Morbid Curiosity

Deborah LeBlanc is a licensed death scene investigator and belongs to two teams that investigate paranormal phenomena.  If that’s not intimidating enough to those of us who still haven’t learned to sleep alone with the lights out, then let’s add that she’s president of the Horror Writers Association and she writes a novel in three to four months.  Yikes.

For those of you who take a bit longer (in my case, the mulitplier is geometrically exponential) you must read this hilarious essay by Naeem Murr called My Poet. Vv. v. funny.  That man can write.

Speaking of men who can write, and MORBID CURIOSITY, which is the title of my guest’s book, (and also the elixir on which internet viruses feed) our steamy southern university town has gotten way sultrier in the past few weeks.  Not only has Robert Olen Butler's winsome wife left him for Ted Turner, but his private email explaining the situation has gotten hijacked by web pirates and has taken on a life of its own.  Ironically enough, one of the reasons Mr. Butler put forward to explain why his lovely wife had decamped was that the two brilliant novels she’d published since marrying him hadn’t gotten the recognition or readership they so richly deserved, and that living under the shadow of the Pulitzer and all the admiration it brought her husband’s way had been simply too difficult.

Judging by the break-up’s recent coverage on Page Six of the New York Post and Mr. Butler’s interview on NPR, in which he instructed All Things Considered’s sizable audience to read HIS LOVELY WIFE, Ms. Dewberry may get exactly the sort of name recognition and readership that had until now, eluded her.  How’s that for buzz? 

Which may prove that Oscar Wilde was right: the only thing worse than being talked about, is not being talked about.

(I must confess that I do not know any of the players in this dramedy, but that Mr. Butler and Ms. Dewberry are very fondly regarded by many of my friends who work with them in the English department and even more tellingly, by the graduate students who’ve come to know them through FSU’s amazing creative writing program.)

Now, to my interview with Deborah:

1. If I had to offer two bumper sticker explanations for my novel, they’d be “Appearances are deceiving” and “Mean people suck.”  Tell me what your slogans would be, and why. 

FAVORITE LINE: "No matter how handsome he is, someone... somewhere is tired of his shit." – Unknown (Why kinda speaks for itself, don’tcha think? J)

2. Your two favorite movies over the past twelve months and why?

I don’t have a lot of time for movies, so my two favorites are probably dated…they’re ‘1408’ –great visual effects and just creepy as hell…and ‘300’ same great visuals, but what a powerful message of patriotism and courage!

3. What was the one thing you learned in getting your book published that you were really surprised to find out?

That in order to keep the momentum going you have to be one jump ahead on the next book, which gives you little time to enjoy the one that just got published!

4. If you had to pick one and only one condition (beyond computer or pen and paper) that would allow you to write would it be: a. solitude   b. caffiene   c.  sleep   d. food   e.  sex  or f.   ______.

ARG I pick F, and since F is blank, I’m assuming that means I get to put whatever I want in the blank, right? So my answer is…All of the above. hehe

5. Do you have a favorite genre?  If so, who are your three favorite writers? If not, who are your three favorite writers and how have they influenced your work?

  I don’t have a favorite genre so much as favorite stories. I enjoy Jodi Picoult’s work because she’s remarkable at characterization—James Lee Burke because his depiction of ‘Southern” is spot on—and Dean Koontz simply because, to me, he knows how to tell a good story.

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