10 Questions with Writer Bert Carson (@BertCarson)
This week's Author Spotlight features Huntsville, Alabama-based writer Bert Carson. Bert is the author of SOUTHERN INVESTIGATION (see above), FOURTH AND FOREVER ANOTHER PLACE ANOTHER TIME and the forthcoming MADDOG & MISS KITTY . 1. How did you get into writing? I got in and immediately out of writing when I was in the sixth grade. The teacher assigned a short story writing project, my first such assignment. I labored over that story more than I’d ever labored over any other assignment, maybe more than I’d labored over all other assignments. It was quite a fine story, I thought, and to be totally honest, I still think. Each of us read our story to the class and as I look back on it, that’s where the problem originated. Public speaking was a major issue in my life for forty years – I had a burning desire to do it and I was petrified at the thought of doing it. In any case, I managed to read my story and no one understood it...