#WriterWednesday Interview with Matt Cost
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I’d like to welcome author Matt Cost to the blog today for Writer Wednesday!
Hardest thing about being a writer: Writing. Sometimes you have to just sit down and grind it out.
Easiest thing about being a writer: Writing. Other times, the words flow like the chocolate river in Willy Wonka.
Things you need for your writing sessions: My headphones. I put cool jazz on, and this allows me to write anywhere.
Things that hamper your writing: Going down the rabbit hole of research and surfacing days later realizing that you haven’t gotten any actual writing done.
Favorite music or song: Jimmy Buffett. “Cheeseburger in Paradise”
Music that drives you crazy: Ye (formerly Kanye West). If I can understand the words, they don’t make sense.
The last thing you ordered online: The audiobook of King of Ashes by S.A. Cosby.
The last thing you regret buying: That final whiskey at the bar.
Things to say to an author: I hope I get your book for Christmas.
Things to say to an author if you want to be fictionally killed off in their next book: Hater reviews will always get you killed in my next book. Reviews with no basis of critique, just unhappy people lashing out.
Favorite places you’ve been: Cuba, Iceland, and Paris are tied at the top of my list.
Places you never want to go to again: The waiting place from the Dr. Seuss book, Oh the Places You’ll Go.
Favorite books (or genre): Mystery books! One of the best of my recent reads is An Honest Man by Michael Koryta.
Books you wouldn’t buy: Books where nothing happens. I’m with Elmore Leonard, cut out the parts that make your eyes glaze over.
Favorite things to do: I like to write, chill, play basketball, and golf.
Things you’d run through a fire or eat bugs to get out of doing: I am not a big fan of cleaning.
The nicest thing a reader said to you: A very nice older lady called me to say that she loved my books.
The craziest thing a reader said to you: That same lady explained that she enjoyed being able to identify places and told me where she lived. I didn’t have the heart to tell her that I was currently killing somebody in my book at her house.
My favorite book as a child: The Hardy Boys were big favorites!
A book I’ve read more than once: All of the Louis L’Amour books.
Your favorite movie as a child: Blazing Saddles.
A TV show or movie that kept you awake at night as a kid (or as an adult): Jaws.
About Matt:
Over the years, Cost has owned a video store, a mystery bookstore, and a gym. He has also taught history and coached just about every sport imaginable.
During those years, since age eight actually, the true passion has been writing. I Am Cuba: Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution (Encircle Publications, March 2020) was his first traditionally published novel.
Cost has now written six books in the Mainely Mystery series starting with "Mainely Power", five books in the Clay Wolfe Trap series starting with Wolfe Trap, and two books in the Brooklyn 8 Ballo series starting with Velma Gone Awry. A few historical fiction pieces fill out the shelves. The Not So Merry Adventures of Max Creed is Book One in the Max Creed Chronicles.
Cost now lives in Brunswick, Maine, with his wife, Harper. There are four grown children: Brittany, Pearson, Miranda, and Ryan. There are four dogs to help with editing. He now spends his days at the computer, writing.
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Website: https://www.mattcost.net/
