Interview with Crime Writer Earl Javorsky – S. 5, Ep. 2

Debbi Mack interviews crime writer Earl Javorsky on the Crime Cafe podcast. Check out the show notes below, or if you’re in a rush, download a copy! 00:13 Intro Debbi: Hi, everyone. This is the Crime Cafe, your podcasting source of great crime, suspense and thriller writing. I'm your host, Debbi Mack. Before I bring on my guest, I'll just remind you that the Crime Cafe has two e-books for sale; the nine-book box set and the short story anthology. You can find the buy links for both on my website, www[dot]debbimack[dot]com under the “Crime Cafe” link. You can also get a free copy of either book if you become a Patreon supporter. You'll get that and much more if you support the podcast on Patreon, along with our eternal gratitude for doing so. 01:01 Debbi: Hi, everyone. Today, we have with us the author of one of the most interesting stories I've read in quite a while. When I say ‘interesting’, well, you'll see. But before I introduce him, I'd like to give a shout out to a friend of the podcast, Stewart A Williams Design. I can personally vouch for the quality of his work. He does my covers and he's absolutely fantastic. He runs a gamut of services, from typography, graphics, but his specialty is book covers; e-book and print. So, I highly recommend Stewart A. Williams. You can find his website at www[dot]stewartawilliamsdesign[dot]com. And with that now, I'd like to introduce to you the author of Down Solo and Trust Me, two very different thrillers that our guest is giving away. It's my great pleasure to introduce Earl Javorsky. 02:08 Earl: Great, thanks. Good to be with you. Debbi: Well, thank you for being here. Now, my introduction to your work was with Down Solo, and please tell the listeners about the main character, Charlie Miner, you know, the interesting part about him. Earl: The part that he’s dead? Debbi: Yeah. It kinda catches your attention right off the bat. Earl: Yeah, but he's not a zombie or a superhero or any weird thing like that. He's just a regular guy. He is PI, he has a drug problem. He wakes up dead at the morgue and there's a bullet hole on his forehead. And once he finds out he can move, it's like in the middle of the late night, early in the morning, the place is pretty quiet. And he finds a place to shower off. It's one of those hoses over a tub and he cleans himself up and steals clothes from another corpse and goes out. Gets a cab, on a mission, he's got to find out who killed him. It's pretty straightforward, isn't it? "He's just a regular guy. He is PI, he has a drug problem. He wakes up dead at the morgue and there's a bullet hole on his forehead." Debbi: It is, it’s very straightforward and a very intriguing premise. It kind of made me think of the movie, DOA, except instead of a guy who has been murdered but hasn’t died yet, you’ve got a guy who has died and wants to find his murderer. They're both trying to find their murderers but in different ways. What prompted you to write about a character in that particular situation? 03:48 Earl: I have absolutely no idea. So, I haven't been a ‘supernatural type’ reader, you know, since my early 20’s. I loved it then and then I went off into more conventional like Raymond Chandler and traditional mysteries and up to, you know, current great writers in that genre. And one day I sat down and I wrote the first page of Charlie Miner, of Down Solo and I had no idea what to do with it for like six months. And somewhere along the line, I went, okay, I got a guy, he's dead in a morgue, he's a heroin addict, let's make him a PI. Let's make his murder part of the case that he was looking into. Which case? How do we find out? And all of a sudden, I realized I could develop it and so I get him going home, finding out that his place has been searched and trashed. He gets access to his files and has to go through a bunch of files to find out which one maybe had to do with his murder and who the people were.