Featured Interview With Scott Skipper
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I was born and went to school in Akron, Ohio, which was then known as the Rubber Capital of the World. It was never my favorite place and I got out of there as soon as I could. Now I live in the foothills of Southern California with a wonderful wife, three foolish dogs and some rather amazing wildlife. There is a slideshow of the local fauna on my website and some of the pictures are astounding.
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
In grade school I realized that I wanted to be a writer, but life swept me in other directions. After retiring from the metal fabrication industry I decided to get serious about my lifelong passion. To date I have five novels, a few short stories and I write a book review about once a week. I post the reviews, and occasional miscellaneous observations, on my blog which is at www.ScottSkipper.blogspot.com.
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
History and historical fiction are my favorite genres, but I can’t resist a good spy story now and then. Recently I have been reading Churchill’s accounts of his experiences in the Sudanese and Boer wars. When I turn to fiction, I like to discover self-published authors. There are some remarkably good writers out there.
Who inspires me? Probably the two most diametrically opposite writers there have ever been: Hemingway and Tom Robbins. Not that I can write like either of them, or that I even try, but they inspire me to try to say something―anything―very well.
Tell us a little about your latest book?
Golden State Blues took me less than four months to write. It practically wrote itself and I had a great deal of fun writing it. California has become what I like to call a socio-political train wreck, and Golden State Blues is the story of a man who decides to do something about it. He takes a right-minded conservative who he met in a bar, dresses him like a liberal and runs him as the Democratic candidate for governor. After he gets elected he reveals his true colors and starts chopping heads. Governor Jim is doing a great job of solving bureaucratic inefficiency, illegal immigration, the welfare state and radical Islam, among other things, when a surprise from his checkered past arrives and threatens to derail the plan. It’s a humorous story designed with a little something to offend everyone.
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