Booth in 2010.
member allowed to see him. My sister was also unable to visit.
As an author, his credits include THE DAY LUFBERRY WON IT ALL SCREENPLAY BOOK, four drabbles in SPOOKY HALLOWEEN DRABBLES 2014, and the forthcoming thriller novel MACGUFFIN (co-authored by Roy C. Booth).
Writing-wise, I missed out on promoting my book with signing appearances at Convergence and local. Promoting the book has been rough. Nobody’s buying anybody’s books.
In his spare time, Mollard is a hardcore movie geek, collecting movies and TV series on DVD/BluRay. He even appeared as a featured extra in the movies NORTH COUNTRY, THE DAY LUFBERRY WON IT ALL, and GIRL SCOUT COOKIES. He has been employeed since 2000 as a Certified Registered Central Sterile Reprocessing Technician at the Virginia Regional Medical Center/Essentia Health.
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Uncaged welcomes Jon Mollard Welcome to Uncaged! In June of 2020, you released MacGuffin, a crime thriller noir. Is this your first published full length novel? It’s my first published anything. Drabbles don’t count. What have you found the hardest to cope with during the pandemic? What are you looking forward to when a lot of restrictions are lifted? The hardest thing to deal with was being unable to visit my 78-year-old father in the nursing home/ hospice as he battled terminal thyroid cancer and dementia. He also tested positive for COVID during his stay but had only mild symptoms. Last time I saw him was March 2020. He passed away January 29, 2021. Fortunately, my mom was able to see him a couple times a week. She was the only family
You have written a lot of screenplays and been a part of a few anthologies. What do you have coming up next that you can tell us about? Working on a hockey comedy called HAT TRICK AVENUE. Novel or novella. Do you edit out anything substantial in your novels in the editing process? Do you make that extra content available in any way to readers if you do? On MACGUFFIN, we chainsawed 40,000 words. Roughly 160 pages. Rough draft was 118k. Final draft was 78k. Some great stuff went bye-bye, some bad stuff. Didn’t need it. I don’t miss it. The novel is about Hollywood. While researching the popular locales and celebrity deaths, mysteries, and scandals, we found a ton of great stuff for inspiration. Being my first novel, I tried to use it all. Took years to edit the book down to size. What was the first book that made you laugh and/or cry? Jeff Dunham’s audiobook autobiography was pretty darn funny. He narrates it himself which is an added bonus. John Waters’ books are pretty amusing too. Can’t say I’ve ever cried reading a book. What are some things you like to do to relax when you aren’t writing or working? I’m a huge collector of movies and tv shows on VHS, Laserdisc, digital, DVD, and BluRay. Mostly for nostalgia reasons. I love anything 1980s. I’m also big into music. Not so much the Issue 56 | March 2021 |
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