Ask the Author: Scott McCormick
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Scott McCormick
Love it! BTW, if you ever want me to do a Zoom class visit, just hit me up at https://www.scottmccormickonline.com/ All the best.
Scott McCormick
The real life Mr. Pants disappeared one day. We put up flyers for him, called the various shelters, etc. Nothing. A few months later I got a call from someone ten miles away telling me they had Mr. Pants. (She got my number from the collar.) I was overjoyed and was running out to my car when she described the cat and I realized that someone had put Mr. Pants' collar on a totally different cat.
Scott McCormick
I was never home. I think that's the thing that sticks out in my mind the most. I lived in this cool development with tons of kids my age, so when i wasn't in school, I was out playing with my friends. Our neighborhood was huge (at least, it seemed so to me) so we were always outside playing baseball, football, capture the flag, biking in the woods, etc. I only came home to eat. My own kids never had that and I always felt bad for them. If they wanted to get together with their school friends, we would have to set up a play date and drive them. So they never had the sense of total freedom I had.
Scott McCormick
in limbo, but I'm hopeful it'll get out at some point.
Scott McCormick
Blandings Castle, where I would enjoy the life of luxury, and get caught up in all the bumbling mysteries. Hopefully Uncle Fred or Psmith would be there.
Scott McCormick
Mostly I'm doing research for my next book. So it's all pirates all the time. Also, Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett.
Scott McCormick
I am unfamiliar with the Mr. Henry series but just listened to a sample. I hear what you mean. I dig the recording style.
I was not part of the recording of this book or the sequel. My editor was there for both and she said the cast had a blast. (I have a few pics of this session on my website www.scottmccormickonline.com.) For this book, each cast member recorded his or her part separately. Book two has a lot more dialog and features 14 actors. Some of them were recorded separately, but they did one big session with 11 actors in the same room. I am told they filmed it, and I can't wait to see that.
My only involvement with the recording for this book was in choosing Mr. Onayemi as the narrator. It's a little weird writing something and just handing it off and not hearing the results until it's done, but honestly, had I been there I probably would have just gotten in the way. I think Audible did a great job. I can't wait to hear Rivals 2.
Thanks for writing!
Scott
I was not part of the recording of this book or the sequel. My editor was there for both and she said the cast had a blast. (I have a few pics of this session on my website www.scottmccormickonline.com.) For this book, each cast member recorded his or her part separately. Book two has a lot more dialog and features 14 actors. Some of them were recorded separately, but they did one big session with 11 actors in the same room. I am told they filmed it, and I can't wait to see that.
My only involvement with the recording for this book was in choosing Mr. Onayemi as the narrator. It's a little weird writing something and just handing it off and not hearing the results until it's done, but honestly, had I been there I probably would have just gotten in the way. I think Audible did a great job. I can't wait to hear Rivals 2.
Thanks for writing!
Scott
Scott McCormick
The first "couple" that popped into my head was Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call from Lonesome Dove. Though perhaps not a couple in the traditional sense, I love a good buddy road story, and the love and respect between these two friends is infectious. Lonesome Dove is a book I never wanted to end. Now I'm dying to go back and reread it.
Scott McCormick
I would have to say the buffet.
Scott McCormick
Preheat the oven to 375
Scott McCormick
I usually run away. Writing for me is a kind of On/Off switch. If it ain't happening, sitting there struggling to make it happen is just going to be a frustrating experience. So, I do other things. Usually taking my mind off writing helps me write.
Scott McCormick
Exercise. Seriously. Like walking or biking. Something that monotonous, solitary, and brainless, so your mind can roam.
Scott McCormick
I'm working on a picture book series about a boy named Ollie and his little sister Hethebezzela. She's kind of an evil genius. It's a series that explores basic childhood themes like revenge, paranoia, and schadenfreude. You know. Wholesome stuff.
Scott McCormick
The book I most recently completed was Pants book 3 (Mr. Pants: Night of the Living Grommies). Our family was flying home from a vacation and our flight was delayed, with the possibility that we might have to spend the night in the airport. I immediately thought of Pants and company and what kind of shenanigans they would get up to, confined in a space where they have to be on kind of good behavior. Around the same time I watched Dawn of the Dead for the millionth time. And I just kind of mashed the two ideas up.
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