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# Earl Javorsky

Author of DOWN SOLO and TRUST ME

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## Posts

- [Haiku for the Day](https://earljavorsky.com/2017/06/29/haiku-for-the-day/) - rude awakening a green shoot sprouts through concrete Buddha wakening
- [Sting like a Bee](https://earljavorsky.com/2024/05/24/sting-like-a-bee/) - The first time Donald Trump saw Lilah—at the Mar-a-Lago resort—his head swiveled like Linda Blair’s in The Exorcist. He slipped his Secret Service guys and followed her to a room that belonged to her escort, some asshole real estate developer who thought he was up for a wild ride but wound up comatose on Rohypnol
- [A Brief History of My Gun (A True Story)](https://earljavorsky.com/2018/05/29/a-brief-history-of-my-gun/) - Jennifer was a piece of work, but no way did she deserve what happened to her. She was my connection’s girlfriend. Jim was the guy that got the ergotamine tartrate from Czechoslovakia, found the chemist in Ann Arbor, and had the tabbing machine in Woodland Hills. Best damn LSD in the ’70s. I would buy
- [A poem for our times, by my friend M.C. Mars](https://earljavorsky.com/2020/11/16/a-poem-for-our-times-by-m-c-mars/) - Plowing Through the Pandemic The bus stops at the cement island, a group of masked people get off. As I walk near, I recognize the face of a man who used to work in the boutique hotel flying the Tricolor in the neighborhood where I live. In ten years, we'd never spoken a word to
- [What Does Consciousness Have to Do with Fiction?](https://earljavorsky.com/2018/03/28/what-does-consciousness-have-to-do-with-fiction/) - We expect fictional characters to be conscious—meaning to have some level of self-awareness—in order that we can understand, believe in, and perhaps identify with their motives. It’s fair to say that the quality of being conscious is the essential human quality, even though we don’t have a very clear idea what it is. We can
- [On Genre Mashups](https://earljavorsky.com/2018/01/25/419/) - So what do you do if you have a story to tell and you realize that the best way to tell it will require introducing an element that’s not quite, shall we say, of this world? Should you worry about narrowing your market or having your work be pigeonholed as fantasy, supernatural, science fiction, or some
- [A Social Media Treat](https://earljavorsky.com/2018/03/10/340/) - I’ve been swapping books with writers I dig up online—I’ll bug the shit out of ten, but then I’ll hook one and occasionally get a surprise. Greg Levin’s In Wolves’ Clothing hits all the spots I want in a good novel: It’s got a terrific (first-person) voice, it’s original, it moves, it has sympathetic characters, and
- [A ghost from my past sent me gifts.](https://earljavorsky.com/2016/03/23/a-ghost-from-my-past-sent-me-gifts/) - After more than forty years, he found me on Facebook. The images are complex and fascinating, with a weird, alien beauty. I asked him how he created them and he got irritated and said, “That’s sort of like if you wrote a book and everyone became obsessed with your word processing software.” I started calling
- [Nice Editing Shortcut](https://earljavorsky.com/2017/05/11/nice-editing-shortcut/) - Here’s a Handy Tool for Writers Besides writing, I work as an editor and proofreader. When I get back a copyedited work, I am then tasked with—assuming it’s a Word doc with Tracking turned on—Accepting or Rejecting edits, which I can see in a Reviewing Pane and address one at a time, either right-clicking or
- [Book Review: Zero Saints by Gabino Iglesias](https://earljavorsky.com/2016/11/23/book-review-zero-saints-by-gabino-iglesias/) - I remember, from back in the day, how much you could tell about an auditioning musician, even before he started playing: the way he touched his instrument, the way he played a chord or a lick after tuning—not to show off but to establish that the tone was right—and I would say to myself, “OK,
- [How Well Can the Barber Cut His Own Hair?](https://earljavorsky.com/2016/02/21/how-well-can-the-barber-cut-his-own-hair/) - Or rather: How well can a writer edit and proof his or her own work? As a writer as well as a working editor/proofreader, I was shocked to see that (at least) two glitches in my second novel (TRUST ME) got past me, my editor, the copy editor, and the proofreader. They’re the kind of
- [What Does Consciousness Have to Do with Fiction?](https://earljavorsky.com/2015/05/10/consciousness/) - Well . . . We expect fictional characters to be conscious—meaning to have some level of self-awareness—in order that we can understand, believe in, and perhaps identify with their motives. It's fair to say that the quality of being conscious is the essential human quality, even though we don't have a very clear idea what
- [Everyone loves a redemption story](https://earljavorsky.com/2015/07/29/everyone-loves-a-redemption-story/) - Everyone loves a redemption story. It’s the basic theme of almost every ancient saga, classic novel, and Hollywood movie ever made. Read any book on writing and you’ll probably get advice on how to take a flawed character, give him or her a problem, and let the resolution of the conflict be the logical outcome
- [Drug Noir and the Collision of Selfish Motives](https://earljavorsky.com/2015/04/28/drug-noir-and-the-collision-of-selfish-motives/) - The world of drug addiction and alcoholism fascinates me. It consistently generates drama, pathos, irony, and personal stories stranger than the edgiest fiction. My experience indicates that some growth and distance from active addiction is useful in finding a place of compassion and sensible reflection regarding the ordeal of dependence on substances. In my book,

