Scott S. Phillips has written all kinds of stuff: films, TV, books, comics and even dialogue for talking dolls. He’s the author of the Pete, Drinker of Blood urban fantasy series, as well as Manwith Chihuahua and several other books. Under the pen name Stevie Jordan Pawminter, Scottcowrites (with Sarah Bartsch) the Danger Potato cozy mystery series (book one, Wicked Snarl, isout now, book two coming soon) and the Sniff and Nibble cozy mystery series (book one, TheArt of Cooking in Space, coming soon). Scott wrote the screenplay for the cult action flick Drive(1997), and twelve episodes of the CW Network’s Kamen Rider Dragon Knight.Perhaps most importantly, he once performed as stand-in for the legendary Lemmy in the video for Motorhead’s Sacrifice.
If you were transported into one of your books as a character, what kind of character would you be and what kind of adventures would you have?
If I found myself in the Pete, Drinker of Blood books, I suspect I’d be the guy running the food truck parked just off of Sunset Boulevard, wondering why the mysterious-yet-dorky Seth Rogen-lookin’ guy comes around every night and just sniffs, never buys anything. I don’t know how adventurous I’d be, but I’d sure as heck wonder if that guy was a vampire.
If you could time travel to any point in history, which era would you choose, and why?
This would be a point in my own personal history, but I’d travel back to 1987 or thereabouts and convince myself not to sell all my Star Wars stuff to make some fast cash to pay bills. Those bills were back the very next month, but the Star Wars stuff (original one-sheet, two lobby card sets, program book, on and on) is gone forever, and it’s all increased in value so much since then, I’ll never be able to buy them again! And failing to convince myself, I’d beat myself senseless and take all the stuff back to the future with me.
If you had to choose between fighting 100 duck-sized robots or one robot-sized duck, which would you pick and why?
Believe me, I speak from experience when I say I’d rather fight the one robot-sized duck. If you could have any magical power, but the catch was that you had to perform a ridiculous dance every time you used it, what power would you choose and what would your dance look like?
This might be more of a superpower than a magical power, but I’d really like the ability to stretch crazily, like Mr. Fantastic from the Fantastic Four, so I’m going with that. It would mean only certain parts of me would have to get out of bed to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night, and that appeals greatly to me. The dance would take place in the bed, of course, because I wouldn’t want to get out of bed to do some kind of crazy disco moves any more than I wanna get out of bed to go to the bathroom. It would start slow and sexy, maybe some hip-wiggling beneath the covers, then as the stretchiness began to flow, my arms would sneak out on either side of the bed, waggling and twisting as they grew longer, forming a big circle that my head – atop my stretchy neck – would worm in and out of until full stretchiness was achieved.
Actually, now that I think about it, this whole dance thing would probably just completely wakeme up and defeat the purpose of only stretching the necessary bits to the bathroom. Plus thenecessary bits might get attacked by the cat while off on their own.
Name the strangest/weirdest place you've ever written. What made it so odd?
Okay, technically I wasn’t actually writing, like words-on-paper writing, but back in 2002 I was on my way to MileHiCon to screen a short film I’d made, and at the time, I was writing the screenplay for my low-budget zombie movie, The Stink of Flesh. We stopped at a rest stop and the entire third act of the script fell out of my head while standing at the urinal, so I had to rush back to the car and make notes.
If you could transport yourself to any fictional universe you’ve seen in a television show or movie, which universe would you go to?
Without doubt, I’d head for the starship Enterprise from Strange New Worlds – that Captain Pike will cook you a nice dinner, do the dishes, then give you some great advice! And you’d get to stare at his fantastic hair.
Please check out Book One in the Pete, Drinker of Blood series (five books out now, Book Six
on the way) right here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B009MRXLOY
Or the first book in the Danger Potato cozy mystery series, Wicked Snarl, here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09P5T5MXS
And you can find Scott at Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61550618580966
Or on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scott_s_phillips
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