tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792252659550175694.post3045793192559721247..comments2022-11-08T07:47:48.416-08:00Comments on The Hard-Nosed Sleuth: Micro Interview: Absolute*KateJack Bateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16055185636509700845noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792252659550175694.post-17182823022526434992012-01-29T14:29:18.996-08:002012-01-29T14:29:18.996-08:00A*Kate, yours is some of the funnest I've ev...A*Kate, yours is some of the <i>funnest </i> I've ever read. You have a unique voice, and we are so lucky to have you in our Grimm ensemble.seana grahamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03774794086733027289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792252659550175694.post-41898857185619055112012-01-21T17:56:10.868-08:002012-01-21T17:56:10.868-08:00It's late, Kate, mate, but that was great. Tha...It's late, Kate, mate, but that was great. That's a about as poetic I get at 2.00 am! :-) <br /><br />You ooze class, chick, with your vibrant prose 'n' sisterly nature. Nice début interview - wouldn't have missed it for the world. <br /><br />'Speak' soon, hun.<br /><br />Best,<br />Col<br /><br />Ps. Nice site, Jack.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17913040012695421077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792252659550175694.post-46815299606857260002012-01-21T17:54:59.257-08:002012-01-21T17:54:59.257-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17913040012695421077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792252659550175694.post-77172277649806239892012-01-17T17:22:02.260-08:002012-01-17T17:22:02.260-08:00The lively, ebullient word-play is at the center o...The lively, ebullient word-play is at the center of Absolutely Kate's being. It flows like water, refreshing, unpredictable, exciting and entrancing. At the heart of the interview, one sees the source of the spark that lit the fire that is Kate: her mom and dad. They set free a beautiful mind and spirit, and gave it strength and direction. It is the love they gave her that inspired her special protean quality. <br /><br />Kate that is you.Matthew S. Magdahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10244363411304770447noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792252659550175694.post-85191917831116151402012-01-17T15:53:26.851-08:002012-01-17T15:53:26.851-08:00I can feel Absolutely Kate's energy bubbling a...I can feel Absolutely Kate's energy bubbling across the Internet!pattinase (abbott)https://www.blogger.com/profile/02916037185235335846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792252659550175694.post-69759772732356940242012-01-17T15:01:32.119-08:002012-01-17T15:01:32.119-08:00**************************************************...*******************************************************<br />SHAMELESS PLUG O'THIS PROMOTER GAL<br />*******************************************************<br /><br />When fairytales go on a crime-spree . . . and editor JOHN KENYON of Grift Magazine meets high up on the low down with publisher JAY HARTMAN of Untreed Publishing ... you get ~ GRIMM TALES.<br /><br />What you also get is a fantasy-ride to places your mind didn't know it could find its way back to again ~ Take JACK BATES and his amazing tale "THE FLYING TRUNK" ... Throw in generous dazzling dashes of PATTI ABBOT ... ERIC BEETNER ... NIGEL BIRD ... LOREN EATON ... KAYE GEORGE ... BLU GILLIAND ... SEANNA GRAHAM ... ERIK GUMENY ... R.L. KELSTROM ... JOHN KENYON ... BV LAWSON ... EVAN LEWIS ... B. NAGEL ... SEAN PATRICK REARSON (who got me in with this gang) ... SEANNA SEAMONS ... and me, ABSOLUTELY*KATE with "YOU DIRTY RATS" -- well, you just gotta pour a lot of fine libation to drink all of that down. <br /><br />You folks got your copy yet? <br />http://store.untreedreads.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=68_7_48_63&products_id=286<br /><br /><b>HOW'D I DO JACK?<br />CAN I GO NOW?</b><br /><br /><i>Love ya, man - thanks for the tunes & the opportunity. You're aces in a stacked deck</i><br /><i>~ A*K</i>Kate Pilarcik ~ absolutelyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12430278736281847787noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792252659550175694.post-54128009437244673372012-01-17T14:48:27.900-08:002012-01-17T14:48:27.900-08:00**************************************************...****************************************************<br />SHAMELESS PLUG O'THIS PROMOTER GAL<br />****************************************************<br /><br />Watch for AJ HAYES as cunning co-author to our novel to shake the world on its ass and axis in 2012 ~ <b>SPY-SIDE ECONOMICS</b>. It ain't your Dick Tracy story, boys and girls.Kate Pilarcik ~ absolutelyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12430278736281847787noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792252659550175694.post-4044891356313159862012-01-17T14:44:35.965-08:002012-01-17T14:44:35.965-08:00Well "gosh darn it all to heck" rightbac...