Too Big for the Bookshelf

I love doing author interviews! They are on a very short list of things I most enjoy doing.

Lory and I have done two interviews together – Patti Callahan and Ira Marcks. I think that is it. I hope I’m not forgetting something.

Before Two Sides to the Story though, I was already doing interviews, and I recently did a solo interview with S.C. Gwynn on His Majesty’s Airship. After the interview, I went to put my working copy with my other interview books. I have a shelf in a set of living room bookshelves where I keep all of my interview books.

Airship didn’t fit. My interview books are now too big for their shelf.

I’ve done interviews on more than thirty books. When it started, sometime in 2016, I don’t think it would have occurred to me that I would ever have so many interviews. They have piled up quickly.

My first interview is a story I’ve told before. I was at an author event. I don’t remember the book or author, but afterwards I was talking with Lynn Wheeler, the Library Director at the time, and told her if there was ever an opportunity that I would like to do an interview. Soon after, I was on a stage in front of 250 people interviewing perennial best-seller, Daniel Silva.

Lory has asked about the difference between my solo interviews and doing interviews together. They are definitely different; especially the preparation, but I enjoy it both ways. When it is just me I can focus on the things on my mind and plan out a conversation with the author. When we interview together, it is more complicated, but Lory takes us places that I wouldn’t have gone on my own. Lots of fun both ways.

I have had so many good interview moments. They aren’t directly Two Sides, but maybe it is an episode someday. We’ll see.

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