Where Fact and Fiction Collide

Writing, publishing and promoting The Truth Is a Lone Assassin was the most difficult decision I've ever had to make as a writer. I don't write to titillate my readers and never have. I write to entertain them and to make them laugh and to make them think. This 32,000-word novella (approximate word count) is my second literary work under the pen name Jonco Bugos.

The Truth Is a Lone Assassin may or may not entertain people and, if it does, it won't feel like entertainment, unless you like to think. It will certainly make you do that. There are people who will want me dead for writing this book but that's what freedom of speech is all about. Especially when you feel as strongly as I do that there is more fact in fiction than there is in real life.

But there's nothing to laugh about in this book. This is my "literary" science fiction writer's mind at work again. I love to make people laugh for "comic relief" in my regular sci-fi novels but this isn't one of them. I didn't want to write this novella but I realized that it was a choice I had to make if I was to remain who and what I really am. A guy who still thinks the world is worth saving from itself. Somebody has to do it. In fact, I'd write it again, even if it killed me.

And it just might. But I hope not. I'm not done having my turn with words and I'm not nearly done trying to make the world clearer to us all. Especially when a lot of writers are busy muddying it up because there's a lot of money in that. But not for me. Not for all the money in the world. Not even if my life depended on it. Life is all about choices. Making choices is our job and our work as human beings. It's the only way to live when living is all we really have.