Featured Interview With Mark Gummere
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I was born in Hollywood, California, and raised on the east side of L.A. I moved to northern California to attend college, and never left, earning my BA and MA degrees from San Francisco State University in Cinema Studies. While teaching and working on a post-graduate degree at U.C. Berkeley, an opportunity came to join the San Francisco Giants new Video Production Department, and I jumped at it. After seven years with the Giants, I returned to teaching, while also working as a private investigator in San Francisco. I currently teach Cinema Studies in the Bay Area, while writing. I lives in San Francisco with his my Rena and have an adult son, Cole. There are currently 4 novels of my Lucas Lucas Series detective/mystery in circulation with the 5th book scheduled for a release in December 2015.
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At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I have always been a reader. My earlier recollection of writing is at the age of 7, when I wrote a ten page story about a baseball player (in longhand, in pencil!).
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
The writers i like to read are also the ones who inspire me. Crime fiction is my favorite genre, so of course I admired Chandler, Hammett, and Cain. More contemporary writers I read regularly include Elmore Leonard, James Sallis, Danielle Woodrell, and Dennis Lehane. Also Denis Johnson and George Pellacanos. I also have read all of Robert B. Parker’s Spenser novels and thoroughly enjoyed them.
Outside the genre I can easily re-read the work of Don DeLillo, Mark Twain, Michael Chabron, and Donna Tarrt.
Tell us a little about your latest book?
From the back cover of Nola’s Future:
Young women who make bad choices seem to find a friend in ex-cop Robert “Lucky” Lucas so when a new college grad looks to him for help in ending an abusive relationship with an older man Lucky’s instincts and skills come out of retirement. A college campus is revealed as not only a place for education and discovery, but one where sexual exploitation, deceit, and murder have become part of the curriculum.
Meanwhile, close friend and San Francisco P.I. Jesse Santos, kills a bail jumper in self-defense and becomes a target of the dead man’s family.
Lucky discovers that maneuvering through the academic world can be as dangerous as tracking criminals on the streets and he is once again at the center of unexpected trouble with unforeseeable results.
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