Novel with Thanksgiving slant to follow "Waiting"

PRLog (Press Release) - Nov 05, 2009 -
"Being a novelist is very deliberate and not for the faint-hearted," D.L. Shiloh says. "The end product is on the page. There are few things but the page and the ink and how you got it there. It definitely isn't like poetry. I learned that it took me 17 years to write "Pookoo" because I was writing it the way I do a poem - every word counts. You might wonder, come on. But don't they?"

D.L. Shiloh's novel "Pookoo: A Satire of Celebrity" is getting a re-launch as fans are finding the celebrity and sports culture book, and with good timing because the Illinois author is working on his new novel "Waiting for the End." He's been hush-hush about, only revealing, "it's about grief."

That's a common thread through his dark work. With "The Pilgrim Commuter" back on his desk after "Waiting", Shiloh promises more laughs.

"I had to write "Waiting" right now, this year because it was pulling at me. Plus, we were too close to the Recession and I never want to make a novel like a blog and some anecdotes. Novels are made of granite, not chalk."

"The Pilgrim Commuter" is about Johnny Bradford, a son of Pilgrim father William Bradford. "I had devised that, and lo and behold, later learned that I am related to William Bradford."

Regarding his palette of subject matter, Shiloh says that "Pilgrim" will have humor more in line with "Pookoo". "Waiting" is subtle and not broad. It'll be a great change up. If I need it, I know the reader will, too."

Follow Shiloh at http://www.twitter.com/dlshiloh, as well as http://www.dlshiloh.blogspot.com. "Pookoo" is available at Amazon.com as a Kindle or paperback book.