Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Interview with Gwen Cooper, Author of Homer's Odyssey

Our primary temporary today is Gwen Cooper, communicator of Homer's Odyssey. Gwen is also the communicator of the new Diary of a South Beach Party Girl. We're feat to speech to Gwen most her writing, her felid Homer who was the rousing for Homer's Odyssey, and the unification between pets and owners.

CM: Author Gwen CooperDate of Interview: August 23, 2009Welcome Gwen. It's wonderful to hit you with us. Can you gratify verify our readers a taste about yourself?

GC: Let's wager ... I'm a Manhattan-based author, originally from Miami. I touched to New royalty from South Beach in 2001. My economise is also a writer, and the digit of us springy with our threesome cats in a rent-controlled three-bedroom housing that we're glad for every day!

CM: When and how did your composition occupation begin?

GC: I worked in marketing subject for over a decade, so composition was ever a conception of the job. That was more advertizement writing, though, as anti to fictive writing—although whatever of the campaigns I worked on required us to be pretty creative.

My occupation as an communicator began evenhandedly recently, with the business of my prototypal new in 2007. Homer's epos is my ordinal book.

CM: Tell us most Homer's Odyssey. What is it most and ground did you end to indite it?

GC: Homer's epos is a memoir most my blindfold cat, Homer, titled for the blindfold Hellenic poet. It's a countenance at the dumbfounding things that Homer, despite his blindness—or maybe because of it—is healthy to do, and also at the structure his courage, loyalty, and fuck denaturized my chronicle and the mortal I became. I'll also say—and this is in no artefact a spoiler!—that this is the thin pet memoir with a bright ending. It ends with a wedding. Nobody dies in this book!

In constituent to every the dumbfounding things Homer does every period (I ever feature that he has "superpowers"), he's also chased soured a burglar who poor into my apartment, he's a 9/11 survivor, he helped me find the fuck of my chronicle who I mated meet terminal year. It occurred to me digit period that every the adventure, danger, romance, and generalized ups and downs of our chronicle unitedly would attain for a enthusi! astic st ory. So I definite to set downbound and indite it.

CM: Do you indite mostly in the mornings or at night?


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