Writer spotlights

So, as I'd previously stated, to make this blog about something, I'll be having short profiles on writers I enjoy with links to some of their work and often a short q&a.

Before we get to that, I'd like to explain why I'm doing it. Fred Schoeneman suggested in his blog that this is a bad idea because writers are boring. While Fred is generally correct about such things, and while I respect his opinion, I'm going to see if it works out anyhow. Cause Fred suggested I interview other folks, like hookers and croupiers. I may, in the future, attempt this. However, there's a small hitch with actually doing that. This is because whenever I hang out with hookers, all they want to talk about is if I'll buy them a drink (I usually do) and can they have some of my money (they generally can't because I have none if I'm sitting at a bar instead of gambling) and then they try to bum cigarettes from me and that's when I get pissed because I don't like to share my cigarettes. (I don't know why, ok? I just don't.)

Anyhow.

As for croupiers and dealers, they're also difficult to interview because generally all they want to do is get done with work and get the fuck out of the casino so that they can go hang out with hookers.

Ahh, that's not fair. That's not true at all, really. Dealers aren't like that.

They just want to get the fuck out of work so they can go hang out with the cocktail waitresses.

Anyhow.

I'll have some dealer and hooker features on here in the future. Why don't you drop me a line if you have any specific interest you want to know about.

But for now, we'll start with some interesting writers.

The first victim is the marvelously talented Tripp Reade, and that's coming right up.