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“I can’t concentrate,” I said. “All I think about is Eric Szmanda.”

After much prodding, Derek McCormack tells of how his crush on a CSI investigator nearly destroyed his writing career


I was crashed out on the couch.

“Why aren’t you writing?” Jason, my roommate, asked.

“I can’t concentrate,” I said. “All I think about is Eric Szmanda.”

“Eric who?” he said. Eric Szmanda, I told him, the star of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, the TV series. “Is he the one with the spiky hair?”

“Yes,” I said. “I sent him a copy of The Haunted Hillbilly.” The Haunted Hillbilly was my last novel. It’s about a vampire tailor who rapes and terrorizes country singer Hank Williams. “Do you think he’ll write me back?”

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