With a small town mentality, you make a decision very early on as to whether you are going to do everything by the book or just go your own way and not care.
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A small town is a place where there's no place to go where you shouldn't.
Even though I may not intend it when I set out to write the book, these places just emerge as major players in what I'm doing, almost as if they are insisting on it.
Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.
When a book is going well, it tells you where to go.
Which is a wonderful irony, I have property there. I go back every chance I get. One of the main reasons I actually wrote the book, agreed to write it having never wanted to do that in my life, very intimidating by the way to write a book.
I think in small towns like this one, whether you're a man or a woman, you basically do what there is to do.
I always say that, for me, writing a book is like a wacky Greyhound bus trip - I know where I'm starting and where I'll end up, but I have no idea what will happen along the way.
I feel like, big city or small town, you can relate to following your parents' footsteps or putting your own dreams on the back burner or vices that we get caught up in - that whole cycle. That's not just a small-town thing. That's a life thing.
My judgement is not good when I am on a book tour. I am not thinking about it that much. What happens is I will go back home. I have a 4-year-old and a 1-year-old and a wife who is now taking care of them who is wondering where her husband is.
When a town doesn't have a book store, it is like something is missing, and unfortunately, fewer and fewer have them.
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