Be sure to check out the final entry in our 2007 Winter Blog Blast Tour: Blake Nelson at The Ya Ya Yas.
Here's a bit from Blake's bio on his web site:
How did you know you could make a living as a writer?
I didn't. I just hoped for the best. My dad convinced me to go to Law School when I first graduated from college and I was going to do it--for about an hour. Then I went back to being my weirdo self and writing goth songs on a two string guitar. I mean, if you're a freak, you're a freak and you gotta do what freaks do.
I love this guy.
Also Sherry Early of Semicolon emailed to let me know that she has an interview with JB Cheaney up at her blog. Here's a bit:
I was introduced to Shakespeare in my backyard, age 10. The best way to meet him is NOT by reading him, which can be deadly–the plays were meant to be performed. My sister and I used to put on a play for our birthday party every year (we’re four years apart, but born in the same month), and that year she decided we’d do a version of Julius Caesar. We wrote our own, relying heavily on Richard Armour’s Twisted Tales From Shakespeare (Armor was a humorist popular at the time), but also using a lot of lines directly from the play. The experience gave me a certain chumminess with Shakespeare I wouldn’t have had otherwise.
