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Speaker 2: I is there.
Speaker 1: Please you said it right, man, Congratulations, you may pass.
Speaker 2: Go Okay, So I'm on Mediterranean? Is that the next time?
Speaker 1: That's dude. I want to congratulate you on how you
are expressing your your art in this modern day. I
just this is so inspiring to me because my wife
is a former school teacher, so, you know, just getting
into the imaginations of a wandering generation. You did it, Spencer,
you did it well.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much. That's very nice. Well.
Speaker 3: I owe a lot to my wife on this because
she said one night at dinner, you should do something
with dogs. I've had dogs in a lot of my work,
but just in sort of trod on rolls, you never
saw inside their head and just from you know, when
my wife said it sometimes in a marriage that you
get this kind of communication, that's just a vibe. And
I thought, what about doing like a mystery type series
from the point of view of the detective's dog.
Speaker 1: And yeah, I was gonna say, that's so creative, because
I mean, that's one of those situations you were either
having dinner, driving in the car, or you were sitting
there wondering what was on TV? What could you watch,
and your imagination said, right about dog Spencer.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, yeah, I don't know it just there's no
that part is one of the rewards of the job.
Speaker 2: For sure.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of hard work, but when things come
out of the blue, you know, it's like it's like
you won the lottery. You didn't do anything and you
still got something out of it, and that's kind of
a blessing.
Speaker 2: And in this one, it was like a kind.
Speaker 3: Of blessing that had a kind of extended rollout because
the more I did it, the more I wrote, the
more I saw what a powerful tool this was really
showing a lot of out people too but it's as
long as I stuck, as long as I make Chat
the dog as canine as possible. So he's not a
talking dog, he's a narrating dog. And there's a real
big difference.
Speaker 1: Oh I love that idea, because you know, what you're
doing is you're putting that voice inside of our noug
and it's already got a bunch of noise up there.
And all you're doing with Chet is you're giving us
that opportunity. Hey, Chet, what's going on? Dude? Tell me
more about your story? Whoa you got a problem with
the detective agency?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: Please tell me more.
Speaker 2: Chat?
Speaker 4: Okay, So that's it, and you and you, your voice
is absolutely right for the for the response because Chet
is an optimist, you know he you know it's this.
Speaker 2: Series, the Chet and Bernie series.
Speaker 3: It's not it's not a cozy as Stephen King has
pointed out a couple of times, it's it's not a
cozy series. It has dark things in it and bad
things happen. But Chet bounces back to his reset position
very quickly, and his reset position is one of well,
joy in life?
Speaker 2: Really?
Speaker 1: Yeah, did you giggle like a child when you created
the senior Piggy because when I received that on my side,
I went, of course, and of all things, my wife
was a big pig fan, so therefore we've got pig
statues all the way through the house. So I mean,
I looked up. I said, Lee, You're not going to
believe this. I said, Spencer is talking about your loving life,
Senior Piggy Baby.
Speaker 3: Okay, now look here first of all, Okay, so I
like other animal characters show up, you never see inside them.
But of course you know because Che's a dog. He
lives in a world where humans are important, but so
are lots of other animals. So Senor Piggy is that
plays a kind of supporting role in cat On a
Hot Tin Wolf, which is the upcoming judden Burny and
he Okay. As to the question about giggling, I could
never admit that I make myself laugh. That would be
very undignified. So my answer is going to be an
official no.
Speaker 1: Please do not move. There's more with Spencer Quinn coming
up next. The name of the book kat On a
Hot Tin woof Spencer Quinn is back as a writer,
though only because I've done it for so many years.
You gotta love those moments though, when an idea comes
to you and you just kind of just smirk it
off then and just you know, because you know, you
just receive something, it's like, oh, I can't wait to
let this grow.
