#WriterWednesday with Joel Turner
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I’d like to welcome author Joel Turner to the blog for #WriterWednesday!
Hardest thing about being a writer: Blank page
Easiest thing about being a writer: Editing
Things you need for your writing sessions: Quiet (negotiable), coffee (non-negotiable)
Things that hamper your writing: Laziness
Words that describe you: Affable, easy-going, obsessive about some things
Words that describe you, but you wish they didn’t: Know-it-all
Something you’re really good at: Saying what basketball announcers say before they say it
Something you’re really bad at: Handwriting
Last best thing you ate: Tomato pie
Last thing you regret eating: A hamburger
Favorite music or song: R&B, “Mind over Matter” by Nolan Strong and the Diablos
Music that drives you crazy: “Sweet Caroline,” Neil Diamond in general
The last thing you ordered online: WILDWOOD EXIT bookmarks
The last thing you regret buying: Roomba
Things you’d walk a mile for: Ultimate Italian Hoagie from Carlino’s; a mint-condition 45 of “Village of Love” by Nathaniel Mayer and the Fabulous Twilights on the Fortune Label.
Things that make you want to run screaming from the room: “Watching Scotty Grow” by Bobby Goldsboro
Things to say to an author: I bought your book
Things to say to an author if you want to be fictionally killed off in their next book: I’ve always wanted to write a book but don’t have the time.
Favorite places you’ve been: Ravello, Islay, Barbados
Places you never want to go to again: Disneyworld
Favorite books (or genre): Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon, At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O’Brien, How late it was, how late by James Kelman, High Rise by J. G. Ballard, God’s Pocket by Pete Dexter
Books you wouldn’t buy: Romance, Romantasy
Favorite things to do: Play golf, listen to R&B, dinner out with my wife
Things you’d run through a fire or eat bugs to get out of doing: Square dancing
Most daring thing you’ve ever done: Getting an MBA
Something you chickened out from doing: Getting an MFA
The funniest thing to happen to you: Being exorcised by a Catholic priest in preparation for becoming a god-parent.
The most embarrassing thing to happen to you: Calling my god-daughter by her sister’s name
The coolest person you’ve ever met: Dave Davies of The Kinks
The celebrity who didn’t look like he/she did in pictures/video: World B. Free – he’d put on a few pounds since his playing days.
Besides writing, what’s the most creative thing you’ve done: Explaining to a roomful of bankers in Milan how bad their credit metrics were.
A project that didn’t quite turn out the way you planned it: Spending the summer of my sophomore year in college in Berkeley, CA, with promise of a job that fell apart when I got there. I ended up working in the Del Monte cannery under an assumed name.
Some real-life story that made it to one of your books: A friend crashing a car and walking away from it, because the title had not been transferred to him.
Something in your story that readers think is about you, but it’s not: Having a girlfriend from Quebec
The first 8-track, record, cassette, or CD you ever bought: The Yardbirds Greatest Hits
A type of music that’s not your cup of tea: Modern Country
My favorite book as a child: A Pass and a Prayer by Claire Bee
A book I’ve read more than once: Exterminator! By William S. Burroughs
Your favorite movie as a child: The Beast from the 20000 Fathoms
A TV show or movie that kept you awake at night as a kid (or as an adult): Vertigo
About Joel:
Joel E. Turner has combined his writing work with a career as a consultant in business analytics to banks in the US and Europe. His fiction has appeared in many US and UK journals. He also writes about Soul Music, film, and books at joeleturnerauthor.com. His new novel, WILDWOOD EXIT, a Jersey Shore noir tale, draws on his extensive work experience at some of the finer dining establishments at the Jersey Shore. He knows how to operate a Frialator.
Mr. Turner splits his time between Philadelphia and White Cloud, Michigan.
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