A little more Feedback....
Some other feedback I've received (from multiple sources) centered around a lack of explicit sex scenes. Sex between Duncan and Nazy. There's "enough" nudity and off-screen sex, and whatever is there, is there for a reason. I don't see the need to go "there." There's too many other things happening to wander off on some X-rated chapter. Though I had such a scene in Special Access but it was erased during editing. Before Duncan met Nazy, he played in a racquetball tournament, wandered over to the local chiropractor for a massage, and the masseuse "took advantage of Duncan" while he was sleeping on his belly on the table. She really did like his ass. Apparently.
During an earlier post I said I'm trying to be as "real world" as possible, and that there is "a little something extra" for those "in the know." I find it useful to add a little aviation history or intelligence community history or special operations history, give them a twist, to start or add to the narrative. Many of the scenes are accurate. Some of the players are real. In No Need to Know, readers are introduced to Pete Ortiz, Marine Captain, working for the Office of Strategic Services, the precursor to the CIA. He was a real guy. The scene where he forces a handful of Nazis to drink toasts is supposed to be "very historically accurate." I added the briefcase and its contents. The point I wanted to convey is that Greg Lynche, the DCI, told Duncan he didn't know Pete Ortiz. But the wily Lynche knew Ortiz was the most highly decorated member of the OSS. His decorations included two Navy Crosses, the Legion of Merit, the Order of the British Empire, and five Croix de Guerre. He also was made a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur by the French.
When Colonel Peter Ortiz was laid to rest, a large French delegation honored him (I recall a hundred Frenchmen from the war and other French politicians) as he was laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery. It was noteworthy that the delegation was the largest of its kind for a "non-presidential" level death. He was a Marine and like my Bill McGee character, was a real man, a manly man, not a pajama boy or a girlie man. He was one of the last of his kind. A swashbuckler and a patriot. And in the book, Duncan Hunter as an F-4 pilot flew with his son. Another real patriot, a chip off the old block.
Maverick out!
Some other feedback I've received (from multiple sources) centered around a lack of explicit sex scenes. Sex between Duncan and Nazy. There's "enough" nudity and off-screen sex, and whatever is there, is there for a reason. I don't see the need to go "there." There's too many other things happening to wander off on some X-rated chapter. Though I had such a scene in Special Access but it was erased during editing. Before Duncan met Nazy, he played in a racquetball tournament, wandered over to the local chiropractor for a massage, and the masseuse "took advantage of Duncan" while he was sleeping on his belly on the table. She really did like his ass. Apparently.
During an earlier post I said I'm trying to be as "real world" as possible, and that there is "a little something extra" for those "in the know." I find it useful to add a little aviation history or intelligence community history or special operations history, give them a twist, to start or add to the narrative. Many of the scenes are accurate. Some of the players are real. In No Need to Know, readers are introduced to Pete Ortiz, Marine Captain, working for the Office of Strategic Services, the precursor to the CIA. He was a real guy. The scene where he forces a handful of Nazis to drink toasts is supposed to be "very historically accurate." I added the briefcase and its contents. The point I wanted to convey is that Greg Lynche, the DCI, told Duncan he didn't know Pete Ortiz. But the wily Lynche knew Ortiz was the most highly decorated member of the OSS. His decorations included two Navy Crosses, the Legion of Merit, the Order of the British Empire, and five Croix de Guerre. He also was made a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur by the French.
When Colonel Peter Ortiz was laid to rest, a large French delegation honored him (I recall a hundred Frenchmen from the war and other French politicians) as he was laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery. It was noteworthy that the delegation was the largest of its kind for a "non-presidential" level death. He was a Marine and like my Bill McGee character, was a real man, a manly man, not a pajama boy or a girlie man. He was one of the last of his kind. A swashbuckler and a patriot. And in the book, Duncan Hunter as an F-4 pilot flew with his son. Another real patriot, a chip off the old block.
Maverick out!
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