I am excited to welcome back author David James Keaton who wrote one of my favorite novels of last year Head Cleaner. I am sorry something went wrong with my microphone, I fixed it, I think. Sorry if it sounds funky. Keaton is the author of weird bizarro Sci-fi horror novels. Shallow Ends is exactly the story of a party bus built on a fire truck that ends up being a hybrid of Speed and the Twilight Zone, with great dialogue.

In this conversation we chat about Keaton’s novels, fix-up novels, how our mutual love of story structure affects us as readers. This is a tangent-filled talk that is less interview than it should be. No serious spoilers but lots of writers process talk.