Comments on: Special Guest: Award-Winning Author John Klawitter

By: Debi Sullivan

Debi Sullivan — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 23:31:05 +0000

John,

I will never think of you as boring. You make me laugh, dark humor and all.

~D~

By: John Klawitter

John Klawitter — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 15:59:30 +0000

Thank you, Karen. I know it sounds like a shallow kiss-off, but I believe every life is interesting… if you can figure it out. That’s the trick for us as writers. Me, I’m a savage when it comes to relationships. I like to think I’ve come a long way from the primitive I was as a younger person…but there are so many who know naturally or have learned the perceptions I still have to reach for and struggle to understand…it’s staggering. Once, when I was a LA Creative Director working for the Kelly Nason/Univas ad agency in Century City, my boss thought it proper to bestow upon me a membership at an exclusive gym and racquetball club. Well, the lady who checked us in was truly one of the most boring, uninspiring, unfriendly people I’d ever met, the sort of person I wanted nothing to do with. Her innate boringness was so tangible I thought she radiated unlikeableness, and I don’t know why, it really got to me. Well, one day when I was in an experimental mood and not entirely wrapped up in my own greatness, as I was signing in I happened to ask, ‘hey, what’s going on in your life?’ And I was stunned by the radient smile and the friendly and interesting whatever-it-was-she-said. She was working to get a degree in something like interior design so she could live her heart’s dream, which was to become a decorator at the nearby Blue Whale, a building in West LA where haut and expensive furniture and rugs and things were viewed by interior decorators. I saw it all in a flash: she was the mirror, I was my own reflection–I was the boring asshole. I’m not telling you that moment of revelation was like St.Paul hit by lightning on the road to Damascas, but it did change the way I saw myself, I like to think in a positive way that left me open for what might come.
best,
j.

By: Karin Shah

Karin Shah — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:45:08 +0000

Wow, John your life is so interesting! I hope we’ll hear more over at IWOFA. And congratulations on your EPPIE wins!

Karin

By: John Klawitter

John Klawitter — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:39:12 +0000

Thanks, Pamela, for inviting this wandering scamp to your classy place. I hope I didn’t break anything.
best,
John Klawitter

P.S. Many of your EPPIE Award Winning pals are being honored with a Promo Day over at The Haunt At PNR. (Yahoo Group)

By: Pamela Sweet

Pamela Sweet — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 03:53:28 +0000

Jacquie,

Thank you SO much for introducing Mr. Klawitter to me. What a fascinating interview!

John,

I do hope you’ll be back to share with this greedy bunch soon! Congratulations on the Eppies!

By: Jacquie Rogers

Jacquie Rogers — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 03:40:24 +0000

I’ll definitely do that, John! Off to audible.com I go.

By: John Klawitter

John Klawitter — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:07:21 +0000

Friendly Tip or Outrageous Plug, depending on your Point of View (POV): Those of you interested in a life of grime in the creative fields, if you have ipod or audio capabilities, I recommend the audio version of TINSEL WILDERNESS over the downloadable PDF or even Kindle. I included lots of jingles and songs and skits and bits in the audio version that I couldn’t put in the ebook, because, well, it wasn’t audio…I even have a scrap of sound from “The Happy Jack Platter Shop”, my radio show from 1965, broadcast on VTVN Radio Saigon, a mostly all-Vietnamese language station broadcasting from Pasteur Street in a pleasant old colonial French mansion.

By: John Klawitter

John Klawitter — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:01:00 +0000

Tes
That rowdy bunch? Nothing but trouble for me.
xo
j.

By: Tes

Tes — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 23:16:56 +0000

Good interview — I told my library friends to visit this site.

By: Jacquie Rogers

Jacquie Rogers — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 21:50:40 +0000

Wow, while I’ve been sleeping, you guys have been rocking here at Texty Ladies.

I’d like to thank John once again for agreeing to be our guest today. What a treat! I’m hoping we can get him a few more times because he has an incredible body of knowledge concerning nearly every aspect of the creative arena. And we are greedy wenches here–we want to know it all!

And I admit that I haven’t read his books yet, but I fully intend to do so as soon as I’m finished writing my novella. Such a full life means even more richness to the writings of a talented author.

Jacquie