![]() ![]() I named him Jim Beam, which I thought was brilliant. ![]() Naturally the main character was captain of a spaceship. I wrote – co-authored, actually – my first book when I was nine. Here’s a song I sing to my dog, stolen from a song by The Pretenders that goes “It is time for you to stop all of your sobbing.” I sing, “It is time for you to stop all of your barking.”Īlthough I understand that I’m about an average athlete, some part of me believes that I’m actually above average. ![]() In the years I worked for a newspaper I interviewed a lot of authors. My wife doesn’t know that I also hide some from her. We hide it from our daughter, and lie about it. Max is in them, and so are most of the other people in “Anyway*.” But the books are very different from “Anyway*,” and different from each other. I’ve already finished another book, and I’m working on a third. I’m not sure what, though, so I’ll just write some stuff down: (Not much room on that flap.) There has to be something about me that’s more interesting than that. Actually I shouldn’t complain, because I wrote it. He lives in San Diego, California, with his wife, daughter, dog, and two cats.” ![]() “Arthur Salm is a former book review editor and columnist for the San Diego Union-Tribune. On the back flap of “Anyway’s*” cover, it says: ![]()
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