How One of My Favorite Songwriters Came Along and Saved My Novel
When Don Lee Sent a Longshot Email to Will Johnson March 15, 2021 In 2016, I reached out to Will Johnson—a stranger at the time—because I was in desperate need of professional help. A novel of mine, titled Lonesome Lies Before Us, was scheduled to be published the following year. It was about an alt-country musician who’d never quite made it, and there were three spots in the book where I needed to put down some lyrics, which were supposed to convey that the character was a good songwriter. The problem was, I wasn’t a songwriter. I had only a rudimentary grasp of music; I played a li...
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