Featured Interview With Randy Attwood
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I grew up on the grounds of a Kansas insane asylum where my father was a dentist. I attended the University of Kansas during the troubled 1960s getting a degree in art history. After stints writing and teaching in Italy and Japan I had a 16-year career in newspapers as reporter, editor and column writer winning major awards in all categories. I turned to health care public relations serving as director of University Relations at KU Medical Center. I finished my career as media relations officer of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Now retired, I am marketing the fiction I’ve written over all those years. And creating more.
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
In grade school I started reading Tom Corbet and the Space Patrol series, I believe it was called. I loved the Black Stallion series. In high school I read Fu Manchu series, Sci-fi (early discovered Philip K. Dick) and James Bond. Then in college I branched into more general literature. My writing is all over the genre map.
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
Joseph Conrad, Eric Remarque, Graham Green, Elmore Leonard, Robertson Davies, Walker Percy, John D. MacDonald, Adam Hall, Evelyn Waugh…so many more.
Tell us a little about your latest book?
“Heart Chants,” second in the Phillip McGuire series. I loved John D. MacDonald’s Travis McGee mystery series. I read and reread all of them not so much for the mystery, but because I wanted to be with Travis again. I wanted to create that kind of character. Heart Chants, too, contains what I think is the best and most complete re-telling of the amazing Navajo creation story and its FOUR Great Floods. It’s been not only favorably compared to Tony Hillerman, but several have said “Heart Chants” is better.
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