<b>Well "gosh darn it all to heck" rightbackatcha Mr Mackey the Haiku prince of good tidings.</b> Irish charm? You've got it in hearts and clubs and spades and I feel like I'm dealin' diamonds whenever we put our cards on the table in writing and sighting what's finer and finer in the world all around us. <br /><br />I SO appreci'kate you're being in the same world we dance in, and I truly know our character Carolina Beatrice Templeton in our novel of 2012 ~ THE 1976 SOCIETY, shall bring us to meet and *clink* and laugh and conjure further capers ... at the Carlyle.<br /><br />~ Exhilarating,huh? Hmmm<br /><i>~ Absolutely*Kate ... energizing up for my next grand scheme with you -- DID YOU FOLKS CATCH THIS CAT SWINGING NOIR-HAIKU over AT THE BIJOU? </i><br />http://at-the-bijou.blogspot.com/2012/01/crime-at-five-and-dime-noir-haiku-by.htmlKate Pilarcik ~ absolutelyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12430278736281847787noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792252659550175694.post-18861582681761488112012-01-17T14:37:39.879-08:002012-01-17T14:37:39.879-08:00OH CLYDE ... I mean ~ Fedora Fella o'finesse ~...<b>OH CLYDE ... I mean ~ Fedora Fella o'finesse ~ You're always stylin' where words go on a big heist.</b> The minute you walked into my joint I could tell you were a Real Big Spender ~ of Life, of Laughter, of Learning and Living to the hilt and takin' on so very many fortunate author'folk in the crest o'waves that always surrounds ya. Not that I'm sayin' you can walk on water or anything -- you're still a dirty bum when a getaway car requires a wise guy ridin' shotgun -- but man oh man - you're welcome in my Lincoln any spree day. Here's lookin' atcha Schweetheart ... in so many shared ways ... of writing and McKuen and caring and scaring up good times.<br /><br /><i>Softly, (with teal heels making their points)<br />~ Absolutely*Kate, savin' our table at BirdLand</i>Kate Pilarcik ~ absolutelyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12430278736281847787noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792252659550175694.post-65901987469606544302012-01-17T14:30:33.807-08:002012-01-17T14:30:33.807-08:00JOOLS! Takes a classy dame to push her way into Ja...<b>JOOLS! Takes a classy dame to push her way into Jack's jiving joint to spiff up this pigsty.</b> HOW TREMENDOUSLY GLAD I AM TO SEE YOUR FACE! (After all, you schmooozed Jack for the key to the handcuffs). <br /><br />Seems to me that crime-authoring along with the likes of YOU just a lonnnnnnng year ago is how some of this splendid shoot-em-up spree got started. Fondly, shall I recall it as our legendary historee. Insights? Nah - just me being me in the company of how the really great authors soar authors all the more. So very much of what true successes (in the gut) are all about. You're all about that Jools. Grace o'my thanks ... and ... <i>*clink*</i>.<br /><br /><i>~ Absolutely*Kate, your fan and pal where words go celestial</i>Kate Pilarcik ~ absolutelyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12430278736281847787noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792252659550175694.post-84950651411857218002012-01-17T14:23:46.186-08:002012-01-17T14:23:46.186-08:00Carrie, Carrie, scary Carrie . . . always a gazill...Carrie, Carrie, scary Carrie . . . always a gazillion thangs to do with your Fang and publishing glory, yet you rambled over her to Jack's joint to witness my first interview. <b>You rock where it matters Lady.</b> Grace o'my thanks . . . and . . . when's our next drinkin-pool game?<br /><br /><i>~ Absolutely*Kate ... grinnin' large</i>Kate Pilarcik ~ absolutelyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12430278736281847787noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792252659550175694.post-65534395780568796932012-01-17T14:20:15.281-08:002012-01-17T14:20:15.281-08:00Aw Shoogs ~ You touch heartstrings like some dazzl...<b>Aw Shoogs ~ You touch heartstrings like some dazzlin' divas pluck harps -</b> the sensations carry others far, far along. My shy side loves that 'flamboyant' fling. Thank*you so very much for showin' up at my very first interview - I think YOU know how much your friendship means to me moxie'ing along.<br /><br /><i>~ Absolutely*Kate, smilin' since you're mischievously wearin' that hat you stole from Mae West - she's gonna be pissed y'know</i>Kate Pilarcik ~ absolutelyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12430278736281847787noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792252659550175694.post-18952557295562756082012-01-17T14:15:57.275-08:002012-01-17T14:15:57.275-08:00Most def it's diff on the cross hairs side pal...Most def it's diff on the cross hairs side pally. More so as Jack's sure a sure shot. But I made it through ... and YOU showed up. Wowzers. <b>Thanks Man -- means a tremendous damn much</b>, especially that cool 'energy-bravado' stuff you threw in. ;-) <br /><br /><i>(Not as much as I wished the Steelers were in the playoffs longer than the Ravens . . . but hey, you know) ~ Absolutely*Kate</i>Kate Pilarcik ~ absolutelyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12430278736281847787noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792252659550175694.post-62424620062140310682012-01-17T14:11:00.670-08:002012-01-17T14:11:00.670-08:00A TREAT? Gosh darn it Jack Bates -- You didn't...