by kevinsites | Jul 5, 2023 | Blog
SEMI-RUDE QUESTION: In some of your non-fiction, you whine about past struggles with alcohol and sometimes drugs. How has this impacted your writing, other than providing dramatic fodder? ANSWER: I wouldn’t say I ‘whined’ about it. I was truly struggling at the time....
by kevinsites | Jul 5, 2023 | Blog
SEMI-RUDE QUESTION: So many of today’s book titles read cryptically like they were named by AI. What’s your take on titles and what’s the story with yours? ANSWER: For me, titles are like the first block in a game of Jenga. It’s the foundation. It cues my brain to...
by kevinsites | Jul 5, 2023 | Blog
SEMI-RUDE QUESTION: Okay, let me get this straight. In your novel, the main character is a journalist and former war correspondent. Same as you, right? Did you just steal from yourself and repackage it as fiction? ANSWER: It’s fair to suspect that when a novel’s...
by kevinsites | Jul 5, 2023 | Blog
SEMI-RUDE QUESTION: Was writing this novel a ‘one-off’ for you or is this really a second-act following your career as a journalist? ANSWER: That depends on whether The Ocean Above Me finds an audience. I’m committed to this as a second act, but book sales will...
by kevinsites | Jul 1, 2023 | Blog
SEMI-RUDE QUESTION: There’s an old adage, ‘Everyone has at least one book in them.’ Is that just a bunch of hooey or do you believe that? ANSWER: Everyone might have a book inside them, but few can actually get one out.Or as the late, great Christopher Hitchens...
by kevinsites | Jul 1, 2023 | Blog
SEMI-RUDE QUESTION: Maya Angelou wrote, “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” That’s the predicament of your novel’s protagonist, Lukas Landon. What’s keeping him from telling his story? ANSWER: Presently, it’s water. The roughly 150...
