Jeffrey Varnado

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2017-10-18 12:21:06 (UTC)

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PAVLER GINNYHAWK'S LITERARY INTERVIEWS: Welcome back, faithful devoted readers, as I do one-on-one interviews with the latest literary sensations. Today we have with us Humbholdt Colbin to talk about his new bestseller REVENGE OF THE MOUNTAIN MAMA, a nationwide hit. PAVLER: So tell us how this whole book came into existence. HUMBHOLDT: Well I grew up reading tabloids and my Grandma loved those sleazy, sick detective magazines with the lurid covers and the grisly headlines. And so it hit me. Why not do a literary epic that both embraces and pays kudos to the decadent, violent underbelly of pulp publishing? PAVLER: Yes, why not indeed. It's flying off the shelves...HUMBHOLDT: And even the critics like it. PAVLER: Yes, one of them even called it "Ann Rule meets James Joyce" as I recall HUMBHOLDT: Absolutely. I try to take true crime and the underlying passions and motivations that drive horrible violence and add a stream of consciousness aspect to all of it. PAVLER: That's what makes your work so damn creepy yet compelling at the same time! HUMBHOLDT: And I owe it all to poor dear Grandma who kept herself scared half to death reading those old detective magazines and then she'd run around the house making sure all the windows and doors were locked and she'd call the cops if she heard a noise outside the house. PAVLER: Isn't REVENGE OF THE MOUNTAIN MAMA loosely based on a jilted, jealous woman who castrated both of her ex husbands on the same night? HUMBHOLDT: Well that served as the inspiration allright, but I tried to give this female protagonist in my book a little more pathos and depth, you know. I didn't want the reader to regard her simply as pathetic psycho. I wanted them to relate to how she would tape her favorite soap operas and sing in the church choir just like the normal gal down the street...(RICH VERNADEAU)
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