Tonya Durant asked Michael Potts:

I just saw a post on Tumblr about your book End of Summer (I plan to buy a copy ASAP) and I was floored. I myself have had a resuscitation/cardiophilia fetish since around age five, and I have never seen it mentioned in any kind of media outside the fetish community. I'd love to know where you got this idea and how you became aware of our unique interest? I can't imagine anyone stumbling upon it by accident!

Michael Potts Sorry for the delay in answering--this is my first question and a good one. I have long been aware of your interest because I share it. My second book, Unpardonable Sin, goes into it in more detail (though in a darker and much more fictional direction than End of Summer). End of Summer is semi-autobiographical, with the exception that my parents were not killed in an accident--I wanted to focus on the boy and his grandfather. I must have been in fourth or fifth grade when my dad brought a stethoscope home from work (he was a dialysis tech), and I was hooked--and eventually it morphed into the present form as an interest/obsession/fetish. I wanted to write a literary novel that was good, yet went into that side of the main character's personality. I hope you do get the book and enjoy reading it.

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