SPI PRESS INTERVIEW

I was just interviewed, in person, by Avery Cole, reporter for the SPI Press. The interview lasted almost an hour and we covered a wide range of topics. He was interested in in the intersection of law and writing and particularly the creative process.

As I told Reporter Cole, I have been fortunate for over forty years to have written patents for some of the worlds leading inventors and inventions. I am fascinated with the creative process and have watched as a seemingly mundane observation has blossomed into a fabulous invention by a gifted mind.

For one example, I told him of the time an inventor, at a 4th of July picnic, invented touch screens (the kind we take for granted today) by observing that when he grasped a coke bottle with his fingers the top of the bottle glowed. His grasp of the bottle trapped light in the glass. From that observation came the first touch screen——and it worked.

Writing, is much the same. Observing, imagining, abstracting and mixing in a little guessing, then shaking it all together. THE PADRE PARANOIA does just this, while taking the reader on several journeys at once trying to decide if a murder in the vicinity of a nuclear power plant that feeds a military base has any connection to the sudden death of a US Senator, or to the death of the Senator’s pregnant teen friend?

When you have read the book (available from Amazon.com or Paragraphs on Padre in paperback, or Kindle, NOOK and iPad) please post your thoughts.