Featured Interview With Author Gregory Stout
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, and attended the University of Kansas as an undergrad. At various other times, my wife and I lived in Chicago, Lodi, California, Nashville, Tennessee, and now Cape Girardeau, Missouri. At the moment, we have two cats, Wallace and Gromit.
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
My father was a "reader," and an actor in amateur theater in St. Louis. He liked to play Scrabble and do crossword puzzles, and so I learned to read pretty well before I ever started school. I got serious about writing in 1983, when we were living in Chicago. I had time to kill commuting by train into the city every day, and some of the books I read during those commute times, I thought I could do better. So, I handwrote on college-ruled paper my first mystery, which was eventually published in 2021. So, after 38 years, I was an overnight success! Since then, I have had traditionally published 28 titles altogether, including YA/middle grade fiction, PI fiction and railroad histories. A new PI novel, Goodbye is Forever, is scheduled for release in fall, 2025.
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
For certain, the works of James Ellroy, Michael Connelly, Dennis Lehane and Raymond Chandler (the inspiration for every author of PI fiction). I have also read several books by Henning Mankell, Martin Cruz Smith, James Lee Burke and Carl Hiaasen. These tend to be more in the vein of noir, with their protagonists who are not without flaws, which, I think gives the reader a character is at once admirable but also a little bit dangerous to know.
Tell us a little about your latest book?
My most recent release (December 2024) is called Long Time Gone. It is the fourth in the Nashville-based Jackson Gamble PI series, and is set in the present day. This time, PI Gamble is hired to track down a college professor who has been missing for four years. At the same time, he is asked to track down a bail-skip named Tommy Mack. Eventually, the two cases intertwine, and Gamble finds himself drawn into Nashville's underbelly of prostitution, illicit drugs and organized crime.
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