#WriterWednesday with E. J. Copperman
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I’d like to welcome E. J. Copperman to the blog for #WriterWednesday!
Things you never want to run out of: Raisinets. Diet Coke. My spouse. Not in that order.
Things you wish you’d never bought: A pressure cooker. A 1980 Mustang II. My last bicycle.
Hardest thing about being a writer: Promotion. Convincing people you tell a good story.
Easiest thing about being a writer: The commute is great.
Things you need for your writing sessions: My iMac. That’s about it.
Things that hamper your writing: Loudness from the street behind me. Running out of ideas.
A few of your favorite things: Sony noise-canceling headphones. My Takamine 12-string. Rubber Soul. A copy of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum signed by Larry Gelbart.
Things you need to throw out: My old desk chair. Half the stuff in the basement. 4-million cords to electronic devices I don’t use.
Words that describe you: Short, curly-haired, rarely serious.
Words that describe you, but you wish they didn’t: Short, overweight, undisciplined.
Something you’re really good at: Listening
Something you’re really bad at: Playing the piano.
Things you always put in your books: Jokes
Things you never put in your books: Dogs in danger.
Things to say to an author: I have a question about a book of yours I read. This thing in your book made me laugh. I really enjoy your work. Or… anything you want to say. Except…
Things to say to an author if you want to be fictionally killed off in their next book: You know what you should write next?
Favorite places you’ve been: Rome. Paris. California.
Places you never want to go to again: Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital. The Cancer Institute of New Jersey.
People you’d like to invite to dinner: Mel Brooks. Michelle Obama. Ringo Starr.
People you’d cancel dinner on: Must we get political?
Best thing you’ve ever done: Josh and Eve
Biggest mistake: Spending 20 years on unsold screenplays.
The nicest thing a reader said to you: “My husband escaped the Twin Towers on 9/11 and years later, yours was the first book he could read all the way through.”
The craziest thing a reader said to you: “Are you a man or a woman?”
About E. J.:
E.J. Copperman is a figment of someone’s imagination. Writing the Jersey Girl Legal Mystery series and the Fran and Ken Stein (say the names fast) series, E.J. also has been responsible for the Haunted Guesthouse mysteries, the Agent to the Paws mysteries, the Asperger’s mysteries (with Jeff Cohen) and the Mysterious Detective mysteries, among others. The books are meant to be funny and engaging, and if they’re not for you, feel free to blame E.J., who lives and works in New Jersey because someone has to.
