Not long after the publication of
Dead Man's Switch, I had the opportunity to talk with a friend of mine (thanks, Shane) who collects conversations with interesting people for the Web site
Travels of John. No amount of protesting on my part that I couldn't compete with the likes of George Steinbrenner, one of the Lost Boys of Sudan, and other real notables would dissuade him. And I'm very grateful, because it was a fun interview and I'm honored to be part of a group of fascinating people featured.
Here are an excerpt and links to the post:
Tammy Kaehler is hardly the first to divine career direction in a
corporate hospitality suite. It’s near-certain that many a deal has been
forged amid the celebratory clinking of complementary beer bottles,
hands shaken only after proper removal of wing sauce via Wet-Nap. She
may, however, be the first for whom the glad-handing and overwhelming
noise of a professional auto race served as inspiration—for a version of
the Great American Novel.
Was your writing career destiny or coincidence?
The writing itself was destiny. The racing part of it as subject matter
was coincidence. I mean, I can’t draw a thing, I can’t paint, I couldn’t
design a birthday card for the life of me. I understand the value of
visuals, but I don’t have that skill; I am intellectually formed by
words. Words create the pictures; they create the shapes; they create, I
don’t know, memorization for me. In college, my mother suggested I
become a writer for TV or something, and I remember looking at her and
wondering where in the world she would have come up with something like
that. It just didn’t make any sense at the time, but I look back now and
think, “Well, of course.”
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