Interview With Author David Lasaine
Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I guess if I were to sum myself up, at my age of almost seventy, I’m lucky. Being a late stage Baby Boomer, I’ve met people from WWI, WWII (Veterans and REAL Nazi’s), Concentration Camp Survivors, experienced the Civil Rights Movement, saw Martin Luther King Jr., President Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy, Oswald all murdered live on black and white t.v.
I saw the moon landing whether it was real or fake. I watched body bags of Vietnam teenagers and barely over coming to be buried. 1969 was the last year I loved Baseball (of course the Cubs) and was broken hearted. I came home from school to see a color television in the living room. Nixon resigned on national television from Watergate.
In 2016 on a social media page, I wrote a nightly blurb: What Frosts My Nuts. A lady from nowhere messaged me and asked me to write for her website. I did in total over fifty short articles of observational writing. I did not attack politics very much for there are people making a living doing that. Instead I wrote more reflective pieces challenging the reader to use their imagination and escape reality for a bit.
I’ve written over ten short books. Two of them are about my talking dogs: Rescued Finding Unconditional Love, and Bailey and Bambaloo in the Great Chocolate Chip Cookie Caper. The hardest book to write was: Euthanizing My Best Friend: A Personal Journey of Decision Death Grief and Healing.
To add to those, I’ve dibbled and dabbled in compiling my opinion pieces.
After the books I’ve written, and seeing a lack of interest in those kinds of stories, I started researching what people liked to read. I found, Romance, Mystery Thrillers, and Supernatural type books did well.
The first “real” book I wrote took me a total of eight years to complete. When I worked on it, I stayed awake up to three days without sleeping. Then, it would lay quietly collecting dust. I finished it and finally, I loaded it to Amazon. It’s called: “The Devil’s Nest.” It is a book my friend told me he read and that night, had the best sex he ever had. “Dude, where did that come from,” he asked me. I shrugged my shoulders.
The book, has a man leaving behind his old life, meets a woman (no spoilers) and she lends him her second car…a 1928 Mint Conditon Rolls-Royce Phantom. Once he starts driving he winds up in the Supernatural. He goes back to the 1930s to Pinkie’s Diner, he hears a human sacrifice in a town not on a map, he finds Satan’s Ledger, a gift from Satan’s Angels. The book he finds and deciphers has him hunting down government documents. The corruption is far beyond the little town of Weaskick’s government. The ending is not what is expected.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
I would say, Jugular Vein is the last book I finished and uploaded to Amazon and having an audio book made.
What inspired it?
I like history from all over the world. One issue which has never gone away is how women are treated at times. In the bible, cattle had more worth than a woman. In America, it was the same for immigrants. One night, I was just drifting off and a title hit me like a slap of hot corned beef.
Jugular Vein. I became obessed with the concept. I woke up one morning at 3 a.m. to write a chapter…half asleep. What I had was a full chapter and I don’t remember writing it.
It’s about a 14 year old girl and her sisters leaving Ireland in 1848 to come to America a land of promise. Her sisters die on the trip over and when the ship lands in New York, the sight she sees makes her think if her mother knew what happened to her daughters, she would take her life by her own hand.
Catherine, the Main Character, is picked up by a woman trying to be nice. Once they arrived at the Brothel, she was put in charge of checking men’s genitles for any disease.
She saves a thirteen year old prostitute, slays a Senator, takes a beating by the Madam, earns the name “Cat” because she protected the other young girls from harm.
She is then bought by a wealthy man, Main Character 2. Her bitterness against the wealthy was brewing and after a discovery, she becomes an avenger and one seeking revenge. She becomes the Jugular Vein Slasher and has New York Constables chasing ghosts.
She does fall in love and becomes pregnant. The ending is not always the way a reader wants too.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I don’t know. I’m eccentric and eclectic in my topics. I would say I’m a A.D.D. Scatter Brain. I can’t say what is unusual, because every writer/author has multiple methods which get a final product.
1. I’m not trained.
2. I failed English every year in high school.
3. I’m not afraid to write in what I call old school writing. We didn’t get offended over much of anything. But now, I have to watch how I word things.
4. I’m left-handed?
What authors, or books have influenced you?
Hmm, interesting question for I was never really a reader. I made up stories.
I would say, my basic influence of sarcasm came from my Grandfather, Uncles and extended family. Then, Groucho Marx would slide in next. William B. Gaines and the Usual Gang of Idiots was a monthly purchase. Alfred Hitchcock, Rod Serling, Rodney Dangerfield, Henny Youngman, Jack Benny…so many others in addition to old time radio programs. Do not forget the 1st hand history books, I love those. Of course, as much as I can’t stand watching the news, I take in tidbits for they offer insight…I guess, at least for making up stories. There is one book I need to drop it’s name: The Bible. That book has everything from love, murder, recklessness, forbidden rules to break…and a whole lot more.
What are you working on now?
Ha. Remember me? A.D.D. Scatter Brain? I’m working on not only one but here is a list:
1. Genesis: Romance amidst Darkness (The Devil’s Nest series)
2. Romance in Another Dimension
3. FireDude (a romance)
4. Saavedra’s Mexican Recipes
5. Sun Dance on Turtle Island (historical fiction)
6. Growing Old Together (about me and my dog)
7. Tell Me A Story Daddoo (a collection of my children stories)
8. A.D.D. Brain in Scatter Mode (a collection of all my opinion pieces)
9. The 100 Most Stupid Questions in a Writing Group
10. Rebel with 4 Paws
11. Satan’s Bedtime Stories for Adults
Do I have enough lifetime left to do all of these well?
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
To be honest, I do not write for a bestseller. I gave away hundreds of my first book: Rescued Finding Unconditional Love to children. I love to see children read.
I really don’t have a method or a website. I upload everything to Amazon because I don’t know how to do audiobooks (I’ve been told for almost forty years I have a great voice).
I used to carry my books around with me when I sold them or gave them away.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Wow, I can go long on this answer. Advice: Don’t blindly trust anyone unless you see them face to face and build a relationship. NEVER NEVER EVER send someone a link to your book (s). The rest is up to you because in the long run with all the scammers trying to steal your book, or pocket money…you really need to keep your eyes sharp and research everything.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
That’s easy. Years ago, my boss told me when I was an apprentice…never assume. He broke the word down on paper.
Because you make an Ass of U and Me.
Now, for anyone who wants to spew out hate about a person or people’s I ask…Have you met this person/culture of people you hate?
What are you reading now?
This interview form. No, actually besides reading what I write as I create, I read my 1957 copy of The New Dictionary of Thoughts. Otherwise, I’ll grab a comic book.
What’s next for you as a writer?
I really can’t say. The “next” would be to finish all these books I listed before I die.
If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
Another tough question. 1. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. 2. The New Dictionary of Thoughts. 3. Animal Farm 4. A Massive Book of Toilet Paper.
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