Majorca Flats -- 109

Lawyers

“Author seems like the right word to me!” said Jason, It seems like something I could never do. Everybody at school and Oxford was talking about the great novel they were going to write, and I knew I couldn't do that.”

“Well, you never know! But what will you do?”

“My parents wanted me to do law. But I found it so boring, and so immoral — making the wrong side appear right. And then … I met Brent. And everything else became unimportant, really. He was my … he was everything … and I just, well, I stopped thinking about my career and what I would do when I'd finished university.” Jason didn't want to mention the money he would get when he turned twenty-five, so much money it seemed disgusting and immoral. Especially now, especially after the way Brent had died.

“These things have a way of sorting themselves out. Who would've thought that I would make a living — a good living — from writing? Though I admit, it is a job. I don't get much fun out of it.”

[Image from this article about popular perceptions of the lawyers' trade]


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Majorca Flats -- 108

“Amantha?”

“Yes.”

“It was Pete's idea. We'd started writing it before he got sick, and he insisted I continue while it … while it was all happening. And then … after …. it was a distraction. It took my mind off losing Pete. I worked like a demon, all day, all hours, and before I knew it, I'd written the first three novels starring Lord Jedediah de Balencourt. Het romance with a bit of explicit hot stuff thrown in. The first was a moderate success, the second went even better, and now they are all best sellers.”

He paused for a moment and sipped his wine. “Help yourself, by the way. I can rattle on for hours, and you'd starve to death meanwhile.”

“I've never met a successful author before,” said Jason helping himself to some pasta and some of the salad.

Jason snorted. “Author? I suppose, technically. But really it's a job, like any other. I know what sells, I churn out one Lord Balencourt novel a year, and I have lots of free time once I've finished the latest.”

[Image from Wikipedia article on regency romances]


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