Ask Bryon Quertermous ANYTHING discussion

How much of yourself do you see in the character of Dominick Prince?

Where did you get the idea for Murder Boy? (Which, I hope, is a very different question from "where do you get your ideas?")

What did you learn from writing MURDER BOY that has changed who you are as a writer, and how will it affect your future work?

What does love feel like?

Who would win in a prison shank-duct-taped-to-your-forearm fight between Rhys Bowen and Lilian Jackson Braun?

Would you consider yourself more a nihilist or narcissist?

Follow up question: Do you prefer Starsky & Hutch or SImon & Simon?

Seriously, name the 2 or 3 books that had the most influence on you as a writer, and tell us why.

When you visit Golden Corral, what is the first thing you put on your plate?

You have a wife, three kids, a full time job, and you freelance edit. How do you find time to write and read for pleasure?

Panda bears or polar bears?

No more Golden Corral? So you don't believe in second chances?

Do these culottes make me look fat?

What's the one crime novel everyone should read?

If a train is traveling westbound at 67mph, and another train is traveling eastbound at 45mph, and the trains are currently two miles apart, but the westbound train has an incline of four degrees while the eastbound train has a decline of seven degrees, why did Richard Nixon lie to the American people?

Can you talk about how being a boy helped you write Murder Boy?

Say Rhys Bowen stabbed Lilian Jackson Braun in the liver, who would be more likely to help her hide the shank and duct tape - the AB's or Nuestra Familia?

Why does my mother hate me?

Did you find the murders you had to commit in order to write a book with "Murder" in the title distracted you from the actual writing?

If a clown car is traveling southbound at 23mph, with fourteen clowns inside, and a flatbed truck carrying fifty bales of cotton is traveling northbound at 56mph, but they are on completely different interstates and will never get within eighty miles of each, why was Everwood canceled?

What played the biggest role in your finishing it?

Are you writing something else now?

It's good to have concrete goals you can aim away from.

What do you like best and least about Murder Boy?

Also, if you ever come to New Jersey, I will show you what pork roll is. ....baby.

What is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow? Double props for where did I get this quote?

Excellent. I ask my students that question every so often, and one of them actually picked up and ran with it.