“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?”