Interviews

In  June, 2014 I drove to the New Lenox Library, Illinois to be on "Meet  Your Neighbor". Interviewing me was Kate Hall, then the director of the  library and also an old friend. We filmed the interview before the  library opened (which meant a very early start for me to make the 90  minute drive down there) and it was a lot of fun to do. It's a beautiful  library in a nice little town. Though true to form, I did get lost on  the way back. And also true to form, I found my way home. 

Update  in 2022, it appears I have to do away with the link since it is no  longer accessible. Mind you that interview was available from 2014  probably at least until 2020 (maybe longer, this is the first I'm  discovering its absence). It is, apparently, private.

My  goal with that interview, along with promoting myself, was to promote  New Lenox library because I love libraries. I'm not sure why New Lenox  decided to scrub the interview from sight (I've searched and I can't  find it). But it's a shame. Libraries are vital establishments in a  community, but their existence relies upon that community as well as the  literary community as a whole. Oh, I may not be the top tier author  celebrity like King or Patterson or Baldacci, who can cause a flurry of  hold request with just the merest hint of a finished manuscript. I have,  none the less, written some pretty damned good books, nonfiction and  fiction, that deserve to be acknowledged. Why New Lenox Library decided  that I would no longer be able to feature a video that promotes me and  the library on my website is anyone's guess. I don't have the time to  cipher it out. I can only say that it's a bit of a shame, and that's  totally on the New Lenox Library.