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Author Jon Dambacher has an interview

Who is this Author?  Oh, you know him.   Here it is if you missed it or blinked.  Apparently it's been taken down.  Hmmmmm.

Kindle Author Interview: Jon Dambacher

Jon Dambacher, author of Sour Candies, discusses his book, his journey as a writer, and self-publishing on Kindle.


DAVID WISEHART: What can you tell us about Sour Candies?


JON DAMBACHER: Sour Candies are the things we don't know about each other. Those little ordinary things that are so quickly swept away under the rug or that go without being discussed. The setting is a cul-de-sac with a long escape.


DAVID WISEHART: How do you develop and differentiate your characters?


JON DAMBACHER: With each piece I wanted to reveal something different. Whether it's a bed-ridden woman's negative body-image or the difference between the people that live on the streets during the day rather than at night.  Each person has their own insecurity. This book is a place where they can all live together and not be judged.


DAVID WISEHART: Who do you imagine is your ideal reader?


JON DAMBACHER: People who burst with inside laughter, smirk, then say very monotone, "That's funny," and mean it.


DAVID WISEHART: What was your journey as a writer?


JON DAMBACHER: I'd love for you to be just a bit more specific. I feel that I haven't even finished packing yet for this journey...I started writing plays and sketches in the theatre. Then I went to short stories which led to my first book, Gyratory Jabber. Then bounced between screenplays and novels. It's been a while since I've written plays because I'm now obsessed with books.


DAVID WISEHART: What is your writing process?


JON DAMBACHER: Do you mean procedure or course of action? The progress of a work, for me, starts with a bunch of compiled notes, fractions of scenes, pieces of dialog, maybe something someone wears. I'm big on creating statements of theme.


DAVID WISEHART: What authors most inspire you?


JON DAMBACHER: Erich Fromm, definitely. For this there was a happy dance between Lorenzo Semple, Jr., Chuck Palahniuk, also the work of Stephen Shore, and Eliot Benjamin—who I've been so excited to include his paintings in the book.


DAVID WISEHART: What one book, written by someone else, do you wish you'd written yourself?


JON DAMBACHER: Howl by Allen Ginsberg.


DAVID WISEHART: How have you marketed and promoted your work?


JON DAMBACHER: Most has been electronically: Facebook+Twitter. Stephen Brailo (head of operations at The Trashy Novel Corp.) and I are big fans of DIY marketing: stickers, wheat-pasting posters, t-shirts, blasting bus benches. We like taking the punk-rock approach to modern literature advertising.


DAVID WISEHART: Why publish on Kindle?


JON DAMBACHER: Kindle is just the beginning. Imagine what's going to happen to the children born ten years from now who will know such wild inventions. I wonder if they'll be something physical to hold at all...


DAVID WISEHART: What advice would you give to a first-time author thinking of self-publishing on Kindle?


JON DAMBACHER: Start by creating something that you couldn't possibly show anyone.


DAVID WISEHART: Thanks, and best of luck with your books.

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The HOT days of summer

It's July 5th and it's getting into the 90's in Southern California.

The heat is driving the kids out into the streets.

It's the beginning of the month, so everyones shit is still out in the street from when they had to move out on the first of the month.  Boxes full of clothes, most of them scattered, kitchen chairs and empty entertainment stands line the sidewalk.  They're all just banged up enough for nobody to want them.

Oh, yes, all the good stuff has already been taken.  Even the busted lamps.

Pizza boxes with half eaten pizzas are smashed into the street and make for a good obstacle for skaters to kick flip over.

Scores of un-talented skaters sit on the cars and watch the good ones kick flip and hang ten down the street.

A car comes by and honks.
Everyone laughs and some other kids yell slurs.

It's 11:00 out.  and the temperature has maybe gone down into the 80's.  There is a hum through the neighborhood of all the Air Conditioning units running at full steam. The heat still rises off the pavement.  Block after block of 2 story buildings' wilt and waver in the mirage cast off the street.

The moon is but a sliver.

Somebody has found a forgotten firework from last night and lights it up.

Whizzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz POW!

The crowds of kids and older folks pushed outside by the price of Air conditioning are enjoying the show.  They hoot and holler and a few skaters chit chatting with the girls take to the street to kick flip and ride with their toes on the nose.

The street slants downhill and so it's easy to hang ten, but somebodies been drinking or smoking and they fall into a parked car.

The crowd goes wild!  Somebody has turned on music in one of their cars and the tunes float through the air.  It's Ranchero music.

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Happy Fourth Of July

Now get out there and finish that book.