Tommy Kovac has made a name for himself interviewing actors from the 80s in his “Splat from the Past” podcast. Some of his interviewees are famous, most are obscure, but he’s genuinely excited to talk to them all. Here’s our talk from yesterday. I’m afraid to listen to it; I suspect it’s filled with … Read more
Look at the snazzy new flyer my publicist made for the Southern Independent Booksellers Association conference, going on this weekend at the New Orleans Sheraton.
I’ll be signing books this afternoon from 2:00-3:00, and then speaking on a panel with the indefatigable Susan Larson from 3:00-4:00.
From Marshal Zeringue’s blog in which he asks authors to try out the “Page 69 Test” on their novels. The Night of the Comet is set in a small town in Louisiana against the backdrop of the coming of Comet Kohoutek in 1973. The story centers on the Broussard family: Alan, a frustrated high school … Read more
This from the site Campaign for the American Reader: What is George Bishop Reading? Instead of describing what I’m reading now, I thought it might be more interesting to look at what I was reading while I was writing my latest novel, The Night of the Comet. During the thick of working on Comet, I … Read more
