Wacky Tales Feb.
2001 Jaron Summers FAQ
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2001 Jaron Summers FAQ
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taken by Jimmy Huston Who Am I? Why you want to know, I don't know. Went to BYU for BA in Journalism. UCLA for an MFA in TV writing. Written dozens of novels, TV & screenplays, radio, humor & bittersweet columns, articles and reviews. I was raised in Coronation, Alberta, Canada. Lived in LA most of my adult life. I spent two years as an LDS Mormon Missionary in New Zealand. I wrote a novel about it. It's called The Missionary Position. Is it about me? Sure, everything I write is a little bit about me.I married Kate Dahlberg twenty years ago. Here is the greatest thing I have ever done. Thirty years ago I heard a little girl fall into a swimming pool and pulled her out and she lived and was okay. Here is the second greatest thing I have ever done: stayed out of jail. Here is the third greatest thing I ever did. I looked after my mother until she was 96 years old and died. Here is some other stuff I did —with a friend wrote a novel in a couple of days as a PR college stunt in 1967. A lot of people later copied us. I think we were the first. Also I invented the fridge magnet. Also, I was the first person 1. to sell a novel on the internet. I probably was the first person to teach writing on the internet about twenty-five years ago.Have I done anything great with my life? No. Have I done anything bad? Hmm, I guess. But the bottom line is—if everyone were like me any child could walk down any street on the planet and be safe. See, I'm a lot like you. The funniest column I wrote is The Whooping Moose. By the way if you want to read the first chapter of a steamy (read: sexy) thriller I wrote, have a look at Damaged Goods. (Be warned! The first chapter might hook you and then you might decide to buy the book for five bucks. I hope so.)
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