Brooks & Dunn’s first novel, "The Adventures Of Slim & Howdy," is now in bookstores, thanks to their co-writer, Bill Fitzhugh, who did most of the work on the project.
The characters, Slim and Howdy, grew out of the small western stories the duo has written for the liner notes of its albums, but the characters’ story grew significantly with the creation of the new book. In fact, the plot took several turns, since Kix and Ronnie got Bill to do three or four different rewrites. It seems he took their original suggestion — to make it feel like Pulp Fiction — a little farther than they intended.
"He took it dark," Ronnie told Dial-Global. "It’s hard. I don’t know how he can do it. If it weren’t directly related to what we do, I might go with that ‘R’ rating or something. He’s crazy, kind of wacky. But I’ve never done some of those things he wrote."
Which is, of course, why they call it fiction. Filled with lots of capers and strange twists, the book finds the two characters — Slim & Dusty, not Kix and Ronnie! encountering angry boyfriends and dangerous card sharks in a 272-page read. There is some talk of possibly turning the book into a movie.