DIANA DAWN’S “SOME LIKE IT HOT!” interview with
Life in the City author Shane Charles Sourgose
Sonoma SUN 91.3fm, Febrary 2nd 2011:
I have to ask you about your last name, do others tend to constantly pronounce it incorrectly?
- People do, funny you ask because ever since I was a child I’ve been referred to as Sour-Goose… So it’s somewhat of a running joke among me and my friends!
In your book you talk about dropping out of San Francisco State University to pursue a career in marketing, how did that lead you into writing?
- Well, I’ve always been a writer . . . but when I was writing for professionals I wasn’t happy with myself, and I state that in my book, but now that I’m writing for myself . . . which seems narcissistic, but I am extremely gratified of where I am now and where I am going…
Your book was originally a blog that you conducted while you were unemployed, which I understand is a hard time for many, so what inspired you to exploit your life to others?
- Aside from searching for work, I decided to blog with the free time I had, that lead to the blog where my publisher found me and thus the book was born . . . or conceived…
Life in the City has been coined by critics as a Gay
Sex and the City, what are your thoughts about that?
- I love Candice Bushnell’s honest take about life in the city, so I definitely take that as a complement…
"Standing at the Crossroad" is a very telling chapter about where you are in your love life, are you still there at the fork in the road or has your relationship status changed?
- Well, some of those roads have now become U-turns; I haven’t given up on the notion necessarily as I know he’s out there . . . somewhere! We’ll see...
And what's your type?
- The Brawny man.
Will there be a follow up to Life in the City?
- As of now, no . . . but there could always be a possibility…
You have two fictional pieces coming soon, what is
The Chronicles of Preston and Jerry about?
- It’s about two estranged friends’ that reconnect and find themselves needing one another through life’s many ups and downs . . . and this piece was actually originally a situation comedy that a fellow actor/producer friend, whom you met at the Screenwriter’s Expo . . . last year, 20-10. . . And Sean Grady co-created…
And the other is titled
The Professional, Cleaner and Lookout, what is that story about?
- That one’s about three comrades whom find themselves in a life of espionage, which leads them into a life of organized crime…
The last time we talked you were writing a poetry book, do you have a title and when should we expect it?
- I do, the title is
Sonnet’s, Songs & Soliloquies and is expected to release while I am in South America, early summer…
So you are going to South America, which country will you be visiting and why?
- I will be visiting Suriname, which is a Dutch country north of Brazil, meeting with a great-great friend of mine whom is working for the Peace Corps… We will be collaborating on a forthcoming novel, which will be simply titled 5.
After your trip to Suriname, what do you plan to do?
- Honestly, my itinerary isn’t quite there yet…
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