S.W. Capps answers questions about his novels and the writing life.
Back when I was a cub reporter at my first newspaper job, my editor asked me what my career goals were. I would always answer, “Journalism is just a stopover for me. What I really want to be is a novelist.”
You can guess his response: “Yeah, you and every other reporter, kid.”
It’s true that far more journalists dream of becoming novelists than actually become them. S.W. Capps is one of those rare journalists who actually managed this mystifying feat. His first novel, Salmon Run, was published in 2007 by Inkwater Press (a company I now work for, hoping that rubbing elbows with honest-to-really-real authors will bring me closer to the dream I still haven’t given up).
I think most people can find a little of themselves in Salmon Run. (To read the entire article, click on the link below)
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