checks this site for updates.

(If you have fallen in love with me because of my writing, please let me know. My wife probably won't share me with anyone, but that piece of information would make a great story-topper at parties. When someone complains about a pervert stalking their MySpace page, I can say, "I had this guy/girl [I'm an equal opportunity employer for secret admirers, by the way] read one of my stories and fall madly in love with me. Now they log on to my website every day to see what I'm doing. I suppose the written word still has its seductive powers.")

The Official Paul Eckert 2009 update:

Currently I'm working on a novel tentatively entitled, Indescribable. I'm uncomfortable sharing too much about the plot because you never know what kind of information-harvesting robots surf the Net. They could capture this information, relay it back to their master who then turns the idea over to a thousand monkeys writing on typewriters, who then complete a final draft before I do. Then the master puts his name on the project, submits it to various publishers, deals with endless rejection slips, and finally, after two or three rewrites, gets picked up by a major/minor publisher. Who knows, it could happen.

Here's a short blurb about Indescribable: A girl is born in a small Texas town, and the town becomes obsessed with her beauty. As she grows older her beauty transforms her and the reactions of the town. She is kept in hiding, but the townspeople will go to extraordinary lengths to find her.

Besides writing the novel, I'll also be writing more short stories and sending them out to literary journals and inevitably collecting more rejections. Such is the writing life.

So stay tuned, fans. Good things are coming in 2009. Believe it.

I may have a website-exclusive story in the works, so check back soon.