Speaker 3: Oh, I mean totally. I mean that is just that's
the blessing of it. It's it's not the easiest career
in many ways because it's a it's a it's a
well you know, it's like it it's a lonely kind
you know, it's just you and you. There's no there's
no one else on the team. Really not when it
comes to the actual writing. You know, the hard work
of writing. I mean I've written almost fifty novels now
and you think, well, oh it gets easier, Well, well
it doesn't. Okay, by this time, unless I was a
complete blockhead, I'd have lots of techniques. So I do
have lots of technique, but you have to still the
key is entering that imaginative space and nourishing it without
pushing too hard.
Speaker 2: So you know, there's it takes a.
Speaker 3: Lot of work to learn how to use your own mind.
Speaker 1: I'd say, yeah, but you know, one of the things
that I can really relate with as an adult. Is
that my my Jazzy is with me even as we speak.
She's always with me all the time. And just and
before I got your book, she and I were on
a murder case and I thought, oh my god, Chet
is on one too, And it's because we wanted to
know who murdered the possum inside this forest in South Charlotte. Dude,
we went on a case and all of a sudden,
you're writing about it with Chet, and I'm going, You've
got to be kidding me. And so it just makes
me fall in love with a story even more.
Speaker 3: Well, no, it's great, Okay, So I think I'm guessing.
I don't know for a fact, but I think, well, look,
I think there are seventy million dogs plus in America
right now in the United States, so there are a
lot of people who are dog people, and I think
the series appeals to him.
Speaker 2: And of course Dottie, our dog, Dottie.
Speaker 3: She is always in the office with me, usually under
my desk, and she's a ninety plus pounder, so there's
really no room for my seat under the desk with her.
So a lot of my writing has actually done at
a weird angle to the keyboard.
Speaker 2: I think a symbolic of the whole thing.
Speaker 1: Actually, oh god, if you were to see this studio
or she is currently positioned, there's no way I am
going to move inside this studio unless she knows it,
because I'm her puppy. She's not my puppy. I'm her puppy.
Do you feel the same way with dot Oh?
Speaker 2: Absolutely absolutely.
Speaker 3: Dottie runs the show and she sends out kind of
you know, unspoken messages, but you know, very quickly we
learn to read what it is she wants.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 1: So now do you take it to videos? Are you
going to Hulu and you just can't talk about it?
Are you going to Netflix? Because when you've got Chet
the Dog, I'm thinking about Garrick across the street, who's
a five year old boy who I know would love
a story just like this. And now we want something tangible.
I want to hold Chet the Dog. I want to
talk to Chet the Dog.
Speaker 3: All I can say is there have been in our feelers,
but nothing has come to fruition yet. I've learned in
my career that all I can control is what's the
between the two covers.
Speaker 2: Of the book.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and if you you know I have had a
book I wrote called The Fan that was made into
a movie where Robert de Niro played the fan.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I had well.
Speaker 3: It was a book that took place in the world
of professional baseball with an overzealous fan. But I controlled
what was in the book. The movie was totally out
of my hands, and I learned a very very important
lesson there. I'm not objecting to the fact that they
did it at all. It's a great thing. But all
you can control is your original book. After that, it's
out in the world and you can't you know, you
don't have it.
Speaker 1: Wow, Where can people go to find out more about
everything that you're doing? Because we need these books right
now in the hands. I mean physical books. I mean
I love ebooks, I love them, but there's something about
a physical book being in your hands making that eye connection.
Speaker 3: Well, the Chett and Burney series is for sale and
all retail outlets from you know, Amazon and BNN to
lots of independence and you know, when I go on
book tours, I hit a lot of independence in the
country and it's one of the greatest things. We have
just so many independent bookstores so that yeah, you can
get and so find out about it. You can go
to chatthdog dot com and there's a whole website and
you'll see all the books there.
Speaker 1: Dude, you got to come back to this show anytime
in the future. If def Leppard can come on here
nine different times. Okay, Spencer's got his first. We need
eight more times from Spencer and more.
Speaker 2: You don't want to hear me sing, that's all.
Speaker 1: Well, you'd be brilliant today, Okay, sir.
Speaker 2: You too. Thank you so much. I appreciate it.