Biff Mitchell chooses to finish his next novel and put his second love, Water Cowgirls, up for auction at eBay.
April 20, 2006 (Press Release) --
“I’ve had two passions in my life: writing novels and running a wilderness getaway for women with a sense of adventure, something remote by a pristine lake close to a system of white water rivers.”
Both passions were inspired by Tom Robbins’ “Even Cowgirls Get The Blues.”
“There was something about the largest all-girl ranch in the West and Sissy Hankshaw’s hitchhiking odyssey that inspired me to write,” said Mitchell. “And start my own all-girl ranch.”
“A canoeist friend into the canoeing rivers of Canada’s East coast,” said Mitchell, “and I saw a settlement of log cottages at the top of a steep cliff and I knew I would build an adventure settlement for women deep in those woodlands and it would be filled with lakes and beautiful whitewater rivers. I pictured a canoe with two women tearing through a boil of splashing water with their paddles raised victoriously over their heads.”
“Like cowgirls, I thought,” said Mitchell. “And that’s when I realized what the getaway would have to be called, I would call it Water Cowgirls.”
After three moderately successful novels, Mitchell started what he claimed would be his best piece of writing. “It’s a crazy satire on fast food, corporate culture, the ethics of science, and the stupidity of the average consumer,” said Mitchell.
Like most writers, though, Mitchell works a day job to pay the rent and stock the fridge. “It’s tough working all day and then coming home to write well into the night,” said Mitchell. “I drew up plans for Water Cowgirls and scouted locations. I even bought the domain name watercowgirls.com, but the novel began to take up more of my time; in fact, it cut into my daytime job so much I had to stop writing it.”
It was either work on it fulltime, or not at all.
Brad Parks, a programmer friend of Mitchell’s mentioned that he had the domain name stevejobs.name and that he expected he could sell it for a high price. “I asked him what he thought a domain name like watercowgirls.com would bring,” said Mitchell. “He told me I could probably take a year off work if I auctioned it at eBay.”
Mitchell, who claims his first love is his writing, decided to try auctioning the domain name at eBay. “Some day, I’ll come back to my dream of wilderness getaway for women,” said Mitchell. “It won’t be called Water Cowgirls, but I’m a fiction writer. I’ll come up with something.”
All the details and links for the auction are posted at: www.biffmitchell.com.
Both passions were inspired by Tom Robbins’ “Even Cowgirls Get The Blues.”
“There was something about the largest all-girl ranch in the West and Sissy Hankshaw’s hitchhiking odyssey that inspired me to write,” said Mitchell. “And start my own all-girl ranch.”
“A canoeist friend into the canoeing rivers of Canada’s East coast,” said Mitchell, “and I saw a settlement of log cottages at the top of a steep cliff and I knew I would build an adventure settlement for women deep in those woodlands and it would be filled with lakes and beautiful whitewater rivers. I pictured a canoe with two women tearing through a boil of splashing water with their paddles raised victoriously over their heads.”
“Like cowgirls, I thought,” said Mitchell. “And that’s when I realized what the getaway would have to be called, I would call it Water Cowgirls.”
After three moderately successful novels, Mitchell started what he claimed would be his best piece of writing. “It’s a crazy satire on fast food, corporate culture, the ethics of science, and the stupidity of the average consumer,” said Mitchell.
Like most writers, though, Mitchell works a day job to pay the rent and stock the fridge. “It’s tough working all day and then coming home to write well into the night,” said Mitchell. “I drew up plans for Water Cowgirls and scouted locations. I even bought the domain name watercowgirls.com, but the novel began to take up more of my time; in fact, it cut into my daytime job so much I had to stop writing it.”
It was either work on it fulltime, or not at all.
Brad Parks, a programmer friend of Mitchell’s mentioned that he had the domain name stevejobs.name and that he expected he could sell it for a high price. “I asked him what he thought a domain name like watercowgirls.com would bring,” said Mitchell. “He told me I could probably take a year off work if I auctioned it at eBay.”
Mitchell, who claims his first love is his writing, decided to try auctioning the domain name at eBay. “Some day, I’ll come back to my dream of wilderness getaway for women,” said Mitchell. “It won’t be called Water Cowgirls, but I’m a fiction writer. I’ll come up with something.”
All the details and links for the auction are posted at: www.biffmitchell.com.
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