![]() “Though Giles originally agreed to help for seven, he stayed on the project until we were finished.” “The writing process took about nine months,” Haxton said. Fowler was so dedicated to the book that he continued to edit it until they finished, which ended up being a few months later than he agreed to. Haxton began sending a few pages at a time to Fowler, and this began a constant flow of new pages to Fowler, edits back to Haxton, revisions back to Fowler each writer working in collaboration to craft a better book. It was clear to both Fowler and Haxton that their system could be a bit more efficient. “I wouldn’t have considered myself a writer then-I just have these journals-so when I sent in my first fifteen pages, I got three of them back. “Giles agreed to edit my book,” Haxton said. Though Fowler was excited about the new project, he was unwilling to write it for Haxton. Next, Haxton took his idea to Giles Fowler, author of Deaths on Pleasant Street, published by TSUP. But when this author began experiencing the strange effects of the box, he backed out. After contracting with Truman State University Press to publish his story, Haxton originally took his idea to a writer recommended by the Press. He felt that if he provided the story and the material, then someone else might do a better job. When Haxton first had the idea for his book, he had no intention of writing it himself. Yet, Haxton’s experiences with writing are collaborative, and he attributes his success to not only himself, but to everyone who helped him along the way. This may seem strange that someone who is a member of the Author’s Guild and has a major motion picture based on his book wouldn’t consider himself an author. Even now, after the publication of his book, The Dibbuk Box, a wild and fantastic telling of his real-life experiences with a haunted Jewish wine cabinet, Haxton doesn’t regularly think of himself as an author. Jason Haxton writes in his journal daily, and has for the last twenty-two years, yet he has never considered himself a writer.
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