AD: How did you wind up meeting this girl in Tijuana? JS: Ahh, you hadda ask that, hein? Yeh, well that’s some more of that crazy synchronicity shit I was just talking about, all these mystical events, seemingly unrelated coincidences that eventually weave together into some kinda higher destiny. So how did I […]
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AD: What was your inspiration behind the Narcisa part of the title then? JS: What was my inspiration behind it? Well obviously that’s the name of the book’s main protagonist, of course. And there’s all these different levels of sub-text behind a name like Narcisa, isn’t there? Because it’s just such a perfect name when […]
read moreAD: Just to give the title switch a little background for anybody who might eventually be reading this, I should say for the record that the original title of the book was Savage Grace. Unfortunately when a movie was released with the same name, you backed down and changed it. As poetically appropriate as that […]
read moreExcerpt from the new edition of Narcisa- Our Lady of Ashes For a seasoned prostitute, however, Narcisa sure didn’t care much for sex — at least not with men. And she always did whatever she could to procrastinate or outright avoid the dreaded moment of vaginal penetration. She told me of how she would always ask for […]
read moreAD: I always wondered where you came up with the title. You may have told me already, but if you did, I’ve forgotten… JS: That name came about as a sort of epiphany in the sudden quest for a new title, remember? I was really attached to my original title… Savage Grace was originally […]
read moreAD: When did you know there was really no turning back? JS: What? You mean there’s no turning back? Shit. (Laughs)… I guess at some point somewhere along the way as I surrendered more and more to the whole process, I just sort of realized one day that I was on some sort of journey […]
read more>AD: His publisher being Heartworm, of course, right? JS: Right. But I had no idea what that was at the time. I just said‘why not?’and then the next thing ya know I get this email from this guy Wes who’s the owner of Heartworm Press and he tells me he wants to publish all this […]
read moreAD: Where Narcisa “stormed into your life…” JS: Right… I remember one night this friend of mine, Inger Lorre, another recovering junkie and a real wild punk rock legend in her own right was hanging out at my place in Hollywood and she asked to read the Scabvendor book I was working on… I gave […]
read moreAD: Is that what you’re talking about when you say in the introduction that Narcisa “stormed into your life.” Could you elaborate any further? JS: Well, cuz it’s really strange how that all just came about. A strange, synchronistic confluence of events… In retrospect it seems like some sort of Destiny shit… When I […]
read moreThe following excerpt was taken from the rewrite of Narcisa: Our Lady of Ashes The Love House Hotel was infested with roving herds of frightening aging transvestites and their shifty looking tricks. The ‘girls’ there were some pretty surreal creatures. Like a bunch of pot-bellied truck drivers stumbling around the narrow maze of dark halls in their ratty, cum-stained […]
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