So, this is my oldest book-length work. It’s a memoir I wrote up from the journal I kept during my first tour in Afghanistan. The original working title was “How the Army Tried to Kill Me.”<\/p>\n
I sent it to an agent I know and he very kindly told me he liked it, but that it needed work to appeal to an audience that didn’t know me personally. I started implementing those changes, draft 2, and then sidetracked myself to work on Music Man, now Machine Mind.<\/p>\n
In a disturbing note, I can’t find my pictures from Afghanistan right now. I’m still looking but they may have died with my work machine. Which would just be stupid.<\/p>\n
Edit: Found them. Whew. Backing up now. In multiple places.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So, this is my oldest book-length work. It’s a memoir I wrote up from the journal I kept during my first tour in Afghanistan. The original working title was “How the Army Tried to Kill Me.” I sent it to an agent I know and he very kindly told me he liked it, but that … Continue reading Empire of Dirt<\/span> ![\"\"](\"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/atmyeaseintheempireofdirt.jpg\")
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