{"id":16450,"date":"2011-12-22T13:37:02","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T18:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=16450"},"modified":"2011-12-22T13:37:02","modified_gmt":"2011-12-22T18:37:02","slug":"so-im-interviewing-michael-sweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hmmagazine.com\/dvanpelt\/so-im-interviewing-michael-sweet\/","title":{"rendered":"So, I&#039;m interviewing Michael Sweet&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/mikeS.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16470\" title=\"mikeS\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/mikeS.jpg\" alt=\"mikeS\" width=\"315\" height=\"275\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s official. I&#8217;m co-writing the Michael Sweet autobiography. This&#8217;ll be fun. After 2.5 hours of talking\/interviewing, it already is. I believe I already have the lead-off story. It&#8217;s a good one. I&#8217;m confident I&#8217;ll use it to start the book &#8211; unless he tops that story with another one, of course. I&#8217;ve never written a biography before, but I&#8217;ve read several and most seem to start off at the present or a certain point in time as an introduction &#8211; almost as a reason why you&#8217;re reading the book &#8211; and then it goes back to the beginning. That&#8217;s the general idea I have at this early stage of writing the book. My plan is to cram all this work into a short, concentrated time and crank this book out soon.<\/p>\n<p>What questions should I ask him? What stories should I get him to tell? What do you want to see in a &#8220;TELL ALL&#8221; Stryper autobiography by its frontman?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;you don&#8217;t know what the future holds&#8230;&#8221; (lyrics from a song by a certain punk band. I won&#8217;t use any names, but their initials are Lust Control). Could book writing be my new career? I don&#8217;t know. It&#8217;s certainly too early to tell. I have written a novel (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.deserthighbook.com\"><em>Desert High<\/em><\/a>), which I&#8217;m confident is a good story and could be made into a movie. That&#8217;s my hope and dream for it. Perhaps this Michael Sweet book could be very successful. I hope so. We&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s cool being able to write a book about something that I know a lot about. I still plan on doing my share of research work, but it&#8217;s not like I have to start from scratch. This band is very much one of the major reasons why I&#8217;ve had a career as a magazine publisher for 26 years. If it wasn&#8217;t for this band and their faith in God, I doubt that Christian metal would not have been a phenomenon nor a bandwagon that I jumped on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wonder if God has me transitioning from magazine publishing to books? 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