## Pages

- [](https://earljavorsky.com/) - Earl Javorsky looks like a pretty nice guy, but read his books and you'll see a dark side, an ironic side, maybe even a hope-for-redemption side. Coming soon: Sink or Swim is set in the world of crime: specifically, the fentanyl trade in San Diego and the young people involved in and victimized by it. Paul, a
- [Books](https://earljavorsky.com/books/) - Down Solo is about the unintended consequences of an ibogaine ceremony at a Mexico heroin treatment center. Charlie Miner wakes up looking down at his body on a gurney at the LA County morgue. When he moves closer to the body, it pulls him in and he is able to make it get up and
- [About](https://earljavorsky.com/about/) - Dan Howard was born Daniel Earl Javorsky in Berlin and immigrated to the US. He has been, among other things, a delivery boy, musician, product rep in the chemical entertainment industry, university music teacher, software salesman, copy editor, proofreader, and novelist. His novels include Down Solo and Trust Me, and a sequel to Down Solo
- [Editing Services](https://earljavorsky.com/editing/) - I was educated in Pacific Palisades, California, and attended the local community college and UCLA. I also went to Emerson College, a teacher training school in England. Besides having written three published novels, I have created strategically optimized content (blogs, feature articles, and web pages) for treatment centers throughout the country. I have also been
- [Reviews](https://earljavorsky.com/reviews/) - “Earl Javorsky’s Down to No Good is wildly original, wildly energetic, wildly funny – it’s just straight up wild, and I mean that in the best possible way.” Lou Berney, Edgar Award-winning author of The Long and Faraway Gone “. . . a violent, funny, surprisingly touching adventure/PI narrative that displays Javorsky’s writing chops and
- [Sting like a Bee](https://earljavorsky.com/sting-like-a-bee/) - The first time Donald Trump saw Lilah—at the Mar-a-Lago resort—his head swiveled like Linda Blair’s in The Exorcist. He slipped his Secret Service guys and followed her to a room that belonged to her escort, some asshole real estate developer who thought he was up for a wild ride but wound up comatose on Rohypnol
- [What if There Is No God?](https://earljavorsky.com/nogod/) - This question has come back to haunt me periodically throughout my sobriety. What if my sobriety depends on belief in and access to a power greater than myself, and there is no God? Some say I can use a doorknob, or a lamppost, for a God, but I don’t think so. How can I turn
- [Misc](https://earljavorsky.com/misc/)
- [Joe](https://earljavorsky.com/joe/) - Joe H gave a series of talks in 1987 at the Salvation Army in Los Angeles. Many people have found these talks useful as an adjunct to reading the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, especially when the reading is done out loud and face-to-face with a sponsor. I have made the talks available here for
- [Some books I have edited or proofed (click on titles for descriptions):](https://earljavorsky.com/editing-proofreading_portfolio/) - By David Putnam: The Disposables; The Replacements; The Innocents; The Squandered; The Vanquished; The Reckless A Red Dotted Line—Simon Gervais The Forever Year—Lou Aronica Blue—Lou Aronica Amanda's Story—Brian O’Grady Hybrid—Brian O’Grady The Unyielding Future—Brian O’Grady The Fifth Man—James Lepore Gods and Fathers—James Lepore Women in Bed—Jessica Keener Secrets of Inferno—Dan Burstein and Arne de Keijzer
- [Contact](https://earljavorsky.com/contact/)

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- [noir+paranormal](https://earljavorsky.com/tag/noirparanormal/)