<b>A TREAT?</b> Gosh darn it Jack Bates -- You didn't tell this supremely cool audience how you had me handcuffed to that splintery chair in the back room, bringing in takeout from Wendy's for nourishment all weekend. Sheeesh -- at least you had the soft part o'your hard heart to leave the radio on in the corner -- Motown tunes from Deeetroit are always so damn fine.<br /><br /><b>So's the compatriots here at Jack's award-winning HARD-NOSE SLEUTH Bar & Get Grilled, that I'm proud as Butch & Cassidy on a good day to know and groove with.</b> Authoring ~ in GRIMM TALES (available below in Jack's handy click-it place), with my gal gumshoe of gumption, Detective Nelle Callahan and all the raucous rolling going on with <b>The Shadows of Our Noir over AT THE BIJOU</b> . . . well, it just makes my grinnnn hurt, it jabs out so far. <b>Grace o'my thanks Jack'o'MoTown Bates ... for being my first.</b> <i>*wink*</i><br /><br /><i>~ Absolutely*Kate,<br />Author of "YOU DIRTY RATS" in Grimm Tales, from Untreed Publishing<br /><br />Chatelaine AT THE BIJOU ~ "where Writers' Raves are Readers' Faves"<br />Captain sailing in new waves, HARBINGER*33<br />and bon vivant around WebTowne</i>Kate Pilarcik ~ absolutelyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12430278736281847787noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792252659550175694.post-22270583938256635242012-01-17T13:55:04.850-08:002012-01-17T13:55:04.850-08:00Yeah it was a treat hearing from ya, doll.Yeah it was a treat hearing from ya, doll.Jack Bateshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16055185636509700845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792252659550175694.post-48089614680132569222012-01-17T07:47:25.597-08:002012-01-17T07:47:25.597-08:00Great stuff - full of the usual energy, bravado, a...Great stuff - full of the usual energy, bravado, and fun wordplay we've come to expect from anything Kate has her hands in (did I mention that she's also an excellent writer as well as a premier promoter and publisher).<br /><br />And it's good to see Kate in the cross hairs for a change!Kevin Michaelshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00703125974467675009noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792252659550175694.post-80590440689887513072012-01-17T04:01:42.105-08:002012-01-17T04:01:42.105-08:00Flamboyant, pizzazzy, and a little Moxie history a...Flamboyant, pizzazzy, and a little Moxie history all folded in a grand gig! xoWendyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05054277672531335396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792252659550175694.post-46624903517293411872012-01-17T03:29:43.525-08:002012-01-17T03:29:43.525-08:00LOVED this interview!!!LOVED this interview!!!Carrie Clevengerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05093923008179106837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792252659550175694.post-36298031902009772932012-01-17T00:41:47.139-08:002012-01-17T00:41:47.139-08:00Great stuff, Kate, really enjoyed that. Good to he...Great stuff, Kate, really enjoyed that. Good to hear you answering the questions for a change - loving the insights we get here. Nice work, dollface.Authorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14581854897484618741noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792252659550175694.post-73363155861627935182012-01-16T22:33:25.013-08:002012-01-16T22:33:25.013-08:00Tip: watch out for dat stilleto in da dame's g...Tip: watch out for dat stilleto in da dame's garter (an' I don't mean a Manolo Blahnik Eight Inch Red Ragin Cajun Crimson Stilleto neither. I mean dat one you get from de center fold ads in Popular Detective Magazine. You know, push de button and SPROINNNNNNG!eight inchs of murder at yer trote.) Cause, if she don't cut ya ta pieces wit her wit, well den, dat doll's always got her . . . options. Cool.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792252659550175694.post-68418923255901894192012-01-16T21:45:12.572-08:002012-01-16T21:45:12.572-08:00That *Kate is exhausting - and exhilarating, and a...That *Kate is exhausting - and exhilarating, and a "gosh darn it all to heck" terrific promoter of writers and writing.<br /><br />And a mean gal with a keyboard too.<br /><br />Great interview - and great interviewee, but you knew that last bit already, didn't you.<br /><br />Good to hear *Kate in her own words. Always.KjMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17691028465137798738noreply@blogger.com