At the Pen Festival 2010

At the Pen Festival 2010
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June 16, 2010

Any Regrets?

Q: You wrote a very funny, very powerful book. As a writer, now that ALL OR NOTHING is in print is there anything you would change or do differently if you had to do it all over again?

A: I love the book just the way it is. Maybe there are some deleted scenes that I would put back in. Actually, one of those deleted scenes became the basis for my erotic short story "THREE KISSES" in the collection MAKING THE HOOK-UP (Cleis Press 2010).

I do have one regret, however. I regret that some people I know have read the book and found it so fascinating that they they claim to have started for the first time in their lives to visit casinos and/or experiment with gambling.

This is not good, and this was not my intent.

Did they somehow miss the cautionary tale that was P's life?

Thanks,

Preston