Of course, in fiction, you really don’t have the luxury of going on with complex examination of all the aspects of people’s feelings about an issue unless that’s what your story is about, but you have to pay attention to that. Okay, maybe he was thinking about chips or breasts or chrome wheels, but essentially he wasn’t having a complex inner dialogue about them, he was thinking, “would be nice.” Women on the other hand, really do examine issues, and not always with the idea toward finding a course of action. When a woman asks her man, “What are you thinking about?” and he says “Nothing,” she assumes he’s holding something back. Writing women isn’t really any different from writing men characters, except that women tend to be more complicated. Can you talk about writing women…and does it help to be a Beta male?

Because the romance genre is mainly written by women, it’s always a joy to read a hero who actually seems to be a “guy”, and vice versa, when I read other fiction written by male writers, it’s always great to read a woman who seems like a woman.

What struck me when I read Bloodsucking Fiends was how well you captured Jody. Interspersed with my questions are part of the Proust Questionnaire. My biggest quandry right now is which of Moore’s other seven books to read next…will it be Practical Demonkeeping, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal, or perhaps even The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove? Over a period of about a week, he graciously answered all my questions, some of which were admittedly oddball. Before I’d even finished You Suck, I’d contacted the author about an interview. Not only did it earn DIK status from me, I ran out right after turning the last page and paid hardcover price for that sequel, You Suck: A Love Story, set at approximately the same time as A Dirty Job (and weaves in and out some of the same characters). When I saw that a sequel had been published in hardcover last year, I tried to hold out for a paperback release, and in order to stave off my impatience, picked up A Dirty Job at the end of this summer. I first read Moore four years ago, long after then-AAR reviewer Mary Novak gave Bloodsucking Fiends Desert Isle Keeper status in 2001 (why I waited so long, I haven’t a clue). As a matter of fact, all of his books have now been optioned or sold to producers, but as he likes to say, “none of them are in any danger of being made into a movie.” His first manuscript – Practical Demonkeeping – was bought by Disney before it was ever published as a book.

Christopher Moore writes incredibly funny novels with the imagination most of us associate with the imbibing of too much absinthe.

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