Review: A Penny For Your Thoughts
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 8, 2014
Jim Trevathan has been writing detective stories for twenty years. He's still making the same rate per word that he did twenty years ago: 5 cents a word. He's barely making ends meet.When Jim turns in his next story, he asks his editor, Warren Jukes, for a raise. Warren can't give him a per word raise, instead he suggests Jim find another more lucrative genre to supplement his income.Jim goes home wondering what kind of writing would pay more?This is a short story that includes the first chapter of the book, "The Burglar Who Counted The Spoons."I'd recommend this story to readers who like Lawrence Block's twist endings, because this one has a definite twist at the end.