#WriterWednesday Interview with Joe Golemo

I’d like to welcome author Joe Golemo to the blog for #WriterWednesday.

A few of your favorite things: technology items (phone, laptop)

Things you need to throw out: old stuff (furniture, clothing, etc.) that we’ve replaced with new versions but that is still in the basement

Things you need for your writing sessions: I used to write in coffee shops exclusively until it got too expensive and time consuming to get there and back. Now I take the laptop on the deck in the summer and stick to the home office in the winter.

Things that hamper your writing: Discovering a plot hole in the synopsis that I thought I’d already finished.

Hardest thing about being a writer: Putting yourself and your ideas about the world in writing and hoping no one will think you are (too) crazy.

Easiest thing about being a writer: Is anything easy? Cashing a royalty check maybe?

Favorite foods: chocolate, wine, steak, burgers, Chicago dogs, seafood

Things that make you want to gag: eggplant and okra

Favorite beverage: it has to be red wine followed by coffee

Something that gives you a sour face: really sour beer flavors

Things you always put in your books: quirky minor characters that I hope are amusing to the reader

Things you never put in your books: gratuitous violence or really any violence if it can be avoided

Things to say to an author: I loved your last book and can’t wait to get a copy of your new one!

Things to say to an author if you want to be fictionally killed off in their next book: I noticed a type-o/plot hole/minor inconsistency on page 147 of your book.

Favorite books (or genre): murder mysteries, of course; thrillers; science fiction; books on how to improve your writing; business book; anything on the banned books list

Books you wouldn’t buy: the latest fads in self-help books; cookbooks (my spouse has enough of them)

Favorite things to do: write, read, work on home projects like building cabinets or rebuilding a deck

Things you’d run through a fire or eat bugs to get out of doing: editing your book for the umpteenth time

The nicest thing a reader said to you: “I really liked your book. You are a really good writer!”

The craziest thing a reader said to you: This is about an animated video I created for the book using AI tools: “The video is creepy AF!”

Besides writing, what’s the most creative thing you’ve done:

A project that didn’t quite turn out the way you planned it:

Some real-life story that made it to one of your books: I have no sense of direction and get lost anytime I’m in a new area so of course, my main character does, too

Something in your story that readers think is about you, but it’s not: My brother and I were both adopted but our parents told us when we were very young – we didn’t find accidently when we were older

About Joe:

When he’s not working on his next murder mystery, Joe is a Partner with a Management and IT Consulting firm. He is originally from Chicago and holds a Chemical Engineering degree from the Illinois Institute of Technology. He moved to Rochester, Minnesota, to work for IBM and fell in love with the Land of 10,000 Lakes. Joe has a lovely wife of over 30 years, two adult children, and a crazy dog named Marco.

Let’s Be Social:

Website: https://www.facebook.com/JoeGolemo/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joegolemo/

Author Website: www.joegolemo.com