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Meet the Author Monday with Bob Boguslavski
June 27, 2016 | Heidi Angell
Source Link: Heidi Angell Blog
Hello Lovelies,
Another exciting author interview, today we get to meet Bob Boguslavski, who is a world wanderer, part-time typist, occasional wedding guest, marriage dodger, digital crate digger, experience + inane info accumulator and bon vivant. He is quite a creative fellow. Let's get on to the interview!
Hello Bob, and welcome to An Angell's Life. What is the current book you are promoting?
Wedding Chronicles is my first novel (of an eventual trilogy), which recounts some of the nuptials I have attended around the world, spun from a unique, "out there" male perspective. Its delivery and style is NOT your typical female-narrated and -driven romance novel with guaranteed HEA.
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While billed as fiction, it has autobiographical, memoir and travelogue elements, blended together in mash-up fashion. There"s more going on than meets the eye. It has a lot to say about relationships, marriage and our world. It also has music playlists that act as an integral soundtrack, making it a multimedia experience.
"Keep it weird. They'll get it later." - Kid Koala (DJ, music producer + graphic novelist)
Wow, what a fun and creative twist! Very intriguing. Who are your favorite and least favorite characters in your book and why?
My own first person character is both my most and least favorite. Since the book is based on real life experiences (with a little artistic license thrown in), we all have good / bad days and facets.
Life doesn't unfold in VCR / DVR mode, where rewind and fast forward exist. There's no taking things back or skipping past the bits we don't like.
My character is a bit of a marriage anti-hero, with a sense of black humor and satire to keep things off-balance, but ultimately with a good heart. The adage of nice guys finishing last rings true.
This is a big part of the reason I write under another name, to protect the guilty, the innocent and mostly ... me!
I love your sense of humor already, and am definitely looking forward to reading Wedding Chronicles. What inspired this book and where do you come up with your stories?
The omniscient, proverbial "they" say to write what you know, so at 100+ weddings to date, there it was. There's no need to make things up, when reality is stranger and funnier than fiction.
I'm still attending them, but the pace has mercifully slowed, and is much more manageable. There's more raw fodder than needed for the trilogy's completion.
Growing up, travel writers like Paul Theroux, Mark Twain, Jack Kerouac and Hunter S. Thompson influenced me for the global travelogue angle.
If you could have your book made into a movie, who would you cast, and who would you want to direct it?
A cast wouldn't be needed, except for the prospect of celebrity actor voices. Animated cartoon treatment in the vein of South Park, or perhaps the "supermarionation" style of Team America: World Police (borrowing from the British 60s TV series, Thunderbirds) works best. The book is different in tone, style and structure, and there's an air of surrealism to it, so this treatment would best preserve and present its off-the-wall approach. Given the episodic nature of the book (and all three when the trilogy is done), a TV series would be better than a movie.
The South Park / Team America duo of Trey Parker and Matt Stone would do a bang-up direction job, with the right sense of humor and decorum.
That sounds very entertaining, indeed! Tell us some unique things about you.
In no particular order, five things randomly grabbed from the bag.
Thank you so much for joining us, Bob! It has been a real treat getting to know you and your project.
Are you as intrigued about Bob's book as I am? Well be sure to grab a copy from Amazon today!
Want to keep up with Bob? Follow him on Twitter, see what great books he reads on Goodreads, Keep up with news on the Wedding Trilogy through their Facebook page, and keep up with Bob on his Facebook page, Google+ page. He has some great pins on his Pinterest page with photoboards from all the weddings from the novel.
Want to see the music playlists that accompany the novel? Check out Bob's YouTube channel or Spotify. Lastly, let Bob delight you with his musical aptitude on SoundCloud.
Hope you enjoyed meeting Bob as much as I did.
Until next time,
Keep Reading!
June 27, 2016 | Heidi Angell
Source Link: Heidi Angell Blog
Hello Lovelies,
Another exciting author interview, today we get to meet Bob Boguslavski, who is a world wanderer, part-time typist, occasional wedding guest, marriage dodger, digital crate digger, experience + inane info accumulator and bon vivant. He is quite a creative fellow. Let's get on to the interview!
