What type of books do you mostly write?
I’ve written a broad range of books from book-length poems such as Josie Delgado to the non-fiction The Weekend Novelist Writes a Mystery. Right now, I’m completing The California Quartet, all literary fiction. Blood is on a shelf by itself because I’m not sure just what it is so I keep it in a glass case apart from the other work.
Jack, is there anything you'd go back and do differently now that you have been published, in regards to your writing career?
I don’t think so. Where I am right now is the result of where I was. I look more to the future—what am I doing now that’s shaping what I will be. If you recall, Edit Piaf’s anthem, “Non, je ne regrette rien…” I don’t regret a thing. Put it another way—I wouldn’t be who I am if I hadn’t made the mistakes I did.
How do you see the future of book publishing, both traditional, electronic and print on demand?
The industry has changed and will continue to change. I like the world of instant e-books, but I don’t own an e-reader. I like to buy books, carry books around, fall asleep with a book on my chest, and sleep with books beside my bed like cats. The way I see it, the changes in the industry have forced writers to do more of the work publishers used to do. Like this blog tour.
Jack Remick, thank you for taking the time to share with the Blogcritic readers about being an author.
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Thanks for getting this Q and A up and running. Special thanks to Virginia for putting the virtual tour together.