Patrick O’Connell got the best advice of his writing life from an old-timer in Washington, Virginia, years before there was a book to write.
“He said, ‘You know the best revenge?'” O’Connell recalled. “I said, ‘No, what?’ He said, ‘Outlive them.'”
He took it to heart. “I did procrastinate on ever allowing the book out into the world until at least a third of the characters were dead,” O’Connell said in an interview Sunday with Alexandria Living Magazine…