Hello Bob, and welcome to An Angell's Life. What is the current book you are promoting?
Wedding Chronicles is my first novel (of an eventual trilogy), which recounts some of the nuptials I have attended around the world, spun from a unique, "out there" male perspective. Its delivery and style is NOT your typical female-narrated and -driven romance novel with guaranteed HEA.
.While billed as fiction, it has autobiographical, memoir and travelogue elements, blended together in mash-up fashion. There"s more going on than meets the eye. It has a lot to say about relationships, marriage and our world. It also has music playlists that act as an integral soundtrack, making it a multimedia experience.
"Keep it weird. They'll get it later." - Kid Koala (DJ, music producer + graphic novelist)
Wow, what a fun and creative twist! Very intriguing. Who are your favorite and least favorite characters in your book and why?
My own first person character is both my most and least favorite. Since the book is based on real life experiences (with a little artistic license thrown in), we all have good / bad days and facets.
Life doesn't unfold in VCR / DVR mode, where rewind and fast forward exist. There's no taking things back or skipping past the bits we don't like.
My character is a bit of a marriage anti-hero, with a sense of black humor and satire to keep things off-balance, but ultimately with a good heart. The adage of nice guys finishing last rings true.
This is a big part of the reason I write under another name, to protect the guilty, the innocent and mostly ... me!
I love your sense of humor already, and am definitely looking forward to reading Wedding Chronicles. What inspired this book and where do you come up with your stories?
The omniscient, proverbial "they" say to write what you know, so at 100+ weddings to date, there it was. There's no need to make things up, when reality is stranger and funnier than fiction.
I'm still attending them, but the pace has mercifully slowed, and is much more manageable. There's more raw fodder than needed for the trilogy's completion.
Growing up, travel writers like Paul Theroux, Mark Twain, Jack Kerouac and Hunter S. Thompson influenced me for the global travelogue angle.
If you could have your book made into a movie, who would you cast, and who would you want to direct it?
A cast wouldn't be needed, except for the prospect of celebrity actor voices. Animated cartoon treatment in the vein of South Park, or perhaps the "supermarionation" style of Team America: World Police (borrowing from the British 60s TV series, Thunderbirds) works best. The book is different in tone, style and structure, and there's an air of surrealism to it, so this treatment would best preserve and present its off-the-wall approach. Given the episodic nature of the book (and all three when the trilogy is done), a TV series would be better than a movie.
The South Park / Team America duo of Trey Parker and Matt Stone would do a bang-up direction job, with the right sense of humor and decorum.
That sounds very entertaining, indeed! Tell us some unique things about you.
In no particular order, five things randomly grabbed from the bag.
- I flip through magazines from back to front, and then decide what to read.
- I read a novel's ending first, and then go to the beginning. I like surprises, but prefer to know how they turn out ahead of time. I wrote the ending of my novel first as well ... that way I knew where it's going.
- Favorite sandwiches - Reubens and Cubans, and not because they rhyme.
- I eat (and actually enjoy) bacon straight out of the pack, but not more than one or two slices at a time. Hey, it's already cured, and a great gauge to test quality and freshness. I'm not a vegetarian, although I once was, for a few months while working in a particular region of India.
- I travel light, with a highly adaptable, nearly 20-year-old, brown leather carry-on I call Betty, which has logged many miles. I had her re-tuned a few years back...she's still in fine form and built to last.
Thank you so much for joining us, Bob! It has been a real treat getting to know you and your project.
Are you as intrigued about Bob's book as I am? Well be sure to grab a copy from Amazon today!
Want to keep up with Bob? Follow him on Twitter, see what great books he reads on Goodreads, Keep up with news on the Wedding Trilogy through their Facebook page, and keep up with Bob on his Facebook page, Google+ page. He has some great pins on his Pinterest page with photoboards from all the weddings from the novel.
Want to see the music playlists that accompany the novel? Check out Bob's YouTube channel or Spotify. Lastly, let Bob delight you with his musical aptitude on SoundCloud.
Hope you enjoyed meeting Bob as much as I did.
Until next time,
Keep Reading!